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DR. TALMAGE TEtLS" HOW TO WRES
TLE WITH EVIL.
We Mnst De Trained For the Strug
tie siie.ee aid: Di.-ipiine- One' suavities before ho proce 3d a practical J
Fall la Hot
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the End The
Front? God.
Strenartn'i
Copyrlfht. 1S3S, by Atnerlcan
Presa Asso-
clauon.1
. WAnnfaTO?r, Nov; 6. In tbia dis
course Dr. Talraage selects one of the
boldest figures of the Bible to present
most practical and encouraging truths;
text Ephesians i, 12, "We wrestle not
against flesh and ' blood, ' but against
principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkneas of thir world,
against spiritual wickedness in high
places." !
gqueamishness- and fastidiousness
were never charired acainst Paul's rhet
orio. in tne war against evil be took
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the first weapon he could lay his hand
on. For illustration, he employed the
theater, the arena, jthe foot race, and
there wa$ nothing in the Isthmian game,
with its wreath of pine leaves, or Pyth
ian game, with vi ti ' wreath of laurel
and palm, cr Nemean game, with its
wreath cf parsley, or any Roman circus,
but he felt he had a right to put it in
sermon or epistle, and are you not sur
prised that in my text he calls upon a
wrestling bdut for- suggestiveness?
Plutarch says that wrestling is the most
artistio and cunning of athletic games.
We must make a wide difference be
tween pugilism, the lowest of spectacles,
and ' wrestling, which is -.an effort in
sport to, put down 'another on floor or
ground, and we all of us, indulged in
it in, cur boyhood; days Jt we were
healthful and plucky. The ancient
wrestlers were first bathed ' in oil and
then sprinkled with sand. The third
throw, decided the victory, and many a
man who went down in the first throw
or second throw in the third throw was
on top and his opponent under. The
Romans did not like this game very
uuh. for it wan not savage enough, no
plows or kicks blcg allowed in the
game. They preferred the foot of hun
gry panther on the breast of fallen
martyr, -j . Yt '
In wrestling .the opponents would
bow in apparent Suavity, advance face
to face, put down both feet solidly, take
each other by the arms and push each
other, backward and
work began in real earnest,
were contortions and strangulations and
violent strokes of the foot of one con-,
testant against the foot of the other,
tripping him up, or, with struggle that
threatened apoplexy or death, the de
feated fell, and the shouts of the spec
tators greeted tho victor. I guess Paul
had seen some such contest, and it re-
a ' a . . m m
minded him of the struggle of the soul
with temptation, and the struggle of
heavenly forces against Apollyonio pow
ers, ana lie x dictates my text to an
amanuensis, for all his letters, save the
one to Philemon, seem to have been dic
tated, and as the amanuensis goes on
with' his work I bear the groan and
augb and shout of earthly and oejestial
belligerents, "We wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principali
ties, against powers, against the rulers
of . the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places."
The Amenities of Life.
