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

i am very glad Joshua said that BE-
1 fore II seemed as II he were a super
natural being, aud therefore could not
be an example to us; as sometimes you
find a man under severe opposition, or
] In a bad state of physical health, or.
worn out with overwork, lying down,
and signing about every thing being de-
feated. | am encouraged when hear
this cry Of Joshua as he lies in the dust
God comes and rouses him. How
does he rouse him? by complimentary
apostrophe? No. He says: Get thea
up. Wherefore Hest thou upon thy
face?" Joshua rises, and warrant
you with a mortified look. But his old
courage comes back. The fact was,
that was not his battle. 1.-The had been
in it he would have gone ON 20 vic
tory. r...
lie gathers his troops around him and
says: snow let us go mp and capture The
city Of All; let Us go up right away
They march on. lie puts the major
ity of the troops behind aledge ofrocl<s
in the night, and then he sends COM
paratively small regiments up In front
of the city. The men of All come out
with q shout. The small regiments of
| Israelites in stratagem fall back and fall
1 back. and when all the men OF All have
faft the eitg and are In pursuit Of these
scattered, or seemingly sciittefeu, rctyfN'
ments, Joshua stands on a rock-Isee his
locks flying in the wind rs he points his
spear toward the doomed city, and that
is the signal. The men rush out from
behind the rocks and take the city, and
Z. Z, put % the torch, and then these
Israelites in the city march down and
the flying regiments of Israelites re-
turn. and between these two waves OF
Israelitish prowess the men of All are
destroyed and the Israelites gain the
victory; and while I see the curling
smoke Of that destroyed city in the sky.
and while hear the huzza ofth Israel
ties and the groan of the Canaanites,
Joshua hears some thing louder than It
al ringing and echoing through his soul,
There shall not any man be able to
stand before Thee all the days of Thy
life"
} But this Is no place-for the host of
Joshua to stop. Forward, Inarchw
cries Joshua TO the troops. There Is the
city of Gideon. IL has put itself under
the protection of Joshua. ....,, ...
They sent word; "There are five
! Kings after us; they are going TO de-
stroy us; send troops quick; send us
help right away" Joshua had 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 battle. The battle opens with
! great slaughter but the Canaanites soon
, discovered something. They say: That
2 is Joshua; that is the man who con-
5 auered the spring freshet, and knocked
5 down the stone wall and destroyed the
city of Al. There is no use fighting"
I And they sound a retreat, and as they
began TO retreat Joshua and his host
, spring upon them like a panther, pur-
, suing them over the rocks, and as these
Canaanites, with sprained ankles and
, rashed foreheads, retreat, the eatapults
g of the sky pour voley of hail-stones
: into the valley, and all the artillery of
: the heavens with bullets Of iron pound
, the Canaanites against the lodges OF
Beth-horon.
''Oh!' says Joshua, shat is surely a
1 victory" "But do you not see the sun
: going down? Those Amorites are going
Llto get away after all, and then they viii
sAne up sonseaother time and bother us,
4 and perhaps destroy u.s." Sec, the sun
!! is going down. oh, for longer day
e than has ever been seen in this climate!
4 What is the matter with Joshua? Has
, he fallen in an apoplectic fit? No He
e is In prayer. Look ont when a good
! man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua
I RAISES his face. radiaslt-with PRAYER, and
? 1 4 4 &,
and at the faint crescent of the moon,
for you know the queen of the night some
: times will linger around the palacesofthe
r day. Pointing one hand at the descend
ing sun and 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, stand
thou still upon Gibeon. and thou moon,
in the valley of Ajalon." They halt
cd.
Whether it was by refraction OF the
: suns rays, or by the stopping Of the
whole planetary system, do not know,
and I do not care. leave IL 10 the
Christian scientists and the intidel sci
: entists TO settle that question, while l
4 tell Won / have seen the same thing.
, WHAT" say you, mot the sun stand
4 ing stilI?" Yes. The same miracle is
uerformed nowadays. The wicked do
: not 1--we ont half their. day, and the sun
: sets at noon. But let man start in
I hattie for God and the truth, and
4 AGAINST sin. and the day Of his useful
4 ness is prolonged and prolonged and
e prolonged.
4 John Summerfield was consumptive
1 Methodist. He looked fearfully white,
: | a.n told. as he stood in old Sands.
street Church. in Brooklyn, preaching
!. Christ. and when he stood on the ami
" versary platform in New York plead
|. ing for the Bible until unusual and un-
v known glories rolled forth from that
n book. when ne was dying his pillow
a was brushed with the wings of the an
e gel from the skies, the messenger that
h God sent down. Did John Summerfeld's
t sun setq Did John Summerfeld's day
d end? Oh! no. He lives on in his burn
e ing utterances in behalf of the Christian
II Church.
s Robert McCheyne was consumptiVe
II Presbyterian 1t was said when he
Y preached he coughed SO IL seemed as II
t. he would never preach again. His
IF name Is fragrant in all Christendom
IF that name mightier to-day than wai
III ever his living presence He lived &c
Of preach the Gospel in Aberdeen, Edin
n burgh and Dundee, but he went away
y. very early. He preached himself int
s. the grave. Has Robert McCheyne's SUI
Of set? Is Robert McCheyne's day ended
n. Oh. MOI His dying delirum was fille'
is with prayer; and when he lifted hi
n hands To pronounce the benedictiol
upon his family, and the benedictiol
III upon his country, he seemed TO say; "
ny can not die now; | want TO live on an
ch ON. | want TO start an influence for tn
an church that win never cease. an
by only thirty years of age, sun OF m
ol- Christian ministry, stand over Scot
1T land" And 1t stood still.
20, Our welcome OF stranger depends
Oh upon the name be bears upon the Goa
OF he wears, oar farewell upon tho spirit
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