Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-25

able to stand before 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 Infdelity. Let
them be beheaded and hurl them in. Then
fasten up the door forever. What shall the
inscription and what shall the epitaph bei
for all Christian philsnthropists of all
ages are going to come and look at it,.
What shall the inscription beS 'There
shall not any man he able to stand before
thee all the days of thy life"
TIME FOR JOSHUA TO co HOME.
But it is time for Joshua to 90 home.
He is 40 years old. Washington went
down the Potomac, and at Mount Yer
non closed his days. Wellington died
peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where
shall Joshua rest' Why, he is TO have
his greatest battle now. After hun
dred and ten years he has TO meet a
king who has more subjects than all the
present population of the earth, his throne
pyramid of skulls, his parterre the grave
yards and the cemeteries of the world, his
chariot the worlds hearse-the King of
Terrors But il this is Joshua's greatest
battle, it is going 70 be Joshua's greatest
victory He gathers his friends around
him aud gives his valedictory, and it is
fun of Renaissance. Young men tell
what they are going to do; old men tell
what they have done And as you have
heard grandfather or great grandfather,
seated by the evening fire, tell of Mon
mouth or Yorktown, and then lift the
crutch or staff as though it were musket,
to fight and show how the old 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 wrinkled 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 a story two or three times over
and he answers: II 20 the way of all the
earth and 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 dying parent will and says: Choose
now whom you will serve, the God of Is
rae, or the God Of the Amorites As for
me and my house we will serve the Lord. I"
A dying parent cannot be reckless or
thoughtless in regard to his children.
Consent to part with them forever at
the door Of the tomb we cannot. BY
the cradle in which their infancy 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. Je-
hovah Jireh, we take thee at thy promise.
Il will be Godto thee and thy seed after
thee"
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
out. Handle him very gently; that sacred
body is over hundred and ten years Of age.
Lay him out, stretch out those feet that
walked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close
those lips which helped blow the blast at
which the walls OF Jericho fell. Fold the
arm that lifted the spear toward the
doomed city of Al Fold it right over the
heart that exulted when the five kings
fell But where shall we get the FURNISHED
granite for the headstone and the foot
stone? bethink myself now. Imagine
that for the head it shall be the sun that
stood still upon Gideon, and for the foot
the moon that stood still in the valley Of
AialOn