I notice that as these wrestlers ad
vanced to throw each other they bowed
one to the other. It was a civility, not
only in Grecian and Roman games,' but
in later day, in all the wrestling bouts
at Clerkenwell, England, and in the fa
mous wrestling match during the reign
of Henry III in St. Giles' Field between
men of Westminster and people of Lon
don. However rough a twist and hard a
pull each wrestler contemplated giving
his opponent, they approached each oth
er with' politeness and suavity. The
genuflexions, the affability, the courtesy
in no wish hindered the decisiveness of
the contest. Well, Paul, I see what you
mean, fin this awful struggle between
right and wrong we" must not forget to
be gentlemen and ladies. Affability nev
er hinders,, but- always helps. . You are
powerless as soon.'as you get mad. Do
not call ' rumsellers' murderers. Do not
call infidels fools. Do not call higher I
critics reprobate's. Do not call all card
players and theater goers children of the
deviL Do not say that the dance breaks
through into hell. Do nbt deal in vitu
peration and billingsgate and contempt
and adjectives dynamitic. The other
Eide can beat us at that. Their diction
aries have more objurgation and brim
stone. t
We are ia the strength of God to
throw fiat on its back every abomina
tion that curses the earth, but let us
approach our mighty antagonist with
suavity, i Ilexcules, son of Jupiter and
Alcmena, will by a precursor of smiles
be helped rather than damaged for the
performance of his V12 labors." Let us
he as wisely tfrategio ia rsllglocs cir
cles as attorneys in courtrooms, who are
complimentary to each other-in the
opening remarks, before they come into
legal struggle such as that which left
Ruins . Choata or David Paul Brown
triumphant or defeated. People who get
into a rage in reformatory work accom
plish nothing but the depletion of their
own nervous system, mere is sucn a
thing as having a gun so hot at the
touchhole that it explodes,' killing the
tne that sets it off. j There are some re
formatory meetings to which I always
decline to go and? take part, because
they are apt to become demonstrations
of bad .temper. I never like to hear a
man swear, even though he swear on
the right ' side. The very Paul who in
my text j employed i in illustration the
wrestling match, behaved on a memora
ble occasion as we ought to behave. The
translators of the Bible made an unin
tentional mistake when "they represent-
orl Pnnl An infmltincr the oeonle of Ath
ens by speaking of "the unknown god !
whom ye icnorantly worehip" Instead
of charging them with ignorance, the
i-oritrinal indicates he complimented
them by suggesting that they were very
religious, but
as they confessed that
there-were soine'thlngs they did net ca
, derstand about pod, he proposed say
eomenicgs coaperning him, bpinning
where they had left off. The same Paul
who said in one place, "Be Ltmrteoua,
and yho had. noticed the b jw preceding
the wrestling .-inxatch, lero exercises
to kotow aowq f ine ror icy eado oi lad
Acropolis the whole Pa;thenon cf idola
tries, jMinerva and Jupiter emashed np
with the rest of ihem. Ia this holy war
! polished rifles jWill Co more execution
;' than rblunderbusfeea. Xiet our wrestlers
i bow as they go Into the struggle which
will leave all perdition under 1 and all
heaven on top. ij j Y ' v ,
Strencth Front Discipline.
Reiiember alsq that, these wrestlers
Went J thrcngh'i peTv-fo. and continuous
course of preprii-j 5ion tor their work.
They jwere put tpon mch diet as would
best devfop their, muscle." As Paul
- ! Kys if JSvery- nian tbtit strtreth for the
I 1 - 1 .11 1 "
s uia&itiij ia ixuperato ux an tuings.
The wrestlers were put under complete
discipline bathing, gymnastics, strug
gle in, sport with each other to1 develop
strength and giVe quickcess to dodge of
bead and trip of foot; stooping to lift
each pother on j the grotJid? suddenly
rushing. , forward ; suddenly j pulling
backward; putting the left foot behind
the other's right foot and getting his
opponent off hii balance; hard training
for days and weeks and months' eo that
when they met j ft was giant clutching
giant!: And, my: friends, if we do hot
wantVourselvesj io be thrown j.in this
wrestle with the sin and error of the
worlds we, had better get .ready by
Christian discipline, by holyelf de
nial, by constant 'practice, by I submit
ting 6 divine supervisal and direction.
Do not begrudge the time and the money
for that young' man who is in prepara
tion for the njanistry, spending two
years 'in grammarchool and four years
in college anjd three years in theological
seminary. I kridw tha nine years are a
big slice to take off of a man's active
iic, qui, n juu icaiucu mo ucui nuu
strengtn oi tne arcnangeis oi evil in J shoulderj and the prodigals! who got in
our time with .which that young man is to the low work of nuttina! husks into
going to wrtttlt, yom weald not thlak
nine years oi j preparation were; too
much. An uneducated ministry was ex
cusable in other days, but not in this
time, loaded with schools and colleges.
