Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1890-12-27


path all the way to Canaan. To go ,
back is to die. The same gatekeepers
thak swing back the amethystine and I
cryyk Lline gate OF the Jordan to let 1
Israel pass through now swing shut tho
aInethystine and crystalline gate.
But this is no place for the host to
stop. Joshua gives the command,
Forward, marchr' In the distance
there is long grove of trees and at
the end of the grove Is a city. 1t Is q
city of arbors, a city with walls seem
ing to reach to the heaven, to buttress
the very sky. 1t Is the great metrop-
oils that commands the mountain pass
1t is Jericho. That city was afterward
captured by Pompey, and it was after
ward captured by Herod the Great, and
It was afterward captured by the Mo
hammedans; but this campaign the
Lord plans There shall be no swords,
no shields. no battering ram. There
shall be only one weapon of war, and
that a rams horn. The horn OF the |
slain ram was sometimes taken and |
holes were punctured in 1t, and then
the musician would put the instrument |
to his lips, and ne would run his fingers
over this rude musical instrument and
make a great deal of sweet harmony
for the people. That was the only kind
of weapon. Seven priests were to take
these rude rustic musical instruments,
and they were TO go around the city
every day for six days--once a day for
six days and then on the seventh day
they were to go around blowing these
rude musical instruments seven times
and then at the close of the seventh
: blowing of the rams horns on the sew
enth day the peroration of the whole
, scene was 70 be- a shout at which those
I great walls should tumble from cap
stone to base.
, THE FIRST DAY FAILURE.
Q The seven priests with the rude musi-
= cal instruments pass all around the city
Q walls on the first day, and failure.
d Not so much as a piece of plaster broke
d loose from the wall; not so much as q
II loosened rock, not so much as piece
of mortar lost from its place. There,
say the unbelieving Israelites, didn't
J. tell you sol Why, those ministers are
10 fools. The idea of going around the
" city with those musical instrument
IA Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks be
ID cause he has overthrown and destroyed
CO the spring freshet he can overthrow tn
ne stone wall. Why, it is not philosophic
NO Don't you see there is no relation be
1i- tween the blowing of these musical in
ed struments and the knocking down c
q the WALTZ 1t isn't philosophy" And
ed suppose there were many wiseacrt
70. who stood with their bnsws knitte<
nv and with the foretinger Of the rigf
tin hand to the forefnger of the left hanC
ht- arguing it all out and showing it Wa
rht not possible that such cause coul
cd produce such an effect. And SUI
.rv pose that night In the encampmeI
i'm there was plenty of philosophy ar
,aII caricature, and if Joshua had be'
ore nominated for any high military POI
fuI- ton he would not have got maj
la's votes.
let. Joshua's stock was down. The 81
and ond day the priests blowing the mu
of cal instruments so around klae ca
tile and a failure. Third day, and ia
and ure; fourth day, and a failure; I'll
the dav. and a failure; sixth day, and
,ath failure. The seventh day comes,
clinacteric day joshua is up early
eraI the morning and examines the troo
he walks all around about, looks at
4 or city wall. The priests start to ms
ND the circuit of the city. They go
hem around once. all around twice, tn
this times, four times, hve times, slx TIN
eater seven times, and a failure.
|, or SHOUT, FOR TEK LORD HATH CIV
II, or YOU THE CITY,
was There is only one more thing to
time and that is to utter great shout /
rs of the Israelitish army strengthening tn
ting, selves up, filing their lungs for g
alley, alteration such as was never heard
? tor fore and never heard after. JOS
one feels that the hour has come, and
! see cries out to his host: 'Shout. for
they Lord hath given you the cityr All
can people begin to cry, Down, Jeri'
fresh down. Jerichor' and the long Lin
IN to solid masonry begins to culver an
look move and to rock. Stand from I'm
move She fallsl Crashl go the walls,
y say: temples, the towers, the palaces;
there air blackened with the dust
roops, huzza of the victorious Israelites
.rhaps the groan of the conquered Canaa
across commingle. and Joshua, standing
latic." in the debris of the wall, hears a
at his saying, There shall not any ma
archi" able to stand before thee all the
Of the of thy life"
Only one house spared. Who
II. therei Some great king7 No.
carry woman distinguished for her
ag and kindly deedsG No. She had
of the conspicuous for her crimes. 1t
n, and house of Rahab. Why was her
of the sparedi Because she had been
an al sinnerG No. but because she repe
army denonc'- ing TO AL the ages that
without IL mercy for the chief Of sinners.