The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-26

into the valley and all the artillery of
the heavens with bullets OF iron pound
the Canaanites against the lodges of
Beth-horOn-
''OI' says Joshua, this is surely =
victory" ''But do You not see the sun
is going down? Those AmOrites are GO
ing to get away after all, and then they
viii come up some other time and
bother us and perhaps destroy u.s.
See, the sun is going down Oh, for a
longer day than has ever been seen in
this climatel Has he fallen in apo
pletic ftp No; he Is in prayer Look
out when a good man makes the Lord
his ally.
Joshua raised his face, radiant with
prayer, and looks at the descending sun
over Gideon and at the faint crescent of
the moon Pointing one hand at the
descending 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 cried: ''Sun,
stand thou still upon Gideon; and thou,
moon, in the valley of Ajeion." They
halted Whether it was by refractiOn
of the suns rays or by the stopping of
/ the whole planetary system l do not
know and do not care I leave it TO the
/ Christian scientists and the infidei
scientists to settle that question, while
I tell you I have seen the same thing.
What" say you, mot the sun stand
formed nowadays. The wicked do not
/ live out half their day and the sun sets
! at noon But let man start out for
God and the truth and against sin and
/ the day of his usefulness is prolonged
and prolonged and prolonged
Robert McCheyne was . consumptive
i Presbyterian. It was said when he
preached, he cOughed SO it seemed as
/ if he would never preach again His
name is fragrant in all Christendom,
| that name mightier to-day than was
/ ever his living presence. He lived to
/ preach the Gospel in A berEleen, Edin-
burg and Dundee, but he went away
very early. He preached himself into
/ the grave. Has Robert McCheyne's sun
| set? Is Robert McCheyne's day endedP
/ o, no! His dying delirium was filed
with prayer, and when he lifted his
hand to pronounce the benediction upon
his family, and the benediction upon
his country, he seemed to say; 81 can
! not die now; 1 want to live on and on
1 want to start an influence for the
Church that will never cease. am
only 80 years of age. Sun of my Chris
tian ministry, stand still over Scotland"
| And it stood still
A long time ago there was a Christian
woman very consecrated, and she had
drunken husband, and SO on came the
night OF domestic trouble. She lost her
| children, and there came the night of
bereavement. She was very i'll, and
there came the night of sickness. Her
! soul departed, and there came the night
of death. But all these nights of
| trouble, and darkness, and sorrow, and
sickness were illumuined by the grace of
the Gospel; and people came many
miles to see how cheerfuily a Christian
| could die. The moon that nlumined
that night of trouble reflection
from the sun of righteousness. In
the last hour of that night-that night
of darkness and sickness and misfor-
tune, as she lifted her hand toward
| Heaven, those who stood nearest her
/ pillow could hear the whisper-for she
| wanted to live on in the generations
that We're to follow, consecrated to Cod
| she wanted to have an influence long
/ after she had entered upon her eternal
| reward, and while her hand was lifted
and her lips We're moving, those who
stood nearest her pillow could hear her
| say: Thou moon, stand still in the
valley of AjaIon-"
But Joshua was not quite through.
There was time for five funerals before
| the sun of that prolonged day set Who
will preach their funeral sermon?. Mas
sillOn preached the funeral sermon
over Louis XVI. Who will preach the
funeral sermon of those five dead
Kings-King of Jerusalem, King of
Hebron, King of Jarmuth, King of
I.achish, King of Eglon? Let it be
Joshua. What ia his text? There
shall not any man b. able to stand be-
fore thee all the DAYS of thy life
But before you fasten up the door
want five more Kings beheaded and
thrust in: King Alcohol, King Fraud,
King Lust, King Superstition, King In
fidelity. Then fasten up the door for
ever. What shall the inscription and
what shall the epitaph be? For all
Christian philanthroPists of all ages are
] -. Of hot
shall the inscription be? There shall
not any man be able to stand before
thee all the days of thy life"
But it is time for Joshua to go home.
He is 40 years old Washington went
down the Potomac and at Mount Vernon
closed his days. Wellington died peace
fully at Apsley House. Now, where
shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have
his greatest battle now. After 10 years
he has met king who has more sub
) jects than all the present population of
the earth, his throne a pyramid of
l skulls, his parterre the g-raveyards and
cemeteries of the world, his chariot the
worlds hearse-the king of terrors.
But if this is Joshua's greatest
: battle it is going to be Josh
! ua's greatest victory He gathers
his friends around him and
gives his valedictOry, and it is fun OF
"Reminiscences. Young men tell what
: they are going to do; old men tell what
they have done And as you have heard
4 grandfather or great grandfather,
seated by the evening fire, tell of Mon
mouth or Yorktown, and they lift the
crutch staff as though it were mus
Bet, to fight and show how the old
l battles were won-so Joshua gathers
his friends around his dying couch, and
; he tells them the story of what he has
been through, and as he lies there, his
white locks showing down on his
wrinlxled forehead, wonder if God has
kept his promise all the way through
AS he lies there he tells the story one,
two or three times-you have heard old
people tell story two three times
overland he answers: II 20
the way of all the earth, and
l not one word of the promise has
failed, not one word thereof has failed
all has come TO pass, not one word
! thereof has failed" And then he turns
to his family, as a dying parent VIII,