A man who wrote me the other day a
letter asking advice, as he felt called to
pfeach-the gofepeL began the word
forward until the "God;' with - a j smaR'g. " SThat kind j down to nativities. Anflwhether;an
arnest. and there of ailman is not called to preach the j nounced in greeting r nqti every Imorn-
gufepoi. iiuieiniv men, pxeuumng tuo
a w tAf iuubu T i aaa vnu aauuaMo
mentlthe Scriptural passage, i'Open thy
mouth wide and I I fill it" I Yesl He
will fill it with wind. Preparation for
this wrestling.; la absolutely 'necessary.
Many' years ago. Dr. Newman and Dr.
Sunderland, oh jthe platform of Brigham
I XNTiv-kre'ci TaKnmanla' - Coif T .n rr Pifif
Young's tabernacle at Salt Lake City
gained .the victory because they had so
long been skillful wrestlers for God.
uthexwise lirignam Young, wbo was
himself a giant in some things, would
have thrown them out of the window!
Get ready in Bible classes. Get ready
in Christian Endeavor meetings. Get
readj! by giving testimony in obscure
places, befoie giving testimony in con
spicuous places. V
I The Silent Worker. ,
Your going 'around with a Bagster'a
Bible with flaps at the edge's under,
your arm doesi not qualify you for the
work! of an evangelist. In this day of
profuse gab remember that it' is not
mefejy capacity ) to talk, but the fact
that you hare something to say that is
going to fit you for the struggle into
which you are1 to go with a smile on
your j face and. illumination on your
brow but out ! of which you. will not
come'until all your physical and men
tal and moralj and religious energies
have jbeen taxed to the utmost and you
have pot a nerye left, or a thought un
expended; or a prayer unsaid, or a sym
pathy unwept!" In this struggle between
right; and wrong accept no challenge on j
platferm or in newspaper unless you are
' -V 1 A. I A. . M
preparea. xjo not misapply '.me siorj-
Goliath the great, and . David the lit
tle. jDavid had; been practicing with a
filinc inn dries and wolves and . bandits.
and i.OOO timei had he swirled a stone
around his head before he aimed at the
forehead of this jgiant and tumbled hiui
backward, otherwise the. big foot of Go
liath jwould almost have covered up the
crushed form of the son of Jessed
Notice also 'that the success of a
wrestler depended on his having his
well: pluhted ' before he grappled
his oppcjient j Much depends upon the
tte. Axrestler stands. Standing on
v,ta in pieca cf ground Or bearing
on right foot or all his
weight-red td a t,'bexis not ready. A
slight A, jjoxjci antagonist will capsize
him. j A SiAoe of the heel of the other
wrestler will trip him. And in this
struggle for God. and righteousness, as
well hs for our own souls, we want our
feet firmly planted Li the gospel both
feet on the Rocs: of Ages, it will not
do to! believe he Bible in spots, or think
someof it true and some cf it untrue.
You iust mak'e pp your mind that the
storyjof thelatdencf Eden is an al
legory, and the epistle of James an in
terpolation, and! that the miracles cf
Christ can beladcounted for on natural
grounds, without any belief in the su
pernatural, and j the first time yon are
interlocked in a wrestle with sin and
satanf you will ;go under and your feet
will be highe than your head.. It will
not do to hae bnefoot on a rock and
the other ohjtb0 sand., The old book
would long ago have gone to pieces if
it had been vulnerable. But of the mil
lions of Bibles that have been printed
Within the last ,25 years not one chap-.
ter has been omitted, and the omission
of one chaptferj j would have been the)
cause of the rejection of the whole edi-"
tion.j : r-(-1 f " ;iv I-.
