Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-12-27

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| alter them. They never cut such IA sorry
| figure when they were on the retreat.
AHyoody that goes out i'll tue battles of
| God with only half a foree, instead of
! Your taking the men OF Al, the men OF Al
| will take you. Look at the church of God
| on the retreat. The Bnrnesian cannibals ate
| up Muusofi, the missionary. "Fal baekl'
said great many Christian people. Fall
! back, church of Godi Borneo will never be
| taken. Don't you see the Bornesian canni-
balls have eaten up Munson, the missionary"
| Tyndall delivers his ecture at the University
of Glasgow, and great many good people
Say: Fall back. y church of God! Dom
| you see that CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY is going
to be overcome By worldly philosophy? Fall
back" Geology pIunges its erowbar into
the mountains, and there are great msny
| people who say: Scientific investiga ion is
| going to overthrow the Mosaic account of
the creation Fall back" Friends The
rhu eh have never had ady right to tall
back.
Joshua salls on his face ii ehagrin. 1t is
the only time you ever the back OF his
head. He falls on his face and begins to
whine, and he SAYS: "Oh, Lord God. where
fore hast thou at all brought this people
over jordan to deliver US into the hand Of
the Amnrites to destroy ms? Would to God
We hal been content and dwelt on the
other sids of Jordan. For the canaanites
hear OF it. aud shall environ us round ana
cut oil our name from the earth"
God comes and rouses him. How does he
rouse him? By complimentary apostrophe?
No. He says: "Get thee up. y wherefore hest
thou upon thy tace? Joshua rises. and
warrant you with q mortified look, but his
old courage comes back. The faet was that
was not bis battle. Ii he had been in it he
would have gone on to victory. He gathers
his troops around him and says, Now, let
Us go up and capture the city of All; let us
go NJ right away"
They march on. He puts the majority OF
the troops behind ledge of rocks in the
night. AMI then he sends comparatively
small regiments up in front OF the city. The
men of All come out with shout. The
small regiments OF Israelites in stratagem
fall hack and fall back, and When all the men
OF Al have left the city and are in pursuit Of
these scattered. or seemingly scattered
regiments. Joshua stands on rock-I see
his locks flying in the wind as he points
his spea towards the doomed city; and that
is the signal. The men rush out from be-
hind the rocks and take the city, and it is
put to the torch, aud then these Israetes
in the city march down, and the flying regi-
ments of Israelites return. and between these
two waves of israetish prowess the men OF
All are destroyed, and the 1sraelites gain the
victory and while see the curling smoke
OF that destroyed city on the sky. and while
| hear tho huzza OF the lsraelites, and the
grvan of the Canaanites, Joshua hears
something louder than it all, ringing and
eehoing through his soul. There shall not
any man be a bic to stand before thee all the
days OF thy life
But this ia no place for the host of Joshua
to stop. Forward, march," cries Joshua
to the troops. Thers is the city of Gideon
1t has put itself under the protection OF
Joshua. They sent word, There are five
kings after US; they are going to destroy us;
SEMI troops quick; send us help right away"
Joshua has three days march at more
than double quick. On the morning OF the
third day he is before the enemy There are
two long lines OF battle. ihe battle opens
With great slaughter but the Canaanites
soon discover something They say: That
is Joshua. That is the man who conquered
the spring treshet and knocked down the
stone wall and destro. ed the city OF Al.
There is no use fighting" And they sound
q retreat, AMI as they begin toretreat j oshua
and his host spring upon then like
panther, pursuing them over the rocks; and
as these Canaanltes with sprained ankles
and gashed ioreheads retreat, the catapults
OF the sky pour a voley of hailstones into the
valley, and all the artillery of the heavens
with bullets OF iron pound the Oanaantes
against the lodges OF Beth, boron.
"Ohl" says Joshua. this is surely a vie
tory" "But do you not see the sun is gong
down? Those Amorites are going to get
away alter all, and then they will come up
some other time and bother us. and perhaps
destroy us" See. the sun is going down.
Oh, for longer day than has ever been seen
liz this climatei What is the matter with
Joshua? Has ne fallen in an apoplectic fit?
No. He is in prayer. Look out when good
man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua
raises his lace, radiant with prayer, and
looks at the descending sun over Gideon and
at the faint crescent OF the moon, Tor you
know the queen OF the night sometimes will
finger around the palaces of the day. Point
ing one hand at the descending sun and the
other at the faint crescent of the moon, in
the name of that God who shaped the
worlds and moves the worlds. he cries,
"sun, stant thou still upon Gideon; and
thou moon, in the valley of Alalon." They
hRlted.
Whether it was by refraction of the suns
rays or by the stopping OF the whole PLAN
etary system | do not know and do not
care | leave it to the Christian scientists
and the iuRdel scientists to settle that qups-
ton. wine ! tell you have seen the same
thing ''WhatT say You, mot tie sun
standing sti Il" Yes. The same miracle is
performed nowadays. The wicked do not
I'VE out hall their day. aud the sun sets at
noon. tut ie- AMMAN start out in hattie or
God and truth and against sir, and the day
OF his usefulness is prolonged and prolonged
and prolonged.
But it is time for Joshua to go home
He is 10 years old Washington went
down the Potomac. and at Mount Vernon
closed his days. wellington di peace
FULLY at Apsey House Now. where shall
Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his great
est battle now. Alter a hundred and ten
years he has TO meet king who has more
subjects an all the present population ot
the EARTH his throne pyramid OF skulls
his parter.e the grave yards and the GENE
| teries o the world, his chariot the worlds
hearse the King of Terrors But il this is
dushua's battle. it is going to he Joshua's
greatest victory. He gathers his friends
around him ami gives his yaltdictory. ard
il is tn reminiscenee. Young men tell
what they are going to do; old men tell
what they have done. And as you have
heard Il gr4ndather or great grand ather
seated by the evening fire. tell o. Monmouth
or yorktown. and then lit the cruteh or
sta as though it were musket TO fight
and show how the old battles were won, SO
Joshua gathers his friends around his dy-
ing couch, and he tells them the story Of
what he has been through. and as he lies
these. his white locks showing down on his
wrinkled forehead, | wonder if God has
kent his promises all the way through.
As he lies there he tells the story one two
or three times-you have heard old people
tell a story two or three times overland he
not worl OF the promise has failed,
not one word thereof has Jailed; all has
come to- pass not one word thereof has
allied" And then he turns to his family,
as a dying parent will, and says: Choose
W whom you will serve. the God OF Israel
or the God of tse Amorites As Tor me and
my house We will serve the Lord" A dying
parent cannot be reckless thoughtless in
REGARD tt his children. Consent to part with
them forever at the door of the tomb we
cannot. BY the cradle in which their in
lancy WAS rocked. by the bosom on which
they first lay, by the blood of the covenant.
by the God of Joshua it shall not be- We
will not part, we cannot part. Jehovah
Jifeh. We take thee at thy promise II
will I've God to thee and thy seed after
thee"
Dead. the old ehieftain must be laid ont.
Hand e HIM very gently; that sacred body
is over a hundred and ten years OF age. Law
him out. stretch out those leet that walked
dry-shod the parted Jordan. Close those
lips which helped blow the bla at which the
walls o Jericho tell. Fold the arm that
ted the spear toward the doomed city
Al Fold il rig it oyer the heart that exuIted
when the ave kings ell. But where shall we
get the furnished granite for the headstone
and the iootstone? | bethink inysell II " /
image that Tor the head it shall he the suu
that stood still upon Gheon and for the
loot the moon that stood still in the valley
OF Ajaion.
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