Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-06-01
THE HEROIC JOSHUA.
HOW He COMMANDED THE SUN TO
STAND STILL.

HOW HE COMMANDED THE SUN TO
STAND STILL.
Rev. Or. Taimage breaches Another Scr
mon OF Surprising Interest and Power.
The Greatest Soldier Of All Time-rhe
Gallant Thirteenth.
BROOKLYN, May 26.--In the Embury
Memorial church large audience as
scinhled Ibis evening to listen to the an
Eu:.l semen CT Chaplain T. De Witt Tai
ririse Of The Thirteenth regiment, N. @.
b n Y. Tie members of the regiment
occupied Tho body Of the church. DIR.
ralmage chose for his subject 1.-THE
t(ireatest Soldier of All Time" the text
being Joshua i, 5, There shall not any
man be able TO stand before thee all the
days of thy life. :
The gallant Thirteenth, !" as this reg
ircnt is generally and appropriately
rallied, has gathered tonight for the wor-
ship of God and to hear the annual
seriaon. And first look with hearty
salutation into the faces of the veterans,
who, though now not in active service,
have the same patriotic and military en-
thusiasr which characterized them
when, ii 1868, they babe farewell to home
and loved caes and started for the field
and risked all they held dear on earth for
the re-establishment of the falling Unit
ed States government. "All that man
| hath will he give for his life, J" and you
showed yourselves willing to give your
lives We hail you We thank you'll We
bless you, tho veterans of tho Thirteenth.
/ Nothing can ever rob you of the honor
Of having been soldiers in one of the
most tremendous wars Of all history, a
war with Grant and Sherman and Han
cock and Sheridan and Farragut ON one
side, and Lee and Stonewall jackson
and Longstreet and Johnston en- the
other.
AS in Greek assemblages, when speak
FRS would rouse the audience, they shout
! ed "Marathon!" so if / wanted to stir
you to reclamation / would only need
to speak the words, Lookout Noun
tain, y Charlottesville, ''Gettys-
burg" And though through the passage
Of years you are forever free from duty
Of enlistment,if European nations should
too easily ard too quickly forget the
Monroe doctrine and set aggressive foot
upon this continent l think your ankles
would be supple again, and Your arms
would grow strong again, and your eyes
would be keen enough to follow the stars
IF the old flag wherever they might lead.
Great Fighter.
And next l greet the colonel and his
staff, and all the officers and men of this
regiment. 1t has been an eventful year
in your history. If never before, Brook
4 lyn appreciates something of tho value
of its armories, and the Importance of
/ the men who there drill for the defense
and safety of the city. The blessing of
God be upon all of you, my comrades Of
I tile Thirteenth regiment And looking
about for a subject that might be most
/ helpful and inspiring for you, and our
veterans here assembled, and the citizens
! gathered tonight with their good wishes,
l have concluded to hold up before you
1 the greatest soldier Of all time-Joshua,
the hero of my text.
he was magnificent fighter, but he
always fought on the right side, and he
1 neyer fought unless God told him to
fight In my text he gets his military
\ equipment and one would think it must
! have been plulned helmet for the brow,
! greaves of brass fer the feet, habergeen
/ for the breast. ''Tbere shall not any
man be able to stand before thee all the
/ days Of thy lie. " 'Oh, - yen say, ANY
body could kave courage with srch
] backing up rs that. Why, my friends,
| have to tell you that the God Of the
universe aud the Chieftain Of eternity
promises to do just as much for Us as for
| him All the resources Of eternity are
pledged i'll our behalf, if we go ont in
the service Ct God, aud no more than
| that WAS offered to Joshua. God fulfill
ed this promise of my text, although
! ,Ioshua's first battle was with the spring
! freshct, and the next with stone wall,
and the next leading on regiment of
/ whipped towards, and the next battle
/ against darkness, wheeling the sun and
4 the moon into his battalion, and the last
against the king Of terrors, death-five
/ great victories.
for the most part, When the general
OF an army starts out III conflict he
would like to have small battle IN
order that lie may get his courage up
aud he may rally his troops and get
them drilled for greater conflicts, but this
FIRST undertaking OF Joshua was greater
than the ieyeilng OF Fort Pulaski, or
| the Numbering down OF Gibraltar, or
the overthrow OF the Bastllle. 1t was
the crossing OF the Jordan at the time
OF the spring freshet. The SHOWS OF
Mount Lebanon had Just been melting,
ana they poured down INTO the valley,
and the whole valley was a raging tor
rent So tie Canaanites stand on one
bank and they look across and see
joshua aud the lsraelltes, and they
laugh and say: "Ahal aha! They can
not disturb rs until the freshets fall 1t