Alas for i those who, while trying to
prove that Jonah was never swallowed
of a whale, themselves get swallowed of
the whale 011 nnbeliex, wnicn .aige&wj.
but never ejects its victima
The inspi-
ration 01 the
Bible is not more certain)
thanrthe preservation of the Bible in its
ery
all :
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present condi
ion. After so many cen
ill ; Yl, l . 31
f furies cf assault on the boot would it
not te a matter of 'economy, to say tha
least eooiiomy of braih and fcoijomyof
stationery and economy of printerfs ink
if the batteries now asfailirtg th book
would change their aim ahdibe trained
acaixjafc Buuio ouuer dooksj ana ineworia
shown that Walter Scott did? not;write
'The Lady of the tak?-W&omer
"The Biad, nor liril ii'The
Georgics, " noir Thomas rfcr i!Lalla
itootn, or tnat Washington's ! fare
well address was written1 Ky Thomas
Paine,' and that the war of itheMmeri-
am revolution never.occurxew. xnat at
tempt would be quite as fsu'ccessful as
this long timed attadcantiBblic41, and
then it would be new. jj Oh, jkeep out of
this wrestling! bout with ih$ ighorance
and the wretchedness of th'l world un
less you feel that both fet are planted
in. the eternal! veracitiep ofj the book of
Almighty God 1 , f vl ,; Y jv
The Fallen Nut ple4'j : i t'.
Notice alscj that in jtbis science of
wrestling, to which Paul pref ersi ;inmy
text, it was the third throwfthat decid
ed the contest. A wrestler" mig'bt be
thrown once and thrown tWIce, bht the
third time he might Recover himself,
and by ah unexpected iws of irm or
curve of foot 'gain the day! Well,1 that
is. broad, smiling, unmistal:bleospei.
Some whom I address .through; 6ar or
tye, by vioice jor printed pag, haVe been
thrown in their wrestle witbf evi habit.
: Aye, you have been iiriDwn twice,
brt that does not mean ph, worsted
soulthat you are throvni forever ! I
have no authority for saying how. many
times a man in ay sin and be forgiyen or
how many times he may' fMl ahd I yet
rise again,' but I have aifthority for
saying that he may fall 450 tinaes and
490 times get up The 3ble clares
that God will forgive 70 tames 7, land if
you will jemploy the rule off multiplica
tion you will find thftt 70 jines ts 490
Blessed be t3od for such a gdspelof h'igh
hope and thrilling encouiragendeht and:
magnificent rescue! !i A cornel I of lost
j sueep Drougnt none on Buepnera s
to the low. work of putting husks into
twines troufhs bMmht aae 9 ewtl
ry and banqueting jand lilarity ; that
made the rafters ring 1 j 1
Three 'sketches of the fsame man : A
happy home, of which: he! and a lassie
taken from a neighbor's llpuseiare the
united bead. Years or bappmess roil on
after years of happiness. Stars pointing
ing was a CiOOd mornip
" and every
night a ''Goodnight." Christmas trees
and Mav oneens. and birthdav; f eetivi-
. 9 - - - .. 1 ....(
ties and Thanksgiving gatherings
1 1 a a ' r ii 3 j ' a 1 Y"
arouna loaaea laDies. .rsucpnat nnspana
and father forms an uofortnhate ac
quaintance who leads him In circles too
convivial, too late hOure&l.too scandal
ous. After ajfvhile, his mbney gone and
not able to bear nis part cm tne expense,
he is gradually shoved . o it and ignored
and pushed away. Nojwhal; a di
lapidated home is hisl:' A dissipated life
always shows itself ! in faded window
curtains,1 and impoverisei wardrobe,
and dejected surroundings and in bro
ken palings of the gardenfencej; and jthe
unhinged gaie, and the dislocated door
bell, an4 the disappearance of wife and
children from scenes among which they
shone the brightest and laughed the
gladdest! If any man Was ever down,
that husband and: father jii down. Tho
fact is, he got 'into a wrestle with evil
that pushed and pulled Ja$d contorted
and exhausted him 1 wprpe. than any
Olympian game ever treated a Grecian,
and he was thrown. Thrdwn ou of pros--perity
into gloom! Throwp out of good
association into bad. Thrown - out of
health into invalidism. Thrown out of
happiness into misery; out one day,
while slinking through que of 'the back
streets, not wishinsr to hb recosmized. a
good thought crosses hid mind; for he
has heard of men flung fljarising again.
