The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
NV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine's
SUNDAY Sermon

we are encamped tonight in Palestine
oy .ne waters of Merom. After a lone
marcn we have found our tents pitched
our fires kindled, and. though far o,y,Y
from civilization, a variety OF food that
would not compromise 4 first class American
notei, Tor the most of our caravan starts an
IW vTur sho hait earlier i'll the morning
we detain only two mules. carrving
so much of our baggage as we might scci,
uentally need and a tent for the noondov
iuncheon. The malarias around this I.nIe
srom ~ are so poisonous that at any other
season of the year encampment here Is peril.
GUS, put this winter night the air is tonic and
neaithtui In this nei.hborhood Joshua
iought his last great battle The nations
nnd banded themselves together to crush this
Joshua, but along che banks of these water
Joshua lett their ca,rasses. Indeed II 10 tino
that we more minutely examine this Josbu,
OF whom we have in these discourses CAUGHT
only a momentary. glimpse, although he
crossed and recrossed Palestine and neyt 70
Jesus Is the most stirring and mighty chara,-
ter whose foot ever touched the HOLY Land
Moses was dead. A beautiful tradit;on
says the Lord kissed him, and in that not
Grew forth the soul of the dying lawsiver.
he had been buried, only one Person at the
6urial, the same OSe who kissed him. But
God never takes a man away from any ploca
or or usefulness but he has some one rs,dv
me LORD does dot go looking around amid a
especially fitted for the vacant position IJ,
makes man for that place Moses hav
Psssei OIL the stage, and Joshua tho hero
pu!S ms FOOT on the platform of history s.,
he was magnificent fighter, but ba
aiways fought the right side and
ne never fought unless God fold
NM NM 70 iiSht, He got his military equipment
rom from H9a, ,, VINO gave him the promise at the
start: "Tilcre shall not any man be oblo to
stand before thee all the DAYS of thy life ="
Sod iuiitilod this promise, although Joshua's
nrst battle was with tho spring freshet, oni
Ht me next with n stone wall, and the next
Iea9lnS on regiment of whipped towards
aud the next battle against darkness wbeeI
ing tse sun and the moon into his battalion
ana the last against the king of terrors'
ueath-tlve great victories
MS first undertaking of Joshua w,e
greater thin the leveiing of Fort Pulaski or
the numbering down of Gibraltar or tho
overthrow of the Bastile. 1t was the cross.
Ing OF tho Jordan at tho time of the sprinp
iresneC. Tres mo SHOWS or Mount Lebanon had
Just been melting, and they poured down in
TO the valley, and the Whole valley was a
raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand on
one bank, and they look across and see
Joshua and the israeiites, and they laugh
IN tiine-until the freshets fall; it is mpossi-
bic for them To reach U.S." But after n
while they lock across to water and thew
see movement IN the army Of Joshua.
Lhey say: Nv mats the matter nowp Why,
there must be panic among these troops'
en" hhev are going TO ny, or perhaps they
are gong to try 10 nisrC,; across tho River
Jordan. Joshua is q lunatic." But Joshua.
the chieitain, looks at his army and cries,
Forward, march!r and they start for the
bank of the Jordan
@ rna n''ie ahead so two priests CARRYING a
Glttering ho,. four IeeL ioIs ard two feet
wide. 1t is the ark of the convenant. And
they come down, and no sooner do they inst
touch tie rim of tho water with their feet
than by an Almighty fiat Jordan parts. The
army OF joshua marches tisht ca without
getting their feet wet over the bottom of the
river, path of chalk and broken shells and
pebbles, until they get to the other bank
linen they lay hold of the oleanders and tam
arisks and willows and pull thsmselves-ap
bank thirty or forty feet high, and, having
ssats sssr he Ssnss ss~ they siss their stss ts
6reaE lsoss iToM Their strsHcsss.
OF distance they halted On this SIDE the
"1sefs Ref 81 r1lt II, ot toward the salt sea:
away from tho thus uplifted waters
waters perhaps uplifted half a mile-as the
almighty hand Is taken away thos. waters
Tush down, and some of the unbeieving
tSraehteS ,s say: Alas, alas what a misfor-
tune! Nhy could not those waters have
stald parted? because perhaps we may want
to go back. q Lord. we are encuGe,, ina
risky business. Those Canaanitas NAV eat !
us -! up. How II we want to go hack?, Would
1T not have been more comp,et miracle ift
the Lord had parted the waters to let us :,
come through and kept them parted to let us !,
90 PACK II we are defeatei?' My friends
,Sod makes no provision for q Christians re-
treaC. he clears the path all the.xay n
Cahaan. 10 so back Is to die. fifa Sanr,
gatekespers that swim. hacI; the amsthysiiiss,
ard crystalline gate of the jordan to let
israei pass through now swing shut the snie-
thystlh- and crystalline gate
But this Is no time fO. tho Iaist to sto.,
Joshua gives the command, .'Forwai%a;
march,! In the distance there is a long
grove of trees, and at The end OF the cncrs
Is city. 1t is city OF arbors. s-+fey,-.S6
walls seeming to reach TO the heaven TO
uSerSSs lne very sky. 1t is the great me-
~ IS jericho The city was aftcrwp,.d co,.
Tired by Pompey, ana it was afteryard
.sPtured by Rerod the Great. and il S,s
',,S az caPInred by the MoEammeGana:
ii .noii pe no swords no shields, no Lnttnrin,
@ nni' mere shall be only one wC.iron az |
', r hhh tnat rams horn The horn OF
80 S'.i ram was sometimes takcl and |
loiss were punCtured in it.. and the, ths
musician would put the Instrument - T;
Ups, ana he would run his fingers over this |
, ""' Inusical lnStrhmeuc and make n c,re,t
''ai '.n -, ~ sweet harmony for the people Trat
go O.e upiy klhd ot weapon. Seven priests
ere .ere 20 take theSS rude rustic musical in
,runentS, and they were to 20 .,.n,,nJ tha
'i9 eNeiy Gay Tor six days-oncc a Gay for
80 ,a uay ana then on the seventh dav thev
,. w 80 ouhd blowing thess rude nlusicnI
is isCl "nients seven times, and then at the
iose use OF the seventh blowing of the rams
ms nose ,.,a OF tne seventh day the pcroration of
Jone to base '"'h"ie from cap
,str',r seven priests with the rnio music,,
,o f,.i pass all around tho ,tv 'is. ,aIs.eai
arst gay, and failure. MOI -. n,,', mn!!, n
o. co NJ, p'aSter broke loose from RI" yo ~
; n n;sno '.S u iooNcncl rock. not :, ,,u.L
There" Gov, .l,oFtpr lost from It's Diacn
didn't tsiIy sinIy von The nnRGc,iovins Isra%iit-s
itb iot!s ,h The idea of go'ny aromnd 't,.Ts I'm t
g in ,u that ",n,ral nus Instruments md c~p,:2.
pn on spoiled; he thinks because bc hosor. 1
''"a M ana destroyed the ,prinI S,,lL. {
Inv ~ overthrow the rS stonS ''Trau' waji
Il sea not phiiosophic D"n'i . .
MS and IIie blowing Of these nIusi.aI ,ns,',,
snt u ,huhe me knocking down of tLe waiig !,
20 ,n pn,losophy.' And I sunnnse ,Ma,!E Ma,i; q
,. :. many wiscacres who stool ,yi.h ,i,cre ,,e 81
ht ha nnl,ted and with the forafin,er or St: | "
nina nj nand to the forefngcr of the ieft o. h tna IL
~ an out aud showing tbat IL ,,'I es