The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-27


OF Israelitish prowess the men OF Al are
DESTROYED and the Israelites gain me
victory. and while see the curling smoke
Of that destroyed city on the SKY anu
while hear the huzza OF the Asiaetl.ls
and the groan Of the Canaanites. joshua
hears something louder than u all rnS
ing. echoing through his soul, There stah
not any man be able TO stand before lh-e
all the days Of thy life
But this is no place for the host Of JOSH
ua 70 stop. Forward, march cI-.s
Joshua 10 the troops. There is the city OF
C;ibeon. Ii his put itself under the prot"c-
ton Of Joshua. They sent word, in@Ie
are five kings after rs; they are Soihs TO
destroy us: send troops quick, SEM ~
help right away" Joshua has thIes Nas
march more than double qulch- vi iV
morning OF the third day he Is before tue
enemy. There are two long lines OF batt'e-
The battle opens with great slaAshteI'
hut the Canaanites soon discover some
thing. They say. THAT is joshua thdt y
the man who conquered the spring Ites"-
81 and knocked down the stone wan anu +
DESTROYED the city Of Al. There Is no use I
6ehting" And they sound a retreat, ana /
as they begin to retreat, Joshua ana ms /
host spring upon them Ike a pahtn~f' put-
suing them over rocks, ana as th"se a.
NANTES with sprained ankles ana saShSu
foreheads, retreat. the catapults OF lhe
sky pour volley Of hailstones lhlo tile
valley, and all the artillery OF the heaN-
ems with bullets Of iron, POUNDS the "a
NANTES against the lodges OF beth-Ao-
ron. -.
on says Joshua, this is surely d
victory" But do you not see the sun y
going down? Those Amorites are GONG
to get away alter all. and they VIII come
nm some other time and bother us, anu
perhaps destroy us" See. the sun Is go
ing down. Oh, for longer day man mas
ever been seen in this climate! MhaI II
Toe no
an apopletic ft2 No. He Is IN prayer
Look ont when a good man makes the
Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face raal-
ant with praVer.and looks at the desceHu-
ing sun over Gideon and at the faint cres-
cent of the moon, for you know the queen
of the night sometimes will linser arouhI
the palaces Of the day Pointing one hahI
/ at the descending sun and the other hand
/ M the faint crescent of the moon, IN the
/ name of that God who shaped the worlds
/ and moves the worlds, he cries sun
stand thou sull upon Gideon; and tnou
| moon in the valley of Ajalon. Ana iney
/ etood still Whether It was by retractloh
/ of the suns rays, or by the stopping Oh
/ the whole planetary system, do not Know
/ and do not care. / leave it TO the Chrls-
/ tian scientists and the infidel scientists TO
settle that question, while l tell you l
have seen the same thing. Nv nat. say
Won mot the sun standing stillE 1es.
: The same miracle IS ptllOA itAON NV
The wicked do not live out hair thelr Jay
and the sun sets at noon. But let a man
start out and battle for God, and the truth,
and against sin. and the day OF his useIul-
ness is prolonged, and prolonged, ana pro-
| longed.
John Summerheld was consumptlNe
| Methodist He looked fearfully white /
am told. as he stood in old Sands street
| church. in this city, preaching christ ana
when he stood on the anniversary pat
form in New York, pleading for the BlDie
until unusual and unknown glories rolled
forth from that book. When he was dy-
ing his pillow was brushed with the wings
of the angel from the skies, the ihe sss
ger that God sent down. Did john sum
merfeld's sun set? Did John summer
fields day end? oh! no. He lives on IN ms
burning utterance in behalf of the chris
tian church The sun stood still.
Robert McCheyne was consumptlV'
Presbyterian. 1t was said when ne preach
ed he coughed so It seemed as If he woui'
never preach again. His name is fragran
in all Christendom, that name mighue
to-day than was ever his living presence
He lived to preach the gospel in Aberdeen
Edinburgh and Dundee, but he went ava
very early. He preached himself into IN
grave Has Robert McCheyne's su
set Is Robert McCheynes day ended
oh. no! His dying delirium was filled wit
] PRAYER and when he lifted his hand I
pronounce the benediction upon his fam
| lily, and the benediction upon his cour
! try. he seemed to say: Il cannot die now
I want to live on and on / want to stan
an influence for the church that will nevC
C cease. l am only thirty years of ag
Sun of my Christian ministry, stand ST.
:: over Scotland" And it stood still.
But it is time for Joshua to go home. +
:, is a hundred and ten years old. Washing
n ton went down the Potomac, and at Moui
n Vernon closed his days. Wellington die
IL | peacefully at Apsley House. Now, whel
N shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have h
y greatest battle now. After a hundred al
~ ten years he has to meet king who hi
"a more subjects than all the present popul
NJ ton of the earth, his throne a pyramid
% skulls his parterre the graveyards and L
~ cemeteries of the world, his chariot Z
an worlds hearse-the King of Terrors. b
al If this is Joshuas greatest battle, 1t Is E
ly ing to be Joshua's greatest victory.
he gathers his friends around him and CIV
u his valedictory, and 1t is full of remin
II. cence. Young men tell what they are goi
m TO do; old men tell what they have done
at And as you have heard a grandfather,
IN, a great-grandfather, seated by the event
be fire tell of Monmouth, or Yorktown, a
n then lift the crutch or staff as though
m were musket, to fight, and show how
he old battles were won-so Joshua gatht
ny his friends around his dying couch, and
en- tells them the story OF what ne mas Ut
hi through and as he lies there his white loo
Id showing down on his wrinkled forehead
gy wonder if God has kept his promise all
ms, way through--the promise of the text
no he lies there he tells the story one, two,
to three times-you have heard old people
re- a story two or three times overland
i've answers: Il go the way of all the ear
and not one word of the promise has fail
is not one word thereof has failed all
hls come to pass, not one word thereof
10 failed" And then he turns to his fam
OIL as a dying parent will, and says: "Cho
ms now whom you will serve the God of Isri
me or the God of the Amorites. AS for me
us my house. we will serve the Lord A
thu ing parent cannot be reckless or thong
OF less in regard to his children. Consent
nus part with them at the door of the tomb
en- cannot BY the cradle in which their
iiiie fancy was rocked, by the bosom on VIII
they first lay, by the blood of the Gov
p 4n ant, by the God of Joshua, it shall not
~. We will not part. we cannot part. Je
T.. yah Jireh, we take thee at thy prom
snd II will be God to thee and thy seed a
n thee"