The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-11-07
IN STRENGTH OF GOD.
WE MUST STRIVE TO OVERTHROW
! EVERY ACCUMULATION. ,-


Old. In Combating Sin.
copyright. 1893 BY American Press Asso
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. Gin this discours
DR.. Talmage selects one Of the boldest fig
ures Of the Bible to present most practioa
and encouraging truths; text, Ephesian
vi, 10, 1--WE wrestle not against flesh ant
blood, but against principalities, agains
powers, against the rulers Of the darkness
Of this world, against spiritual wickednes
In high places"
Squeamishness and fastidiousness wer'
never charged against Paul's rhetoric IL
the war against evil he took the frs
weapon he could lay his hand on. For IL
Illustration, he employed the theater, tn,
arena, the foot race, and there was moth
ing in the Isthmian game. with It's wreatt
Of pine leaves, or Pythian game, with its
wreath Of laurel and palm, or Nemear
game, with It's wreath of parsley, or any
Roman circus, but he felt he had right
to put 1t in sermon or epistle, and are you
not surprised that In my text he calls upon
wrestling bout for suggestivenessp Plu'
tarch says that wrestling is the most ar.
tistic 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-all Of us-indulged In it In our boy
hood 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, 9nd 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 II
was not savage enough, no blows or kicks
being allowed In thegame. They preferred
the foot Of hungry 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 oontortions 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 apoplaxy or death, the
defeated fell and the shouts Of the specta-
tors greeted the victor. guess Paul had
seon some such contest, and 1T reminded
him Of the struggle Of the soul with temp
tatlon and the struggle Of truth with error
and the struggle Of heavenly forces against
Apollyonic powers, and he dictates my text
to an amanuensis, for all his letters, save
the one to Philemon, seem to have been
dictated, and as the amanuensis goes on
with bis work hear the groan and laugh
and shout of earthly and celestial belliger-
ents. ave wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against prinoipalities, against
powers, against tho rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickednoss
in high places"
Polite Athletes.
notice that as these wrestlers advanced
to throw each other they bowed one to the
other. 1t was civilitv, not only in Gre
clan and Roman games, but in later day,
in all the wrestling bouts at Clerkenwell,
England, and in the famous wrestling
match during the reign of Henry III, In
St. Giles Field, between men of Westmin-
ster and people Of London. However
rough twist and hard pull each wrestler
contemplated giving his opponent, they
approached each other with politeness and
suavity. The genuflexions, the affability,
tne courtesy IN no wise nlndereo the dc.
clsiVehess OF tne oontese: wei. faul,
zee wnaV you mean IN thls awtui strug-
gle DetWeen fieht anu wrong, We must
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You are poweriess as soon as you get mad.
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players ana tneatcr goers ohlldren OF the
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we are III the strength OF dod 10 throw
has on its pacK every abomlnatlon that
curses the earth' bue iet US approach our
mighty antagonist win suaVity' Her.
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IN rellgious circles as attorneys IN court
rooms, VINO are complimentary TO each
other IN tne opening remarks before they
come INTO legal struggle such as that
Whloh Ielt huius Choate or DaVld faul
Brown trlumphano or oeteated. People
VINO GET INTO rage IN refofmatory WORK
accomplish nothing but the depletion OF
their own nervous system. There is such
, tning as having gun 90 nor at the
bouohhole that 1t eIplodes, killing the one
mat sets 1t OH. There are some reiorma-
'ory meetings to which always decline
% go and take part because they are apt
% become demonstrations OF bad temper.
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Tut as they confessed that there were some
hings they did not understand about God
le proposed to say some things concern
ng him, beginning where they had left
Il. The same Paul who said In ono place,
Be courteous" and who had noticed the
low preceding the wrestling match, here
xercises suavities before he proceeds prac.