The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-05-31
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can DO that without you. II Is going TO
be very easy job You Just stay here
while we go and capture it, /" They
march with a small regiment in front of
that city. The men of All look at them
and give one yell, and the Israelites run
like reindeers The northern troops at
Bull Run did not make such rapid time
as these Israelites with the Canaanites
after them. They never cut such a sorry
figure as when they were ON the retreat
Anybody that goes out in the battles of
God with only half force, instead of
your taking the men of All, the men of
Al will take you. Look at the church OF
God ON the retreat. The Bornesim can
nibals ate up Munson, the missionary.
"Fall backp' 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 Univer-
sity of Glasgow, and great many good
people say: Fall back, 0 chuSh of
God! Don't you see that Christian phi
losophy is going to be overcome by world
ly philosophy? Fall backr" Geology
plunges its crowbar into the mountains,
and there are great many people who
say: Scientific investigation is going to
overthrow the Mosaic account of the Gre
alton. Fall back |" Friends of God
have never any right to fall back.
Joshuafa ON his face in ohagrin. 1t
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 thou at all brought
this people over Jordan to deliver us in
to the hand of the Amorites to destroy
us? Would to God we had been content
and dwelt on the other side Of Jordan !!
For the Canaanites and all the inhabit-
ants of the land shall hear Of it and
shall environ us round and cut off our
name from the earth.
l am very glad Joshua said that. Be-
fore it seemed us if he were 4 s1pernat-
ural being, and therefore could not be
an example to us, but I find he is a
man, he is only man. just 2s some
times you, find a man under severe op-
position, or in a bad s,,!o Ct Physical
health, or worn out WIN oyG.Tork, ~
ing down and sighi2J about overythin g
being defeated, an encouraged when
I 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 lest thou upon thy face?'
Joshua rises, and, warrant you, with a
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 go up and capture the city
of All. Let us go up right away"
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 in front Of the
city. The men of All come out with q
shout. This battalion in stratcgc!n fall
back and fall back, and when all the
men of All have left the city and are il
pursuit of this scattered or seemingly
scattered battalion Joshua stands on &
rock. see his locks flying in the vino
as he points his spear toward the doom
ed city, and that is the signal The mel
rush out from behind the rocks aud take
the city, and it is put to the torch, ant
then these 1sraelites in the city marcl
down, and the flying battalion of Israel
ties return, and between these two waves
of Israelitish proves the E,cn Of Al arr
destroyed, and the Israelltes gain thu
victory, and while l sec the curtin.
smoke of that destroyed city on the sky
and while hear the huzsa of the Israel
ties and the groan of the Canaanites
Joshua hears something louder than i
all, ringing and echoing through hi
soul, "There shall not any man be abb
to stand before thee all the days Of tn.
life''
But this is no place for the host 0
Joshua to stop. Forward, march! !
cries Joshua to the troops. There is tn
the protection of Joshua They sell
word: "There are five kings after us
They are going to destroy us. Sen
troops quick Send us help right away.
Joshua has three days march NOR
than double quick. On the morning G
the third day he is before the enemy
There are two long lines of battle. TIL
battle opens. with great slaughter, bu
the Canaanites soon discover something
They say: "That is Joshua. That is tn
man who conquered the spring freshe
and knocked down the stone wall an
, destroyed the city of All. There is mo us
fighting" And they sound a retrea
and as they begin to retreat Joshua an
his host spring upon them like PAL
ther, pursuing them over the rocks, an
as these Canaanites, with sprained al
5 kles and gashed foreheads, retreat tt
catapults of the sky pour volley {
, hailstones into the valley, and all tt
, artillery of the heavens with bullets {
iron pounds the Canaanites against tt
; lodges of Beth-horon.
Joshuas Strange Command.
"Oh," says Joshua, this is surely
> victoryr' "But do you not see the ST.
9 is going down? Those Amorites are g
: ing to get away after all, and they wi
: come up some other time and bother u
9 and perhaps destroy u.s. See, the 81
y is going down. Oh, for longer d;
o than has ever been seen in this climat
: What is the matter with Joshua? HI
d he fallen in an apopletic fit No. He
: in prayer. Look out when good ms
= makes the Lord his ally. Joshua rails
q his face, radiant with prayer, and loo
u at the descending sun over Gideon al
g ut the faint crescent Of the moon, for "
( !snow the queen of the night sometin
g will linger around the palaces of Il
u day. Pointing one hand at the descen
}, ing sun and the other hand at the fai
Is crescent of the moon, in the name of tn
3 God who shaped the worldsan movest
% worlds, he cries, "Sun, stand thou st
y 1pon Gideon, and thou, moon, in t
valley of Ajalon." And they stood sti