DR. TALMAGES SEBMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "The Wrestlers"—The Time I»
Coining When the Ult Mijfhty ETII of
the World Will Be Grappled by Itlglit
eouinen and Thrown.
TEXT: "We wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against tlio rulers of the darkness
of tils world, against spiritual wickedness
In high places."—Ephesians vl., 12.
Squeamishness and fastidiousness were
never charged against Paul's rhetoric. In
the war against evil he took tho first
weapon he could lay his band on. For il
lustration, ho employed the theatre, the
arena, the foot-race, und there was noth
ing in the Isthmian game, with Its wreath
of pine leaves; or Pythian game, with its
wreath of laurel and palm; or Nemean
game, with its wreath of parsley; or any
Boman circus, but he felt ho had a right to
put it in sermon or epistle, and are you not
surprised that in my text he calls upon a
wrestling bout for suggestiveness? Plu
tarch says that wrestling is tho most artis
tic and cunning of athletic games. We
must make a wide difference between
pugilism, the lowest of spectacles, and
wrestling, which is an effort in sport to put
down another on floor or ground, and we.
nil of us. Indulged in it in our boyhood
days, If we were healthful and plucky. The
ancient wrestlers were first bathed in oil,
and then sprinkled with sand. The third
throw victory, and many a mnn
who wont down In the first throw or sec
ond throw, In the third throw was on top,
and Ills opponent under. The Homans did
not like this game very much, for it was
not savage enough, no blows or kicks be
ing allowed in the game. They preferred
the foot of hungry panther on tho breast of
fallen mnrlvr.
In wrestling, the opponents would bow
in apparent suavity, advance face to face,
put down both feet solidly, tnkceach other
by the arms, and push each other backward
and forward until the work began in real
earnest, and thero woro contortions and
strangulations and violent strokes of the
foot of one contestant against the foot of
the other, tripping him up, or with strug
gle that threatened npoplexy or death, tbe
defeated fell, and the shouts of the specta
tors greeted the vlater. I guess Paul had
seen some such contest, and it reminded
him of tho struggle of the soul with temp
tation, and the struggle of truth with error,
and the struggle of heavenly forces against
apollyonio powers, and ho dictates my text
to an amanuensis, for all his letters, save
the one to Philemon, seem to have been
dictated, and as the amanuonsis goes on
with his work I hear the groan and laugh
and shout of earthly and celestial belliger
onts: "We wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against tho rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places."
I notice thut as these wrestlers advanced
to throw each other they bowed one to the
other. It was a civility, not only in Gre
cian and Homan games, but In later days,
in all the wrestling bouts at Clerkenwell,
England,and in the famous wrestling match
during the reign of Henry 111., in St. Giles'
Field, between men of Westminister and
people of London. Howeverrough a twist
and hard a pull each wrestler contemplated
giving his opponent, they approached each
other with politeness and suavity. Tho
genuflexions, the affability, the courtesy In
no wise hindered the decisiveness of tho
contest. Well, Paul, I see what you mean.
In this awful struggle between right and
wrong, we must not forget to be gentlemen
and ladies. Affability never hinders, but
always helps. You are powerless as soon
as you get mad. Do not call rum-sellers
murderers. Do not call infidels fools. Do
not call higher critics reprobates. Do not
call all card-players and theatre-goers chil
dren of tho devil. Do not say that the dance
breaks through Into hell. Do not deal in
vituperation and billingsgates and con
tempt and adjectives dynamitic. Tho other
»ide can beat us at that. Their dictionaries
have more objurgation and brimstone.
Wo nre in the strength of God to throw
flat on its back every abomination that
curses the earth, but let us approach our
mighty antagonist with suavity. Her
cules, a son of Jupiter and Alcmeue, will
by a precursor of smiles bo helped rather
than damaged for the performance of his
"twelve labors." Let us be as wisely
strategic In religious circles us attorneys
in court-rooms, who are complimentary
to each other in the opening remarks, be
fore they come into legal struggle such as
that which left ltufus Choate or David
Paul Drown triumphant or defeated.
