The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1890-12-26

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had Just been melting anu & ---;ps tn,
down into the valley, and the whole val
ley was raging torrent SO the Ca
naanites stand on one bank and they
look across and see Joshua and the Is
raelites, and they laugh and say: "Ahal
aha. they CIT net 1a::-.-- ::s y: tss.e-
until the freshets fall, il is impossible
for them to reach us. But after a
while they look across the water and
they see a movement in the army of
Joshua They say. Whats the matter
now? Why there must be q panic
among these troops, and they are going
20 fly, or perhaps they are going to try
60 march across the river Jordan.
Joshua is a lunatic" But Joshua, the
rhieftain, looks at his army and cries:
Forward march, and they start for
the banks of the Jordan.
One mile ahead go two priests carry
ing glittering box four feet long and
two feet wide II is the ark of the
covenant And they come down, and
mo sooner do they just touch the rim of
the water with their feet than by an
almighty fat Jordan parts. Tho army
of Joshua marches right on without
getting their feet wet over the bottom
of the river, path Of chalk and broken
shells and pebbles, until they get to the
other bank Then they lay hold of the
oleanders and tamarisks and willows
and pull themselves up a bank thirty
or forty feet high, and having gained
the other bank, they clap their shields
Al !. Il. 81, .tg.ag
of the God Of Joshua. But no sooner
have they reached the bank than the
waters begin 10 dash and roar, and with
a terrific rush they break loose from
their strange anchorage. Out youdcr
they have stopped, thirty miles OF dis
lance they halted. On this side the wa
ters roll OF toward the salt STA. But as
the hand of the Lord God Is taken
away from the thus uplifted waters
waters perhaps uplifted half mile
as the Almighty hand is taken away,
those waters rush down, and some of
the unbelcving Israelites say Alas,
alas, what misfortune! Why
could not those waters have stayed
| parted? Because perhaps we may want
| TO 60 back. O, Lord, we are engaged
| in a risky business. Those Canaanite'
may eat us up How il we want TO g
back? Would II not have been mor'
complete miracle If the Lord had parte'
the waters 10 let ms come through, an'
kept them open To let ms go back If W.
are defeated" My friends, God makei
no provisions for Christians retreat
lie .leals the path all the way Z
Car dan To 60 back is 10 die. Tn
same gatckeepers that swing back tn
amethystine and crystalline gate of tn
Jordan TO let Israel pass through nov
swing shut the amethystine and crystal
line gate of the Jordan to keep tn
Israclites from going back, ] declar
Il in Your hearing to-day, victory aheac
water thirty feet deep in the reai
Triumph ahead Canaan ahead; benin
YOU death and darkness and woe an
hell. But you say: why didn't thos
Canuanites, when they had such spleI
did chance--standing on the top OF N
bank thirty or forty feet high con
pletely demolish those poor lsraelitt
down In the river?" will tell yo
why. God had made a promise, and II
was going 10 keep It, 'Thefe shall nj
any man be able 10 stand before the
all tho days 81 thy life
But this Is no place for the host
stop. Josliua gives the command, "Fo
ward, mar Oh" In the distance there