Connecticut western news., 1890-09-17

under which Ruth came to trust were
 strong wings. The strength of birds s
 wing-of sea fowls wing for exam
 ple-you might guess it from the fact
 that sometimes for five, six or seven
 days it seems to fly without resting.
 There have been condors in the Andes
 that could overcome an OK or a stag.
 There have been eagles that have pick
 ed up children and swung them to the
 top of the cliffs. The flap of an eagle's
 wing has death in it to everything it
 strikes. There are birds whose wings
 are packed with strength to fly, to lift,
 to destroy. So the wings of God are
 strong wings. Mighty to save Mighty to destroy. preach ninth Lord,
 strong and mighty; the Lord, mighty in battle!' He Tapped his wing, and the antediluvian world was gone. He Tapped his wing, and Babylon perished.
 He Tapped his wing, and Herculaneum
 was buried. He Tapped his wing, and
 the Napoleonic dynasty ceased.
 Before the stroke of that pinion a fleet is nothing. Ansarmy is nothing. An empire is nothing. A world is noth- ing. The universe is nothing. King eternal, omnipotent-he asks no coun- sel from the thrones of heaven. He takes not the archangel into his cabinet. He wants none to draw his chariots, for they are the winds None to load his batteries, for they are the light nings. None to tie the sandals of his feet, for they are the clouds. Mighty to save. Our enemies may be strong, our sorrows violent, our sins may be great. But quicker than an eagle ever hurled from the crags hawk or raven will the Lord strike back our sins and our temptations if they assault us when we are once seated on the eternal rock of his salvation. What blessed thing 1t is to be defended by the strong wing of the Almighty! Stronger than the pelican's wing, stronger than the al- batross' wing, stronger than the con- dor's wing are the wings of the AL mighty.
 l have only one more thought to pre- sent. The wings under which Ruth had come to trust were gentle wings. There is nothing softer than 8 feather. You have noticed when Q bird returns from flight how gently it stoops over the nest. The young birds are not afraid of having their lives trampled out by the mother bird; the old whip poor-will drops into it's nest of leaves, the oriole into it's casket of bark, the humming bird into it's hammock of as the light. And so, says the psal,nist, he shall cover thee with his wing Oh, the gentleness of God! But even that figure does not fully set it forth; for have sometimes looked into the birds nest and seen a dead bird-its life having been trampled out by the mother bird But no one that ever came under the feathers of the Almighty was trodden on.
 wHosoEvER WILL MAY COME.
 Blessed nest! warm nest Why will men stay out in the cold to be shot of temptation and to be chilled by the blast when there is divine shelterY More beautiful than any flower I ever saw are the hues of birds plumage. Did you ever examine it7 The black bird, floating like flake of darkness through the sun light; the meadow lark, with head of fawn and throat of velvet and breast of gold; the red fla mingo, flying over the southern swamps like sparks from the forge of the setting sun; the pelican, white and black and night tangled in its wings give but a very faint idea of the beauty that comes down over the soul when on it drop the feathers of the AL mighty.
 Here fold your weary wings. This is the only safe nest. Every other nest will be destroyed. The prophet says 70: Though thou exalt thyself like the l eagle, and set thy nest among the stars, vet will I bring thee down, saith the Lord of Hosts" Under the swift wings, lnder the broad wings, under the l 'trong wings, under the gentle wings of ! he Almighty find shelter until these ;alamities be overpast. Then when you want to change nests it will only oe from the valley of earth to the heights of heaven; and instead of 'the wings of dove," for which David onged; not knowing that in the first nile of their flight they would give out, vou will be conducted upward by the lord God of Israel, under whose wings Ruth, the beautiful Moabitess, came to rust.
 God forbid that in this matter of eter lal veal or woe we should be more stu id than the fowls of heaven; flor the tork knoweth her appointed time, and he turtle, and the crane, and the swal- DIV observe the time of their going; ut my peoplnow not the judgments f tl1s Lord M
 The Fashion in Jewclry.
 The gift of almost any foolish, dang ng bit of jewelry makes woman