The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-11-07

Ut. sunde1anu, on tho platform OF Brig-
ham Young's tabernacle at Salt Lake
City, gained the victory because they had
70 long been skillful wrestlers for God.
Otherwise Brigham Young. who was him
self giant In some things, would have
thrown them out Of the window. Get
ready in Bible GLASSES. Get ready in Chris
tian Endeavor meetings. Get ready by
giving testimony In obscure places before
giving testimony In conspicuous places.
A Mighty Struggle.
Your going around with o Bagster's
Bible, with flaps at the edges, under your
arm does not qualify you for the work Of
IN evangelist. In this day Of profuse CAB
remember that 1t 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 which you are to 60 with
smile on your face and illumination on
your brow, but out Of which you will not
come until all your physical and mental
and moral and religious energies have
been taxed to the utmost and you have
not a nerve left or q thought unexpended
or prayer unsaid or a sympathy unwept,
In this struggle between right and wrong
accept no challenge on platform or In
newspaper unless you arc prepared. Do
not misapply the story Of Goliath the
Great and David the Little. David had
been practioing with sling on dogs and
wolves and bandits, and thousand times
had he swirled a stone around his head be-
fore he aimed at the forehead of the giant
and tumbled him backward, otherwise
the big foot Of Goliath would almost have
| hn eh,,d - h. -
Jesse.
Notice also that the success Of wrestler
depended on his having his feet we'll
planted before he grAppled his opponent.
Much depends upon the way the wrestler
stands. Standing on an uncertain piece
Of ground or bearing all bis weight on
right foot or all his weight on left foot,
he Ia not ready. A slight cuff Of his antag-
onist will capsize him. A stroke of the
heol Of the other wrestler will trip him.
And in this struggle for God and right
eousness, as well as for our own souls, we
want our feet firmly planted in the gospel
both feet on the Rock Of Ages. II will
not do to believe the Bible In spots or
think some of 1t true and some of 1t un-
true You just make up your mind that
the story Of the garden Of Eden is an ale
CORY, and the epistle of James an interpo-
lation and that the miracles of Christ can
be accounted for on natural grounds with
out any belief In the supernatural, and
the first time you are interlocked in Q
wrestle with sin and satan you will go un-
der and your feet will be higher than your
head. 1t will not do to have one foot on
rock and tho other on the sand Tho
old book would long ago have gone to
pieces II 1t had been vulnerable. But Of
the millions Of Bibles that have been
printed within the last IS years. not one
chapter has been omitted, and the omis-
sion 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 never swallowed of
a whale, themselves get swallowed of the
whale of unbelief, which digests but never
elects its victims. The inspiration of the
Bible Is not more certain than the preser.
walton Of the Bible in its present condi-
tiOn. After so many centuries Of assault
on the book would 1t not be matter Of
economy, to say the leaRt-economy of
brain and economy Of stationery and econ
omy Of printers ink-if the batteries now
assailing the book would change their aim
and be aimed against some other books,
and the world shown that Walter Scott
did not write THE Lady Of the Lake."
nor Homer 1.-THE Had" nor Virgil "The
Georges" nor Thomas Moore "Lalla
Rookh." or that Washington's farewell
address was written by Thomas Paine,
and that the war Of the American Revolu-
ton never occurred. That attempt would
be quite as successful as this long timed
attack anti Biblical, and then 1t would be
new Oh, keep out of this wrestling bout
with the ignorance and the wretchedness
Of the world unless you feel that both feet
are planted In the eternal veraoities of the
book of Almighty Godl
Science Of Wrestling.
Notice also that in this science Of wres-
thing, to which Paul refers in my text, 1t
was the third throw that decided the con-
test. A wrestler might be thrown once
and thrown twice, but the third time he
might recover himself, and by an unex-
peoted twist Of arm or curve of foot gain
the day. Well, that is broad, smiling, un-
gospel. Some whom address
through ear or eye, by voice or printed
page have been thrown in their wrestle
with evil habit.
Aye, you have besn thrown twice. but
that does not mean, oh, worsted soul, that
you are thrown foreverl have no au-
thority for saying how many times man
may Sin and be forgiven, or how many
lines he may fall and yet rise again, but
have authority for saying that he may
all 400 times, and 400 times get up. The
Bible declares that God will forgive 70
lines 7, and If you will employ the rule of
you will find that 70 times
is 400 Blessed be God for such gos-
,el Of high hope and thrilling encourage
nent and magnificent rescue A gospel
# lost sheep brought home on Shepherds
houlder, and the prodigals who got into
he low work Of putting husks into swines'
roughs brought home to jewelry and ban
ueting and hilarity that made the raft
ia ring.
Three sketches of the same man: A hap
y home, Of which he and lsssie taken
rom neighbours house are the united
,ead. Years of happiness roll on after
ears of happiness Stars pointing down
o nativities. And whether announced in
'reeting or not every morning was q
Good morning" and every night "Good
light" Christmas trees and May queens
nd birthday festivities and Thanksgiving
.atherings around loaded tables. But
hat husband and father forms an unfor-
innate acquaintance who leads him In cir
les too convivial, too late houred, too
After awhile, his money gone
nd not able to bear bis part of the ex-
ense, he Is gradually showed out and ig-
ored and pushed away. Now, what a
ilapidated home is bisl A dissipated life
ways shows itself in faded window our
aims, and impoverished wardrobe, and de-
soted surroundings, and in broken pal i
ngs of the garden fence, and the unhinged ,
ate, and the dislocatsd doorbell, and the !
Of wife and children from
Genes among which they shone the bright ,
IT, and laughed the gladdest. II any
ian was ever down, that husband and fa-
ler is down. q
A Powerful Foe. '
The fact Is no got into wrestle with evil I
,at pushed and pulled and contorted and /
khausted him worse than any Olympian '
anne ever treated Greoian, and he was +
out Of prosperity into G
loom, thrown out Of good association In a
bad, thrown out Of health into invalid l.
in, thrown out Of happiness into misery. Il
nt ono div whila Sinking throuoh opo p