Arriving at his house,, he calls his wife
mjBJxa snuts tneKioqr ana says:r;juary,
Ia eoinc to do differently. I This ia
not what I promised youj f hen wo were
married.' You have been! very patient
with me and have borne leverythine. al
though I would 'havej hjid no right to
oomplain if you had Iebme and gone
home to your father's house. It keems to
me that once or twice, Tfehen I:was not
myseix,. J. strucKypu, anq everai rimes,
I know, T called you hardlnamea Now
I want you to forgive' m4. I am going
to do better, and I wans you I to help
me." Y'Help you?f shejjsays.f "Bless
your soul I Of course I vill help you 1 I
knew yon didn't mean: it wnen
you
treated me roughly. ! AIL that is in the
past Never refer ! to'itf againf Today
let us begin anew.'! : : I j-'vU!:;
Sympathizing 'friendscome around
and kind business people: help the man
to something to do, so! that he can again
earn a living. The children soon' have
clothing so that they fcaa go to school.
The old songs which! f he wife Sang
years ago . come ; oacK to ner memory,
and aha siafs them over aain et the
cradle or while preparing the noonday
meal. Domestic resurrection I He comes
home earlier than he used to, and he is
glad to spend the eveningcplaying games
with the children or helping them with
arithmetic or grammar Wessons which
are a uttie too nara.; a.jme passes on,
and Eome outsider suggests to him that
he is not cettine as much out of life as
he ought and proposes an ; occasional
visit to scenes of world). inees and ! dissi
pation. He consents toi go once, and
after much solicitation twice. Then his
old habit conies ; back. He says he has
been belated and could nbt! get back un
til midnight,! He had tosee somo west
ern merchant that had arrived and talk
of business with him before he: got out
of town. I Kindness and geniality againf
fquif the disposition of that husband and
father., The wife's heart breaks m a.
new place. That man gos into! a second
wrestle with evil habit'fand is flungv
and all hell cackles at the moral defeat.
"I told you so,M say rnay. good ; people
who havo SQfaith in the reformation
of a fallen man. "I told you sol You, 1
made a great fuss t about his I restored; I
home; but i know it would not last. 1 tied down and' destroyed, jlrat there is
You caa't trust teecs' fellows rho have? ,1'coarm or foot, hcrnaai or angelia ?sr
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once gene wrong. " So with this unfor
tunate, things get worse and worse, and
his family have to give uplhe house,
and the last valuable goes tbf the pawn
broker's shop JBut that nfortunat'e
man is sauntering along thf street one
Sunday night, and he goes upio a church
door, and the congregation! ure singing
the second hyiun, the .one jfust before
sermon, and it is Willianl Cowp4r'
glorious hymn: ; . j
There is a fountain filled wltl blood j I
Drawn from Emmannel' vina,
; And sinners plunged beneathithat flood
,t i Lose all their guilty etainaf : :''.-
'. ;; Waveriaar at 'the Dbr, y .': .
