The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-06-07

iuSd OF going around the city
with those musical instruments
and expecting In that way to
destroy IT. Joshua has been spoiled;
lie thinks because he has overthrown
and destroyed the spring freshet, he
can overthrow the stone wall Why,
it is not philosophic. Don't you see
there is no relation between the blow
ing Of these musical instruT tnts 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
forefnger of the right hand to the fore
finger of the left hand, arguing it all
out, and showing it was not possible
that such cause should produce such
IN effect And | suppose that night
in the encampment there was plenty
of philosophy and caricature, and il
Joshua had been nominate for any
high military position, he would not
have got many votes Joshua's
stock was down. The second
day, the priests blowing the
musical instruments go around the
city, and a failure. Third day, and a
failure; fourth day, and a failure;
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, and a
failure.
There Is only one more thing to do,
and that is to utter a great shout.
see the Israelitish army strengthening
themselves up filling their lungs for a
Nociferation such as was never beard
before and never heard after. Joshua
feels that the hour has come, and he
for the Lord hath given you
the cityP' All the people begin
to cry, down, Jericho; down,
Jerichoi" and the long line of solid
masonry begins to quiver and move
and rock. Stand from under. She
falls. Crash go the walls, the tenn
Piles, the towers, the palaces; the air
is blackened with the dust. The
huzza of the victorious Israelites and
the groan of the conquered Canaan
ties commingle, and Joshua, standing
there in the debris of the wall, hears a
voice saying: There shall not any
man be able to stand before thee all
the days of thy life"
But JOshua's troops may not halt
here. The command is: Forward,
marchr' There is the city of Al, it
must be taken. How shall it be TAX
en-. A scouting party comes back and
says: Joshua, we can do that with
out you; it is going to be a very easy
job; you must stay here while we go
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 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 on
ly half a 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 cannibals
ate up Munson, the missionary Fall
back!" said a great many Chris
tian people-"Fall back, oh church
of God! Borneo will never be taken.
Don't you see the Bornesian can
nibals have eaten up Munson, the mis-
sionaryP" Tyndall delivers his lecture
at the University of Glasgow, and
great many good people say: Fall
back, oh, church of God! Don't you
see that Christian philosophy is going
to be overcome by worldly philosophyP
Fall backl' Geology plunges its crow
bar into the mountains, and there are
a great many people who say: ''Scien-
tific investigation is going to over
throw tha Mosaic account of the crea-
tion. Fall backl' Friends of God
have never any right to fall back.
Joshua fell on his face in chagrin. 1t
is the only time you ever see the back
of his head. He falls on his face and
begins to whine, and he says: "Oh,
Lord God, wherefore hast Thou at all
brought this people over Jordan to de-
liver us into the hand of the Amorites,
to destroy us2 Would to God we had
been content and dwelt on the other
side of Jordanl For the Canaanites
and all the inhabitants of the land
shall hear of it, and shall environ us
round and cut off our name from the
earth"
am very glad Joshua said that
Before, it seemed as If he were a su-
pernatural being, and therefore could
not be an example to us; but find he
is a man, he is only man. Just as
sometimes you find a man under Sc
we're opposition, or in bad state of
physical health, or worn out with
about everything being defeated. /
am encouraged when hear this cry
of Joshua as he lies in the dust.
God comes and arouses him. How
does He rouse him? BY complimentary
apostrophe? 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 to him. The
fact was, that was not his battle If
he had been in it he would have gone
around him and says: Now let US go
up and capture the city of Al; let us
go up right away"
They march on. He puts the ma ajori-
ty of the troops behind ledge of rocks
in tho night. and then he sends COM
paratively small battalion up in front
of the city. The men of Al come out
with a shout. This battalion in