Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-07
THE POWER TO FIGHT
OR. TALMAGE- TELLS HOW TO WREs-
TILE WITH EVIL.

we Must lie Trained For the String.
gle silence and Discipline On.
Fall Ia Not the End-The Strenrt,
That Comes From God.
copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso.
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Nov 6.-In this dis.
course DR.. Talmage selects one of the
boldest figures of the Bible to present
most practical and encouraging truths
text Ephesians vi, IL, 1--WE wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against
the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high
places. -
Squeamishness and fastidiousness
were never charged against Pauls rhet.
ORIG. In the war against evil be took
the first weapon he could lay his band
on For illustration, he employed the
theater. the arena, the foot race, and
there was nothing in the Isthmian game,
with its wreath of pine leaves, or Pyth.
ian game. with its wreath of laurel
and palm, or Nemean game, with its
wreath Of parsley, or any Roman circus,
but he felt he had right to put it in
sermon or epistle, and are you not sur.
prised that in my text he calls upon a
wrestling bout for suggestiveness?
Plutarch says that wrestlingis the most
artistic and cunning of athletic games.
We must make wide difference be.
tween pugilisn, 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, INDUCED 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 decided the victory. and many
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
much. for it was not savage enough, no
blows or kicks being allowed in the
game They preferred the foot of hun.
cry panther on the breast Of fallen
martyr
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 forward until the
work began in real earnest, and there
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 the victor guess Paul
had seen some such contest, and it re-
minded him of the struggle Of the soul
with temptation, and the struggle Of
heavenly forces against Apollyonic pow
ers, and lie dictates my text to an
amanuensis. for all his letters, save the
one to Philemon, seem to have been die.
tated. and as the amanuensis goes on
with his work l hear the groan and
laugh and shout of earthly and celestial
belligerents, I'VE wrestle not against
flesh and blood. but against principa)i-
ties, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places
The Amenities of Life.
Inotice that as these wrestlers ad
vanced to throw each other they bowed
one to the other. 1t was civility, not
only in Grecian and Roman games, but
in later day, in all the wrestling bouts
at Clerkenwell, England, and in the IA
nous wrestling match during the reign
of Henry III in St. Giles Field between
men of Westminster and people of Lon
don However rough twist and hard
pull each wrestler contemplated giving
his opponent, they approached each 9TH
er with politeness and suavity The
genufexions, the atfability, the courtesy
in no wish hindered the decisiveness of
the contest. Well, Paul, see what you
mean. In this awful struggle between
right and wrong we must not forget to
be gentlemen and ladies. Affability new
er binders, but always helps. You are
powerless as soon as yon get mad DO
not call rumsellers murderers. Do not
call infidels fools Do not call higher
critics reprobates. Do not call all card
PLAYERS and theater goers children OF the
devil Do not say that the dance breaks
through into hell. Do not deal i'll vitu
peration and billingsgate and contempt
and ad1ectives dynamite. The other
side can beat us at that Their dlctlcn'
aries have more objurgation and brlm-
stone.
We are in the strength Of God to
throw fiat on its back every abomlna'
tion that curses the earth, but let us
approach our mighty antagonist with
suavity Hercules, son of Jupiter ana
Alcmena, will by precursor OF smiles
be helped rather than damaged for the
performance of his IL labors. - Let US
be as wisely strategic in religious cir
c]es as attorneys in courtrooms, VINO are
complimentary to each other IN the
opening remarks, before they come into
legal struggle such as that which lett
Rnfns Choate or David Paul Brown
triumphant or defeated. People who get
into rage in reformatory work accom-
plish nothing but the depletion OF their
own nervous system. There Is sucn
thing as having a gun SO hot at the
toucbhole that it explodes, killing the
one that sets it off There are some re-
formatory meetings to which always
decline to 60 and take part. because
they are apt to become demonstrations
If had temper. never like to hear
man swear, even though he swear on
the right side. The very Paul who IN
nv text employed in illustration the
wrestling match, behaved on memo ora
h,e occasion as we ought to behave Inc
,.a,, ~ tho Rihla made an unln-