He goes "into the yestibfile of ; the
church and ftops there, not fueling well
enough dressed to go among the. wor
shipers, and he hears the minister Kay,
You will find the words of my text in
Luke, the nineteenth chaptel and tenth
verse, 'The Son of Man. is cme to seek
and save that which was left.' " The
listener in the vestibule say: "If any
man was ever lost, I am loit, and the
Son of Man-came to saye tbfit which is
lost, and he has found me ind he will
take me out of this lost con'Jitibn. Oh,
Christ, iiav merer on mej' The poor
man has courage now to entr the xnaiu
audience room, and he sits down on;thd
first seat by the door, and; when at the
close of the service the miitister comes
down the aisle the poor rnn tells his
story, and he is encouraged and invited
to come again, and the waj! iscleared
for hi in for 'membership in a Christian
church, and he feels the omnipotence of
what Peter,1 the apostle, said when lie xhiefV pillars, bat more like tho throw
spoke of those "kent by tho nbwerof ing of satan out of heaven, as described
God through faith unto complete salva-.j
tion." Yet he is to Jiayeif one more
wrestle before he is free from evil habits
and he eoes into .it.' not in his own
strength, f of that has failedjhii twice
but in the strength of , thd Lord God
Almighty. The old habit iseizes him,
and he seizes it and the wrestlers bend
backward and forward and fjom side to
side, in awful struggle, unjtil the'lno-
ment comes for his liberation and, with
both arms infused with strength from
God, he lifts that habitsjivings it in
air and hurls it into Lite perdition from
whleh it eeme and from whi oh It never
again will rise. Victory, victory, through
ou Lord Jesus Christ 1 . HeaT; it, al ye
wrestlers I It threw him twice, but jthe
third time j he threw it, hd, byjjtho
grace cf God, threw it eofjhkrd he is as
safe how as if .he had been fen yeair$ in
heaven. Oh, I am so glad j that Paul in
my text suggests the wrestler an4 jitlie
power of the third throw 1 ! j
But notice that my text suggest s, that
the wrestlers on, the oth side in the
great struggle for .the world's redemp
tion have all the forces of J pemonolcgy
to help them, "We wrestle fnot against
flesh and blood, but against principali
ties, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against
sniri trial wickedness in high places. T
All military men will tell you that
there is nothing more unwise than to
underestimate an army. In estimating
what we have to contend with, the
most of the reformers' do not recognize
the biggest opposerg. They talk about
tne agnosticism, ana tne aineiem, ana
the materialism, and the nihilism; and
the pantheism, and the Brabmahism,
and the Mohammedanism as well as the
more agile and organized and endowed
wickednesses of our day. But these are
only a part f of the hostilities arrayed
against God and the best! interests of
humanity. The invisible hosts are far
more numerous than the visible. 'It is
not so much the bottle ; it is the demon
of the bottle.; It is not so much the rou
lette table; itis the demon of the rou
lette table. It is not so much the act of
stock gambling as it is thje demon) of
stock gambling. It is the great host! of
spiritual antagonists led on by Aziebor
Lucifer or Beelzebub or lAsmodeus or
Ahrimanes or. Abaddon, ust as you
please to call the leader infernalistia
Can vou doubt that the human agencies
of evil are backed uo by Plutonio agen
cies? If it were only a . cpmmon war
steed, with panting nostril and flaujat-
ing mane and clattering hpof, rushing
upon us, perhaps we might clutch him
by the bit and hurl -him. back upoju iis I
haunches,! but it is tne bJacgs norse cav
alry of perdition who dash! down' and
their riders swing swords which, though
invisible, cleave individual! and hoines
and nations. I tell you, Papl was right
when he suggested that wefwrestle, not
with pygmies, but With giants that Yf ill
down us, unless the Lord 'Almighty Is
our coadjutor. Blessed be God that we
have now, and' further on ?wiH have in
mightier degree, that divinp help I j. ,
The: .Overthrow of Evil. ; '
The time is coming I know it will
quicken your pulses when p menticn it
When the last mighty Jevil oil tne
world will be grappled by righteousness
and thrown. Which of the great je jils
will survi vi ill the others t know! not;
whether h ; Y K or revenge, pr fraud or
Inst or ainerance. of fiamblingl or
Sabbath c
.oration. It will not berihe
U fittest," aat the anrrlTal j
si. It will bo! be 'evil !the
survival o
of the r).
