Our Savior’s mission on earth was to “break (smash) every yoke and set the captive free.”  Upon two occasions he made a scourge, of small cords and laid it on the backs of wicked men who were doing unlawful things.  He came into this world “to destroy the works of the devil”, to “bruise” or crush the “head of the serpent”.  We are told to “Abhor that which is evil”, to “resist (or fight) the devil and he will flee"’.  We are not to be “overcome with evil but to overcome evil with good”.  How?  Resist the devil.  God blessed the church at Ephesus, because they “hated the evil workers, tried them and found them liars”.  The hatred of sin is one mark of a Christian.  Just in proportion to your love for God will be your hatred of evil.  I will here give you a Bible reading on the subject.  These are some instances of smashing.  The ten plagues of Egypt and the overthrow of Pharaoh, were smashing.  The death of of the first born also.

Gen. 19:24 30:15-19 6:25 9:5,6
Josh. 7:25, 26 7:20 4:7-11 7:10,11 15:15
Lev. 19:17 10:24-26 9:53
Num. 33:55,56 23:7
1 Sam. 15:33
Deut. 7:2-5 7:10-13
2 Chron. 34:4,5 21:1-9 19:20
Neh. 13:8-25 21:18-21
Judg. 2:3
Isa. 28:21 13:12-18 3:10 54:16 17:5-7 3:31
Matt. 21:12 19:13-20 4:21
John 2:13-23 25:17-19 5:7
Acts 13:8-11.

If I could I would turn the key on every church in the land, so as to teach some preachers to go out, and not stay in, and compel poor sinners to stay out.  I yield no territory to the devil.  Let us take every saloon, every house of prostitution of men and women for God.  “There shall not a hoof be left behind.”  “The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force,” which means that where the evil is aggressive, we must be more so, and take, compelling surrender by the determination never to yield.

I feel that I have been peculiarly favored to go into these places, to “cry aloud and spare not and show my people their sins.”  I find this class so hungry for something better.  These poor actresses, who dress in tights and sing indecent songs, are a weary, tired, heart-sick lot of slaves.  I mingle with them as a sister.  When I can say a warning word I say it.  I call them affectionate names and mean it.  God will judge both of us.  He knows who loved much; he can forgive much.  Christ said to a lot of men who took the amen pews:  “The publicans and harlots will go into heaven before you.”  Why?  They “repented when they heard”.  “How are they to bear without a preacher?” I never see a man or woman so low but as a sculptor said of the marble:  “There is an angel there.”  Oh, God, help me to bring it out!