The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-02-02

u ,n ndea'ooklyn, Specill-Rev DIR. Ta!mage
an,f for his subject, The Bare Arm OF
d ~ i, J" the text being Isaiah lii, 10,
Lord hath made bare his holy
ith an.
ybt >. almost takes our breath away to
~ !, some of the Bible imagery.
bs .. re Is such boldness Of metaphor in
trnd text that | have been for some time
above ing my courage up to preach from
e t'e Isaiah, the evangelistic prophet,
the Jubliate of our planet
oH'o teemed, and cries out, ''Ihc Lord
80 ortle bare his holy arm" What over
auaN:lming SuggestiVeneSs in that figure
peech, tine bare arm OF Godp' The
II poaple Of Palestine to this day wear
a. ii hlldering apparel and when they
Fatt to run special race, or lift Il
!, hanq ;ial burden, or fight Il special battle,
ID and put off the outside apparel, as in
latils land, when IL man proposes a spec
ale Of texertiOn, he puts off his coat and
be h; up his sleeves. Walk through our
u,s In ldries, our machine shops, our
! ra4i es, our factories. and you will find
ty VfI. most of the toilers have their coats
,on and their sleeves rolled up.
aiah saw that there must be Il tre-
ldOuS amount of work done before
'asEs world becomes what it ought to be,
e city he foreSees it all accomplished,
70 A, accomplished by the Almighty;
p.r 4 rs we ordinarily think Of him. but
the Almighty with the sleeve Of his
lFoM, rolled back to his shoulder: The
sei1s d hath made bare his holy arm"
: 'aaif Dthing more impresses me in the BIZ
drown than the ease with which God does
'fs MT things There is such reserve of
ApTSver. He has more thllnaerbolts than
~ 3"ue has ever flung; more light than he
iilcon ever distributed: more blue than
with which he has oyerarched the
interia; more green than that with which
on ~ las emeralded the grass; more Grim
than that with which he has burn
eoaid the sunsets. | say it with rever-
. tFeata; from all can see, God has never
rs 81 tried
ans e0u know as we'll rs | do that many
We d8he most elaborate and expensive in
rts t0trieS Of our world have been employ
have in creating artificial light. Half the
thattta the world is dark The moon and
strait stars have their glorious uses. but
args Instruments Of illumination they are
"
l a book or stop the rutlianiSm Of
~ 4. great cities. Had not the darkness
- IN persistenty fought back by artifi-
y fla means, the most Of the worlds en-
ieE,riseS would have halted half the
i 4 e41, while the crime of our great mu-
.,o palities would for half the time run
I H. pant and unrebuked. Hence, all
inventions for creating artificial
6n fnt =
enturies past, to the dynamo of our
trical manufactures. What un-
nted numbers Of people at work the
1a'..sr round in making chandeliers, and
pS, and fixtures, and wires, and bat
~ es where light shall be made. or
lg which light shall run, or where
I b. shall poise, How many bare arms
bays. human toil-and some Of those arms
!. very tired in the creation of light
: pss Its apparatus; and after all the
nm X, the greater part of the continents
= beli hemispheres at night have no light
ol fAlll except perhaps the firefles flash
bfsfl their sman lanterns across the
! the imp.
and ut see how easy God made the
~ 1t. He did not make bare his arms.
asfp Cid not even put forth his robed
mp a9l; ne did not lift so much as 4 fin
q 81. Ihe flint out OF which ne struck
$ MS MONDAY sun was the word. Light. :"
It there be light" Adam did not see
mep6 sun until the fourth day for though
49,, sun was created on the first day. It
< It's rays from the first to the fourth
lt lN, 10 work through the dense mass Of
,nly IDS nv which the earth was compass
state Did you eye~ hear of ANYTHING so
arstey as that? SO unique? Out Of a word
les me the blazing sun. the father of
the Vers, and warmth, and light? Ont Of
OF it1Oru building place for all the
~ otlOnS OF the earth to warm themsel-
i bn. by! Yea, seven other worlds, five
thef5them inconceiyably larger than our
now q. and seventy-nine asteroids, or
- Trlds on smaller scale! The warmth
cd lel light of this great brotherhood,
bnidat s1Sferhood, great family Of worlds
larger or smaller worlds,
80. m. from that one magnificent Fireplace
- de ont Of the one word-"Lght."
ron sun SS6.OOO miles in diameter. do
III wr know how much grandcr a solar
rrestatem God could have created IL he
300 put forth his robed arm. to say
Ter. hing OF an arm made bare! But this
/ bei3fnOW. that our monday sun was
lIy rtrk struck from the anvil Of one
81 up I'd. and that word-"Light"
takr Rut,' SAYS some one. do You not
,rly Ink that in making the machinery
HIM the universe. Of which our solar
!. Gra'tem Is comparatively small wheel
,ts rg,rking into mightier wheels, ii must
nm We cost God some eyertion? The up-
he avail Of an arm. either robe1 or an
M, m made bare?" No; we are distinctly
au1rd Otherwise. The machinery Of q
~ i Verse God made simply with his fin
ao. rs David. inspired in night song
" u vs. 70: when l consider thy heav-
49, $, the work Of thy fingers
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