The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1890-12-26

sound a retreat, and a. they begin 10
retreat Joshua and his host spring upon
them like panther. pursuing them
over tho rocks, and as these Caaaanites
with sprained ankles and gashcd fore
heads retreat tho cstnpults of the sky
pour yollcy OF hailstones into the
valley, and all the artillery Of the
heavens with bullets of iron pound the
Canaanites againA the lodges Of Beth
heron.
"Oh!r says Joshua, this Is surely =
victory. But do you not zee the sun
Is going down. Those Amorites arc
going 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 clilnatel What is the matter with
Joshuaa Has he fallen in on apoplec-
tic tits No. He is in prayer. Look
out when good man makes the Lord
his ally. Joshua raises his face, radi-
ant with prayer, and looks at the de-
scending sun over Gideon and 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 de-
sccnding sun and tho 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 Gideon; and
thou moon, in the valley OF. Ajalon."
They halted.
Whether it was by refraction of the
suns rays or by the stopping of the
whole planetary system l do not know
and do not care. leave it to the
Christian scientists and the infidel
scientists to settle that question, while
! tell you ! have seen the same thing.
What" say you, mot the sun stand
ing stillr' Yes. The same miracle is
performed nowadays. The wicked do
not live out half their day, and the sun
sets at noon. But let man start out
in battle for God and the truth and
against sin, and the day of his useful
ness is prolonged and prolonged and
prolonged.
THOUGH DEAD THEIR WORKS DO FOL
Low THEM.
John Summerfield was consumptive
Methodist. He looked fearfully white,
] am told, as he stood in old Sands
Street church, iii Brooklyn, preaching
Christ, and when he stood on the an
niversary platform in New York plead
ing for the Bible until unusual and un-
known 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 Summerfield's
sun set9 Did John Summerfield's day
end? Oh, no. He lives on in his
burning utterances in behalf of the
Christian church.
Robert McCheyne was a consumptive |
It was said when he
preached he cougheQ 90 it seemed as if
he would never preach again His |
name is fragrant IN all Christendom,
that name Inightier today than was
ever his living presence. He lived to
preach the gospel in Aberdeen, Edin-
Durgh and Dundee, but he went away
very early. He preached himself into
;he grave. Has Robert McCheyne's
'un set? Is Robert McCheyne's day
ended? Oh, no. His dying delirium
vas filed with prayer, and when he
fitted his hand to pronounce the bene-
fiction upon his family and the bene-
fiction upon his country he seemed to
ay: II cannot die now. want to
i've on and on I want to start an in
iuence for the church that will never
,ease. am only 30 years of age.
Sun Of my Christian ministry, stand
till over Scotland And it stood still.
A long time ago there was u Chris
iao woman, very consecrated, and she
lad drunken husband, and SO on
ane the night of domestic trouble.
'he lost her children, and there came
he night of bereavement. She was
cry i'll, and there came the night of
ickness. Her soul departed, and there
anne the night of death. But all these
lights of trouble and darkness and sor-
ow and sickness were illunined by the
race of the gospel, and people came
many miles to see how cheerfully a
christian could be sick and how cheer
ully Christian could die. The moon
hat illulnined that night of trouble
vas a reflection from the Sun of right
BUSINESS. In the last hour of that
ight-that night of darkness and sick
ess and misfortune, as she lifted her
and toward heaven, those who stood
earest her pillow could hear the whis-
err for size wanted to live on in the
that were to follow, conse-
rated to God; she wanted to have an
lfluence long after she had entered
pom her eternal reward, and while her
and was lifted and her lips were NOV
~ those who stood nearest her pillow
ould hear her say, Thou moon, stand
ill in the valley of Ajalonr'
I'VE MORE KINGS TO BE BEHEADED.
~ u T..