Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-01-22

BROOKLYN, January 2i.-Sngularly
appropriate and impressive was the old
Gospel hymn as II was sung this mora
ing by the thousands OF Brooklyn Tab
ernacle led by cornet and organ:
Arm OF the Lord. awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
Rev. DIR. Talmago took for his sub
feet, THE Bare arm OF God the text
being Isaiah 52:lO, "I7lc Lord hath made
bare His hOiD arm"
1t almost takes our breath away TO
read some Of the Bible imagery. There
is such boidness of metaphor in my text
that have been for some time getting
my courage up TO preach from u.
Isaiah, the evangelistic prophet is
sounding the Jublate OF our planet re-
deemed, and cries out, THE Lord hath
made bare His holy arm" What over
whelming suggestiveness In that hgure
OF speech. "rhe bare arm OF God ~
The people Of Palestine 20 this day
wear much hindering apparel, aud
when they want to run a special race,
or lift a special burden, or fight
special battle, they put oil the outside
apparel, as In our land, when man
proposes special eIertion, he puts Oft
his coat aud rolls up his sleeves. Walk
through our foundries, our machine
you will find that most OF the toilers
have their coat of, and their sleeves
rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must he q tre-
mendous amount Of work done before
this world becomes what IL ought TO be,
and he foresees IL all Rccomp lshed,
and accomplished by the Almighty; not
rs we ordinarily think OF him, but by
the Almighty with the sleeve Of his
robe rolled back 10 his shoulder: THE
Lord hath made bare his holy arm"
NOTHING MORE NiPREssEs NE
In the Bible than the ease with which
God does most things. There is such q
reserve of power. he has more thund-
erbolts than he has ever flung; more
light than he has ever distributed more
blue tnan that with which he has over
arched the SKY; moro green than that
with which he has emeralded this grass;
more crimson than that with which he
has FURNISHED the sunsets. say it,
with reverence; from all | can see, God
has never half tried.
You know as we'll as DO that many
OF the most elaborate and expensive in
dustrles Of our world have been en-
pioyed in creating artificial light. Hair
OF the time the world is dark. The
moon and the stars have their glorious
uses, but as instruments OF illumination
they are failures. They will not allow
you TO read book, or stop the ruffian-
ism OF your great cities. Had not the
darkness been persistently fought back
by artificial means the most OF the
worlds enterprises would have halted
half the time, while crime OF our great
municipalities would for half the time
run rampant and unrebuked. Hence,
al ha in
light, from the flint struck against steel
in centuries past, TO the dynamo OF our
electrical manufactures. What I'M
counted NUN ers of people At work the
year ro1nd in making chandeliers and
lamps, and fixtures, and wires, and
batteries where light shall be made, or
along which light shall run, or where
light shall poise! How many bare arms
Of human toil-and some OF those bare
arms are very tired-iu the creation Of
light and its apparatus: and after all
the swork, the greater part OF the con-
tinents and Leuispheres ~ night have
TO light ~ all, except perhaps the ire
fiies flashing tle.r small lanterns across
the swamp.
- But SEE low EASY GOD MADE
<he light. He did not make bare His
arm; he did not even put forth His
robed arm; he did not lift so much a, q
finger. The flint out OF which lie
struck the MONDAY sun was the word,
Light" Let there DO light" Adam
did not see the sun until the fourth
day, for, though the sun was created on
the first day, il took its rays from the
first TO the fourth day TO work through
the dense mass of fluids by which this
earth was compassed. Did you ever
hear OF anything so easy as that? So
unique? Out Of a word came the blaz-
ing sun. the father OF flowers, and
warmth, aud light. out OF a word
building a Fireplace FOR an the nations
Df the earth 70 warm themselves bYl
Yea, seven other worlds, Eve Of them
incOnceivably larger than our own, aud
Seventy-uiue asteroids, or worlds on
smaller scale. The warmth and light
for this great brotherhood, great sister
hood, great family OF worlds, eighty.
seven larger or smaller worlds, all from
that one magnificent Fireplace made
out Of the one word-"Ligbt." The
sun $4,000 miles In diameter. 90
not know how much gIGudcr solar
system God could have created il He
had put forth His robed arm. 20 say
nothing OF an arm made bare. But
this j know: That our MONDAY sun was
spark struck FROM the anvil Of one
one wCr0, and that word-"LiRht."
But says some one, 'dO you not
think that boo making the machinery Of
the universe, OF which our solar system
ls comparatively a small wheel working
Into migbtier wheels, % must have cost
God some eEert..uy The upheaval of
au arm, either robed. or an arm male
bare?' so. we ore distinctly toldOth-
erwise. The machinery Of q universe