The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-12-27

start to make the circuit of the city.
They 90 all around once. all around
twice, three times, four times, five
times. six times. seven times, and a fail
ure.
There is only one more thing to do,
and that is to utter II great shout.
Joshua feels that the hour has come,
and he cried out to his host: shout!
for the Lord hath given you the city,
All the people began to cry: down,
Jericho, down Jericho and the long
line of solid masonry began to culver
and to move and to rock. Stand from
under! She falls! Crash, go the walls,
the temples, the towers, the palaces; the
air blackened with the dust. The huzza
of the victorious Israelites n the
groan of the conquered C~anaanites COM
mingle, and Joshua. standing there in the
debris of the wall, hears Il voice saying:
There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thy
life"
Only one house spared. Who lives
there? Some great King? No. Some
woman distinguished for great kindly
deeds? No. She bad been conspicuous
for her crimes. 1t is the house of
Rahab. Why was her house sparedP
Because she had been II great sinner
No, because she repented, demonstrate
ing to all the ages that there is mercy
for the chief of sinners.
The red cord of Divine injunction
reaching from her window to the ground,
so that when the people saw that red
cord they knew it was the divine indica-
ton that they should not disturb the
premises: making us think of the divine
cord of a Saviour's deliverance, the red
cord of u Saviour's kindness, the red
cord of a Saviour's mercy, the red cord
of our rescue. Mercy for the chief of
sinners. Put your trust in that God and
no damage shall befall you. When our
world shall he more terribly surrounded
than was Jericho, even by the trumpets
Of the Judgment day, and the hills and
the mountains. the metal bones and 1 bs
of nature, sh.ll break. they who have
had Rahab's faith shall have Rahab's
deliverance.
But Joshua's troops may not halt
here. The command is: Forward,
march, There is the city of Al; it must
be taken? A scouting party comes back
ana Saws. JOSllllu. VIC call w IIldO II
out You; it is going to be Il very easy
Job; you just stay here while we go and
capture it." They march with a small
regiment in front of that city. The men
of All look at them ana give one yell,
and the GsraeliteS run like reindeer.
Anybody that goes out in the battles of
God with only half a force, instead of
your taking the men of Al the men OF
All will take you. Look at the Church
of God on the retreat. The Bornesian
cannibals ate mp Munson, the mission
ary. Fall backi'' said Il great many
Christian p~eople-"Fall back, o, Church
of God! Borneo will never be taken.
Don't you see the Bornesian cannibals
nave eaten up Munson, the missionary??'
Tyndall delivers his lecture at the Uni.
versity of Glasgow and IA great many
good people say: Fall back, o, Church
of God! Don't you see that Christian
philosophy is going to be overcome by
worldly philosophy? Fall back"
Geology plunges the crowbar into the
mountains. and there are a great many
people say: Scientific investigation is
going to overthrow the Mosaic account
OF the creation. Fall back!' Friends
of the church awe never had any right
total back. Joshua falls on his face
stszn chagrin. 1t is the only time o see
the back of his head. He falls on his
face and& begins to whine, and he says
20, Eord God, wherefore hast Thou a
an brought this people over Jordan t.
deliver us into the hand of the Amorite!
to destroy us? Would to God we hat
- - -,I lpvAA ~. Tho 1Ahn,
side of the Jordan! For the Canaanitei
and all the inhabitants of the land shall
hear of it, and shall environ us rount
and cut off our names from the earth.
| am very glad Joshua said that. Be
Fore it seemed as If he were q super
natural being, and therefore could no
be an example to us: but | find he is
man, he is only Il a Just rs some
times you find u man under severe OPP
position, or in a bad state of physica
health, or worn out with overwork, ly
ing down and signing about every thing
being defeated.
God comes and rouses him. How doe
He rouse him? BY complimentary apps
trophe? No. He says: Get thee up
Wherefore lest thou upon thy face?'
llC cil ~ PAS NiiS Ivy
of the troops behind n ledge of rocks in
the night, and then lie sends compare
lively small regiments up in front of tn,
city. The men of Al come III with
shout. The small regiments of Israel
ties in stratagem fall back and fal
back, and when all the men of Al hav,
left the city and are in pursuit of these
scattered or seemingly scattered regt
ments, Joshua stands on a rock.
The men rush s~out6frQm behind the
rocks and tala< "a it is put te
Itf1z.<.1 Israelites in
fhe flying reg
s= 33ttrn, and he
4Fo waves of Israelitisf
Et>xess the men of Al are destroyed
and the Israelites gain the victory.
But this is no place for the host o:
Joshua to stop. Forward, march,
cries Joshua TO the troops. There is the
city Of Gideon. 1t has put itself undel
the protection of Joshua. They SEM
word, There are five Kings after us
they are going to destroy us; send troops
quick; send us help right away" Joshuf
has a three days march more thai
double quick. On the morning of tht
third day he is before the enemy. There
are two long lines of battle. The bat
tie opens with great slaughter, but tn,
kaanites soon discover something
5They say: THAT is Joshua; that is tn,
man who conquered the spring freshe
and knocked down the stone wall anC
destroyed the city of All. Their,
is no use fighting" And the.
, sound n retreat, and as they We
gin to retreat, Joshua and his hos
spring upon them like a panther, pur
suing them over the rocks, and as thes'
! Canaanites with sprained ankles an,
gashed foreheads retreat the catapult
, of the sky pour u golley of hailstone
into the valley and all the artillery o
!, the heavens with bullets of iron poun'
the C%anaanites against the lodges o
: Beth-horon.
7 H0pa says Joshua, this is surely
!, victory" But do you not see the SUI
is going down? Those Amorites are &c
ing to get away after all, and then the,
will come up some other time ant
bother us and perhaps destroy us
See, the sun is going down. Oh, for
longer day than has ever been seen il
this climate! Has he fallen in Il apo
pletic fit? No; he is in prayer. Lool
opt-when Il good MAJ makes the Lor
his ally.
Joshua raised his face, radiant wit
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