The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-01-31
Al HE TABERNACLE.
REV. Or. TAlMaGE breaches UPON
ssTRE BARE Ann OF GOD

x EE SASE Ann CF GSO
Cod did not 50 Much sS LIT FtnGer TO
.Br,ns forth L,sht-A Scuperdous Uaaer-
taking-Nsed ct Gods Bare A:ms.
BROOKLYN. Jan: 21.-S:pgularly ap-
r~cpr,.1. ap0 impressive was the old
GOSPEL bymn as It was sung THIS morn
Ine hy the thousands OF Brooklyn Taber-
racled. led on by cornet and orgsn:
Arm Of the Lord, awake! awaked!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
Rev. Dr.. Tslmase took for his subject
s.Tbe Bare Arm 0; God" the text being
Isaiah iii, 10, ''The Lord hath made bare
bis holy arm."
1t almost takes cur breath away to
read some Of The 6io2e Imagery. There
is such holGGess OF metaphor 10 my text
that I have been for some time getting
nv courage up to preach from it. Isaiah,
the evapgeEsuc prophet, IS sounding the
iubilate If cur plaoet redeemed aud cries
out, The Lord hath made bare bis holy
arm" What overwhelming suggestive
ness in that hgure OF speech, The bare
arm OF Gcd!" TIE people Of Palestine
to this day wear much alnderiDg apparel.
and when they wait to ruD g special
rsce. or hit special parcen. taey put OF
the outside apparel, as il Our land when
mai proposes special exeruon Do
pu1s of his coat and rolls up bis sleeves,
Walk through our found-ies, our ma
chine shops, our G!nes, or f%~'2flss'
and YOU y /. fnd that most q t : .ollers
have their coals Of ard ther sleeves
rolled up.
Isaiah sew that ;tera must be tre.
mend as suourt q wors Gene before
his wcrlo ,eccmes what it ought TO oe,
ano ue tCresses it all accomplished, and
accomplished by the Almighty, not as
We ordinarily think Of Im, hui by the
Almighty with the sleeve Of his robe
rolled back to his shoulder, The Lord
hath made bale his holy arm"
Nothing uore lmpresseS ua II the Bible
ttan the easi with which Coo does NEST
things. Tarre is such reserve OF
power. He has more tbundeTbots Than
be has ever fang, more lleb. than be
has ever distributed, more blue than thai
with which be has overarchec the ssj F.,
more green than tina. With which re o"s
enera!deC the grass, more crimson thau
that With h.ch he las burnlshed the
sunsets. l say ii with reverence, from
all cap see. God oas lever halt Iriso.
You Enos as wei as Go that CarN
OF TIE most eldborate an expensive Ia :
dustries OF cur world have been em-
p}ryed ID creating artificial light. Halt
of the tine The world Is dark. The moon
and the Stars have their glorious uses.
hut es Instruments of illumination they
ar, failures. They will not allow you
,or sd book or stop the rufhs, ism OF
your great cities. Had not the dark
neSs BEEN persistently fought back BY
4ruf. ial means, the most o. The worries
.epleI presses wouid have halted halt tEt
time, Y bile tie crime Of our great NUM-
cipalit,es woulG tor hslf he time run
rampant ard urrebuket; berce al the
inventions Ct creating artificial light,
from The flint struck against steel IN cen.
TURKS past to ,he Gyramo Of our elec.
trical Su2nuiactorlss. What uncopn:ed
numbers of peopls at work the year
round IL naklrg chandeliers and lamps
and fixtures and wares and batteries
where ligh: shall be made CT along which
hight saall run or where light shall polse!
How many bare arms CT human toll
and some CT those bare, arms are very
tire6-in the creation ofligct and its ap
paratus, ano. after all the work the great
er cart OF the continents and hemls-
pheres at night have no light al all. ex-
cept perhaps the fre6les flashing their
small lanterns across swamp.
But see now easy God made the light!
he did moi make bare his arm; he did
not even put forth his ro5ed arm; be did
not lift so much as q fuger. The flint
cut Of which be strIck the MONDAY sun
was The word "L,sht." Let there be
light" Adam did not see the SUD until
the fourth day, for, though the
sun was created on the first
day, it took It's rays from the first to the
fourth day to work through the dense
mass of fluids by which this earth was
compassed. Did yen ever hear of any,
thing so easy as that? So UNIQUE? Out
Of a word came the blazing sun, the
father OF flowers and warmth and light.
Out of word building fireplace for all
nations Of the earth to warr themselves
by! Yea, seven other worlds, FIVE oi
them irconceivsbly larger than our own,
and 70 asteroids, or worlds on smaller
scales-Tts, warmth and light for this
great brotherhood, great sisterhood,
great family of woslds-S7 larger or small.
ier worlds, all from that one magnih-
cent fireplace made out OF the one word
stLisht.'' The sun $4,000 miles in d.
ameter! do not knoS how much gran.
der a solar system God could have Gre
ated if be had put forth his robed arm to
say nothing of an arm made bare! But
this I know-tL.>s our MONDAY sun was
spark struck Gom the anvil OF one
word, and that WORD "Llght."
But" says some one, ''do YOU no'
think that IN making the machinery oi
tie universe, CT which our solar system
is comparatively q mall wheel working
into nnishtier wheels 1t must have caused
God some exertionShe upheayal OF s1
arm, either robeG or an arm made 5are?'
No. We are distinctly told ocaer wise
The machinery OF 4 universe God made
simply with his fins ers. David, inspired
IN Eight song, says so-"When I con
slder thy heavens, the work OF Thy hn-
gers"
a Scottish clergyman told me few
weeks ego Of dyspeptic Thomas Carlyl K
walking cut with friend one starry
night, AID ss the friend looked UP anc
said. ''Wnat splendid sky" Mr.. Car
lyle replied as be s!srced upward. Sac
sight, SAD slshln NoL so thought Davic
SIS he-zead the great Scripture # The
p:ght heavens. was sweep OF EN-
bro.dery Of Vast aee>try, God manieu-
lated. That is the allasloG Cf The psalm
.st IN the woven fIanvinos OF t9Ces;rt