Not in the Tournaments, miscalled "Olympian" games, or athletic contests of the arena, or in the "sports" of various Nations, called "Enlightened" people of the Earth, are the Strong Ones found. Theirs is a distinctive mission, which would be utterly subverted if "championship" or "competition" were sought or indulged in.

The various "games" that from time immemorial have formed a portion of the entertainment and pleasure of different nations, - the cruel and brutalizing contests of the arena, the no less brutalizing contests of the Prize Ring and of Modern Athletics, are illustrations of those states of human struggle for physical supremacy, which not being gained in any other way, must find expression in fields of contest for the "amusement" of "kings" - the "nobility" - and even the rank and file of the people.

The Angels of Strength are on Earth to show - without pride or ostentation - that mere physical force is not real strength - although it may accompany the other qualities that serve to make up the concrete term, "Strength of character."

Human history, both sacred and secular, has illustrations of the two ideas of strength.