The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-01-23
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE DOCTOR TAKES FOR HIS SUB
JECT, "THE BEAR ARM OF GOD"
And breaches to Large Audience the Evils
of the World and the Work Neces-
sary to Subdue Them.

Arm of the Lord. awake. awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
Rev. DR.. Talmage took for his SUBJECT
."rhe Bare Arm of God" the text being
Isaiah Lii: 10-"rhe LORD hath maze Odie
His holy arm
1t almost takes our breath away to read
some of the Bible imagery. There IS Such
boldness of metaphor in my text thaI
have been for some time getting my coui-
age up to preach from 1t. Isalah, the evan
gelistic prophet is sOundinS the JuoIiate oi
our planet redeemed. and cries out: Inc
Lord hath made bare His holy arm" What
overwhelming suggestiyeness i'll that Inquire
OF speech The bare arm OF God! Inc
people of Palestine to this day wear mucn
hndering appare-, and when they want
TO run a special race, or lift speclai Dur
den, or fight a special battle, they put
OF the outside apparel, as IN our iahu' "heh
q man proposes Il special eXeruon ne puts
off his coat and rolls up his sleeves. walk
through our foundries our machine shops,
our mines our factories, and you VIII Illiu
that most of the toiers have their coat
off and their sleeve rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must be a tremend-
GUS amount of work done before TINS WorId
becomes what it ought to be- ana ne lore
becomes what it ought to be, and lie lore
aces if all accomplished, and accomplished
nv the Almighty; not as we ordinarily thlih
of Him but by the Almighty with tne
sleeve of His robe rolled back TO tls snoul-
der: THE Lord hath made bare his Ao4y
arm" ,,,,,
Nothing, more impresses me in the Bible
than the ease with which God does most
things There is such a reserve o. Po" ,.
F3e has more thUuderbOIts than Jie mas eve
rung; more light than lie mas SNSi - -,
1Ired. mare blue than that with NhlCn ne
has over-arched the SKY; more green ma tq
that with which lie has tilleidIIeu nc ;'
grass; more crimson Than thdt with "il'O -
He has FURNISHED the sunsets Sd! -
with reverence: from ali 1 can See Eoo
has never half tried. -. 20
YoI know as wei as l do that many oil
t,a most elaborate and expensive lLuuS-
- - o,,r word have been employed IN
creating artificial light. Half Oh the llhlt
The world is dark. The moon and the stars
have their glorious uses nltt u lli,i -, ' Iii
OF illumination they are Iatu, g. my M ~
not allow you to read q book. or stop me
TufIianiSIu oil your great cit'"S. L4'1 n.y.
the darkness been pefslstehlE LG"7 ~
worlds enterprises would nave Atitt~d Ii'iIa
the time. While the crime Of our great
Municipalities would for halt the tile run
rampant ana unrepuRed. HenJe' an 'ilE NJ ~ ~
ventions for creating articial Hshl, ron!
the flint struck against steer ~. C[-i.''ii I-
past, TO the dynamo OF our electIlcl manu-
Factories " hat uucOUutCd numbers OF pe9-
pie at work the year round Ia making caah-
deIiers, and lamps, anu ilNtufeS' anu W!Ies,
and batteries where Iisht shall be naie or
along which light shall run, or where llZhL
shall poisei How many bare arms oil hu-
man toiI-and some of those pare arms are are
very tired-in the creation OF i5hL anu rs
apparatus, and after all the WORK the
urea Ter part Of the continents anu Eem-
isphcres at night have no light at ali, eN-
cent perhaps the FIRE flies naShnS theH
small lanterns across the swamp.
But see how easy GOO maze Lhe itSll.
He cid not make bare his ARM he qlI liot
e~en put forth His ROBBED arm ne uld nor
lift SO much as a finger. The flint out OF
which He struck the MONDAY sun was the
,,-or,5 ~ ial1t - let there be light Adam
-I~.. Gun
Cor though the sun was created on the nrSt
dav it took its rays from the urSt 10 lhe
fourth day TO work thronsn lhe ,.eIlSg i Ilas'
OF fluids by which this earth was conpass-
ed Did YOU ever hear OF ANYTHING so easy
a. that2 so unique? out OF a WORD came
the blazing sun. the father of flowers ana
warmth. and light! out Of . world hui d
ing a tfrep,ace for all the nations of the
earth 10 warm themselves by. \ ca seven
Other worlds. five Of them inconceivably
larger than our own. ana s7Tenty-ni}ne,
asteroids. or worlds ON smaller scale
The warmth and light for this great
broth erlood, great siSterhOod, great family
Of worlds eightv-seve1 larger or Si0a Her
worlds all from that one MAGNIFICENT ire
place made ont 81 the one Word-'I@
The sun $4,000 miles in diameter. do not
know how much graUdar q solar system
Cod could have created if lie had put forth
HIS rohed arm. to say nothing or an arm
made barrel Rut this 7 know: that our
MONDAY sun was shark struck from the
anvil of one word. and that word Light
put" savS some one. do Won not think
,-o,.sa ~ which our solar system is COM
,---+t,-,I,. n e-,7e11 v-l,ea' y-orI5fus, into
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