The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-02
THE BARE MOFGOD
REV. Or. TAtMAGe'S IMPRESSIVE SER
MON At THE TABERNACLE.

Arm"-A wonderful Reserve Of Power.
Achievements without EGort-On the
winning Side.
: BROOKLYN, Jan. 2I.-Singularly ap.
propriate and impressive was tho old
gospel hymn as II was sung this norm
ing by tho thousands Of Brooklyn Tab
~ernacle, led on by cornct and organ:
Arm o. tho Lord. awaac, awakcl
Put on thy strength. the nations shake.
Rev. DR.. Talmage tool; for his sub.
feet, 1.-THE Bare Arm of God" the toxt
being Isaiah III, 10, "Tho Lord hath
made bare his holy ARM"
Il almost takes our breath away to
read. some of the Bible imagery. There
IL such boldness of metaphor In my text
that I have been for some time getting
my courage mp to preach from 1t. lisa.
iah, the evangelistic prophet, Is sound
ing the jubilate Of our planet redeemed
and cries out, 1.-THE Lord hath made
bare his holy arm" What overwhelm.
ing suggestiveness in that figure OF
speech, 1.-THE bare arm of God!" The
people OF Palestine 10 this day wear
much hindering apparel, and when
they want to run n special race, or lift
q special burden, or fight n special bat
tie. they put of the outside apparel. as
in u land when q man proposes n
special exertion he puts of his coat
and rolls up his sleeves. Walk through
our foundries, our machine shops, our
mines, u factories, and you will find
that most Of tho toilers have their coats
of and their sleeves rolled up.
Isaiah saw that there must be a ire
mendous amount Of work done before
this world becomes what 1t ought to be,
and he foresees II 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"
THE CREATION OF LIGHT.
Nothing more impresses me in tho
Bible than the ease with which God
does most things. There is such q re-
serve Of power. He has moro thunder
bolts than he has ever flung, more light
than no has ever distributed, more blue
than that with which he has overarch-
ed tho sky, more green than that with
which he has emeralded the grass, more
crimson than that with which no has
Furnished the sunsets. say II with
reverence, from all l can see, God has
never half tried.
You know ms well rs I do that many
Of the most elaborate and expensive in
dustries Of our world have been en-
ployed in creating artificial light. Half
of the time tho world is dark. The
moon and the stars have their glorious
nses, but as instruments Of illumination
they arc failures. They will not allow
you to read q book or stop the ruffian-
ism q; your great cities. Had not tho
darkness been persistently fought back
by artificial means, tho 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 tho inventions for creating
artificial light. from the flint struck
against steel in centuries past to the
dynamo OF II electrical manufactures.
What %uncounted numbers Of people ut
work the year round in making chan
deliers and lamps and fixtures and
wires and batteries where light shall
10 made, or along which light shall
run. or where light shall poise! How
many bare arms of human toil-and
soino Of those bare arms are very tired
lin the creation of light and its ap-
paratus, and after all the work the
greater part Of tho continents and hem
isphercs at night have no light at all,
except perhaps the frefics flashing their
small lanterns across the swamp.
MADE WITH Ills FINGERS.
But SEQ how easy God made tho light.
H0 did not make bare his arm; he did
not even put forth his robed arm; he
did not lit so much as u finger. The
flint out Of which he struck tho noon
day sun was tho word, Light" Let
there DO light" Adam did not see the
sun until the fourth day, for, though the
sun was created on tho first day, 1t
took its rays from tho first to the fourth
day to work through the dense mass of
fluids by which this earth was COM
passed. Did you ever hear of any
thing 80 easy as that? So unique? Ont
Of u word came the blazing sun, the
father OF flowers. and warmth and
light Out of a word building q fire.
place for all the nations of tho earth to
warm themselves by! Yea, seven other
worlds, five Of them inconceivably lar.
ger than II own. and 10 asteroids, or
worlds on a smaller scaiei The warmth
md light for this great brotherhood.
great sisterhood, great family Of
worlds, 81 larger OF smaller worlds, all
from that n magnificent fireplace,
made ont of the one woYd--Light.
The sun $50. 900 miles in diameter. ]
do not know how much grander a solar
system God could have created il he
had put forth his ROBBED arm, to say
nothing Of an arm made bare! But
this / know. that our MONDAY SAP was
q spark struck from the anvil Of one
word. and that word Light"
But" says some one. do you not
think that In making the machiIery OF
the. universe. OF which our solar syx-