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The Sioux County Journal
VOLUME VI.
HAKKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1804.
NUMBER 22.
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
AN ELOQUENT AND IMPRESSIVE
DISCOURSE.
'The lord llitth Mad Dare Ilia Holy
Arm" A Wonderful ItfUert of Puvrr
Arhirvf-uK iit Without f.flo l On the
Wlnuilig Mde.
The Hare Arm of liud.
licv. Dr. Talmau took for his mil-jft-t,
"I'lio Dare Arm of (mhI," the
text Iw-in Iaiah iii, In, "The Lord
Lath niado hare f lis holy arm."
It almost - laKt'g our iiri'ath away to
read some of the llihlu imai.ry. '1 here
Is ui h Imhiunns of nit-tuhor in my
text that 1 have ix-en for snire time
gi-ttinij my courage up to re.'h from
it. Inuiuli, the evaiielitie rohtt.
L) nouimin,' the juliilate of our.plain-t
redefined and cries out, ''The Ird
hath ma io hure llin holy arm." What
O'. ei tt'tieliiiin bitt'i.'etiveiie in that ,
figure of Hi'tu-ch, "The hare arm of
Ood:,: Tlie people of Palestine to thiw .
day wear imu-h hindering apparel, and
when they want to run a b: eciui tai'e,
or li.t a Hpeeial hurdeii, or linht. a
Hperial.hattle, they put oil the out-ido
apparel, an in our land when a man
proorea a special exertion he put olf
his coat and roll up hih KteeveH. Walk
through our foundrieH, our machine
tihom, our mitieM. our fuetorieM, and
Vou w ill find that mimt of the toilers
lave their coats oil and their sleeves
rolled up. '
Isaiah haw that there must 1m' a ire- ,
niendous amount of work done liefore
thin world Ix'comrn w hat it ou'ht to
!;, and he loi'ewen it. all HccompliHhed
hy the Almighty, not as we ordinarily
think of linn, hut hy the Almighty
with the sleeve of I lib folic rolled hack
to 1 1 is shoulder, ''The Lord hath made
bare His holy arm." j
The i millon of I.l;lit. !
Nothing more impresses me in the,
Dihlo than the ease w ith which dod
does must tliiiii.'. There is hsicIi a i'e- i
eervo of iwer. He has more thunder- I
xi'M) than I lo has ever lliinj.', more j
liyht than He l.ati ever distributed, j
more blue than that with which He j
has overarched the sky, more trreen
than that with which lie has emeraht- !
ed tin; x '"''' more ci imwin than that j
with wh.rh He has burnished the sun- :
fieta. I tny it with levei'ein'e, fro'ii all
1 can nee, jod has never half ti led.
Vou know as well a I do that many j
of the most elaborate and exjieiwve ;
industries' of our world have been em- ;
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I in i li t tiL mi n i in in u . i
JhiUjuf tho time the wor
'Yiie ftioon and the tnfs
glorious uses, but an instrument of il
lumination they are failures. They :
will not uliow you to read a book or I
stop the ruliianisiu of your treat cities, j
Had not the darkness been persislent- j
ly fought back by artiticinl means tho
rao.it of tho world's enterprises would j
have halted half the time, while the I
crime of our gieat municipalities j
would for hall the time run rampant j
and unrebuked: hence all the iuven- ;
Houm for i routing urtitieial light, from
tho Hint struck against steel in centu
ries past U) the dynamo of our electri
cal manu.a tories. What uncounted
n tm hern of peop.e at work the year
round in makitigidiandeliers and lamps'
and fixture and wires and batteries
where light shall 1) made, or along
which light shall run. or where light
Bhall jxiise! How many bare anus of
human toil- and some of iho.se bare
arms are very tired in the creation of
light and its apparatus, anil alter all
the work the greater part of the con
tinents and hemispheres at night have
no light at all, except iierhaps the lire
Hies tla-hing their small lanterns across
the swamp.
Made With Ills F liiic.ru.
Dut see how easy Clod made tho
light. He aid not make bare Disarm:
lie did not even put forth His rolxjd
arm: He did not lift so much as a
linger. The Mint out of which lie
struck tho noonday nun waH the word,
"Light." "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 its rays
from the first to the fourth day to work
through the dense mass of iluids by
which this earth was compassed. Did
you ever hear of anything so easy as
that'' So uniijtie? tut of a word came
tho hla.ing sun, the father of flowers,
and warmth and light! Out of a word
building a Jire-plaeo for all the nations
of tho earth to warm themselves by!