People who net into a rogo in reformatory
work accomplish nothing but the deple
tion of their own nerveus system. There
istoich u thing as having a gun so hot at
the touch-hole that it explodes, killing
the one that sets it off. There are
some reformatory meetings to which I
always decline togo and take part, be
cause they are apt to become demonstra
tions of bad temper. I never like to hear
a man swear, even though ho swear on
the right side. The very Paul who In my
text employed in illustration tho wrestling
match, behaved on a memorable occasion
as we ought to behave. The translators
of tho Bible made an unitentional mis
take when they represented Paul as in
sulting the people of Athens by speaking
of"the unknown god whom ye ignorantly
worship." Instead of charging them with
Ignorance, the original indicates he com
plimented ttem by suggesting that they
were very religious; but us they confessed
thut there were some things they did not
understand about God, ho proposed to say
some things concerning ilim, beginning
whore they had left off. The same Paul
who said in one place, "Be courteous," and
who had noticed the bow preceding the
wrestling match, here exercises suavities
bofore he proceeds practically to throw
down the rocky side of tho Acropolis the
wholo Parthenon of idolatries, Minerva and
Jupiter smashed up with the rest of them.
In this holy war polished rifles will do
more execution than blunderbusses. Let
our wrestlers bow as they go into tho
struggle which will leave all perdition un
der and all heaven on top.
Bemember also that these wrestlers went
through severe and continuous course of
preparation for their work. They were
put upon such diet us would best develop
their muscle. As Paul says, "Every man
that striveth for tho masterv is temperate
In all things." Tho wrestlers were put
under complete discipline—bathing, gym
nastics, struggle in sport with each other
to develop strength and givo quickness to
dodge of iiead and trip of foot; stooping
to lift each other off tho ground; suddenly
rushing forward; suddenly pulling back
ward; putting the left foot behind the
other's right foot, and getting Ills oppo
nent off his balance; hard training forduvs
and weeke and months, so that when they
met It was giant clutching giant. And,
my friends, if wo do not want ourselves to
be thrown In this wrestle with the sin nnd
error of the world, wo had bettor get ready
by Christian discipline, by bolv self-de
nial, by constant practice, by submitting
to divine supervlsal and direction. Do not
bogrudge the time and the money for that
young man who is in preparation for tho
ministry, spending two years In grammar
school, and four years In college, and
three years In theological seminary. I
know that nine years are a big slice to
take off of a man's active life, but if you
realized the height and strength of the
archangels of evil in our time with which
that young man is going to wrestle, you
would not think nine years of preparation
were too much. An uneducated ministry
was excusable In other days, but not In this
tine, loaded with schools and colleges. A
man who wrote me the other day a letter
asking advice, as he felt called to preach
the Gospel, began the word "God" with a
snail "g." That kind of • man Is not
called to pceaah the Gospel. Illiterate men.
preaching the Gospel, quote for their own
encouragement tne scriptural passage.
"Open thy mouth wide and I will All It.'*
Yes! He will fill It with wind. Preparation
for this wrestling is absolutely necessary.'
Many years ago D ootor Newman and D octor
Sunderland, on the platform of Brlghami
Young's taberntole at Salt Lake City, Utah,
gained the victory because they had so long
been skilful wrestlers for God. Otherwise
Brigham Young, who was himself a giant,
in some things, would have thrown them'
out of the window. Get ready In Bible
classes. Get ready in fchristlau Endeavor
meetings. Get ready by giving testimony
in obscure places, before giving testimony
in conspicuous places.
Your going around with a Bagster's
Bible with flaps at the edges, under your
arm, does not qualify you for the work ot
an evangelist. In this day of profuse gab,
remember that it is not merely capacity
to talk, but the fact that you have some
thing to say, that is going to fit you for
the struggle into whioh you are togo with
a smile on your face and Illumination on
your brow, but out of whioh you will not
come until nil your physical and mental
and moral and religious energies have
been taxed to the utmost and you have
not a nerve left, or a thought unexpended,
or a prayer unsaid, or 11 sympathy un
wept. In this struggle between Bight and
Wrong accept no chnllengeon platform or
in newspaper unless you are prepared. Do
not misapply the story cf Goliath the
Great, and David the Little. David had
been practising with a sling on dogs nnd
wolves and bandits, and a thousaud times
had he swirled a stone around his head
before he aimed at the forehead of the
giant and tumbled him backward, other
wise the big foot of Goliath would almost
have covered up the crushed form of the
son of Jesse.
Notice also that the success ot'a wrestler
depended on his having his feet well
ulanted before he grappled his opponent.
Much depends upon the way the wrestler
stands. Standing on an uncertain piece of
ground, or bearing all his weight on right
foot or all his weight on left foot, ho is not
ready. A slight cuff of his antagonist :
will capsize htm. A stroke of the heel of
the other wrestler will trip him. And in
this struggle for God nnd righteousness,
as well as for our own souls, we want our
feet firmly planted in the Gospel—both
feet on the Bock of Ages. It will not do
to believe the Bible in spots, or think
some of it true and some of it untrue.
