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Title: The culture of Christian manhood; Sunday mornings in Battell chapel, Yale university
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Sallmon, Henry William, 1866-1938, ed
Subjects: Universities and colleges Sermons, American
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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and (5) cleaves to the good. The very im-
petuosity and passion of youth, turned from
wrong uses into right uses, help us to win
our trophies.
Win them, then, as David won Goliath's

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sword. Go forth to life in the name and
under the inspiration of God. Have open
eyes to see the evils that threaten God's
kingdom in the world. Face those evils.
You know full well that God wishes their
overthrow. Do not hesitate to enter the
field against them. Advance upon them be-
fore the fascination of fear paralyzes you.
Thousands may stand irresolute, but do you
dare and do. If none else act, go forward
alone. Use the skill you have, simple though
it seem, and do your best. What if no voice
does speak to you from the skies, indicating
duty? It is enough that there is an evil
needing overthrow. Meet it with the soul
of a knight. God's eye is on you; God's
heart is with you. To conquer is to give
cheer to all Gods Israel. To-day and now
do the deeds and win the experiences that
to-morrow will be your joy and salvation.

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S. E. Herrick, D.D.

Manhood's Struggle and Victory
By
S. E. Herrick, D.D.
Pastor of the Mount Vernon Church, Boston, Mass.

The Lamb made war with the beast.—Revelation, passim.

MY text, you observe, is not quoted, but
extracted. It is a condensation in few
words of extended passages of this remark-
able book. I have long felt that but little
confidence is to be placed in any minute and
particularizing interpretation of its pictu-
resque and amazing scenery. The book has
been the favorite exercise-ground for the
ingenuity and wilfulness of exegetical cranks
and prediction-mongers through all the cen-
turies. It has been the arsenal, moreover,
whence sectarian virulence and theological
hatred have drawn their weapons of nickname
and threat and invective. The beast, the

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dragon, the scarlet woman, Babylon the
Great—these names have been affixed in the
history of theological or ecclesiastical war-
fare to this party and to that, sometimes,
no doubt, in the spirit of sincere and

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