The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-01-01
THE WINGS OF LOVE.
TABERNACLE SERMON ON THE Ex-
PERIENcE OF RUTH.

The Oriental Scene and the Encouraging
saIutatiou of Boaz-Ruth Had Become .
ward Was Great
BROOKLYN. Sept 1.-THE subject Of
the discourse by DR.. TalInage today
was Wings of Love-" the famous
preacher taking for his text the words,
1.-THE Lord God of Israel, under whose
wings thou art come to trust"-Ruth
Ii, IL
Scene An Oriental harvest field.
Grain standing. Grain 10 swaths.
Grain in sheaves
At the side OF the field white tent In
which TO take ''ie incoming. jars of vim
egar or OF sour wine to quench the
thirst Of the hot working people.
Swarthy men striking their sickles into
the rustling barley. Others twisting the
bands for the sheaves, putting one end
of the band under the arm, and with
the free arm and foot collecting the
sheaf Sunburned women picking up
the stray straws and bringing them to
the binders. Boaz, fine looking ORR
entail, gray bearded and bright faced,
the owner of the field, looking on, and
estimating the value of the grain and
calculating SO many epbahs to the acre,
and with his large, sympathetic heart
plying the overtasked workmen and
the women, with white faces enough
to faint, in the hot MONDAY sun. But
there is one woman who especially at
tracts the mans attention. She Is soon
to be with him the joint owner Of the
field. She has come from a distant
land COR the sole purpose of being kind
to an aged woman.
| know not what her features were;
but when the Lord God sets behind q
woman's face the lamp of courage and
faith and self sacrifice there comes out
IA glory independent of features. She
Is to be the ancestress of Jesus Christ.
Boaz, the owner of the field, as soon as
he understands that it Is Ruth, accosts
her with blessing: IA full reward be
given thee of the Lord God OF Israel,
under whose wing thou art come to
trust" Christ compares himself to
hen gathering the chickens under her
wings In Deuteronomy God Is repre-
sented as an eagle stirring up her nest
In great many places In the Psalms
David makes pathological illusions;
while my text mentions the wings of
God, under which a poor. weary soul
had come to trust.
HER PROTECTION WAS SURE.
l ask your attention, therefore,
while, taking the suggestion of my
text, l speak to you in all simplicity
and love of the wings of the Almighty.
First, l remark that they were swift
wings under which Ruth had come to
trust. There is nothing In all the
handiwork of God more curious than a
birds wing. You have been surprised
sometimes to see how far it could 81
with one stroke of the wing; and when
1t has food in prospect, o. when it is
affrighted, the quotations of the birds
wing arc unimaginable for velocity.
TIE English lords used to pride them
selves on the speed of their falcons.
These birds, when tanned, had in them
tie dart of lightning. How swift were
the carrier pigeons In the time of An
thony and at the siege of Jerusalem!
Wonderful speedl A carrier pigeon
was thrown up at Rouen and came
down at Ghent-ninety miles off-in
one hour. The carrier pigeons were
the telegraphs of the olden time.
Swallows have been shot In our iati-
tude having the undigested rice of
Georgia swamps in their crops, showing
that they had come four hundred miles
in six hours. 1t has been estimated
that in the ten years of a swallows
life it flies far enough to have gone
around the world eighty-nine times, SO
great is it's velocity.
And SO the wings of the Almighty
spoken of in the text are swift wings.
They are swift when they drop upon a
foe, and swift when they come to help
Gods friends. If father and his son
be walking by the way, and the child
goes too near precipice, how long does
it take for the father to deliver the
child from danger9 Longer than it
takes God to swoop for the rescue of
his children. The fact is that you can
not get away from the care of God. II
you take the steamship or the swift
rail train he is all the time along with
you. WHITTIER shall go from thy
spirit, and whittier shall fee from thy
presenceG If I ascend up into heaven
thou art there. Ii make my bed in
hell, behold thou art there. If take
the wings of the morning and dwell in
the uttermost parts of the sea, even
there thy hand shall hold me-"
THE CAR FOR ANT1ErAM.
The Arabian gazelle Is swift as the
wind If it gets but one glimpse of the
hunter it puts many crags between.
Solomon four or five times compares
Christ to an Arabian gazelle calling it
by another name) when he says, my
beloved is like a roe." The difference
Is that the roe speeds the other way;
Jesus speeds this Who but Christ
could have been quick enough to have
helped Peter when the water pavement
brokef Who but Christ could have
been quick enough to help the Duke
OF Argyle when. in his dying moment,
he cried: GOOD cheerl could die like
Roman, but mean to die like a Chris
tian. Come away, gentlemen. He who
goes first goes cleanestl" / had a friend
who stood by the rail track at Carlisle,
Pa, when the ammunition had given
out at Antietam, and he saw the train
from Harrisburg. freighted with shot
and shell, as it went laundering down
toward the battle field. He said that
It stopped not Tor any crossing. They
put down the brakes for no grade.
hal e.