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

a long grove of trees. nnd at tie end Of
the GROVE Is a city. Itfen city Of arbors,
a city with walls sa5ing to reach TO
the heavens, 10 butiFis the very sky.
II Is the great metropClis THAT com
mands the mountain raes IL . Jericho
That city was aft<feard captured by
Pompcy, and It vae tterward captured
by Herod the Great, and IL
was afterward captured by
the Mohammcdaps, but this
campaign the Lord plan. There shall
be no swords. no sl.iclds, no battering
ram. There shall be only one weapon
of war, and that q rams horn. The
horn of the slain ram was sometimes
taken and holes As<e punctured in
Il. and then the musieian would put the
instrument 70 his lips md he would run
his fingers over this rpdt musical instru-
ment and mako a greet deal Of sweet
harmony for the ps7pls That was the
only Kind 81 wc1{pn Seven priests
were TO take these rude rustic, musical
Instruments, and they we're to 20 around
the city every day for * days-once
day Tor. SIX days, ~ saen ON the sew
enth day they wervfo 70 around blow
ine theea rnie m11sicai Instruments
seven times. and then at the close Of the
seventh blowing q the rams horns on
the seventh day the proration of the
whole scene was - he shout, at which
those great wal = should tumble from
Aeapsis, ne ) basel
The eeven lji -. ~ !. - tsso s-sss.a slass-
steal instrument pass all around the
city walls on the first day, and a fail
ure. Not so much as piece of plaster
broke loose from the wall-not so much
as a loosened rock, not so much as piece
OF mortar lost from its place. There"
say the uHbelisviHg Is-sel;tcs, didn't I"
/ tell you so? Why, those ministers
are fools, The idea Of going around the
city with those musical instruments and
expecting in that way TO destroy i'll
Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks be-
cause he has overthrown and destroyed
the spring freshet he can overthrow the
stone wall Why, il is not philosophic.
Don't You see there is no relation be-
tween the blowing of these musical in
struments and the knocking down OF
/ the wall. 1t isn't philosophy" And
suppose there were many wiseacres who
stood with their brows knitted, and
with the forefnger of the right hand to
the forefnger Of the left hand, and
showing that II was not possible that
such cause could produce such an eff
feet. And suppose that night in the
encampment there was plenty of phi
losophy and caricature, and II Joshua
had been nominated for any high mill
tary position he would not have got
many votes Joshua's stock was down.
The second day the priests blowing
the musical instruments go around the
city, and failure. Third day, and 9
failure; fourth day. and a failure; fifth
day, and a failure; sixth day
and failure. The seventh day
comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is
up early in the morning and examines
the troops, walks all around about
looks at the city wall The priests star
to make the circuit of the city. They
90 all around once, all around twice
three times, four times, five, six times
seven times, and failure.
There is only one more thing 70 do
and that is to utter a great shout. i SEE
the Israelitish army Strengthening them
selves up, filing their lungs for a vocff
Grafton such as was never heard before
and never heard after. Joshua feels
that the hour has come, and he cries ou
5000 Iunkout; for the Lord haiti
A l.. I.