The times., 1898-02-28


Lords Great Reserve Force.
Rev. Dr. TaJmaee preached yesterday
morning. taking as his subject. The
Bare Arm OF Cod from his text. Isaiah
fii:lo: The Lord hath made bare His
holy -rm.
He spoke AS follows:
.lt almost takes our breath away to
read Of the Bible imagery. There is such
bolduesS of metaphor in my text THAI
one must rally his courage to preach
from H. Isaiah, the evangelistic prophet
is sounding the jubilate of our planet re
deemed. and cries out: The Lord hath
made bare His holy arm. What over
whelming suggestiveness in that figure Of
speech the bare arm of God" The peo-
pie of Palestine To this day wear much
hinderiug apparel and when they w,,nt
To run special race or lift u special
burden. or fight a special battle they
puJ of the outside apparel. as in our land
when "a man proposes a special eNertion
he puts off his coat and rolls up 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 he a ire
mendous amount OF work done before Ibis
world becomes what it ought TO he. and
he foresees it all accomplished, and ac-
complished by the Almighty; not as We
ordinarily think of Him but by the Al
mighty with the sleeve of His robe rolled
back TO His shoulder.
Nothing more impresseS me in the
Bible than the ease with which God
does most things. There is such a 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 emeraIded the grass: more
crimson than that with which lie has
FURNISHED the sunsets. say it With rev
erence-from an ] can see. God has never
hail t.ied.
My text makes il plain that the rec
tihcation of this world is a StupendouS
make this world over again than il took
10 make il AT first \ word WAS only
necessary for the first creation. but for
the new creation the unsleeyed and Un-
hindered forearm Of the Almighty. The
reason Of that ! can understand In the
shipyards Of Liverpool or Glasgow. or
New York, a great vessel is constructed.
The architect draws out the plan. the
length OF the beam. the capacity Of ton
mage. the rotation of wheel or screw,
the cabins the masts. and all the ap-
pointmentS Of this great palace of the
deep. The architect finishes his work
without any perplcXity. and the carpen-
tiers and artisans Toll on the craft 50
many hours a day. each one doing his
part, until with flags flying and thou
sands of people cheering on the docks
The vessel IS launched. But out on the
sea that steamer breaks her shaft and Is
linpinG slowly along toward harbor
when Caribbean whirlwinds. those mighty
hunters Of the deep. looking out for prey
of ships. surround that wounded vessel
. and pitch il on q rocky coast and she
lifts and falls in the breakers until every
joint j. loose. and every spar is down
and every wave sweeps over the hurri-
cane deck as she parts amdship. Would
get that splintered vessel Off the rocks
and reconstruct il than it required origi-
naIIy 10 build herr Ave.
our world. which started out with all
the flags Of EdeuiC foliage and with the
chant of PaTadiSaical bowers. has been
sixty centuries pounding in the skerries
Of sin and sorrow. and to get her ont
and of and 10 get her on the right way
again. will require more of Omnipotence
than II required 10 build her and launch
her - ! am MOI surprised that though
iu the dryd0ek oi one word our world was
made. il viii take the msieeved arm of
God 10 lift her from the rocks and put
her Oh the right course again. II l. eyi-
dent from my text. and its compaTis son
with other texts. that il would not be
50 great an undertaking 10 make a whole
constellation of worlds. and whole gal
aNy OF worlds. and a whole astronomy
Of worlds. and swing them in their right
orbits. as 10 take this wounded world
this stranded world This bankrupt world
this destroyed world. ami make it As good
A. when il started
But J have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge ChristlHn-
ity. And I think ] have seen in some
Christians. and read i'm Some new SpaDers.
and heard from some PulpitS. = Gisheart-
eminent. as though ChTistiaut. We're 50
Worstel that 10 is hardly worth while to
attempt To win this world for Cod ard
that ali Christian work would collapse.
AMI that IL Is uo use for you 10 tcacu a
Sabbath class. to distribute tracts or ex-
hort in prayer meetings or preach in "a
pulpit. Satan is gaining ground. To
rebuhc that peSSimSm, tho Gospel OF
SmaSn-up ] preach this sermon, showing
that Tou are on 1h. winning side Ga
ahead. Fight ON, What / want to make
ont today is that our ammunition il not
exhausted: that an which has been tc-
c"mplished has been only the skirmishing
before the great Armagcldon: that not
more than one Uf the thousand rountainS
Df beauty I'm the Kings Park has begun
To play. thar not more than one brigade
of the inuumerlbIc hosts 10 De ma.shaIed
by the Rider ON The White Horse has vet
taken The field; that what God has done
y,t has been with ann folded IN lowing
robe, hut that the time is coming when
he VIII rise from his throne. and throw
OF that robe. and come out Of the pal
aces of eternity. and come down the stairs
Of heaven with all-Conqucrins step. End
halt iu the presence OF cXpcCIanr Ia
lions. and flashing his omnscieat eyes
across the work to bc done viii put lack
the sleeve Of his right arm To the shoul-
der and roll 81 mp there, and for the
worlds final and complete rescue make
bare MS arm. who can doubt the re-
suit when according 10 my ,eXt Jehovah
does his best when the last -eSnrv. fgrce