The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-01-06
NO. is.

christ. Hear 10, all ye WrcStiefe.
But notice that my text suggests that
the wrestlers on the other side ia the
great struggle for the worlds redemp-
tion have all the forces Of demonology
20 help them: I'VE wrestle not against
principalities. against powers, against
the rulers Of the darkness ofthis world,
against spiritual wickedness in high
Places
The time is coming-I know It will
quicken your pulses when / mention II
when the last mighty evil of the
world will be grappled by righteous
ness 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 desecration. IL will not be
1.-THE survival Of the fittest," but the
survival Of the worst 1t will be the
evil the most thoroughly entrenched,
most completely reinforced. most pa
tronized by wealth and fashion and
pomp, most applauded by all the prin-
cipalities and powers and rulers of
darkness. II will stand, with grim
visage, looking down upon the graves
of all the other slain denominations
graves dug by the hot shovels of de-
spair and surmounted by such epitaph-
ology as this: 1T biteth like ser
pent and stingeth like an adder" ''The
wages Of sin is DEATH" Her house in
clineth unto death and her paths unto
the dead" ''There is way that seem
eth right TO a man, but the end thereof
is death" Yesl l imagine we have
arrived at the time when we may say,
Yonder stands the last and only great
evil Of all the world 10 be wrestled
down. 1t stands, not only looking up
on the graves of all the entoombed and
epitaphed iniquities of the world, but
ever and anon gazing upward in de-
fiance of the heavens and shaking its
fist at the Almighty. saying: Nothing
can put me down. ] have seen all the
other enemies of the human race
wrestled down and destroyed, but
there is no arm or foot, human or an
gelic or Deifc, that can throw me.
have ruined whole generations, and
swear by all the thrones of diabolism
that / will ruin this generation. Come
on. all ye churches, and all ye
reformatory institutions, and all ye
legislatures, and all ye thronesl l
challenge you'll plant my feet on this
red-hot rock of the worlds woe. !
stretch forth my arms for the mighti-
est wrestle any world has ever seen.
Come on. Come onw Then righteous
ness 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 perdition look
up from the other side. The two
wrestlers sway TO and fro, and turn
this way and that, and now the
monster, evil, seems the mighter OF
the two, and now righteousness seems
about 10 triumph. The prize is worth
struggle, for il is not chaplet OF
laurel or palm, but the rescue of
,,world. and a wreath put on the brow
by Him who promised, "Be thou faith
ful unto death and L will give thee
crown" Three worlds--earth, Heaven
and hell-hold their breath while wait
ing for the result of this struggle.
when. with one mighty swing of an
arm muscled with Omnipotence, right
eousness 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 Sampson
hurled the temple of Dagon whe' he
got hold of its two chief pillars, but
more like the throwing 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 70 dwell
IN adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who burst defy the Omnipotent 70 arms.
Nine times the space that measures day and
night
TO mortal man. he with his horrid crew
Lay yanqulshed. rolling in the fiery gulf,
CoufOunded. though immortal
Aye. That suggests a cheering
thought, and If all the realms of demon
ology are on the other side, all the
realms of angelology are on our side,
among them Gabriel, and Michael the
archangel, and the Angel of the New
Covenant, and they are now talking
over the present awful struggle and
final glorious triumphs; talking amid
the alabastar pillars and in the ivory
palaces. and along the broadways and
grand avenues of the great capital Of
the universe. and amid the spray N
fountains with rainbows like the
''rainbows round the throne" and
as they take their morning ride
i'm the chariots with white horses
bitted with gold, that were seen
by John in vision apocalyptic. and
while waiting in temples for the one
hundred and forty and four thousand
TO chant. accompanied by harpers and
trumpeters. and thunderings and halle
luiahs like the voice Of many waters.
Yes. all Heaven is on our side, and the
'high places Of wickedness" spoken Of
I'm nv text are not SO high as the high
places Of Heaven. where there are
enough reserve forces, II 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 be-
fore the city clocks could
strike "l2" for noon. And the
cabinet in the universe, made up Of
three-God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Ghost-are now in
session in the Kings palace, and they
are with us. and they are going TO see
MS through. and .hey invite Us, as soon
as we have done our share Of the work
.N..N.a