Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-22
DIR. TALsIAGE PREAcHEs UPON
HTHE BARE ARM OF GOD"
God Did Not So Much as Lift Finger
to Bring Forth the Ligbt-A
stupeudous Undertake
ing-Neod OF Gods
Bare Arm.

~ ARAANh NAAN ~ hAAAf
Arm Of the Lord, awake. awakol
Put on thy strength. tho nations shake
Rev DR. Talmage took for bis subject
1.-THE Bare Arm OF God, >" tho text being
Isaiah III. 10, "The Lord hath made bare
bis holy arm,
II almost takes our breath away TO read
some OF the Bible imagery. There Is such
boldness OF metaphor IN my text that ]
have been ior some time getting my eour-
age mp 10 preach from Il. Isaiah, the evan
Eellstic prophet, Is bounding the jubilnte
Of our planet redeemed and cries out,
"The Lord hath made tnrc hisholy arm"
What overwhelming Iuggcstiyenesvi in that
figure Of speech, "rhe bare arm Of Godr
The people OF Palcstine 70 this day wear
much hlndcring apparel md whom they
want TO run a special race, OIL III a Hpcolnl
burden or fight q special battle, they put
on the outside apparel ns In oar land when
a man proposes u special eNcrtlon he puts
OH his coat and rolls up his sleeves. Walk
through our fouudrirs our machine shops,
our mines, our factories, md You will find
thnt most Of the toilers have their coats OH
aud their sleeves rolled up
Isaiah snw TINT there must be tro-
mendous amount Of work done before this
world becomes whit ~ ought 20 be- and he
iorcsees 1t all accomplished, and ncoom.
plisbed by the Almighty, not nB we ordi-
narily think Of linn, but by the Almighty
with the sleeve OF his roba rolled back TO
his shoulder, "Ihe Lord hath made bare
his holy arm
Nothing more impr-sses me in the Bible
than tho ease with which God dos, most
thug. There IS such % reserve OF power.
lie has moro tbuuderboIu4 than he has
ever flung, more light thHn ho has ever
distributed, more blue than that with
which he has ovcrggcbed the sky, more
green than that with which ho ha- cmcr.
aided the grass moro crimson thnn that
with which he has FURNISHED tho sunsets.
J say il with reverence, from all 1 can bee,
God has never hult tried
TIRED ARMS or TON.
You know us well ns do That many Of
the most elaborate aud expensive indus
tries of our world have been employed In
creating artificial light Half Of tho time
the world is dark. Tho moon and the
stars have their glorious uses, but W. I'M
UrumgnB ~ illumination they hrc fail.
ur,S. They will not allow you 10 Tend a
book or stop the rullnnism 81 your great
cities. Had not the darkness been persist
emily fought back by artificial means, the
most Of th0world enterprises would have
hnlted half the time while the crime Of
cur great municipalities would for hnlf
the time run rampant and unIebuked;
hence nll the inventions for creating urii-
fetal light. from tho Tint struck against
steel iu centuries past 10 the dynamo Of
cur electrical manufactures. Whnt I'M
counted numbers ot people NO work tho
year round ia making chandeliers and
lamps aud fixtures md wires aud batteries
where light shall DO made or along which
light shall run or whore light shall poiscl
How many bare arms of humnn toil-Hnd
some Of those haro arms uru very tircd-in
the creation Of light and lts apparatus,
and after all the work the greater p1rt Of
the continents and homisphefcl ~ night
have no light at Hll, except perhaps the
tlrehics flashing their small lanterns
across the swamp.
But Ere how Easy God mndo the light
He did not mike bare his arm he did not
even put forth his ROBBED arm; be did not
Lift 80 much as finger The lint out Of
which he struck tho uoondHy sun WINS the
word "Light" "Lct there be light"
Adam did not see Tho sun until tho fourth
day, for though the sun was created on
the first day, IL took ia rays from the first
TO the fourth day to work through the
dense mass OF fluids by which this earth
was comprised. Did yoa ever hear OF any
thing 80 easy as thatf So uniqucf out
OF word eam0 the blazing sun, the father
OF flowers aud warmth and light, out
Of word building fireplace for all ma
tloua Of the earth TO warm themselves byl
Yen, seven other worlds, 1--WE % them IN.
conceivnhly larger than our own, and 40
asteroids, or worldl ON smaller scalcl
The warmth and light for this great
brotherhood. great aistcrhood. great fam
fly Of worlds, Sc larger or smaller worlds,
all from that one magnificent fireplace
made out OF the one word "Light" The
sun $50, 900 miles Ia diamtterl / do not
know how much grnnGer u solar rystcm
God could have created u he had put forth
his ROBBED arm. TO say nothing OF an arm
made hHral But this I luow-that our
MONDAY sun was a spark struck from tho
anvil OF one word, and that word Light"
But, says some one, do you not think
thut In making tho machinery OF the uni
verse. Of which our solar Hystom Is com.
parauvely small wheel working into
nhghtier wheels, u must have caused God
SOME oNertion the upheaval Of an arm,
either rohed or an arm m,..,a barcr' No.
We are distinctly told otherwise The
machinery OF universe God made simply
with his Gngors, David, inspired in
night song, says Ho--'Whcn l consider
thy heavens, the work OF thy fingers.
AccoMPLlsRED ny rfNGKRs ONLY.
A Scottish clergyman told me a few
weeks ago Of dyspeptlc Thomas Carlyle
walking out with "a friend one starry night,
and a. the friend looked up aud said,
what splendid skyW Mr., Carlyle re
piled as he glanced upward, "Sad sight,
sad sightpp Not NO thought David "a no
read the Rrent Scripture Of the night
heavens, 1t was a sweep OF embroidery
OF vast tapestry, God manipulated That
il the ailusion Of the psalmist to the WOW.
en- hanglugs Of tapestry as they were
known loug before David time Far back
IN the ages what cnehantment Of thread
and color, the Florentine yelvcts OF silk and
gold and Persian carpets woven OF gosts'
hairl II you have been In the Goboliu
manufaetoty Of tapestry IN paris-alas,
now no morel-you witnessed woudrous
things aa You saw the wooden needle or
broach going back aud forth and in and
out. You were transhxed with admiration
AZ the patterns wrought No wonder that
Louis XIV bought L. and it became the
possession OF tho throne, and for long
while none but thrones and palaces hight
have any OF its work. What trlumphs OF
looml What victory OF skilled dnqorsi
So David says'of the heavens that Gods
firtstira xgr.s5st Into fN.,.. 4l.a a..