The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-03-17
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
"The Lord Hath Made Bare His Ho-
~ Arm"



Rev T. Dewitt Talmaoe took for the
subject OF = recent sermon in the
BROOKLYN tabernacle: sThe Bare Arm
Of Cod basinr it ON the text:
The Lord hath made bare this Holy arm
Isaiah III, 10
1t almost takes our breath away 70
read some OF the Bible imagery There
IS such boldness OF metaphor IN my
text that 1 have been for some time
getting my courage up to preach from
IL isaiah. the eyangelistlc prophet Is
sounding the Juoiiate Of our planet re-
aeemeo, ana cr,es out; me Lore nasn
maze pare MS noiy arm. Wnat over
wneiminR snggestiveness 10 tnaLngure
OF speech. the pare arm OF tod! Inc
Peopie OF faiestine 70 TINS day wear
ucn nnnoerlng apparei, ana wnen
'ncy want 10 run spcclai race, OF HI
SPECIAL burden or ngnt 2 special pat
.le, 1ney put on tne outside apparel as
N our land. when man proposes 2
speciai cxcrtion' ne puts on ms coat
.uu .olls up ms sleeves. !" ai1 .nlous Z
o.1 lounae.e res our nhacnine SHOPS OUT
. .,..o'' ~. ano you VIII nuu
os. ~ enc Toilets nase 'hci'
oa's On ~uu .'''ir SLEEVES roiies up.
isaiah saw tnat there must oe q ire
mendous amount OF work done before
TINS world becomes what 1t ought TO
oe' ana ne Ioresees ~ ali accomplished,
ana accomplished oy the Almignty;
no. as we ordinariiy tnink OF him, nut
w the himignty Win Inc sleeve OF us
rooe roiieo paek 10 ms shoulder: me
LORD natn made bare His holy arm.
Nothing more impresses me in the
Bible than the ease with which God
does most things. There is such re-
serve OF power. Ee has more thunder
bolts than He has ever flung; more
light than He has ever distributed;
more blue than that which He has
overarched the sky; more green than
that with which He has emeralded the
grass; more crimson than that with
which He has FURNISHED the sunsets.
say 1t with reverence, from all can
see, God has never hall tried.
You know as well as | do that many
of the most elaborate and expensive
industries of our world have been en-
ployed in creating artificial light. Half
OF the world is dark. The moon and
the stars have their glorious uses, but
as instruments of illumination they are
failures. They will not allow you to
read book or stop the rufiianism of
your great cities Had not the dark
ness been persistently fought back by
artificial means, the most of the worlds
enterprises would have halted half the
time, while the crime of our great
municipalities would for half the time
run rampant and unrebuked. Hence,
all the inventions for creating artiti-
cial light, from the flint struck against
steel in centuries past to the dynamo
OF our electrical manufactures. What
numbers OF people work the
year round In making chandeliers, and
lamps. and fixtures, and wires, and
batteries where light shall be made, or
along which light shall be run, or
where hight shall poise! How many
pare arms OF human toii-and SONS OF
those bare arms are very tired-in 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 firefiies flashing their
small lanterns across the swamp.
But see how easy God made the light.
He did not make bare His arm; He did
not even put forth His robed arm; He
did not lift so much as finger The
flint out of which He struck the noon
day sun was the word: Light" s'Let
there be light" Adam did not see the
sun until the fourth day, for. though |
the sun was created on the first day, it
took the rays from the first to the |
fourth day to work through the dense |
mass OF fluids by which the earth was
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,
Ind light: Out of a word build |
ing a fireplace for all the nations of
The earth to warm themselves by! |
Yea, saven other worlds, Ave of them |
nconceivably larger than our own.
md seventy-nine asteroids, or worlds
On smaller scale. The warmth and |
light for this great brotherhood, great |
great family of worlds, |
larger or smaller worlds,
I'll from that one magnificent fireplace
made out OF the one word-s.Light."