The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-03-10
AT THE TABERNACLE
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
1.-THE BARE ARM OF COD"

God Did Not SO Much as LIT a Finger To
Bring Forth the Lisht-A stupendous |
Undertakins--Nced of Gods Bare Arm.
BRooKLYN, Jan. 2l.--Singuary appro. |
pirate and impressive was the old gospel /
HYMN rs it was sung this morning by the I
thousands of Brooklyn Tabernacle, led on |
by cornet and organs
Arm Of the Lord. awake, awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake
Rev DR. Talmage took for his subject |
THE Bare Arm Of God, the text being
Isainh Iii, 10, "The Lord hath made baro
his holy arm.
IL almost takes our breath away to read
some of the Bible imagery. There Is such
holiness Of metaphor in my text that ]
have been for some time getting my cour-
age up to preach from 1t. Isaiah, the evan
gelstic prophet, is sounding the lubilate
Of our planet redeemed and cries out
The Lord hath made bare his holy arm
What overwhelming suggcstiyeness in that
figure of speech, "rhe bare arm of Cod
The ueople of Palestine to this day wear
much hiudering apparel and when. they
want to run special race, or lift a special
burden or fight a special battle, they put
of the outside apparel, as in our land when
man proposes special eNeriion ne puts
off his coat aud rolls up his sleeves. Walk
through our tuuudries. our machine shops
our mines, our factories and you will find
that most of the toilers have their coats OF
and their sleeves rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must be tire
mendous amount Of work done before this
world becomes what it ought TO be-, and he
foresecs it all accomplished, and accom-.
plisbed by the Almighty, not as we ordi
narilv think Of him. but by the Almighty
with the sleeve Of his robo rolled back to
his shoulder, 'Ihe Lord hath made bare
his holy arm.
Nothing more impresses me in the Bible
than the ease with which God does most
things There is such reserve Of power.
He has more thuuderbolts than he has
ever flung. more light than he has ever
distributed, more blue than that with
which he has oyerarched the sky, more
green than that with which he has emer-
aided the 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
TIRED ARMS OF TOTL.
You know as well as do that many Of
the most elaborate and expensive indus
tries Of our world have been employed in
creating artificial light. Half of the time
the world is dark The moon and the
stars have their glorious uses, but ms in.
strumeuts of illumination they are fail
urcs. They will not allow you to read n
book or stop the rufanism Of your great
cities Had not the darkness been persist
emily fought back by artificial means, the
most of the world $ enterprises would have
halted half the time, while the crime OF
our great municipalities would for hall
the time run rampant and UNI ebuked
Ii Sea ION for
fetal light. from the flint struck against
steel in centuries past to the dynamo ol
our electrical manufactures. What I'M
counted numbers of people Mt work the
year round in making chandeliers ant
lamps and fixtures and wires aud batteries
where light shall be made or along which
light shall run or where light shall poise
How many bare arms Of human toil--anC
some of those bare arms are very tired-ir
the creation of light and its apparatus
and after all the work the greater part OF
the continents and hemispheres at night
have no light at all, except perhaps the
frenrs flashing their small lanterns
across the swamp.
But see how easy God made the light
lie did not make bare his arm; he did no
even put forth his robed arm; he did no
lift 50 much as "A finger. The flint out o
which he struck the monday sun was tn
word "Iightn Let there be lightl
Adam did not see the sun until the fourt
day, for though the sun was created Of
the first day, it took its rays from the frs
TO the fourth day to work through tn
dense mass Of fluids by which this eartl
was compassed. Did you ever hear of any
thing SO easy ~ that So uniquey Gu
of word came the blazing SUM- the fathe
of flowers and warmth and light. Gu
..1..g.s q. Ill
tions of the earth to warm themselves by
Yea, seven other worlds, five of them in
conceivably larger than our own, and q
asteroids, or worlds ON a smaller scale
The warmth and light for this grea
brotherhood great sisterhood, great fam
lily of worlds, 81 larger or smaller worlds
all from that one magnificent freplac
made out of the one word Light" Tn
sun $50, 600 miles in diameter ! do no
know how much Erander II solar system
God could have created if he had put fort
his ROBBED arm, to say nothing of an arm
made barrel But this | know-that on
MONDAY sun was a spark struck from Tia
anvil of one word, and that word Light.
% But, says some one, do you not thin
that in making the machinery of the uni
verse, of which our solar system is con
parativcly small wheel working int
mightier wheels, it must have caused Go
some exertion-the upheaval of an arm
either ROBBED or an arm made barey" Nc
We are distinctly told otherwise Tn
machinery of universe God made simpl
with his fingers. David, inspired in
night song, says so--"When | conside
thy heavens, the work of thy fingers"
ACCOMPLISHED BY FINGERS Only.
A Scottish clergyman told me fe,
weeks ago of dyspeptic Thomas Carly
walking out with friend one starry nigh
and as the friend looked up and salt
What splendid sky" Mr. Carlyle T,
piled AS he glanced upward, "Sad sigh
sad sight" Not so thought David as /
read the great Scripture Of the nigl
heavens 1t was a sweep of embroider
of vast tapestry, God manipulated, Thi
IL the allusion of the psamist to the wO'
Ell hangings of tapestry III they wei
known long before David time. Far bac
in the ages what enChantment of threa
and color, the Floreutine velvets of silk an
gold and Persian carpets woven Of goat
hair! If you have been in the GObeli
nanufactory Of tapestry in Paris-ala
now no more You witnessed wondror
things As you saw the wooden needle,
breach, going back and forth and in an
out. You We're transfiXed with admiratio
at the patterns wrought No wonder thj
Louis XIV bought it, and it became II
possession Of the throne, and for II Ion
while none but thrones and palaces migl
have any of its work. What triumphs
loom What victory of skilled finger
So David says of tine heavens that God
fingers wove into them the light. tn
Gods fingers tapestried them with star
that Gods fingers embroidered them Wi
worlds How much Of the immensity
the heavens David understood know nc
Astronomy was born in China 2 800 yea
before Christ was born During the Teil
of Hoang-Ii astronomers were put TO deaf
If they made wrong calculations about Il
heavens. Job understood the refraction
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