The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-01-02

rude musical instruments seven times,
and then at the close of the seventh
blowing of the rams horns on the
seventh day the peroration of the whole
scene was to be a shout at which those
great walls should tumble from cap
stone to base.
The seven priests with the rude mu-
steal instruments pass all around the
city walls on the first day, and fail
ure. Not so much as piece of plaster
broke loose from the wall-not so much
as loosened rock, not so much as a
piece of mortar lost from its place.
There say the unbeiieving Israelites.
didn't tell you so? Why, those min
listers are fools. The idea of going
around the city with those musical in
struments and expecting in that way to
destroy it! Joshua has been spoiled: he
thinks because he has overthrown 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 isn't
philosophy" The second day, the
priests blowing the musical instruments
go around the city, and failure. Third
day, and failure; fourth day, and
failure; fifth day, and failure: sixth
day, and failure. The seventh day
comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is
up early in the morning and examines
the troops, walks all around about,
looks at the city wall. The priests
start to make the circuit of the city.
They go all around once, all around
twice, three times, four times, five
times, six times, seven times, and a fail
ure.
There is only one more thing to do,
and that is to utter a great shout.
| Joshua feels that the hour has come.
and he cried out to his host: ''Shout!
for the Lord hath given you the city,
All the people began to cry: "Down,
Jericho, down Jericho" and the long
line of solid masonry began to culver
and to move and to rock. Stand from
under! She fallsI Crash, go the walls,
the temples, the towers, the palaces; the
air blackened with the dust. The huzza
of the victorious Israelites and the
grean of the conquered Canaanites COM
mingle, and Joshua, standing there in the
debris of the wall, hears 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 King? No. Some
woman distinguished for great kindly
deeds? No. She had been conspicuous
for her crimes. 1t is the house ot
| Rahab. Why was her house spared:
Because she had been a great sinners
No, because she repented, demonstrate
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 it was the divine indica'
ton that they should not disturb the
premises; making US think of the divine
cord of Saviour's deliverance, the red
cord of Saviour's kindness, the red
cord of Saviour's mercy, the red cord
of our rescue. Mercy for the chief Of
sinners. Put your trust in that God and
no damage shall befall you. When our
world shall be more terribly surrounded
than was Jericho, even by the trumpet:
of the Judgment day, and the hills anC
the mountains, the metal bones and rib:
of nature, shall break, they who have
had Rahab's faith shall have Rahab':
deliverance.
When wrapt in fire the realms of either glow
And heavens last thunder shakes the eartl
below;
Thou undismayed shalt DER the ruins smile
And light thy torch at natures funeral pile
But Joshua's troops may not hal
here. The command is: Forward
march, There is the city of All; it mus
be taken? A scouting party comes bacl
and says: Joshua, we can do that with
out you; it is going to be very cas-!
job; you just stay here while we go ant
capture it." They march with a small
regiment in front of that city. The mel
of Al look at them and give one yell
and the Israelites run like reindeer
The Northern troops at Bull Run dir
not make such rapid time as thes
Israelites with the Canaanites afte
them. They never cut such sOrr
figure as when they were on the retreat
Anybody that goes out in the battles o
God with only half a force, instead o
your taking the men of Al the men o
Al will take You. Look at the ChurcI
of God on the retreat. The Bornesial
! cannibals ate up Munson, the mission
airy. Fall back!'' said great man
Christian people-"FaH back, O, Churc
of God! Borneo will never be taker
Don't you see the Bornesian cannibal
have eaten up Munson, the missionary?
Tyndall delivers his lecture at the I'm
versity of Glasgow and great man
good people say: Fall back, o, Churc
of God! Don't you see that Christia
philosophy is going to be overcome b
worldly philosophy? Fall back"
Geology plunges the crowbar into tn
mountains, and there are great man
/ people say: Scientific investigation
going to overthrow the Mosaic accou1
Of the creation. Fall back" Friend
of the church have never had any rigf
: to fall back. Joshua falls on his fac
in chagrin. 1t is the only time you sc
: the back of his head. He falls on h
} face and begins to whine, and he say
2 80, Lord God, wherefore hast Thou {
all brought this people over Jordan
: deliver US into the hand of the Amoritt
: to destroy us? Would to God we ha
d been content and dwelt on the otht
2 side of the Jordan. For the Canaanitt
e and all the inhabitants Of the land sha
S hear of it. and shall environ US roun
r and cut off our names from the earth
r 1 am very glad Joshua said that. b
a fore it seemed as # he were a supe
h natural being, and therefore could NJ
be an example to us; but find he is
n man. he Is only q man. Just as som