The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-06-06

halted. On this side the waters roll
off toward the salt sea. But as the
hand Of the Lord God is taken away
from the thus uplifted waters-waters
perhaps uplifted half mile-as the
Almighty hand is taken away, those
waters rush down, and some of the
unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas!
alas! what misfortune! Why could
+ not those waters have stayed parted?
because perhaps we may want to go
back. Oh, Lord, we are engaged In Il
risky business. Those Canaanites
may eat us up. How if we want to
go back? Would it not have been Il
more complete miracle if the Lord had
| parted the waters to let us come
through and kept them parted to let
us go back if we are Detected" My
! friends, God makes no provision for
Il Christians retreat. He clears the
path all the way to Canaan. 10 go
back is to die. The same gnte-keepers
that swing back the amethystine and
crystalline gate Of the Jordan to let
Israel pass through, now swing shut
the amethystine ard crystalline gate
of the Jordan to keep the Islaelites
from going back. I declrre it in your
hearing to-day, victory ahead, water
10 feet deep in the rear. Triumph
ahead, Canaan ahead; behind you
death and darkness and woe and hell.
But you say: why didn't those
Canaanites, when they had such
splendid misunderstanding on the top
of the bank so or 40 feet high, COM
pletely demolish those poor lsraelites
down in the river?" l will tell you
why. God had made a promise and
he was going to keep it. '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 to
stop. Joshua gives the command,
Forward, march, In the distance
there is a long grove Of trees, and at
the end of the grove is a city. It is a
city of arbors, Il city with walls seem
ing to reach to the heavens. to but
tress the very sky. 1t is the great
metropolis that commands the noun.
tain pass. 1t is Jericho. That city
was afterward captured by Pompey,
and - was afterward captured by
Herod the Great, and it was after
ward captured by the Mohammcdans,
but this campaign the Lord pl;.f:,.
There shall be no swords, no shields,
no Dattering ram. There shall be
only one weapon of war, and that a
rams horn. The horn of the slain
ram was sometimes, taken and holes
were punctured in it, and then the NIL
stefan 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 We're
to take these rude rustic musical i'll
struments, and they We're to so
around the city every day for six
days-once a day for six days, and
then on the seventh day they were to
80 around blowing these rude musical
instruments seven times, and then at
the close of the seventh blowing of
the rams horns on the seventh day
the perOration 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 mu-
steal Instruments pass all around the
city walls on the first day, and a fail
ure. Not so much as a piece of plas-
ter broke loose from the wall-not so
much as a lOOSened rock, not so much
rs a piece of mortar lost from it's
place. "There," said the unbelieving
1sraelites, "didn't tell you sol Why,
those ministers are fools! The idea
OF going around the city with those
musical instruments and expecting in
that way to destroy it. Joshua has
been spoiled; he thinks because he
has overthroWn and destroyed the
spring frcshet, he can overthrow the
stone wall. Why, it is not philo-
sophie. Don't you see there is no rela-
ton between the blowing of these
musical instruments and the knock
ing down of the wall. 1t isn't phil
osophy.' And I suppose there were
many Wiseacres who stood with their
broWs knitted, and with the foreiinger
of the right hand to the foref1nger of
the left hand, arguing it all out, and
showing it was not possible that such
cause should prCdIce such an effect.
And | suppose that night in the en-
campment there was plenty Of philos0-
ply and caricatllrc, and if Joshua had
been nominated for any high military
position, he would not have got many
votes. .Ioshua's stock was down. The
second day, the priests blowing the
mucical Instruments go around the
city, and failure. Third day. and a
A"i'lAt' AOuI I'll edy, anu Il lilluro,
fifth day, and a 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, FIVE
times, six times, seven times, ana
failure.
There is only one moro thing to do,
and that is to utter great shout. l
see the 1sraelitish army strengthening
themselves up, filling their lungs for
vociferation such as was never
heard before and never heard after.
Joshua feels that the hour has come,
and he cries out to the host, "Shout:
for the Lord hath given you the city,'
All the people begin to cry, "Down,
Jericho, down Jerichov' and the long
line Of solid masonry begins to CULVER
and move and rock. Stand from I'M
der She falls. Crash! go the walls,
the temples, the towers, the palaces;
the air is blackened with the dust.
The huzzas Of the victorious Israelite
and the groan Of the conquered Ca
naanites commingle and Joshua, stand
ing there In the debris of the wall,
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