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

and He was going 10 keep it. ''There
shall not any man be able to stand be-
fore thee all the days of thy life.
But this is no place for the host &c
stop. Joshua gives the command
Forward march!'' In the distance
there is a long grove of trees, and at the
end of'the grove is a city. 1t is a city OF
arbors, q city with walls seeming to
reach TO the heaven, to buttress the very
sky. 1t is the great metropolis thai
commands the mountain pass. 1t ii
Jericho. That city was afterward cap
tured by Pompey, and it was afterward
captured by Herod the Great, and II
was afterward captured by the Moham-
medans; but this campaign the Lord
plans. There shall be no swords. nc
shields, no battering ram. There shall
be only one Weapon of war, and that
RAMS HORN.
The horn of the slain ram Vas some
times taken and holes were p%unctured in
1t, and then the musician would put the
instrument to his lips, and he would run
his fingers over this rude musical in
strument, and maxi 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 90 around
blowing these rude musical instruments
seven times. and then at the close OF the
seventh blowing of the rams horns on
the seventh day. the percration of the
whole scene was to be q shout 1T which
those great walls should tumble from
capsIone 20 base.
The seven priests with the rude mu-
steal Instrument pass all around the
city walls on the first day and n failure.
Not &c much Us a piece of plaster broke
loose from the well-not go much as a
looseusd rock. not so much az a piece of
mortar lost from its place. There, -
say the unbelieving Israelites, 'didn't
! tell you so: Why, those ministers are
fools! The idea of going around the
city with those musical instruments and
expecting ia that way to destroy it.
JOSHUA HAS BEEN SPOILED,
he thinks because he has overthrow and
destroyed the spring freshet he can
overthrow the stone wall. Why, it is
not philosophic. Don't you see there Is
no relation between the blowing of these
musical instruments and the knocking
down of the wall? 1t len Il philosophy
And / suppose there were man WISE
acres who stood with their brows knitted
and with the forefinger of the RICH hand
TO the forefinger of tue left hand, argu-
ing it all out, and showing it was not
possible that such IL cause could produce
such an effect. And / suppose that
night in the encampment there was
plenty OF philosophy and caricaturc, and
If Joshua had been nominated for any
high military position he would not have
got many votes.
JOshua's stock was down. The sec
ond day the priests blowing the musical
instruments 90 around the city, ~ q
failure. Third day, Il II failure;
fourth day. and a failure; fifth day, and
q failure sixth day, and a failure. The
seventh Cay comes, the climaeteric day.
Joshua is up early III the morning and
examines the troops, walks all around
about, looks ut the city wall. The
priests stnrt TO make the circuit of the
city. They 70 all around nee, all
rouud twice, three times, fou times,
Ave times. SIX times,
SEVEN TIMES, y a FAILURE.
There is only one more thing TO do,
and that is TO utter q great shout. l see
the Israelitlsh army Strengthening them
selves up, filling their lungs for a vocif-
GRAFTON such as was never heard before
and never heard after. Joshua feels
that the hour has come, and he cries out
to his host: "Shout, for the Lord hath
given you the oity,' All the people be-
gin to cry: down, Jericho, down
Jeriohoi'' and the long line of solid ma
sonry begins to culver and TO move and
- --t S,a.l F-Nr, ,rl Sha fol1,s
Crash, go the walls, the temples, the
towers, the palaces; the aic blacSeued
with the dust. The huzza of the victo-
rious Israeiites and the groan of the con-
quered Canaanites commingle, and
Joshua standing there in the debris of
the well, hears E. 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 king2 No. Some
woman distinguished for great kindly
deeds? No. She had been conspicuous
for her crimes. IL is The house of Raha0.
why was her house spared? Because
she had been u great sinner? No, but
because she repented, demonstrating tc
all the ages that there ia
MERCY FoR THE CHIEF OF SINNERS.
L lic LSNA N'A' Va - " ASLSh-
ing from her window to the ground, so
that when the people saw that red cord
they knew il was the divine indication
they should not disturb the premises;
making us think of the divine cord of a
Saviour's deliyerance, the red cord of a
Saviour's kindness, the red cord of a
Snviour's mercy, the red cord of our
rescue. Mercy for the chief of sinners.
Put your trust i'll that God, and no DAM
age shall befall you. When our world
shall be more terribly surrounded b q
Jericho, even by the trumpets Of the
day, and the hills and the
the metal bones and ribs of
shall break, they who have had
Rahab's faith shall have Rahab's de-
iiveranoe.
wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow,
Heavens last thunder shakes the earth
below:
undismsyed shalt Ger the ruins smile,
And light thy torch At natures funeral pile.
But Joshua g troops may not halt here.
The command is, FORWARD, maroh!'
There is the city of Al; it must be taken.
How shall il be taken? A scouting party
comes back Il says: Joshua, We can do
that without you; it is going to be q very
easy job; you just stay here while we go
and capture it, They march with a
regiment in front of that city. The
men of Al look at them and give one
rell, and the israelites run like reindeer,