Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-11-07

to triumph. The prize is worth strug.
gle, for it is not chaplet of laurel or
palm, but the rescue of a world, and a
wreath put on the brow by him who
promised, BE thou faithful unto
death, and l will give thee crown. I"
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 las. 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 its 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
In adamantine chains and penal fire
Who burst 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 in the lery gulf,
COMPOUNDED, though immortal.
The Strength of Right.
Aye, that suggestsa cheering thought
that II 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 erchangel,
and the angel OF the new 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 in the chariots with white
horses bitted with gold that were seen
nv John in vision apocalyptio. and
both arms infused with strength from
God. he lifts that habit, swings it in
air and hurls it into the perdition from
which it came and from which it never
again will RISE Victory, victory, through
our Lord Jesus Christi Hear it, all ye
wrestlers 1t threw him twice, but the
third time be threw it, and, by the
grace of God, threw it so hard be is as
safe now as if he had been ten years in
heaven. Oh, I am so glad that Paul in
my text suggests the wrestler and the
power Of the third throw!
But notice that my text suggests that
the wrestlers on the other side in the
great struggle for the worlds redemp.
ton have all the forces Of demonology
to help them, 1--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"
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 opposers. They talk about
the agnosticism, and the atheism, and
the materialism, and the nibilism, and
the pantheism, and the Brahmanism,
and the Mohammedanism as we'll as the
more agile and organized and endowed
Of our day. But these are
only part of the hostilities arrayed
against God and the best interests Of
humanity. The invisible hosts are far
more numerous than the visible. 1t is
not so much the bottle; it is the demon
of the bottle. 1t is not so much the rou.
lette table; it is the demon of the rou-
lette table. 1t is not so much the act Of
stock gambling as it is the demon Of
stock gambling. 1t is the great host Of
spiritual antagonists led on Ivy Aziel or
Lucifer or BeeiZebub or Asmodeus or
Ahrimanes or AbaddCn. just as you
please to call the leader infernalistic.
Can you do1bt that the human agencies
Of evil are backed up by Plutonic agen-
cies? II it were only common war
steed, with painting nostril and flaunt-
ing name and Gathering hoof, rushing
upon u.s. 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. 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
our ooadjutor. Blessed be God that we
have now, and further OH will have in
nightier degree, that divine help!
The time is coming-I know it will
quicken your pulses when mention it
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 net,
whether war. or revenge, or fraud, or
lust, or intemperance, or gambling, or
Sabbath dissertation. It will not be "the
survival of the fittest," but the survival
of the worst. 1t 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 municipalities and
powers and rulers Of darkness. 1t will
stand with grim visage looking down
upon the graves of all the other slain
acknowledgements dug by the hot
shovels Of despair and surmounted by
such epitaphiology as this, ut biteth
like serpent and stingeth like an ad-
DER" 1.-THE wages of sin is DEATH"
"Her house inclineth unto death and
her paths unto the dead, "There is
way that seemeth right to man. but
the end thereof is death" Yes, mag
inc we have arrived at the time when
we may say, Yonder stands the last and
only great evil Of all the world to be
W restled down IL stands not only look.