Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-22

ID the only time you ever see the Dach Oh
his read. He falls on his face and be-
gins to whine, and he says: "Oh, Lord
God, wherefore hast thou at all brought
this people over Jordan to deliver us into
the hand of the Amorites, to destroy US!
Would to God we had been content and
dwelt on the other side of Jordan. kor
the Canaanites and all the inhabitants OF
the land shall hear of it, and shall en-
virou III round and cut of our name
from the EARTH
l am very glad Joshua said that. Be-
fore ,. it seemed as if he were a super
natural being, and therefore could not
be an example to US; but l find he is
a man, he is only a man. Just as some
times you find a man under severe OPP
position, or in . bad state of physical
health, or worn out with overwork,
lying down, and signing about every
thing being defeated. am encouraged
when hear this cry of Joshua as he lies
in the dust.
GOD AM ROuSEs HIM.
How does he rouse him? By compli-
mentary apostrophe? No. He says:
''Get thee up. Wherefore lest thou
upon thy face?' Joshua rises. and l
warrant you with a mortified look. Bur
his old courage comes back. The fact
was, that was not his battle. If he had
been i'll it he would have gone on to vic
tory. He gathers his troops around hin
and says: "Now, let US go up and
capture the city of All; let us go up
right away
They march on. He puts the major
ity OF the troops behind a ledge OF rocks
in the night, and then he sends COM
no ra tivaIv wall rarirna nss ~ IN front of
the city. The men of Al come out with
q shout. The mall regiments of Israel
ties i'll stretagem fall back and fall back,
and when ell the men of All nave left
the city aud are in pursuit of
these scattered. or seemingly scattered
regiments, Josku stands on a rock
l see his locks fying in the wind as he
points HE spear towards the doomed city,
and that is the signal. The men rush
out from behind the rocks and take the
city and it is put to the torch, and these
Israelites IN the city march down and
the flying regiments of Israelites return,
aud between these two waves of Israeli
t!sh prowess the men of Al are destroyed
and the lsraeiites gain the victory; and
while | see the curling smoke of that de-
stroyed city on the sky, and while hear
the huZza of the 1sraalites aud the groan
of the Canaan ties, Joshua hears some-
thing louder tina it all, ringing II
echoing through his soul: ''There shall
not any man be able to stan before thee
all the days of thy life.'
"FORwARD, MARCH,
But this Is no place for the host of
Joshua to stop. forward, march!'
cries Joshus to the troops. There is the
city of Gideon. 1t has put itself under
the protection of Joshua. They send
word: "There are five kings after US;
they are going to destroy US; send troops
quick; send us help right away
Joshua has a three days march more
than double quick. On the morning of
the third day he is before the
enemy. There are two long lines of bat
tie. The battle opens with great slaugh-
ter. but the Canaanites soon discover
something. They say: ''That is Joshua;
that is the man who conquered the spring
freshet n knocked down the stone wall
and destroyed the city of Al. There is
no use fghting.' And they sound a re-
treat, and as they begin to retreat
Joshua II his host spring upon them
like a panther, pursuing them over the
rocks, and as these ~Canaanites, with
sprained ankles and gashed foreheads,
retreat the c%atapults of the sky pour u
voiley of hailstones into the valley, and
all the artillery of heaven, with bullets of
iron, pound the Cenaanites against the
ledges of Beth-horon.
COMP says Joshua, ''this 10 surely a
victory.' ''But do you not see the sun
is going down? Those Amorites are go
ing to get away after all, and then they
will 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 climate,
What is the matter with Joshua?
Has he fallen into an apoplecgic
fit? No. He is in prayer. Look
out when a good man makes the Lord his
ally. Joshua raises his face,
RADIANT WITH PRAYER,
and looks at the descending sun over
Gideon M at the faint crescent of the
moon, for you know the queen of the
night sometimes will linger around the
palaces of the day. Pointing one hand
at the descending sun u the other hand
at the faint crescent of the moon, In the
name of that God who shaped the worlds
and moves the worlds, he cries: "Sun,
h still upon Gibeon; and thou
moon N the valley of Ajalon.' They
Whether it was by refraction of
the SUMS rays, or by the stopping of the
whole planetary system, l do not know,
and do not care. l cave it to the Chris
tian scientists Il the infidel scientists to
settle that question, while L tell you I
seen the same thing. 'What!''
say you. mot the u standing still?''
Yes. The same miracle is performed
The wicked do not live out
half their day and the sun sets at noon.
But let a man start out in battle for God
and the truth, and against sin, and the
day of his usefulness is prolonged and
prolonged and prolonged.
John Summerield was a cousumptive
Methodist. He looked f%earfully white,
l am told, as he stood in old Sands street
church in Brooklyn, preaching Christ,
and when he stood on the anniversary
platform in New York pleading for the
until unusual and unknown glories |
rolled forth from that book. When he
was dying his pillow was brushed with
the wings of the angel from the skies,
the messenger that God sent down. Did
John Summertield' sun set? Did John
day end? Oh! no.. He
on in his burning utterances in