Connecticut western news., 1898-11-10


 steed, with panting nostril and Haunt ing mane and clattering hoof. rushing upon us, perhaps we might clutch him by the bit and hurl him back upon his launches, but it is the black horse cav airy of perdition who dash down and their riders swing swords which. though invisible, cleave individuals and homes and nations. I tell you, Paul was right when he suggested that we wrestle, not with pygmies, but with giants that will down us, unless the Lord Almighty is have now, and further on will have in mightier degree. that divine helpl
 The Overthrow of Evil.
 The time is coming-I know it will quicken your pulses when mention 1t when the last mighty evil of the world will be grappled by righteousness and thrown Which of the great evils will survive all the others know not, whether war. or revenge. or fraud. or lust, or intemperance. or gambling, or Sabbath dissertation It will not be "the survival of the Attest" but the survival of the worst It will be the evil the most thoroughly intrenched, most com pletely re-enforced. most patronized by wealth and fashion and pomp, most ap- plauded by all the principalities and powers and rulers of darkness. It will stand with grim visage looking down upon the graves of all the other slain gbominations-graves dug by the hot shovels of despair and surmounted by such epitaphiology as this. Ut biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an ad- der" "The wages of sin is death, Her house inclineth unto death and her paths unto the dead, " "There is way that seemeth right to a man. but the end thereof is death." Yes. imag- inc we have arrived at the time when we may say. Wonder stands the last and only great cvil of all the world to be wrestled down It stands not only look ing upon the graves of all the entombed and epitaphed iniquities of the world, but ever and anon gazing upward in defiance of the heavens and shaking its fist at the Almighty, saying: Nothing can put me down have seen all the other eneEies of the human race wres- tied down and destroyed, but there is no arm or foot. human or angelic or deifc that can throw me. have ruined whole generations, and 1 swear by all the thrones of diabolism that I will ruin this generation Come on, all ye churches and all ye reformatory insti tutions and all ye legislatures and all ye thrones. 1 challenge you. l plant my feet on this red hot rock of the worlds woe. I stretch forth my arms for the mightiest wrestle any world has ever seen. Come on. Come on.
 Then righteousness will accept the challenge. and the two mighty wrestlers will grapple, while all the galleries of earth and heaven look down from one side and all the fiery chasms of perdi- tion 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 two, and now righteousness seems about to triumph. The prize is worth strug- gle, for it is not chaplet of laurel or palm, but the rescue of a world, and wreath put on the brow by him who promised, Be thou faithful unto death. and 1 will give thee crown" Three worlds-earth. heaven and 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 off and down, with a crash wilder than that with which Samson hurled the temple of Dagon when he got hold of it's two chief pillars. but more like the throw ing of satan out of heaven. as described by John Milton:
 Him the Almighty power flung
 Headlong flaming from the ethereal sky,
 With hideous ruin and combustion down
 To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
 Tn adamantine chains and penal fire
 Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
 Nine times the space that measures day and night
 To mortal man he, with his horrid crew,
 Lay vanquished. rolling the fiery gulf
 Confounded, though immortal
 The Strength of Right.
 Aye, that suggests cheering thought that if all the realms of demonology are on the other side, all the realms of angelology are on our side, among them Gabriel, and Michael the srohangel, and the angel of the nsw covenant, and they are now talking over the pres ent awful struggle and final glorious triumph. talking amid the alabaster pillars and in the ivory palaces, and along the broad ways and grand avenues of the great capital of the universe, and amid the spray of fountains with rain- . bows like the rainbow round the throne," and as they take their morn ing ride ill the chariots with white horses bitted with gold that were seen by John in vision apocalyptio, and while waiting in temples for the one hundred and forty and four thou sand to chant, accompanied by harpers and trumpeters, and thunderings and halleluiahs like the voice of many wa ters. Yes. all heaven is on our side, and the thigh places of wickedness' spoken of in my text are not so high as the high places of heaven, where there are enough reserve forces if our earthly forces should be overpowered, or in cowardice fall back, to sweep down some morning at daybreak and take all this earth for God before the city clocks could strike l2 for noon And the cab inet of heaven, the most august cabinet in the universe, made up of three-God