The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-03

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The lion of Judah shah break the chain
1hd give as the victory again and ~aaainln,
but There ls a more marked illustration Of
slctqrlous retreat in the life of our Joshua,
the Jesus Of the ages. First falling hack from
tne appalling height to an appalling dep4h.
IalLing rom celestial hills to terrestrial Val.
ieys, rom thence to Manager; yet that did NOT
seem 70 suffice Him as a retreat. Falling
oaek stIH further from Bethlehem to Naza.
reth, from Nazareth to Jerusalem. back from
Jerusalem to Golgotha, back from Golgotha
20 the mausoleum in the rock, back down
over the precipices q perdition until e walked
AMID The cayerns Of the eternal captiyes and
drank Of the wine of the wrath of Almighty
Sod amid the Ahabs and the BelshagEars.
Y men Of the pulpit and men of the pew.
Christs descent from heaven to earth does
not measure half the distance. II was from
glory TO peFdition. He descended into he'll.
Az the records Of earthly retreat are nothing
compared with this falling back. Santa Anna,
with the fragments of his army flying over the
plateaux Of Mexico, and Napoleon and his
army retreatiEg from Moscow into the awful
SHOWS OF Russia are not worthy to be men
toned with this retreat, when all the powers
OF darkness seem to be pursuing Christ as
he tell back, until the body OF Him who
came to do such wonderful things lay pulse
less and stripped. Methinks that the city OF
All was not so emptied Of its inhabitants
when they went to pursue Joshua. as perdi-
ton was emptied of devils, when they started
for the pursuit Of Christ and He fen back
and back down lower, down lower, charm
below ehasm, pit below pit, until he seemed
to strike the bottom of o~bjurgation and
scorn and torture. Oh, the long, loud, iubi-
liant shout of he'll at the defeat Of the Lord
God Almighty
But let not the powers of darkness rejoice
ofaffo az unnp M ~, h.,u 49, 49, #
ance in the tomb Arimathea? / hear the
sheet rending? What means that stone
hurled down the hill2 Who is this COM
ing out2 Push him backl The dead must
not stalk in this open sunlight. o, it is our
Joshua. Let him come out. Hecomes forth
and starts for the city. He takes the spear
of the Roman guard and points that way.
Church mihtant marches up on one side and
the church triumphant marches down the
other side. And the powers Of darkness be-
ing caught between these ranks of celestial
terrestrial yalor, nothing In left of them save
Iust enough to Illustrate che direful overthrow
ofhell, and our Joshua's eternal victory. On
His head be all the crowns. In His hand be
oil the sceptres. At his feet be all the human
hearts; and here, Lord, is one of them.
Lesson the second: The triumph OF the
wicked is short. Did you ever see an army in
a panic. There Is nothing so uncomfortable.
II yoH had stood at Long Branch, Washing
ton, during the opening of our sad civil war,
you would know what it is to see an army
run. And when those men Of All looked out
and saw these men Of Joshua in a stam-
pede, they expected easy work. They
would scatter them as the equinox the leaves.
0, the gleeful and jubilant descent Of the men
of All upon the men of Joshual But their ex-
liberation was brief, for the tide of battle
turned, and these quondam conquerers left
their miserable carcasses in the wilderness of
Bethaven. So it always is. The triumph Of
the wicked is short. You make 100000 at
the gaming table. Do you expect to keep it2
You viii die in the ~poorhouse. You made
fortune by inquitous traffic. Do You expect
to keep it? Your money will scatter. oTit
will stay long enough to curse your children
after you are dead. Call over the roll of bad
men who prospered and see how short was
their prosperity. For a while like the men Of
All they went from conquest, but after q while
disaster rolled back upon them andthey were
divided into three parts; misfortune took
their property, the grave took their body,
and the lost world took their soul. /
am always interested in the building Of thea
tiers and the building of dissipating saloons.
/ like to have them built of the best granite
and have the rooms made large and to have
the pillars made very firm. God is going TO
conquer them and they viii be turned into
asylums, and art g~allaries and churches.
The storee In which fraudulent men do busi-
ness, the splendid banking institutions where
the president and cashier puta U their property
into their wives hands and then fail for $780,
000-aIl these institutions are to become the
places where honest Christian men do business.
How long will it take your boys to get
through your ~ill-gotten gains2 The wicked
do not live out half their days. For o while
ther swa1ger and strut n make q great
splash in the newspapers, but after a while
1t oil dwindles down into a brief paragraph:
SsDied snddenly, July ~, 1888, at 30 years
Of age. Relatives and friends Of the family
are invited to attend the funeral on Wednes-
dap, AL O'Clock. from his late residence on
Madison square. ffaterment at Greenwood
Some of them jumped of thadocks.
Some Of them took prusslr acid. Some OF
them fell under the snap of a Derringer pistol.
Some Of them spent their last days IN q luna
tic asylum. Where are William Tweed and
his associates2 Where are ketcham and
Swartwout, descending s~windleTs2 Where Is
James Fisk, the libertineY Where ls John
Wilkes Booth, the assassin, and all the other
misdemeanants? The wicked do not live out
half their days. Disembogue, Q world OF
darkness! Come up, Hildebrand ana Henry
III. ana sRobespierre, and with blister
ing and DISAPPEARING and ashen lips hiss out.
ssThe triumph Of the wicked IS short Alas
for the men Of All when Joshua stretches OUT
his spear toward the city
Lesson the third: How much may be ae-
eomplished by lying in ambush Tor oppoT-
~tunities. Are you hypervritical Of Joshua's
maneuyer? Do you say that il was cheating
sor him to take that city By ambuscadef
Was II wrong for Washington to k1ndle
6campares on New Jersey heights, giving the
Impression TO the opposing force fhat q
treat army eneamped there when there was
none AZ all2 / answer, ifthe war was right
then Joshua was right in his stratagem- ne
violated no flag of truce. He broke ne
treaty. bat BIZ lawful ambuscade captured
ehe city Of All. Oh, that we al knew how 70
iiain ambush for opportunities to saysSod
TIE best of our opportunities do not lie en-
bha surface. but are secretcd; by tact, Dy
sfrataoem bv Christian a~mbuscadeyou may,
iska almost any castle Of sin for Christ.
rome M toward men with a regular beselges'
repf al argument and you will be defeatesA;
INF inst wait until the door OF their hearts y
m siar. OF they are OF their guard, or their
sevare caution Is away from home, and then
svon ~ on them from christian afp5uscades
Thare has been many b man up 70 ms cnln IN
.eiantiHc uDrtfolios which proved there Wak
~ Christ and no divine revelation, his pen Z
scsmefar Aun0 into the heart OF theological
rrnorenfs who. nevertheless, has been dlsT
eanAfn and captured for God BY some hltle
aswaarsnld child who has got mp and puther
ssow 3 arms around his eineWy neck, ana
asked some simple question ahout 900 ana
al, make q aank movement; steal Q marcn
~ nv devil: cheat the man into heaven, a
< -acIlar xreatiee that viii stand sl the LAWS
sr@,rwlofice may fail to do that winch q pen