You just make up your mind that tho story
of the Garden of Eden is au allegory,
nnd the Epistle of James au interpolation,
and thut the miracles of Christ can be
accounted for on natural grounds, without
any belief in tho supernatural, and the
first time you are Interlocked In a wrostle
with sin and Satan you will go under und
your feet will be higher than your head. It
will not do to huve ono foot 011 a rock and
the other on the sand. The old Book would
long ago have gone to pieces if it had
been vulnerable. But of the millions of
Bibles that have been printed within the
last twenty-five vears, not one chapter has
been omitted, nnd the omission of one
chapter would have been the cause of the
rejection of the whole edition. Alas! for
those who while trying to prove that Jonah
was neverswallowedof a whale, themselves
get swallowed of the whale of unbelief,
which digests but never ejeots its victims.
The inspiration of the Bible Is not more
certain than tho preservation of the Bible
in its present condition. After so many cen
turies of assault on the Book, would it not
be a matter of economy, to say tho least
economy of brain and economy of station
ery, and economy of printers' ink—lf the
batteries now assailing the Book would
change their aim and be trained nguinst
some other books, and the world shown that
Walter Scott did not write "The Lady of
the Lake," nor Homer "The Illud." nor
Virgil "The Georglcs," nor Thomas
Moore "Lalla Bookh," or that Washing
ton's "Farewell Address" was written by
Thomas Paine, and that the War of tho
American Revolution never occurred. That
attempt would be quite as successful as
this long-timed attack anti-Biblical, and
then it would be new. Oh, keep out of this
wrestling bout with the Ignorance nnd the
wretchedness of the world unless you feci
that both feet are planted in the eternal
veracities of tho Book of Almighty God!
Notice also that In this science of wrest
ling, to which Faul refers in my text, it
was the third throw which decided the
contest. A wrestler might bo thrown once
aud thrown twice, but the third time he
might recover himself, and, by nu unex
pected twist of arm or curve of foot, gain
the day. Well, that Is broad, smiling, un
mistakable Gospel. Some whom I address
through ear or oye, by voice or printed
page, have been thrown in their wrestle
with evil habit.
Ayel you have been thrown twice; but
that does not mean, 0I1! worsted soul, that
you are thrown forever. I have no author
ity for saying how many times a man may
sin and be forgiven, or how many times he
may fall aud yet rise again; but I have
authority for saying that he inny fall four
hundred und ninety times, and four hun
dred and ninety times get up. The Bible
declares that God will forgive seventy
times seven, nnd if you will employ the
rule ot multiplication you will find that
seventy times seven is four hundred and
ninety. Blessed be God for such a Gospel
of high hope and thrilling encouragement
und magnificent rescue! A Gospel of lost
sheep brought home on Shepherd's shoul
der, and the prodigals who got into tho low
work of putting husks into swines'troughs
brought home to jewelry aud banqueting
and hilarity that made the rafters ring!
But notice that my text suggests that the
wrestlers on the other side in the great
struggle for the world's redemption have '
all the forces of demonology to belp thom:
"We wrestle not ugainst flesh and blood,
but against principalities, agalns: powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of tills
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places."
Then I can well believe that righteous
ness will accept the challenge, and the twi
mighty wr.stlers will grapple, while all
the galleries of earth aud heaven look
down from ono side, and all the fiery
clinsms of perdition look up from the
other side. TUo prize is worth a strug
gle, for it is not a cbaplet of laurel or
palm, but the rescue of a world, and a
wreath put ou the brow by Him who prom
ised, "Be thou faithful unto death and I
will give thee a crown." Three worlds—
earth, heaven and hell—hold their breath
while waiting tor the result of this strug
gle, when, with one mighty swing of an
arm muscled with Omnipotence, righteous
ness hurls the last evil, first on its knees
and then on its face, and then rolling off
and down, with u crash wilder than that
with which Sampson hurled the temple ot
Dagon when he got hold of Its two chief
piliars.
