Connecticut western news., 1894-01-25
THE BARE ARM OFGOD
REV. OR. TALMAGe'S IMPRESSIVE SER MON AT THE TABERNACLE.

"Ths Lord Hath Made Bare His Holy Arm"-A Wonderful Reserve of Power. Achievement Without Enort-on the Winning Side.
 BROOKLYN, Jan. 21.-Singularly ap- propriate and impressive was the old gospel hymn as it was sung this morn ing by the thousands of Brooklyn Tab ernacle. led on by cornet and organ:
 Arm of the Lord, awake, awake.
 Put on thy strength. the nations shake.
 Rev. Dr. Tamage took for his sub ject, "The Bare Arm of God" the text being Isaiah lii. 10, "The Lord hath made bare his holy arm.
 It almost takes our breath away to read some of the Bible imag, rv There is such boldness of metaphor in my text that l have been fer some time getting my courage up to preach from it. Isa- iah, the evangelistic prophet. is sound ing the juhilate of our planet redeemed and cries out, "The Lord hath made bare bis holy arm." What overwhelm- ing suggestiveness in that figure of speech, .'Tha bare arm of God.' The people of Palestine tu this day wear nnch hindering apparel, and when they want to run q special race, or lift a special burden, or fight a fi'ecial bat tie, they put off the ounlde apparel, as in our land when a man proposes a special exertion ne puts otf his coat and rolls mp his sleeves. Walk through our foundries, our machine shops, our mines, our factories, and you will find that most of the toilers have their coats off and their sleeves rolled up.
 Isaiah saw that there must be tre- mendous amount of work done before this world becomes what 1t ought to be, and he foresees 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, "The Lord hath made bare his holy arm.
 THE CREATION OF LIGHT.
 Nothing more impresses me in the Bible than the ease with which God does most things. There is such re- serve of power. He has more thunder bolts than he has ever flung, more light than he has ever distributed, more blue than that with which he has overarch- ed the sky, more green than that with which he has emeralded the grass, more crimson than that with which he has burnished the sunsets. 1 say it with reverence, from all I can see, God has never half tried.
 You know as we'll as I do that many of the most elaborate and expensive in- dustries of our world have been em- ployed in creating artificial light. Half of the time 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 a book or stop the ruffian- ism q. your great cities. Had not the darkness been consistently 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 artificial light, from the flint struck against steel in centuries past to the dynamo of our electrical manufactories. What uncounted numbers of people al y deliers and lamps and fixtures and wires and batteries where light shall be made, or along which light shall run. or where light shall poise! How many bare arms of human toil-and some of those bare arms are very tired in the creation of light and its ap- paratus, and after all the work the greater part of the continents and hem ispheres at night have no light at all, except perhaps the firehies flashing theil small lanterns across the swamp.
 MADE WITH HIS FINGERS.
 But see how easy God made the light not even put forth his robed arm; ht did not lift so much as finger. The flint out of which he struck the noon day sun was the word, ssLight. '' ''Let there be ight," Adam did not see ths sun until the fourth day, for. though tn. sun was created on the first day, i took its rays from the first to the fourtl day to work through the dense mass o fluids by which this earth was com passed. Did you ever hear of any thing 30 easy as that? So unique? Gu of a word came the blazing sun, thu father of flowers. and warmth an( light! Out of word building fire place for all the nations of the earth t, warm themselves by! Yea, seven othe worlds, five of them inconceivably lar ger than our own. and 79 asteroids, O worlds on smaller scalei The warmtl and light for this great brotherhood great sisterhood, great family o worlds, ST larger or smaller worlds, al from that one magnificent fireplace made out of the one word-Light The sEn SS6, 900 miles in diameter, do not know how much grander sola system God could have created if h had put forth his robed arm, to sa nothing of an arm made barei Bu this know, that our monday sun wa a spark struck from the anvil of on word, and that word Light"
 But, says some one, do you nc think that in making the machinery C the universe, of which our solar sy, tenn is comparatively small whe< working into mightier wheels, it mus have cost God some exertion? The ur heaval of an arm either robed or a arm made bare?' No; we are di. tinctly told otherwise. The machiner of universe God made simply with hi fingers. David, inspired in a nigl song, says SO. When I consider th heavens, the work of thy fingers"
 THE TESTIMONY OF DAVID.
 A Scottish clergyman told me fe weeks ago of dyspept1c Thomas Carly walking out with friend one starr night, and as the friend looked up an said, What splendid sky" M Carlyle replied as he glanced upwar' ''Sad sight, sad sight" Not so though David as he read the great Scripture c the night heavens. It was a sweep ( embroidery. of vast tapestry, God ms nipulated. That is the allusion of tn psalmist to the woven hangings of taI estry as they were known long befor David's time Far back in the age