The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-27

going back. l declare IL In your hearing
to-day. victory ahead. water forty feet
deep in the rear. Triumph ahead. Canaan
ahead: behind you death and darkness and !
voc and hell But YOU say. Why didn't .
those Cauaanitcs. when they had such /
splendid chance-standing on the top OF i
the bank thirty or forty feet high, com I
nleteIv damolish those poor Israelites i
down in the river2' I will tell you why, I
God had made a promise and he was go I
ing 20 keep 10. There shall not any man I
be able 10 stand before thee all the days
OF thy life"
But this is no place for the host TO stop I
Joshua gives the command, Forward. 4
marcht" In the distance there is a long /
grove Of trees. and at the end Of the grove
is a city IL is a city OF arbors,a city with /
walls seeming TO reach TO the heavens, 70
huttrcss the very sky It IS the great me
tropolis that commands the mountain pass
II is Jericho. That city was afterward cap
tured by Pompey, and IL was afterward
captured by HerOd the Great, and II was
afterward captured by the Mohammedans;
but this campaign the Lord plans. There
shall be no swords. no shields. no battering
ram. There shall be only one weapon OF
war. and that a rams horn. The horn OF
the slain ram was sometimes taken ana
holes were punctured In n, and Slen the
musician would put the instrument to his
lips and he would run his fingers over this
rude musical instrument. and make great
deal OF sweet harmony for the people. That
was the only kind Of weapon. Seven priests
were to take these rude rustic musical in
struments and they were to go around the
city every day for six days-Once day for
six days. and then on the seventh day they
were to go around blowing these rude mu-
steal instruments seven times, and then at
the close of the seventh blowing of the
rams horns on the seventh day the peror-
alton Of the whole scene was TO be a shout
( at which those great walls should tumble
from capstone to base.
The seven priests with the rude musical
Instruments pass all around the city walls
on the first day, and failure. Not so
much as a piece Of plaster broke loose from
/ the wall--not so much as a loosened rock,
/ not so much as a piece of mortar lost from
/ its place. There" say the unbelteVing
/ Israelites. didn't l tell YOU so2 Why, those
ministers are fools. The idea of going
4 around the city with those musical instru-
/ ments and expecting In that way to destroy
4 IL Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks be-
] cause he has overthrow and destroyed the
/ spring freshet he can overthrow the stone
wall why, Il is not philosophic Don't
you see there is no relation between the
I blowing of these musical instruments and
! the knocking down of the wall. 1t isn't
| philosophy" And l suppose there were
| many wiseacres who stood with their
| brows knitted, and with the forefinger Of
! the flEnt mana 10 the lOltAinbtl VI biit A'AN
| hand arguing 1t all out, and showing 1t
was not possible that such a cause should
| produce such an effect And suppose that
| night in the encampment there was plenty
of philosophy and caricature. and If josh
ne had been nominated for any ,gh mill
tary position, he would not have got many
/ votes Joshua's stock was down. The sec
ond day. the priests blowing the musical
Instruments go around the city, and fall
ure Third day, and failure fourth day,
and a 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, hve
times. six times. seven times, and failure
There Is only one more thing to do and
that is to utter great shout. see Inc
Israelitish army strengthening themselves
, up, filling their lungs for a voclferatoi
l such as was never heard before and nevel
heard after Joshua feels that the hou
: has come, and he cries out TO his most
shout; for the Lord hath given you tn
city, All the people begin to cry: Down
= Jericho. down, Jericho!" and the long lin
of solid masonry begins to culver and L
I move and to rock. Stand from under
! She falls. Crash! go the walls, the TEN
| pies the towers, the palaces; the air !
blackened with the dust. The huzza o
: the victorious Israelites and the groan o
the conquered Canaanites commingle, an
! Joshua standing there in the debris @
> the wall, hears a voice saying: 'Ther
Il shall not any man be able to stand befor
{ thee all the days of thy life
K But Joshua's troops may not halt her,
The command is. Forward. march!
!, There is the city of Al; it must be takel
l. How shall it be taken? A scouting part
Q comes back and says: Joshua, we ca
> do that without you; it is going to be
> very easy job; you just stay here viii
- we go and capture it." They march VII
d a small regiment in front of that cit
The men of Al look at them and give OF
= yell, and the Israelites run like reindeer
H. The northern troops at Bull Run did n
make such rapid time as these lsraelit
with the Canaanites after them. Th
- - never cut such sorry figure as VIII
Ia thew were on the retreat. Anybody tn
~, 10 goes out in the battles of God with on
~ half a force. instead of your taking I
~ men of Al the men of All will take yo
- Look at the Church of God on the retrei
81 The Bornesian eannibals ate up MunsC
VI the missionary. Fall back" said a gre
?. many Christian people. Fall back, {
- Church of God! Borneo Will never
- taken Don't you see the Bornesian ca
s nibals have eaten up Munson, the missile
80 ary?" Tyndall delivers his lecture at
~ University of Glasgow, and great ma
h. good people say: Fall back, on Chui
i nc Of God. Don't you see that Christian p
H. losophy is going to be overcome by wor
" philosophy? Fall back!' Geolc
- plunges its crowbar into the mountai
and there are a great many people "
-. say: Scientific investigation is going
~, overthrow the mosaic account of the c
"a alton Fail back" Friends of God III
~ never any right to fall back
- Joshua falls on his face in chagrin.
30 the only time you ever see the back of
~ head. He falls on his face and begins
!, ;, whine, and he says, "Oh, Lord G
80, wherefore has thou at all brought
80 people over Jordan to deliver us into
ne hand of the Amorites, to destroy
- Would to God we had been content
a. A. dwelt on the other side of Jordan.
~. ~ the Canaanites and all the inhabita
s - of the land shall hear of it, and shall
an ~. viron us round and cut off our ns
~ from the earth"
- l am very glad Joshua said that. Bet
az it seemed as if he were a supernatural
81 ing, and therefore could not be an eX
VI pie to us; but I find he is man, h
o"o only a man. Just as sometimes you
VI a man under severe opposition, or /