Ves, seven other worlds, live of them
incoii'seivably larger than our own, and
seventy-nine asteroids, or worlds on a
smaller scale! The warmth mid light
for this great hro!,h-ihood. great
sisterhixid, great family of worlds,
eighty-seven larger or smaller worlds,
all from that one magnificent fireplace,
made out of the one word -Light.
The nun el.fHM mile in diameter. I
do not know how much grander a solar
system God could have created if He
bad put forth His robed arm, to say
nothing tif an arm tmule bare! Dut
this I know, that our noonday sun was
a spark struck from the anvil of one
word, and that word ''Light.''
"Dut," says one, ''do you not think
that in making tho machinery of the
universe, of which our solar system iH
comparatively a small wheel working
into mightier wheels, it must have
cost Cod some exertion.' The upheaval
of an arm either robed or an arm made
bare?" No; wo are distimtly told
otherwise. The machinery of a uni
verse. God fmiide simply with His
fingers. David, Inspired In a night
song, says so "When I consider Thy
heavens, tho work of Thy fingers."
The Tnl liii'inj of Davlil.
A Scottish clergymen fold mo a few
week ago of dyspeptic ThomasC 'arlylo
walking out with a friend one starry
night, and as the friend looked up and
Mid, "What a splendid sky!" Mr.
Carlylo replied its he glanced upward,
"Sud sight, sud night!" Not no thought
David as ho read the (Treat Scripture
of the night heavens. It was a sweep
of embroidery, of vast Wastry, God
manipulated. That is the allusion of
the psalmist to the woven hanging of
tapestry as they were known long be
fore David's time. Far buck in the
ages what enchantment of thread and
color, the Horentine velvet of silk
and gold and Persian carpets woven of
goats' hair! If you have Ix-en in tho
Golxdin manufacture of taietry in
1'aris - alas, now no more! -you wit
nessed wondrous things as vou saw the
wooden needle or broach going back
ami forth and in and out: you were
transfixed with admiration at the pat
tern wrought. No wonder that liOuU
XIV bought it, and it became the os
session of the throne, and for a long
while none but thrones and palaces :
might have any of its work! What
triumphs of loom ! What victory ol
skilled fingers! So Daviu says of the
heavens that (iixl s fingers wove into
them the light: tliut God's lingers ta- ;
estried them with star.-: that Cisl's!
fingers embroidered them with worlds. !
A ;rpt t ndcrtiikinjc. j
My text makes it plain that the ree- '
titieation of this world is a stupendous
undertaking. It takes more power to
make this world overagainthan it Uxtk
to make it at first. A word was only
necessary for the first creation, but lor
the hew creation the unsleeved and un
hindered fore arm of the Almighty!
The reason of that I can understand.
In the shipyards of Liverxol or Glas
gow or New York a great vessel is con
structed. The architect draws out the
plan, the length of the licaiu, the ra
pacity of tonnage, the rotation ol wheel
or screw, the cabin, the masts' and all
the apwiiniments of this great, palace
of the deep. The architect finishes his
work without any perpiexity, and the
carpenters and the artisans toil on the
crait.-o many hours a day. each one do
ing his part, until with 'lags Hying, and
thousands of eople buzaing on the
dock the ve-se is launched. Dut out
on the sea that steamer breaks her
shaft and is limping' slowly along- to
ward harlsir. w hen arr! liiiean whirl
wind, those mighty hunters of the
deep, looking out for prey of ship,
surround t hat, wounded vessel and pitch
it on a rocky coast, and she lifts and
fail in the breakers until every joint
is loose, and every spar is down and
every wave sweeps over t he hurricane
deck as she arts mid-hips.
Would it not rcijiiire more skill and
ixiwer to get. that Spiilltered vessel olf
the rocks and reconstruct it than it re
quired originally to build her.' Aye!
( lur world that I rod built so lieaiililul,
and which started out with all the (lags
of Kdcnic foliage and with the chant of
parauisaieul bovver, has Isteii sixty
centuries pounding in the skerries of
sin and sorrow, anil to get her out. and
to get her o!T, and to get her on the
jAffltttMiy fca; viU , rtmuire. uuu e of
omtiixit,enco than it required to build
her ami launch her. So I am not sur
prised that though in the drydoek of
one word our world was made it will
take the unsieiivcd arm of God to lift
her from the rocks and put her on the
right course again. It is evident from
my text and its comparison with oilier
text that it would not lx-o great an
undertaking to make a whole constel
lation of worlds, an.l a whole galaxy of
worlds, and a whole astronomy of
worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits as to take this wounded world,
this stranded world, this bankrupt
world, this destroyed world, and make
it as good as when it started.
KviM loUvurcdine.
