Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-01-26
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE.
THE BROOkLNN DININE'S Sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: I'm B,rr ArM OF Con.

Italmost takes orr breath away IL read
some uf III" Rihlr imagery. There Is Su'h
hhldncss NJ metaphor IN my text that have
been for some tim' getting my courage uptn
preach from IT, Isaiah. the cvangelistie
prophet. il sounding the Iubilate Of our
planet redeemed and cries out, Tho Lord
hath made bare His holy arm. What over
whelminr suygestivcncsS In that figure Of
speech. The bare arm oi God - The peo-
pie OF Palestine 20 this day wear much hinder
ing apparel. and when they want 10 run a
special race, or lit a special burden, or fight
special battle they put on the outside
apparel - ia our land when man proposes
- special rNtttipn h" puts on his coat AMI
rolls up his sleeves Walk through our
founlrcs. oar ma"hinn shops. our mines
our factories and you nh tint that most OF
the toilrrS have their coats "a an / their
sicrVeS rolled M
Isaiah saw that there must be a tremen-
d0us amount OF work done before this world
becomes what it ought 10 be, ana he fore
sees it all accomplished, and accomplished
bv the Almighty. not as we ordinarily think
of Him, but 10y the Almighty with the sleeve
of His robe rolled back IL His shoulder,
"The Lord hath made bare His holy arm"
Nothing mora imprcsses me in the Bblc
than the ease with which Gol does most
things. There is such 4 reserve OF power.
lie has more thuHderholt4 than He has ever
lung more light than lie has ever distrib-
uted more blue than with which lie has
oyerdrchcd the SKY, more green than that
with which He has emcralded the grass
more crimson than that with which Ho has
FURNISHED the sunsets. say II with rover
rnce. from all IAN see, God has never half
/ tried.
lou know as we'll rs I do that many Of the
most elaborate and expensive Industries OF
our world have been employed In creating
artificial light. Hall OF the time the world
is darS The moon and the stars have their
/ glorious uses, but as Instruments OF illumi-
nation they are failures. They will not
allow you to read a book or stop the rufllan-
ism Of your great rites. Had not the dark
ness been persstently fought back by artil-
! olal means, the most Of the worlds enter
priscs would have halted half the time, while
the crime II our great municipalities would
! for half the time run rampant and uure-
/ huked hence all the Inventions for creating
/ artificial light, from the flint struck against
steel in centuries past TO the dynamo OF our
/ electrical manufactures. What unrounted
/ numbers orproplc at work the year round in
making chandeliers and lamps and fixtures
and wires and batteries where light shalt be
( made or along which light shall run or
whrr" light shall poise How many bar"
arms 81 human toll and some ot those hart'
arms are very tired IN the creation of light
and its apparatus. and after all the work III"
greater part Of the continents and hemis-
pheros at night have no light at all. except
T PERHAPS the nrenie- flashing their small Ian
/ terms across the swamp.
But see how easy Got made the light. He
/ lid not make bure His arm : He did not even
/ nut forth His robed arm: He did not lit SO
7 much rs Il finger, The flint ont of which He
struck the MONDAY san was the word,
Light. Let there hc light - Adam did
not see the sun until the fourth day, for,
though the sun wlS created ON the FIRST day
1t took its rays from the first 10 the fourth
day e. work through the dense mass o; fluids
! hv which this earth was comprised Did YOU
ever hear of anything So easy as that? So
unique? out Of "A word came the blazing
sun. the father of flowers, and warmth and
light, ont Of IA word building II fireplace
Tor all the Nations OF the earth to warm them
selves bv, Yea. seven other worlds five OF
them inconeaivabiy larger than our own. and
seventy whine asteroids. or worlds on a
smaller scale The warmth and LIGHT for
this great brotherhood. great sisterhooJ.
great family Of worlds. eightv-seyan larger
/ or smaller worlds all from that one n,agnin.
conf urenIare made ont ol the one worl =
LIGHT The sun $50 600 miles in diameter 7
do not know how much rrandar a solar sys-
tenn God could have created If He had nut
forth His rohci arm. t. say nothing Of nm
made hurt' Ijtlt THIS | know that Dlr
MONDAY sun was a shark struck from the
anvil of one word and that word Light
..But " saws some one. edo voa not think
that in making the machinery Of the uni.
verse of which our solar system il COM
paratiyely "A small wheel working into might
Ter wheels. it must have cost God some cx-
crtiony The upheayal Of an arm either
robcd or an arm made barry" No: we are
dietinrtIytold otherwise The machinery Of
David, insured in night song stvs SO
..Whcu consider Thy heavens the work OF
TINY FINGERS
4 Scottish clcrlvman fold me n few week.
ago OF dyspeptir Thomas Garlvlo walking
out with a friend one starry night. and a.
the friend looked uu and said. What II
splendid skyi" Mr. CARLYLE replied az ht
glanced inward. Sad sight. sad sight f"
Not so thought David rs he read the great
Scripture OF the night heavens. 1t was
sweep of embroidery, Of vast tapestry. Col
manipulated. That is the allusion OF the
usaImist to the woven hanglngs OF tapestr,
as they were known long before David.
fine. Far back In the ages what enchant
ment OF thread and color, the Florentinc
velvets Of silk aud gold and Persian CARPET
woven Of goats hair! Ii YOU have been in
the Gobeln nlanulactory Of tapestryin Pari.
alas, now no more YOU witnessed won
drous things as YOU saw the wooden needl,
or breach going back and forth and In am
out YOU were transfxed with admiration at
the patterns wrought No wonder that Luu
XIV bought it, and it became possession o
the throne, and for long while none bu
thrones and palaces might have any OF IT
work What triumphs OF loom! Wha
victory OF skilled fingers SO David saws OF
the heavens that Gods fingers wove into
them the light that Gods fingers tapestrlel
them with stars that Gods fingers EN-
hroidered them with worlds.
How much of the immensely of the heaven
David understood do not know. Astronom,
was born In China $500 wears before Chris
was born During the reign of Hoang-T
astronomers were put to death If they mad,
wrong calculations about the hea- ems. Jol
understood the refraction of the suns raw
and said they were turned rs the clay TO tn,