most thor
rrhl v intrenched, most com
pletely re
n forced, most datrouized by j
wealth anu fashion and pomp, most ap-1
plauded by all the princrpalities; and
powers and rulers of darimess. it win
stand with crim yisace looking down l
uuon the graves of all tho other slain
abominations graves dugi by the jhot
shovels of despair and eurmountedi by
such epitaphiology as thii j"It biteth
like a serpent and stingethj like an ad
der," "The ; wages of sin is death,"
Her house inblineth untft death and
her paths unto the dead, '!"There jis a
way that seemeth right to man, but
the end thereof is death. (Yes, X Imag
ine,' we have arrived at the time( when
we may say, Yonder standi the last and
only great evil of all the jworld j toi be
wrestled down. It stands not only look
ing upon the graves of all jthe entombed
and epitaphed iniquities of the world,
bus everr and anon . gazing upward in
defiance of the heavens and shaking its
fist at the Almighty; saying: "Nothing
can nut me down. I havo seen all jthe
other enemies of the human race wres
oeific that can throw me. I have ruined
whole generations, "and Ltwear by all
the thrones of diabolism that I will
ruin this generation Come on, all jo
churches and all ya reformatory Insti
tutions and all ye legislatures and all .
ye thrones. I challenge you. I plant
my feet on this, red hot rock of the
world's "woe. I stretch forth my arms
for the mightiest wrestle any world has
ever seen. Come on. Come cn.M ;
Then righteousness will accept the
challenge, and the two mfghty wrestlers
will grapple, while all the galleries of
earth and heaven look down from one
tide and all 'the fiery chasms of penU- .
Hon look up from the other side. The
two wrestlers sway, to and fro and turn
this way and that, and now the mon
ster, evil, seems the mightier of the
t wo; and now righteousness seems about
to triumph. The prizo, is worth a strug
gle, for it is not a chaplet of laurel cr
palm, but tho .rescue of a world, and a ;
wreath put On the brow by: him who
promised, "Eo thou faithful Unto
death, and I will give theo a crowi.'
Three workls earth,, henvon aiid hell
hold their breath while, waiting for
the result of this struggle when with
one mighty" swing of an arm muscled
with omnipotence righteousness hurls
the last evil, first on its knees and then
on its face, and .then rolling ofTjand
down with a crash wilder than that
with which Samson hurled the tenjple
of Dagon when ho got hold of its two,1
by John Aiuton:
Dim the Almighty power flnn
FleadloQg flaming from the ' e flu real sky,;
With tdduoaa ruin and combtwtlon, down ;v
To bbttoniUfcw i'rdition, there to dwell i
In adamantine chains and penal Ore j .;
Who durst defy the'Cuinipott'trt to nrn.
times tho space that nifaaurt a daj ajtd .
J night -. . ' ') ' ; . . 7.'
To mortal man he. With his horrM crew,
Lay'vanquisht'd. rolling tn th ry gulf, "a 7 .
Confounded, though immortaL ' "
The Strenath of It 1Kb t.
Aye, that suggests a cheering thought
that if all the realms of deirionology
are on the other side,1 all the realms ef
acgelology are oa our side, among Ihrji
Gabriel, and Uichael the erchet.gW,
and the angel , of . the new- coyennet,
and they are how talking over the pree
ent awful struggle and final glorioas
triucaph, talking . amid the alabusttr ,
pillars and in the ivory palaces, and . -along
the broad ways and grand avenues -of
the great capital of the universe, and
amid the spraof- fountains' with rain
bows like tha "rainbow round the
throne, " and as they .take their morn
ing ride in the! chariots with white -horses
bitted with gold that were seen
"by John, in vision apocalyptic, and
while waiting in templos for the one.
hundred and forty and four thou,
sand to chant, accompanied by. harpers
and trumpeters, and thunderinga and
halleluiahs like the voice of many wa- '
ters. ; Yes, all heaven is on our side, and
the "high places of wickedness" spoken
of in my text, are not, bo high as the
high places of heaven, where there are
enough reserve forces if our earthly
forces should be . overpowerod, or in .
cowardice, fall back, to sweep down,
some morning at daybreak-and take all '
this earth for God before t$e city clocks
could strike 12 for noon. And the cab
inet of heaven, the motjt august cabinet
1n the universe, made up of three God
the Father, God tho Son and God the
Holy Gnost are now in session in the
King's palace, and they are withl us, and
they are going to see us through, and
they invite us, as soon as we have done
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