The Red Cloud chief., 1891-01-02

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the Canaanftes against ~ lodges a
Bethhorou.
'Or" says JoGhsa, sthis b Wrely .
victory" 'sBut do yoa not 80 GAe IN
b going DOWN. Those Anosites ara 60
ing 70 GET away after I'll. and then they
viii come up Some Other tine and
bother - and perhaps destroy ~"
See, the sun Il going down Oh, for
longer day than he's evef been seea IN
this climate! Has he fallen n . apo
pletic fat7 No; he II In prayer. Look
out when . good man makes The Lord
his ally.
Joshua raised his facs, radiant with
prayer, and looks aArAhe deseending sun
over 6ibeon and q Tie faist crescent Of
ths noon Pointing 90 hand at The
~descending sun and IL other 1t tie
faint crescent Of the nooa, n the name
Of that Cad who shaped tAe worlds and
moves the worlds, he csied: ..Sun.
stand thou still upon G5bson; and thou.
moon, in IL valley Of AjAlon." They
halted whether il was by ~refrsction
Of The W1s nys q by tie stopping Of
The whole planetary system ] do not
know and do not N I leave II TO the
Christian scientists and the inidel
sciesGsts 10 seete Shat question, while
I tell yoa I hsye seen the same thing.
"Whatg' aay you, mot the sun stand
still?' Yes. The same miracle is per
1oftaed nowsdsyA The wicked do not
ifve out half their day and the sets
1t noon. But Let . man start out for
| God and the truth aid against sin and
the day Of his usefulness il prolonged
and prolonged and prolonged.
Robert McCheyne vas . consumptive
Presbyterian It was said when he
preached. he coughed SO it seemed as
II he would never preach again. His
name is fragrant in all Christendom.
that name mightier to-day than was
ever his living presence. He lived TO
preach the Gospel in Aberdeen, Edin-
burg and Dundee, but he went away
very early. He preached himself into
the grave. Has Robert McCheyne's sun
set? Is Robert McCheyne's day ended?
o, no! His dying delirium was filed
with prayer, and when he lifted his
hand to pronounce the benediction upon
his family, and the benediction upon
his country, he seemed TO say: 81 can
not die now; ! want to live on and on.
1 want to start an influence for the
Church that will never cease. ! am
only 30 years Of age. Sun Of my Chris
tian ministry. stand still over Scotland"
And it stood still.
A long time ago there was . Christian
woman very c~Onsecrated, and she had q
drunken husband, and 50 on came the
night of domestic trouble. She lost her
children, and there came the night of
bereavement. She was very i'll, and
there came the night Of sickness. Her
soul departed, and there came the night
Of death. But all these nights Of
trouble, and darkness, and sorrow, and
sickness were illumined by the grace Of
the Gospel; and people came many
miles to see how cheerfully q Christian
could die. The moon that illumined
that night of trouble was . reflection
from the Sun Of righteousness. In
the last hour Of that night-that night
Of darkness and sickness and misfOr-
tune, as she lifted her hand toward
Heaven, those who stood nearest her
pillow could hear the whisper-for she
wanted To live on in the generations
that were to follow, c~onsecrated to God;
she wanted to have an influence long
after she had entered upon her eternal
reward, and while her hand was lifted
and her lips were moving, those who
stood nearest her pillow could hear her
say: "ThOu moon, stand still in the
valley of Ajalon."
But Joshua was not quite through.
There was time for five funerals before
the sun of that prolonged day set. Who
will preach their funeral Sermon. Mas
sillon preached the funeral sermon
over Louis XVI. Who will preach the
funeral sermon Of those FIVE dead
Kings-King Of Jerusalem, King Of
Hebron, King Of Jarmuth, King Of
Lachish, King of Eglon? Let it he
Joshua What is his text? There
shall not any man be able to stand be-
fore thee all the days Of thy life."
But before you fasten up the door I
five more Kings beheaded and
thrust in: King Alcohol, King Fraud,
King Lust, King Superstition, King In
fidelity. Then fasten up the door for
ever. What shall the inscription and
what shall the epitaph be? For all
philanthropists of all ages are
going to come and look ut it What
shall the inscription be? ''There shall
not any man be able to stand before
thee all the days of thy life."
But it is time for Joshua TO go home.
He is ITO years old Washington went
down the Potomac and at Mount Vernon
closed his days. Wellington died peace
fully at Apsley House. Now, where
shall Joshua rest: Why, he is to have
his greatest battle now. After 10 years
he has met . king who has more sub
jects than all the present population Of
the earth, his throne . pyramid of
his parterre the graveyards and
of the world, his chariot the
worlds hearse-the king Of terrors.
but If this is Joshua's greatest
battle it is going 70 be Josh
ua's greatest victory. He gathers
his friends around him and
gives his valedictory. and It is full Of
"reminiscences. Young men tell what
they are going to do: old men tell what
they have done. And as you have heard
q grandfather o. great grandfather,
seated by the evening fire, tell Of Mon
or Yorktown, and they lit the
crutch or staff rs though It were . mus
ket, to fight and show how the old
battles were won-so Joshua gathers
his friends around his dying couch. and
he tells them the story Of what he has
been through, and Is he Hes there, his
white locks showing down on his
wrinkled forehead, l wonderif God has
kept his promise all the way through.
As he lies there he tells the story one,
two or three times-you have heard old
people tell . story two or three tines
overland he answers: ~ 70
the way Of all the earth. and
not one word Of the promise has
failed. not one word thereof has failed;
AL, has come TO pass, not one word
thereof has failed" And then he turns
to his family, as . dying parent viii
and says: Choose now whom ron viz
serve, the God Of Israel, O. The God o6
the AMniteS Ahoe ~~H