The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-02-01
At THE TABERNACLE.
REV pR. TALMAeE breaches UPON
1.-THE BARE ARM OF GOD

God did not so Much as Lift a ringer 70
E-,ne forth L,sht-A stupendons Under.
..r,,,-Need =. of Gods Bare ARM.
BROOKLYN, Jan: 2l.-Singularly ap-
nropriste and impressive was the old
gospel hymn as it Was sung this morn
mo by The thousands Of Brooklyn Taber-
Lacled, led on by cornet and organ:
Arm Of the Lord, awake! awakedl
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
Rev. DR.. Tslmage took for his subject
ssThe Bare Arm of God," the text being
Isaiah Ii, 10, The Lord hath made bare
his holy arm"
It almost takes cur breath away to
read some of The Bible imagery. There
is such boldness OF metaphor in my text
that I have been for some time getting
my courage up to preach iromit. Isaiah.
the evangelistlc prophet, is sounding the
iubilate Of our planet redeemed and cries
out, ''The Lord hath mads bare bis holy
arm" What overwhelming suggestive
ness in that figure of speech, TIE bare
arm OF Godw The people OF Pslesllne
to this day wear much b!uderlng apparel;
and when they want to rpD special
race. or llfta special borden. they put OF
the outside apparel, as IN our land Woeu
8 man proposes q special exerilon he
puts of Lis coat and rolls up bis sleeves.
Walk through our foun6ries, our ma
chine shops, our mloes, our factories,
and sou Will 6nd that most OF toe tollsrs
have their coats Of AID Their sleeves
rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must be ire
mendCus amount Of work dCne before
his world Lecomes what it ought tC he.
and be foresees it all accom- pllshed, and
accomplished by the Almighty, not as
ne ordinarily think OF him. hut bJ The
Almighty with the sleeve Of his r"be
rolled back to his shoulder, The L :rd
hath made bare his hcly arm"
Nothing more IN presses me IN the B,o'e
than the ease with which God does m"s'
things. Tnere Is such reserve OF
power. He has more iDundei b rs THAI
he has ever flung, more ilgnl than Re
has ever distributed, more blue than thai
With which be has overarcHed the sky,
more green than that Win which he h~s
eneraldec the grass, more crlnl7-ii that
that with blch be has buruIshed The
sunsets. I say il with reverence, from
all | can see. God has lever half tried
You snow as well as do that many
OF the most elaburate ani expansive IL I.
dustries OF our world h.ve beeG en-
pleyed in creating artificial light. Hsl
Of the time The world is dark. The Moon
and the stars have their glorious uses.
but as instruments Of illumination the,
art failures. They will not allow you
70 rad book or stop the rufiaI ism OF
Your great cites. Had not The dark
ness been persissently fought back b,
arr6, ial means, the most of the WORLDS
enterprises would have halted half The
time, while the crime Of our great NUM-
cipalities would for half The tins run
rampant and uprebuked; hence all the
inventions Of creating artificial li.ht,
from the flint struck against steel II cen
turies pasz to the dynamo OF our cleo,
trical .manufectories. What unccunted
numbers of people at work the year
round IN making chandeliers and lamps
and fixtures and wires and batteries
where igh, shall be made or along which
hight snail run or where light shall poise!
How many bare arms Of human toll
and some Of those bare arms are very
tire6-il the creation ofligot and its ap
paratus, ano. after all the work the great
er part of the continents and hemls-
pheres at night have no light at all. ex-
cept perhaps the fredles flashing their
small lanterns across swamp.
But see how easy God made the light!
He did not make bare his arm; be did
not even put forth his robed arm; he did
not lift so much as q fager. The flint
out of which he struck the MONDAY sun
was the word Light" List there be
lisht!' Adam did not see the sun 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 you ever hear OF any.
thing so easy as that? So unique? Out
Of word came the blazing sun, the
father Of flowers and warmth and light.
Out of a word building a fireplace for all
nations of The earth to warm themselves
by! Yea, seven other worlds, FIVE OF
them inconceivsbly larger than our OWL,
and 70 asteroids, or worlds Oh smaller
scale! The warmth and light for this
great brotherhood, great sisterhood,
great family of worlds, 81 larger or small
Ier worlds, all from that one magni6-
ceat fireplace made out Of the one word
Light" The sun $4,000 miles IN d.
ameter! I do not knoR how much gran
der a solar system God could have Gre
ated if be had put forth his rooed arm to
say nothing Of an arm made bare! But
this I snow-that our MONDAY sun was
q spark struck from the anvil OF one
word, and that word Light"
But" says some one, 10 you not
think that in making the machinery OF
tie universe, OF which our solar system
is comparatively a small wheel working
into mightier wheelsl It must have caused
God some exertion-the upheaVa! OF an
arm, either robed or al arm made bare?'
No. We are distinctly told otherwise
The machinery of a universe God made
simply with bis fin. ers. David, inspired
IN alght song. says so-"When I con
slder thy heavens, the work OF thy fit
gers"
A Scottish clergyman told me fcw
weeks ago Of dyspeptic Thomas Carlyle
walking out with friend Que starry
nioht. an6 az the friend looked NO and