Aye! That suggests a cheering thought,
that if all tho reulms of Demonology are
011 the other side, all the realms ot angol
ology are on our Hide, among them the
Augel of the Now Covenant, and they are
now talking over the present awful struggle
und final glorious triumph; talking amid
the alabaster pillars and in the ivory pal
aces, and ulong the broadways aud grand
avenues of tho great Capital of the Uni
verse, and amid the spray of fountains
with rainbows like tho "rainbow round
tho throne." Yes, ull heaven is on our side,
and the "high places of wickedness"
spoken of in my text are not so high as
the high pluces of heaveD, where there
are enough reserve forces, if our earthly
forces should be overpowerod, or in cow
ardice fall baok, to sweep down some morn
ing at daybreak and take all this earth for
God before the city clocks strike "twelve"
for noon. And the Cabinet of Heaven, the
most august Cabinet in the universe, made
up of three—God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Ghost—are now In ses
sion In the King's Palace, and they are with
us, nnd they are going to see us through,
and they Invite us, as soon as we Lave don*
our share of the work, togo up and sea
them, and celebrate the flnul victory, that
is more sure to come than to-morrow's sun
rise.
|A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
i
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS
shun tlie Cider—A Tale of Snrceaa That
Show* How the' Great Cities Invite
Missionary Kffort—Urunkard'a Waif
Kecoines a Teetotal Governor.
I wouldn't touch the cider,
Oh, no, I'd let it be.
It is the safest way, boys,
As you will clearly see.
For if you stand for temperanco
And never taste the stuff.
It surely cannot harm you,
Thut fact is plain enough.
I wouldn't sip the eider,
Although It may be sweet,
Nor suck it through a straw, boys,
When with your mates you meet;
For soon, before you know it,
It may be sour instead;
There have been older drunkards.
About them I have read.
And if you stnrt with cider.
You'll soon betaking beer;
Then something even stronger,
Till friends for you will fear;
80 better be abstainers,
The temperance pledge now sign;
And never, never dally
With cider, beer and wine.
—The National Advocate.
A Governor Found In a Hogshead.
A good-natured philanthropist was walk
ing along the docks one Sunday morning,
when he found a boy asleep in a hogshead.
I lie shook him till ho was wide awake, and
! then opened tho following conversation:
"What are ycu doing here, boy?"
"I slept hero all night, sir, for I had no
I other place to sleep In."
"How is that? Have you no father or
mother? Who takes care of you?"
"My father drinks, air, and I don't know
whore he is. I have to take care of myself,
for my mother is dead; she died not long
ago." And at the mention of her name the
j boy's eyes llllod with tears.
"Well, come along with me. I'll give
you a home, and look after you as well as
: I can."
The child thus adopted on tho wharf was
taken to a happy home. Ho was sent to a
common school, and afterwards employed
as a clerk in the store of his beneractor.
When he bfcamo of age, his friend and
beneractor said to him: "Yon have been a
; faithful and honest boy aud man, and if
you will make threo promises I will furnish
; you with letters of credit, so that you can
I stnrt business at tho West on your own nc
' count."
j "What promises do you wish me to
make?" inquired the young man.
I "First, that you will not drink intoxioat
\ Ing liquors of any kind."
| "I agree to that."
| "Second, that you will not use profano
speech."
j "I agree to that."
I "Third, thut you will not become a poli
tician."
"I agree to that." .
I Tho young man started in business at tho
| West, and, by minding his own business,
:in a few years lie became a rich man. At
I the close of the war he came East, aud
called upon his friend nnd accepted father.
In the course of a happy interview the
philanthropist a<-ked his adopted sou if he
had kept his total-abstinence pledge.
"Yes, sir," was the answer.
"Have you abstained from tho use of
profane speech?"
I "Yes, sir," said tho man with omphnsls.
"Have you hud uuything to do with
politics?"
i The visitor—the adopted son perhaps I
I should have said—blushed aud said,
"Without my consent I was nominated for
1 Governor of my Stato and elected. lum
now on my way to Washington to transact
important business for tho State."
Did over a hogshead turn out so good a
! thing as a teetotal Governor before? It
I had to bo emptied of its wine before it
could be a shelter for tho little Arab who
1 ran wild in that wilderness of marble aud
mortar, tho great city of New York.
The streets and wharves of the great
: metropolis of commerco invite missionary
effort, and the writer hopes that the little
waifs afloat on the wave of outward life
will not be neglected.—George W. Bungay.
Denounces Liquor Truffle.
I Tho fourth sermon of tho "Under the
i Flag" series was preached recently by P.ov.
I Melbourne P. Boynton at Woodlawn Bap
tist Church, Chicago. His subject was:
! "Slaves." He said, among other things:
All the race is in bondage. When our
colored brethren marohed out under tho
flag, freed men, all our slaves wore not
1 liberated. Many are still in bondage, a
thralldom worse than that which held the
negro, for this present day slavery is both
I body and soul. Political slaves abound
who cure more for party than purity.
Commercial slaves are everywhere—poor
girls whose lives are ground out under the!
; heel of a sutuuio greed. So-called mor
; chnnt princes, whose silly souls are spent
In honrding coined dust. Social bondmen,
: whoso exterior Is silk and interior In rags, 1
who dress like queens and live like paupers.
