Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-07-28
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REV. DIR. TLMAGE BREACHES To
THE THIIrEENTH NEW YORK.

REV. DIR. TLMAGE breaches To
THE THISrEENTH NEW YORK.
A Camp Sermorst Peekskiil-The Brook
iyn Divine Say There IL Such Thing
As . vietorsus Defeat-Joshua
and the Iktruction of the
CO. of A..
? PnEKsKIII., n. \ July Chaplain 7.
Dewitt Talmage pnched to-day TO the
Thirteenth Regime of the New York
State National Guais. now sncampied
here. The regimen sscmblcd ct B p. NJ.
!. when people from th neighboring coun.
try, towns and citicserc present in i'm.
D.. mensc numbers. A ili,ary band con.
Quoted the musical ps-Spf the service.
Chaplain y which was
lie on "Use based on
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One Sabbath evening with my family
around me. we were talking over the
scene Of the text. In the widc.open eyes
and the quick inicrrogations and the
blancl,cd checks. | realized what thrill
ing drama Il was. There il the old city,
shorter by name than any other city of the
ages, spelled with two letters A. l. Al.
Joshua and his men want io take II. How
10 do IL is the question. On a former nc.
casion, in a straightforward. face 10 face
fight. they hal becn defeated; hut now
they are going 10 take Il by amhusca'lc
, General Joshua has two divisions in his
army-ihe one division the battle. worn
commander will lead himself, the other
division lic sends or Ia cncamp in an am
bush an The west side 0f the city of Al
| No torches, no lanterns. no sound of
heavy baitalions, hut 30 ItNW swarihy war
riors moving in silence, speaking only in u
NutStWts NV wv NN'NS
shields, lest the waichmcn of Al discover
Il and the stratagcm bc u failure. II a
registering soldier in the Irrarlilisl, army
forgcts himself all along the line the word
is flush :" Joshua takes the other diyis-
ion, the one with which he is Ia march.
and puts il nn the noiil, side or the City
of Al, and then spends the night in re-
connoitring in the valley. There he is.
thinking over the fortunes of the coming
day, with smelling Of the feelings Of
Wellington tibet night before Waterloo, or
Of Meade and Lee the night before Gciiys-
burg. There he stands in the night, anil
says to himself: Wonder Is the division
/ IN ambush on the west side 0f Al. Here
is the division | have under my special
command ON the north side of Al. There
Is the old city slumbcring IN lis sin. To-
morrow will lc the hattie. Look. the
morning already begins to tip the hills.
The military officers Of Al look out in the
morning very carly, and while they do
not see the division In ambush they bc-
hold the other vision of Joshua. and the
cry "To arms ! To arms!' rings through
all the streets Ofthc old town, and every
sword, whether hacked and bent or new
welded, Is brought out, and NIL the inhabi
tants Of the City Of Al pour through the
gates, an infuriaie torrent, and their cry
is: Come. we'll make quick work with
Joshua and his troops" No sooner had
these people Of All come nut against the
troops of Joshua than Joshua gave such a
command as he seldom gave: Fall
hack - Why. they could not believe their
own ears. Is Joshna's courage failing
him:
THEY SHOUTED TOO soon.
The retreat is beaten, and the Isracliics
are flying, throwing blankets and can
teens on every side under this worse than
Bull Run defeat. And you ought TO hear
the soldiers of Al cheer and cheer and
cheer. But they huzza too soon. The
men lying In ambush are straining their
vision ,o get some signal from Joshua
that they may know what time To drop
upon the city. Josh ua takes his FURNISH
sphere, gliticring in the sun like shah
Of doom, and points il toward the city;
aud when the men up yon'ler in the am
bush see il, with hawk like sweep they
drop upon Al, aud without stroke oi
sword or stab of spear take the city and
and put il Ia the torch. So much for the
division that was in ambush. How about
the III, ision under Joshua's command
M SOONER does Joshua stop in the fight
than all his men stop with him. AMI rs he
wheels they wheel, for in u voice Of thun-
der he cricl Halt" One strong arm
driving back n torrent of lying troops
Aud then, ns hc points his spear thru I'll
the golden light toward that fatal city. his
troops know that they are To start for H.
VIVA, u scene Il was when the division in
ambush which had taken the city marched
down against the men of Al oL the onr
side. and the troops under Joshua doubled
NJ their enemies from the other side, and
, the men Of NJ were caught between These
Two hurricanes Of lsraclitish courage
thrust bcinrr and lrhind. stabbed in breast
and hack. ground between the upper and
the neither millstones oi Gods Indignation
Woe io the city IL Al! Cheer for the ri.
nmphs Of Israel!
VICTORIOUS DHFEATs
Lesson the first There Is such thing
as victorious retreat. Jnshua's falling hack
was the first chapter in his successful hc-
sicgemcnt. And there are times In your
life when the hest thing you can Il" is I"
run. You were once the vi,iim of strong
drink. The dcmijohn AMI the dccanier
were your fierce fines. They came down
upon you with greater fury than the men
of Al upon the men of Joshua Your only