Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-27

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 so and capture it. They
march with a small regiment in front of
that CITY. The men of Al look at them
and give one yell, and the Israelites rur
like reindeers The northern troOns 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 Al, the men of
Al will take you. Look at the church Of
God on the retreat. The Bornesian can
nibals ate up Munson, the missionary.
"Fall back |" said great many Chris
tian people. f'Fall back, o church of
Godi Borneo will never be taken. Don It
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, o church of
God! Don't you see that Chsistian phi
losophy is going to be overcome by world
~ philosophy? Fall back!' Geology
plunges it's crowbar into the mountains,
and there are a great many people who
say: Scientific investigation is going tc
overthrow the Mosaic account of the Gre
alton Fall backI' Friends of God
have never any right to fall back
Joshua falls on his face in chagrin 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: go 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 ana
shall environ us round and cut off our
name from the earth. -
l am very glad Joshua said that Be
fore it seemed as if he were a supernat-.
ural being, and therefore could not be
an example to us, but I find he is a
man, he is only man. Just as some
times you find man under severe OPP
position, or in bad state of physical
health, or worn out 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 lest thou upon thy face?''
Joshua rises, and, I 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
Nov let us go up and capture the city
OF Al. Let us go up right away"
They march on. He puts the majority
of the troops behind ledge of rocks IL
the night, and then he sends compare
lively small battalion up in front of the
city. The men of Al come out with o
shout. This battalion i'll strategem fall
back and fall back, and when all the
men of All have left the city and are in
pursuit of this scattered or seemingly
scattered battalion Joshua stands Oh q
rock. [ see his locks flying liz 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
then these Israelites in 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 Israelites gain the
victory, and while I 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 to stop. ''Forward, march!'
cries Joshua to the troops. There is the
city Of Gideon. It has put itself under
the protection of Joshua. They sent
word: 'There are five kings after u.s.
They are going to destroy US. Send |
troops quick Send us help right away
Joshua has a 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 Canaanites 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 no use
fighting. And they sound a retreat,
and as they begin to retreat Joshua and
his host spring upon them like a pan
Their, pursuing them over the rocks, and
as these Canaanites, with sprained an
kles and gashed foreheads, retreat the
cataDultS of the sky DOur a vO11nv of
hailstones into the valley, and all the
artillery Of the heavens with bullets Of
iron pounds the Canaanites against the