Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-12-22

cause could produce such an effect.
And suppose that night in the encamp-
ment there was plenty Of philosophy
aud caricature, and il Joshua had been
nominated for any high military posi-
ton, he would not have not got many
votes.
JOSHUA TRIUMPHS.
JOShua'S stock was down. The Sec
Ond day, the priests blowing the musical
instruments go around the city, and
failure. Third day, and a failure.
fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and
a failure; sixth day, and failure. The
seventh day comes, the climateric day.
Joshua is up early in the morning and
examines the troops, walks all around
about, looks ut the city wall. The
priests 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
failure.
There is only one more thing TO do,
and that is TO utter great shout. |
see the ISraelitSh army Strengthening
themselves up, filling their lungs for u
vocileration such as was never heard
before and never heard after. Joshua
feels that the shOur has come, and he
cries out TO his host: "Shout, for the
Lord hath given you the city" All the
people begin 10 cry: Down, Jericho,
down Jericho and the long line OF
solid masonry begins TO culver, and 10
move, and 70 rock. Stand from under
She falls Crash. go the walls. the
the temples, the towers, the palaces; the
air blacbeucd with the dust. The huLza
of the victorious lSraeliteS and the groan
of the conquered CanaGniteS commingle,
ard Joshua standing there in the debris
of the wall, hears a voice saying: There
shall not any man be able TO stand be-
fore 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 had been conspicuous
for her crimes. 1t is the house OF IA
hab. Why was her house spared? Be
cause she had been great sinner? No,
but because she repented, demonStrat-
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 il was the
divine indication they should not dis
turb the premises: making Us think OF
the divine cord of Savior's deliver
ance, the red cord of a Savior'S kind
ness, the red cord of SayiOr'S mercy,
the red cord OF our rescue. Mercy for
| the chief OF sinners. Put your trust in
| that God, and no damage shall beiall
YOU. When our world shall be more
terribly surrounded than was Jericho.
even by the trumpctS Of the Judgment
ldav. and the hills and the mountains.
/ the metal bones and ribs of nature,
shall break, they who have hal Ra-
hab's faith shall have Rahab'S deliver
ance.
when wrapt in e. the realms OF ether glow.
| And Heavens last thunder shakes the earth be
Thou undismayed shalt DER the ruins smile,
And light thy torch 20 Natures funeral pile
JosmUA'S GREATEST VICTORY.
But it Is time for Joshua to 90 home.
He is . hundred and ten years old.
Washington went down the Potomac
and AZ Mount Vernon closed his days.
Wellington died peacefully at Apsley
House. Now. where shall Joshua rest?
Why, he is TO have his greatest battle
now. After hundred and ten years
he has 10 meet 4 king, who has more
subjects than all the present population
Of the earth. his throne 4 pyramid OF
skulls, his parterre the graveyardS and
cemeteries of the world, his chariot the
worlds hearse-the King of TerrorS.
But il this is JoShua's greatest battle,
il is going to be JoShua's greatest vic
tory. lie gathers his friends around
him and gives his valedictory and il
is full of Renaissance. Young
men tell what they are going t
do: old men tell what they have
done. And as you have heard ;
grandfather, or great-grandlather
seated by the evening fire, tell of Mon
mouth or Yorktown, and then lift the
crutch or staff rs though it were
musket. to fight, and show how the ole
battles were wOn-SO Joshua gathers hi
friends around his dying couch, and he
tells them the story of what he has beer
through, and as he lies there, his white
locks showing down on his wrinkle(
forehead. | wonder if God has kept hi
promise all the way through. As h
lies there he tells the story one, two, o
three times-you have heard old peOpl
tell a story two or three times over
and he answers: Il go the way OF al
the earth, and not one word OF tn
promise has failed, not one wore
thereof has failed; all has com
to pass. not one word there
of has failed" And then he turns L
his family. rs dying parent will, ant
4 says: CHOOSE now whom you will serve
the God of Israel, or the God of tn
AmoriteS. As for me and my house
we will serve the Lord" a dyini
parent can not be reckless or thought
G less in regard to his children. ConSen
a to part with them forever at the door o
1 the tomb we cannot. BY the cradle il
which their infancy was rocked, b.
the bosom on which they first lay, b.
> the blood of the covenant, by the God o
, Joshua, it shall not be. We will no
! part, we cannot part. Jehovah Jireh
+ we take thee ut thy promise. =
/ will be a God to thee and thy seed afte
thee"
Dead. the old chieftain must be lai'
out Handle him very gently, tina
sacred body is over Il hundred and tel
years of age. Lay him out, stretch on
those feet that walked dry shod The
parted Jordan. Close those lips which
helped blow the blast at which the wall
OF Jericho fell Fold the arm that lift
ed the spear toward the doomed city o
Al. Fold it right over the heart tina
exulted when the i've kings fell. Blu
where shall we get the FURNISHED gran
tie for the headstone and the fOotStone'
| bethink myself now, | imagine tina
for the head il shall be the sun tina
stood still upon Gideon, and for th'
foot, the moon that stood still in The
valley of Aiaion.
PARSELL'S GRANDMOTHER.
The Wife of Commodore Stewart was
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