Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1895-06-01

en- How shall il be taken: A scouting
party comes back and says; Joshua, we
can do that without you. 1t is going to
be very easy job You just stay here
while we 60 and capture il They
march with small regiment i'll front of
that city The men of Al look at them
and give one yell, and the IsraclitcS run
like rcindocrS. The northern troops at
Bull Run did not make such rapid time
rs these ISraclites with the CanaanitcS
after them. They never cut such sorry
figure as when they We're on the retreat.
Anybody that goes ont i'll the battles Of
your taking the men Of Al, the men Of
Al will take you. Look at the church Of
God on the retreat The BorncSian can
nibals ate up Munson, the missionary.
Fall back said a great many Chris
tian people. Fall back, 0 church Of
God Borneo will never be taken. Don't
you see the BorneSian cannibals have
eaten up Munson, the missionary" Tyn
dali delivers his lectures at the Uniyer-
sity of Glasgow, and Il great many good
people say: Fall back, 0 church of
God, Don't yen see that Christian phi
losophy is going to be overcome by world
ly philosophy: Fall back - Geology
plungcs its crowbar into the mountains,
and there are great many people who
say: Scientific investigation is going TO
overthrow the Mosaic account Of the ere
alton. Fall back Friends Of God
have never any right to fall back.
g. t.
is the only time you ever see the back
of his head. He falls ON his face and be-
gins to whine and he says: 80 Lord
God, wherefore hast thon ut all brought
this people over Jordan To deliver us in
to the hand of the Amoritcs to destroy
us? Would to God we had been content
and dwclt ON the other side of Jordan
For the CanaaniteS and all the inhabit-
ants of the land shall hear of il and
shall environ us round and cut off our
name from the earth. =
l am very glad Joshua said that. Be
fcre it seemed as if he were a supernat-
ural being. and therefore could not be
an example To Us. but l find he is
man, he is only man. just rs some
times you find man under severe OPP
position, or i'll a bad state Of physical
health, or Worn ont with overwork "
ing down and signing about everything
being defeated, am encouraged when
hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in
the dust
The Retreat of the Enemy.
God comes and rouses him. How does
he rouse him: BY complimentary apoS-
trophe: No. He says: Get thee up.
Wherefore lieSt thou upon thy face"
Joshua rises. and. warrant you, with
mortified look But his old courage
comes back The fact was that was not
his battle. If he had been in it, he
would have gone on To victory He
gathers his troops around him and says:
Now let us 90 up and capture the city
of All. Let us 20 up right away. y
They march on. He putS the majority
of the troops behind ledge of rocks in
the night, and then he sends compare
| lively small battalion up i'll front of the
city. The men of Al come out with a
shout. This battalion i'll strategem fall
/ back and fall back, and when all the
men of Al have left the city and are in
| pursuit of this scattered or seemingly
| scattered battalion Joshua stands ON
| rock. | see his locks flying in the wind
as he points his spear toward the DOOM
ed city, and that is the signal The men
rush out from behind the rocks and take
| the city, and it is put to the torch, and
then these ISraelites i'll the city march
| down, and the flying battalion of Israel
| ties return, and between these two waves
of ISraelitish proweSS the men of Al are
| destroyed, and the Israclites gain the
| victory, and while / see the curling
smoke of that destroyed city on the sky,
| and while hear the huZza of the Israel
| ties and the groan of the Canaanites,
Joshua hears something louder than it
all. ringing and echoing through his
soul, There shall not any man be able
TO stand before thee all the days of thy
life
But this is no place for the host of
Joshua 10 stop. Forward. march -
| cries Joshua tu the troops. There is the
city of Gibeun. 1t has put itself under
the protection of Joshua. They sent
word: There are five kings after us.
They are going to destroy us. Send
troops quick Send US help right away. =
Joshua has three days march more
than double quick. On the morning Of
the third day he is before the enemy
There are TWO long lines of battle. The
battle opens with great slaughter, but
| the CanaanitcS soon discover something.
| They say That is Joshua. That Is the
man who conquered the spring freShet
and knocked down the stone wall and
destroyed the city of Al. There is Eo use
fighting. And they sound retreat.
and as they begin To retreat Joshua and
his host spring upon them like pan
ther, pursuing them over the rocks. and
as these Canaanitcs, with spraincd an
kles and gashed foreheads, retreat the
catapults of the sky pour a vollcy of
hailStoneS into the valley and all the
artillery Of the heavens with bullets of
iron pounds the CanaaniteS against the
lodges of Beth -horon.
Joshua's Strange Command.
'Oh, says Joshua, this is surely 4
victory But do you not see the sun
is going down: Those Amoritcs are GO
ing to get away after all, and they will
come up some other time and bother us.
and perhaps destroy us. : See, tine sun
is going down Oh, for longer day
than has ever been seen i'll this climate
What is the matter with Joshua: Has
he fallen i'll an apopletic fit: No. He is
in prayer. Look cut when good man
makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises
his face, radiant with prayer, and looks
ut the descending sun over Gideon and
at the faint crescent Of the moon, for YOU
know the queen of the night sometimes
will liagcr around the palaces of the
day. Pointing enc hand at the descend
ing sun and the other hand ut the faint
crescent Of the moon. in the name Of that
Gud who shaped the worlds and moves the
worlds. he cries, Sun, stand thou still
upon Gibeon, and thou. moon. i'll the
valley of Ajalon And they stood still.
Whether it was by refraction of the
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