The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-06-08
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Annual Address to tho Gallant
y Thirteenth Brooklyn.
Words OF Congratulations and Welcome 90
the Veterans who RisIscd All Ia save
the Union a Lesson From the
frats OF Joshua

regiment y. q. s. y T. at Embury Ne
mortal church, brooklyn He took soi
his subjects "fhe GroateSt Soldier OF
All Time, basing 1t on tho text
1hosc shah not Do any man able % stand loo.
fore thee all mo days tthy Me. JoShun l., 4
For the most part, when tho genera
OF an army starts out In conflict b,
~ould like 20 have n small battle il
order that he may get his courage nj
gnd he may rully his troops and gel
thcm drilled for greater conflicts; bu'
this first undertaking OF Joshua wa,
greater than the levellug of Fort Pu
lasxi, or the laundering down of Glib
4 raltar, or tho overthrow OF tho Bastila,
IL was the crossing OF the Jordan al
the time ~ the spring ffeshet. The
SHOWS ~ Mount Lebanon had just been
melting and they poured down into
the valley, and the Who'll valley wa,
raging torrent, So the Canaauitos
! stand on the bank aud they !ooll
across and see Joshua and the Israel
ties and they laugh and say; "Ahal
! aha, they can not disturb us until the
I froshet fills; IL Is impossible for them
! 10 reach us But after awhile they
! look across the water and they see "A
movement IN the army Of Joshua.
| They say; whats tile matter nowP
Why, there must DC q panic among
these troops, and they are going 10 fly,
or perhaps they are going to try 10
march across the River Jordan. Joshua
Is lunatich But Joshua, the chief
tain OF the text, looks at his army and
~ al ~
start for the bank OF the Jordan,
One mile ahead go two priests car
rying giitteiiug box four feet long
md two feet wide. II is the ark Of
the covenant. And they come down.
and no sooner do they just touch. the
rim OF the water with their feet than
by an Almighty fiat, Jordan parts.
The Drny OF Joshua marches right on
without getting their feet wet, over
the bottom OF the river, path Of
chalk and broken shells and pebbles,
until they get 10 the other bank Then
! they lay hold Of the oleanders and
tamarshs and willows ana pull them
selves up a bank thirty or forty
feet high, and having gained
the other bank, they clap
their shields and their cymba.s,
and sing the praises of the God OF
/ Joshua. But no sooner have they
4 reached the bank than the waters be-
| Gin 10 dash and roar, and with ter
! rife rush they break loose from their
4 strange anchorage. Out yondcr they
| have stoppcd; thirty miles up yonder
they halted On this side the waters
/ ,r,tF ,r1t l.,1. -, ,
! hand of tho Lord God is taken away
from the thus uplifted waters
/ perhaps upliftcd half mile-as the
! Almighty hand is taken away those
| waters rush down, and soiuc OF the un-
| believing Israelitos say: Alas alas;
| what y misfortune! Why could not those
waters have stayed parted? because
perhaps we may wnnt 20 60 back
oh, Lord, we are engaged in a risky
business Those Canaanitcs may eat
Us mp. How If we want TO % back?
Would 1t not have been u more com
plcte miracle If the Lord had parted
the waters 70 let us come through and
kept them parted 10 let MS go back If
we are defeated27 My friends, God
makes no provision for "a Christians
retreat. He clears the path all the
way to Canaan. TO go back is 30 die
The same gatckeepers that swing back
the amethystne and crystalline gate
Of the Jordan to let Israel pass
through, now swing shut the
nnethystne and crystalline gate Of
the Jordan To keep the Israclitos
from going back. ! declare it ia your
hearing to-day, victory ahead, water
forty feet deep in the rear. Triumph
ahead, Canaan ahead; behind you
death and darkness aud woe and Nell
But you say: why didn'tOthosc
Canuanitcs when they bad such n
splendid chance standing on the top
of the bank thirty or forty feet high,
completely demoiish those poor Is
raelites down in the rivcr?' / will tell
you why, TOD had made a promise,
and He was going to keep it. There
shall not ahyfnnn be able to stand be-
fore thee all the days Of thy life"
But this is no place for the host to
stop. Joshua gives the commando;
Forward, march" In the distance
there is n long grove Of trees, and NJ
the end OF the grove is a city. 1t is a
tlly VI dTppiS, a. CITY Win Wills Sttill-
ing to reach to the heavens, to buttress
:he very sky. 1t is the great metrop-
oils that commands the mountain pass.
II is Jericho. That city was afterward
captured by Pompey, and it was af-
terward captured by llcrod the Great,
ana it was afterward captured by
the Mohammedans; but this cam
paign the Lord plans. There
shall be no swords, no shields, no bat
tering ram, There shall be only one
weapon of war, and that a rams horn.
The horn OF the slain ram was some
times 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 Il great
deal of sweet harmony for the
people. That was the only kind
of weapon. Seven priests We're
| 40 take these rude, rustic musical
instruments, and they were to go
| around the city every day for six days
once II day for six days, and then on
the seventh day they were to go
around blowing these rude musical in
| al. q ~,