Connecticut western news., 1895-05-30

 ahead, water 10 feet deep in the ror. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead; behind you death and darkness and woo and hell, But you say, "why didn't those Canaauites, when they had such splendid chance--standing on the top of tho bank so UT 10 feet high-completely demolish thoSe poor Israelites down in the rivery" Twill tAl you why. God had ma6e a promise, and he was going to keep 1t, ''There shall not any man bo ahle to stand before theo all the days of thy hfe, '"
 Tho March.
 But this is no place for the host to stop Joshua gives the command, "For- ward, marchr' In tho distance there is long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is city. It is city of ar bors, city with walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttreSs the very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass, It is Jericho, That city was afterward captured by Pom pey, and it was afterward captured by Herod the Great, and it was afterward capture by the Mohammdans, but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram. There shall be only one weapon of war, and that a ram s horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken and holes were punctured in it, and then the musician 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 were to take these rude rustic musical instruments, and they were to go around the city ev- cry day for six days-once day for six days, and then on the seventh day they were to go 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 shout at which those great walls should tumble from capstone to base.
 The seven priests with the rude music al instruments pass all around tho city walls on the first day, and failure, Not so much as piece of plaster broke loose from the wall, not so much as a 
 mortar lost from its place, "There, say the unbeheving Israehtes, "Didn' tell you so? 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 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 instruments and the knocking down of the wall? 1t isn't philosophy.
 And I suppose there were many wise acres who stood with their brows knit ted, and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of tho left hand, arguing it all out and showing it was not possible that such cause should produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of philosophy and caricature, and if Joshua had been nominated 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 failure Third day, and failure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and 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.
 The Shout at the Fall.
 There is only one more thing 50 do, | and that is to utter great shout. I see the Israeitish army straightening them selves up, filling their lungs for vocif- eration such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host, "Shout for the Lord hath giv- en you the cityr' All the people begin to cry: Down, Jericho! Down, Jeri- chow And the long line of solid ma sonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under She falls Crash go the walls, the temples, the towers, the palaces! The air is black ened with the dust The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canaanites commingle, and Joshua, standing there in the debris of the wall, hears 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, march i'' There is the city of Ali. It must be talk. en. How shall it be taken? A scouting party comes back and says: "Joshua, we can do that without you. It is going tc be very easy job, You just stay here while we go and capture it" They march with small regiment in front oi that city. The men of Ali look at them and give one yell, and the Israehtes rur like reindeers. The northern troops al Bull Run did not make such rapid time as these Israelites with the Canaanite: after them. They never cut such sorry figure as when they were on the retreat Anybody that goes out in the battles O God with only half force, instead O your taking the men of Ali, the men O Ali will take you. Look at the church O God on the retreat. The Bornesian can nibals ate up Munson, the missionary "Fall back!' said a great many Chris tian people. "Fall back, O church O Godl Borneo will never be taken. Don you see the Bornesian cannibals hay, eaten up Munson, the missionary" Tyn dall delivers his lectures at the Univer sity of Glasgow, and great many goot people say: Fall back. O church O God Don't you see that Christian phi losophy is going to be overcome by world ly philosophy? Fall back" Geolog, plunges its crowbar into the mountains and there are great many people wh say: Scientific investigation is going t
 overthrow the Mosaic account of the ere