Ecclesiastical slaves, living In little grooves,'
1 with a copyright on heaven. 1
A nation can be a slave as well as an In
-1 dividual. Columbia stands with chains
upon her glorious form, and the flag that,
should typify her graoes aud shed her glory
; is the protector of her masters. Years ago
she Invited the world to come to her home|
and abide. She expected angels, but a'
I devil came as well. Poor Columbia wlll-
I ingly acoepted him, and now, protected by
her armies and uphold by her laws, this
!giant places the chains of thralldom upon,
'her fair wrists that she might not
'her God-giving mission, aud tie9 her
j 'ankles that she might not run in the pathsl
Imurked out by Providence. This prince of
demons, tills cruel master of our land ls !
the liquor trafilo 01 the United States,]
which cost us in money In 1880 $1,196,878, -j
422. This is our tribute for one year to the
savage who thrives on broken hearts,]
ruined homos, a debauched people aud
dammed souls.
College Drinking on til* Increase.
Tho Interior makes this startling state
ment: "The evil of college drinking is on
the Increase, aud not onlv so, but the 001-;
lege system of drinking is descending into|
the ucademies and high schools. This;
faet we know to be true. There are so
cieties of boys In educational institutions'
—aud they aro increasing—in which,
while a half is on a spree, the other
half abstains to take care of them,
the abstainers taking their turn at the
bowl when thsir companions have sobered
up." Nor is this confined to State sohoolsJ
This statement of the Interior's was called
out through a reference to Princeton Uni
versity, in which is a Presbyterian theo
logical seminary. True temperance la a
live subject to-day. It Is present truth
still, as a part of the faith, equally with:
righteousness and judgment to come.
What Drunkennea Will Do.
"Drunkenness," says one writer on tho
vice, "will make a pauper, an Invalid, a
lunatic. It will send you an empty purse,
an empty wardrobe, and an empty shelf. It
gives you a taste for swearing, obscenity,
aud Impurity. It inclines you to choose
bogging for a profession rather than Inde
pendence. It qualifies you to become an
undutlful chil4 an uhnatural parent, a
cruel husband «r a disgusting wife. These
are but a little of what drunkenness does."
Stray Arrows.
The blackest devil In the world to-day U
the daiok devil.
I The Meiozoic Age.
; In the latter prrt of the mesozoio
age there was a great inland ocean,
spreading over a large part of the
present continent. The lands then
above water were covered with a flora
pecnliar to the times and were inhab
ited by some of the animals which later
distinguished the cenozoic age. In the
seas were reptiles, fishes and turtles
of gigantic proportions, armed for of
fense or defense. There were also
oystor-liko bivalves, with enormous
shells, three or four feet in diameter,
the meat of which would have fed
many people.
In time this great ocean, swarming
with vigorous life, disappeared.
Mountain ranges and plains gradually
arose, casting forth the waters and
leaving the monsters to die and bleach
in tertiary suns. As the water re- '
mained divided into smaller tracts
they gradually lost their saline stabil
ity. The stronger monsters gorged
on the weaker tribes until they, too,
stranded on rising sand bars or lost
vitality and perished as the water
freshened. In imagination we can
picture the strongest, bereft of their
food supply at last and floundering in
the shallow pools until all remaining
mired or starved. It would be inter
esting to know how much of the great
cretaceous ocean forms a part, if any,
of the vast oceans of to-day.—Popular
Science.
A Strange Aiiiuinl Group.
There is an interesting animal group
in the Zoological Garden at Leipsic.
A dog is bringing up a baby beaver
and a baby hyena. At first the youug
animals were fed on the bottle. This
not proving satisfactory, the keeper of
the garden cast about for a substitute
and finally made a trial of a kind dog
as a mother for the baby beaver and
the baby hyena. The experiment was
a success and now the wee-wees are
flourishing. The little beaver is a
diligent bather and the little hyena is
an eager devourer of chopped meat.
Notwithstanding their diverse natures,
the beaver and hyena babies get along
capitally together.—New York Herald.
Most Artlstir.
"That's not an art store; that's a
bank," protested the native.
"Certainly, certainly," replied the
visitor. "1 see the sign on the door.
Nevertheless, it is where one would
go for a thing of beauty, and you must
concede that a thing of beauty is usu
ally somewhat in the line of art."
"Thing of beauty, nonsense!" ex
claimed the native. "That's where
they deal in mo;iey."
"Precisely," 'assented the visitor.
"And money is a joy forever. There
you have it as plain as day. 'A thing
of beauty is a joy——' " —Chicago
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