The Progress., 1894-01-27
TABERNACLE PULPIT
lALMAGE ON THE PRESENT
RELIGIOUS REVIVAL.
Arm OF the Lord. Awake. Aw,I,o, p,,,
on Thy Strength, the Ma. ons shake
Tho Lord Hath u,qc Han H..
HOLY Arm"

HEooELYN, Jan. 21. -Sinrularl,
appropriate and impressive was the old
gospel hymn as it was sung thi, morn
ing by the thousands Of Rrool,Ivp
tabernacle led on by coruct and oI..-.,,,.
Arm Of the Lord, awake. awake,
Tut on Thy strength. the nations shake
Eev. Dr. Talmagc took fo~ his sub
J'ct The Bare Arm Of God" the tcxt
being Isaiah - =. The Lord hath
made bare His holy arm"
1t almost takes our breath away 10
read some of the bible imaorry Thcrr
Is such holdncss of metaphor in my
text that ! have been FOR some time
getting my courage up to preach from
IT, Isaiah, the cvangclistic prophct. +,
sounding the Jubilatc of our planet
redeemed, and cries out. THE Lord
hath made bare his holy arm. What
overwhelming suggcstivcucSS i'm that
figure Of speech, THE bare arm of
Cod The people of Palestine to this
day wear much hindcring apparel, and
when they want To run special race,
or lift a special burden. or f"ht a
special battle, they put off the outside
apparel, as in our land. when Il man
proposes a special cXcrtion, he puts OF
his coat and rolls up his sleeves Walk
through our foundrie>, our machine
shops, our mines, our factories. and
You wiz find that most Of the toilcrs
have their coats of and their sleeves
rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must bc a tire
mcndouS amount Of work done before
this world becomes " hat fought to bc,
and he foreSccs it all accomplished,
and accomplished by the Almighty:
not as we ordinarily think of him, but
by the Almighty with the sleeve of his
robe rolled back TO his shoulder: Tho
Lord hath made bare his holy arm"
Nothing more impreSscS me in the
bible than the ease with which God
does most things. There is such re
serve of power. lie has more thunder
bolts than he has ever flung; more
light than he has ever distributed;
more blue than that with which he
has over-archcd the sky; more green
than that with which he has cmcr-
aided the grass; more crimson than
that with which hc has FURNISHED tho
sunsets. | say it with reverence: from
all | can see, God has never half tired.
But see how easy God nx,dc the
light. He did not make bare his arm;
he did not even put forth 3is robed
arm; he did not lift so much as fin
ger. The flint out of which he struck
the MONDAY sun was the word
"Iirht." "Let there he Cght.' Adam
did not see the s.rn until. the fourth
dav. for, though TIE 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
vou ever hear of anything so easy as
that? So unique? Out ola word came
the blazing sun, the father of flowers,
and warmth, and light? Out of word
buildinr fireplace for all the nations
nf the earth to warm themselves by'
Yea seven other worlds, five of them
inconceivably larger than our own,
and seyentv-nine asteroids, or worlds
nm a smaller scale, The warmth and
LIGHT for this great brotherhood, grea'
sistcrbood. great family of worlds,
siobtv-seven larger or smaller worlds,
ali from that one magnificent fireplace
n,,de ont of the one word-"Llght
!. The sun ss6, 900 miles in diameter
1o not know bow much grander solar
s,.stem God could have created If he
had put forth his robed arm to say
nothing of an arm made bare. Bu'
tbis | know: that our MONDAY sun wa'
,narls struck from the anvil of one
word. and that word-''Light.'
But" says some one. "do you no
NIL, flat in making the mach inery o
Ha universe. of which our SOAR SyA
,om IS comparatively small vince
,,orl,inp into mightier wheels 1t mus
hoyo cost God some eXertion? The up
beaval of an arm, either robed' or al
,,.,, made bare?" No; we are dlstinct
=, told otherwise. The machinery o
universe God made simply with III
grrers. David, inspired in nlgh
.onr saws so: "Nhen | consider III.
he,yens the work of thy hngers'
Arm of the Lord. awake, awake,
- PINT ON Thy strength, the nationsshaRe'
I Aye, it is not only the Lords ord, ar, arI
< ,bot is needed, the holy arm, the ou
! stretched arm, but the bare arm!
( There, too, stands MohammedaniSii :, ,
: with its 176, 900, 900 victims Its olol
I Is the Koran, book not quite as larg
7 as our new testament, which was r.
< vealed to Mohammed when IN epiiep.
: fits. and resuscitated from tnese ~
< he dictated it to scribes. Yet 1t Is rea
! today by more people than any o'n' .'
Z bool, ever written. Mohammed' u
! founder of that religion, polygamis
Z With supernuity of wives the hr,
I s,an of his religion on the body min
I and soul of woman, and no wond'
: that the heaven of the Koran Is :, "a
We sxerlasting eu'r .sodom, an infinite seragli
eto,t which Mohammed promises th'