Now, just look at tho enthroned
dilliculties in the way, the removal of
which, the overthrow of which, seem
to re pii re the bare right arm of om
nipotence. There stands heathenism,
with its NtiO, ooo,0 io victim. 1 do not
care whether you call them lirahmans
or Diiddhists, Confucians or fetich
idolaters. At the World's Fair in Chi
cago last summer those monstrosities
of religion tried to make themselves
respectable, but the long hair and
baggy trousers and trinkled rols-s of
their representatives cunnot hide from
the world that those religions are tho
authors of funeral pyre, and jugger
naut crushing, and Ganges infanticide,
and Chinese shoe torture, ami the ag
gregated massacres of many centuries.
They have their heels on India, on
China, on Persia, on Dornoo. on three
forths of the acreage of our poor old
world.
I know that tho missionaries, who
are the most sacrificing and Chrisllike
men and women on earth, are making
steady and glorious inroads uihiii these
built up alKiminations of t he centuries.
All thisstull that jou see in some of the
newspapers aixiut the missionaries as
living in luxury and idleness is pro
mulgated by corrupt Americans or
Knglish or Scotch merchants, whose
loose Ix-haviour in heathen cities has
been rebuked by the missionaries, and
these corrupt merchants write homo
or tell innocent and unsuspecting visi
tors in India orChina or the darkened
islands of tho sea these falsehoods
alxint our consecrated missionaries,
who. turning their bucks on home and
civilization and emolument, and com
fort, spend their lives in trying to in
troduce the mercy of the
gospel among tho downtrodden
of heathenism. Somo of those
merchants leave their families in
America or Kngland or Scotland and
stay for a few years in the ports of
heathenism while they are making
their fortunes in the tea or rice or
opium trade, and while they are thus
absent from homo give themselves to
orgie of dissoluteness such as no pen
or tongue could, without tho addition
of all decency, attempt to report. The
present o of the missionaries, with their
pure and noble households, in those
heathen Hirts is a constant rebuke to
such debauchees and miscreant. If
satan should visit Heaven from which
he was once roughly but justly ex
patriated, and he should write homo
to the realms pandemoniae, his corres
pondence published in Dhtlrolos Ga
y.etto or AK)llyonio News, alsiut what
he had seen, ho would report tho
temple of God and the Lamb as a
broken down church, and tho house of
many mansions as a disreputable place,
and tho cherubim as suspicious of mor
al. Bin never did like holiness, and
you had butter notdepend uxm satanic
rejxirt of the sublime and multipoteiit
work of our missionaries in foreign
lands. Dut notwithstanding all that
these men and women ol God have
achieved, they feel and we all feel that
if the idolatrous lands are to be Chris
tianized there needsto be a jxjwer from
the heavens that has not yet conde
scended, and we feel like crying out in
the words of 'harles Wesley:
Arm of tlm Lord, awaks. awake 1
J-ot ciu tliy Bireuiu, the nations ihaket
Aye.it is not only the Lord' arm
that is needed, the holy arm, tho out
st retched arm, but the bare arm!
The Mstfara of liicbrU-tj'.
There stands also the arch demon of
alcoholism. Its throne is white and
made of b. cached human skulls. On
one side of that throne of skulls kneels i
in obeisance and worship democracy.
and on tho other side republicanism,
and the one that kisses the cancerous
and gangreened ftx.it of this desixit the
oflohest gets the most benedictions.
There is a Hudson Diver, an Ohio, a
Mississippi of strong drink rolling
through this nation, but as t ho rivers
from which I take my figure of speech
emptv into the Atlantic or the gulf
this mightier Hood of sickness and in
sanity and domestic ruin and crime and
baukruptcv and woe empties into the
hearts, and the homes, and the
churches, and the time, and the eteri.
'
"''-lit
stlCS
it y of a multitude beyond all stall
to nuinliei-or descrilxj. All nations a-e
inituleu and saerllicetl with oaieiuu
stimulus, or killing narcotic. 1 he i 6,hercs without a sin! Why. those
pulque of Mexico, the cashew of lira- j Qes, rts, Arabian desert. American des
zil. the ha-h. esh of Persia, the op: urn, ert um ;,.,.at Sahara desert, are all
of China, the guavo of Hondtira -, the jr.j,,a, ,., gm-dens where God
wi-oro ot litissia. Hie soma oi nmi.i, i.ie
aguardicntc of Morocco, the arak of
Arabia, the mastic of Syria, the raki
of Turkey, the beer of Germany, the
w hiskey of Scotland, the ale of t
hngland, the all drums ot .nier-
ica. are doing their best, to stupefy,
in nine, dement, impoverish, hrutai
i.e and slay the human race. Human
power, unless re-enforced from the
heavens, can m-ver extirpate the evils
1 mention. Much good has been ac
complished by the heroism and fidel
ity of Christian reformers, but th
a,''J'
remains that there are more splendid
men and magnificent women this
moment going over the Niagara abysm
ot inebriety than at liny time since the.
