Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05

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 honey. They never saw any such land.
 They brought back some grapes. think
 I know who it was that brought back l the grapes. ECaleb and Joshua had faith
 and they came back and told the children
 of Israel that it was a, good land, that it t was flowing with milk and honey The 1 ten others came back and said: cit is I a land that ate up the, people Thereof I we saw giants there; and the sons sot
 Anak were there; and great. walled
 cities; and we are not able to take it. [ l I can imagine one of these men telling
 how he looked up into the face of one of
 the giants and describing how the giant
 looked down upon him as if he were 8
 grasshopper. tell you when unbeliet
 comes in we are like grasshoppers in the
 sight of the world but when we are
 filed with faith those men look like grasshoppers tosns. Then, instead ot sour being eaten up, they are as bread to
 us. Then we are able to go up and take
 the land.
 He is far ahead of the shorthand writ
 CTS, and his words are like 8 mountain tor1ent-rushing, leaping and, carrying all before it. He elevates himself on his toes, strikes with the force of ia slelge hammer the railing in front of him, turns three-quarter circle and sends volley of sentences flying right and left like the dlscharge of a whole battery of mi But the ten men came back, and they said that if, was Q land of evils, that 1t was a, land that eat up the people, and you know that it is said "a lie will travel half way round the world while truth is pulling on its boots to follow it. |" It will telegraph itself around this little globe in twenty four. hours. So it was with this evil report. It spread through the whole camp that night, and they all cried: sLet us go back to Egypt. I'd rather perish in Egypt, I'd rather hear the crack of the slavedriver's whip, I'd rather make bricks without straw than go up and be destroyed by these giants Caleb said sfJust let me speak a few words. I have been with the twelve I am one of the spies . who were sent out, and we are well able to overcome it., Let us. go up and take it. !" The voice of Caleb rang through the camp that night: Let us go up and take the land :; no power can pre- vail against us, for fGod is with us. |" Let. us bring it down to the present day. Where are you now, I want to know, for we hear the voices of many professed children of God saying to-day :" We are not able to go up and take the land. " don't know how many people have heard saying to me: sssMr. Moody, you
 must not expect so great work in this country. :. There are great difficulties in the way We'll, if you don't expect it you won't, have it. I expect to have 8 greater work. I hope that every man right along will take the land at once. We can say with Joshua why we are able to go up and take the land. How easy it would be for the fear of the Lord to fall upon the hearts of the people of the nation.l. How easy it would be for the Lord to pour down such blessing !! Those ten men who-swere with Joshua and. Caleb had their eyes fixed on the great walls of the city and upon the. sons of Anak, and upon the giants, but Caleb and Joshua lifted their eyes above those walls and they saw Him who sat upon the throne I can imagine Joshua as he came back, and in answer to these ob- jections saying Did not the Lord bring us through the Red sea2 When we were lost, in the wilderness did He not openlHis hand and give us heavenly food9 When we were athirst and had no water did He not strike the rock and make the water bubble outs If we will we are able to go up and take the land. :" That is the difference between the man of faith and the man of unbelief. Would to God that we could sweep away this wretched unbelief. Ts