first grape was turned into w.ne and
the first head of rye began to soak in a
brewery. I When people touch this sub
ject, they are ap! to give statist ics ft
to bow many millions are in drunkards'
g. lives, or wit h quick tre. id marching'
on toward them. The land is full of
talk of high tariff and low tariff, but !'
what alKiutthe highest of all tariffs in,'
this country, the tariff of !m,o iO.IKMi if
which rum put upon tho United Statcl
In 1tt7'tor thirt 1 whan It -eost iisM
Vou do not tremble or turn pale when
1 say that. The fact is we have be
come hardened by statistic, and they
make little impre-sion. Dut if some
one could gather into one mighty lake
all the tears that have been wrung out
of orphanage and widowhood, or into
one organ diapason all the groans that
have been uttered by tho suffering
victims of this holocaust, or into one
whirlwind all the sighs of cen
turies of dissipation, or from tho wicket
of one immense prison have looked
Uxin us the glaring eyes of all those
whom strong drink has endungenned,
we might iierhaps realize the appalling
desolation. Dut, no, no, the sight
would forever blast our vision: the
sound would forever stun our souls. Go
on with your temperance literature: go
on with your temperance platforms:
go on with your teriMieraiico laws. Dut
we are all ho.iing for something from
alxive. and while the bare arm of suf
fering, and the bare arm of invalidism,
and the bare i.rai of poverty, and the
bare arm of domestic desolation, from
which rum hath torn the sleeve, are
lifted up in Ix-ggary and supplication
and despair, let tho bare arm of God
strike the breweries, and the liquor
stores, and the corrupt polities, and the
license laws, and the whole inferno of
grogshoj s all around the world. Down,
thou accursed Ixittle. from the throne!
Into the dust, thou king of the demi
john! Parched be thy lips, thou wine
cup, with fires that shall never he
quenched!
I'lmtyof Ammunition.
Hut I have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge Chris
tianity. And I think 1 have ween in
some Christians, and read in some
newspapers, and hear I from some pul
pits a dishi-artcnmcut, as though
( hristianity were so worsted thut, it is
hardly worth while to attempt to win
this world lor God, and that all Chris
tian work would collapse, and that it is
no use for you to teach a Sabbath class,
or distribute tracts, orexhort in prayer
meetings, or preach in a pulpit, as
safari is gaining ground. To rebuke
that pessimism, the gospel of smashup,
1 preach this sermon, showing that
you are on the winning side. Go
ahead! Fight on! What I want to
make out to-day is that our ammu
nition is not exhausted: that all which
has b' en accomplished bus been only
the skirmishing Ijoforo tho great Ar
mageddon: that not more than one of
the thousand fountains of l-aut,v
iu the King's park ha Ix-gun to
play; that no more than one brigade
of the innumerable hosts to bo mar
shaled by the rider on the white horse
has yet Uiketi the field; that what God
hasdone yet has been with arm folded
in flowing robe, but that t he time is
coming when he will rise from his
t hrone, and throw ot1 that robe, and
come out of 1 he palace of eternity, and
come down the stair of Heaven with
all conquering step, and halt in tho
presence of exx;ctant nations, and
Hushing his omniscient eyes across tho
work to bo done will put back tho
sleeve of his right arm to the shoulder,
and roll it up there, and for the world s
final and complete rescue make bare
his arm. Who can doubt tho result
when according to my text Jehovah
does his best; when tho last
reserve force of omnipotence
takes tho field; when the last
sword of eternal might leaps from its
scabbard? IH) you know what decided
tho battle of Sedan? Tho hil.s a thou
sand leet high. Eleven hundred can-
Artillery on the
and twelve Ger
the heights of
i crown prince
of Saxony watched the snene
from the heights of Alairy. Detween
a quarter to ii o'clock in the morning
and 1 o'chx k in the afternoon of Sept.
2, HTO.the.hills dropped the shells that
shattered the French host in the val
ley. The French limperor and the
tjii.O'KJ of his army captured by tho
hills. So in this con Hid now raging
between holiness and sin "our eyes are
a nto the hills."
.i A Cr.-at Victory.
' Down here in th(j valleys of earth we
must be valient soldiers of the cross,
but the Commander of our host walks
tho heights and views tho scene fat
beU.-r than we can in the valleys, and
at the right day and the right hour all
I (leaven will 0x-n its batteries on our
side, and the commander of the hosts
; of unrighteousness with all his follow
, era will surrender, and it will take
eternity to fully celebrate tho uni
versal victory through our Lml Jesus
, Christ. "Our eyes are unto the hills."
j It is so certain to be accomplished that
Isaiah in my text looki down through
i the tic-Id glass of prophecy and speaKS
of it as already accomplished, and
; I take my stand where the prophet.
IOOK
j .t ilj,
took luf stand and look at
as yL done, "Halleluiah,
lomv" See! Those cities without
a tear! fxsik. Those continents wit h-
,. ,-nn'r i,.,id' Those heml
re
Th
. ,,. the i oo of the dav. The at-
niosjihere that
floating hot one ;
and lak'-s and o -i
one failing tear.
encircles our gdin;
roan. All the rivers
nils dimpled with not
The climates of tho
j ,... , nave uro, out of
t ,.iir,,..H f , , ,
them the
the blasts
6f Hit
heat, and it is universal
spring. Let us change the old
worlds name. Let it. no more be
culled the earth, us when it was reek
ing with everything pestiferous and
malevolent, scarlet. cd with battlefields
! and gashed with graves, hut now so
changed, so aromatic with gardens.
, and so resonant with song, and so
rubencent with beauty, lot us call it
Imrnanuid's Laud or lieulah or Millen
j "nia! iarden or Paradise Regained or
''Heaven! And to (iod. the onlywise,
rthe only good, the only great, be glory
i forever. Amen.
FIRST EABY IN WHITE HOUSE.
Mm. .Mary Mildly Ioiu.lnon Wilcox Is the
C lahiuui! for Jills Honor
The recent advent, ot a baby with
la the doorof tho -Execut,ive--Maii-sion
has brought forward numerous
claimants lor the honor of being the
oldest living and the first child born
in the White House. The first of
these honors is properly tho posses
sion of Mrs. Mary Emily i onelson
Wilcox, who was born at tho Execu
tive Mansion during Andrew Jack
son's first administration, the second
child born within its walls, but the
oldest now living, writes Alice Gra
ham Mi Collin in the Ladies' Dome
Journal. To her President Jackson
gave the name "The .Sunshine of the
White House." Mary Emily Dotiel
son Wilcox was the eldest child of
Andrew Jackson Doneison and his
wife Emily, and was born in the
large corner room of the White
IIou e fronting on Pennsylvania ave
nue, the room in which Mrs. Harri
son died.
Her christening was an event. It
was performed according to the ritual
of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
though read by a Presbyter. an minis
ter, the Rev. Mr. Gallagher. Th(
daughter of the Secretary of State,
Miss Cora Livingstone, was chosen
as godmother, while Mart n Van
Ilurcn and President Jackson offi
ciated as god lathers. When the
baby was brought into the room, Mr.
Van Iiuren attempted to take her in
his arms, but on her ob.eeting Presi
dcht Jackson took her and held her
throughout the ceremony. She en
joyed the sprinkling greatly, laugh
ing and cooing with pleasure at the
drops of water. When in the course
of the ceremony the clergyman read
the question: "Do you. in the name
of this child, renounce the devil and
all his works?'' Jackson stiilencd
himself grimly and replied in his
most emphatic tones:
"I do, sir, I renounce them all!"
bringing a smile to the faces of those
who knew what was the more ritual
istic reply. A lady who was present
said, after the ceremony: "The
President renounces the devil for the
baby but not for himself," to which
Jackson re-,puiidod laughingly:
I don't mind my enemies think
ing mo a devil if my Iriends find me
the reverse."
Among the guests at the christen
ing wero Robert E. Lee, then a young
Lieutenant of engineers, and his wife,
nee MaryCustls. Tho ceremony was
held in tho East room where, ac
cording to the contemporary gossip,
Mrs. Madison hung her linen to dry
which was gayly illuminated and
decorated with (lowers.
(She Ordered ( lain Cliow.ler.
Lady Once last summer I saw
some boys "treading for clams'1 as
they called it They were all dit tv
looklng boys; they wero barefooted
Joet unwashed most likely and they
wero walking through tho mud at
low tide. Whcn'thov felt a clam
with their feet they lifted it out with
their toes. It Just made me sick. I
ho)0 your clams are not caught that
way. Walter In course not, ma'am.
The man wot furnishes (dams to this
restaurant Ashes for 'em with a silver
spooD. New York Weekly.
nons on the hills,
heights Givonne,
man lotteries on
La Moucello. Tin
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