Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-12-01

| ta1nS, ana there are q great many peO-
pie who say: Scientific Investigation
is going to over throw the Mosaic ac-
count of the creation. Fall back,"
Gods Soldiers Must Advance,
But friends of God never have had
any right to fall back. Joshua falls
on MS lace in chagrin. 1t is the only
tlme you ever see the back of his head
He falls on his face and begins to
whine, and he says, 20 Lord God.
wherefore hast thou at all brought this
people over Jordan to deliver US into
the hands of the Amorites, to destroy
us? Would to God we had been con-
tent and dwelt on the other side of
jordan For the Canaanites and all
the inhabitants of the land shall hear
| OF IL and shall environ US round and
cut OF our name from the earth"
am very glad Joshua said that Before
1t seemed as if he were a supernatural
| being and therefore could not be an
example to US, but l find he is a man,
he is only man. Just as sometimes
you find man under severe opposi-
ton or in a bad state of physical
health, or worn out with overwork
lying down and signing about being
! defeated. 1 am encouraged when 1
| hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in
| the dust God comes and rouses him.
How does he rouse him? BY compIi-
mentary apostrophe? No. He SAYS,
Get thee up Wherefore liest thou
upon thy face?" Joshua rises, and. /
warrant you, with a mortified look
But his old courage comes back. The
fact was that was not his battle. If
he had been in it he would have gone
on to victory. He gathers his troops
around him and says: Now, let us
go up and capture the city of All Let
us go up right away" They march
on. He puts the majority of the troops
behind ledge of rocks in the night,
and then he sends comparatively small
regiments up in front of the city. The
men of Al come out with shout. The
small regiments of Israelites in strata
gem fall back, and fall back, and when
all the men OF All have left the city
and are in pursuit of these scattered,
or seemingly scattered, regiments,
Joshua stands on a rock-I see his
locks flying in the wind as he points
his spear toward the doomed city, and
that is the signal. The men rush out
from behind the rocks and take the
city, and it is put to the torch, and
down, and the flying Israelites return,
and between these two waves of Is |
raelitish prowess the men of All are
destroyed, and the Israelites gain the
victory; and while 1 see the curling |
smoke of that destroyed city on the
sky, and while l hear the huzza of the |
Israelites and the groan of the Ca
NANTES, Joshua hears something
louder than it all, ringing and echo
ing through his soul, There shall not
any man be able to stand before thee
all the days of thy life
No Place to Stop.
But this is no place for the host of
Joshua to stop Forward, march,"
cries Joshua to the troops. There is
the city of Gibeon. 1t has put itself
under the protection of Joshua They
send word: There are five kings
after us. They are going to destroy
US. Send troops quick. Send us help
right away" Joshua has a three days
march, more than double quick. On
the morning of the third day he is be
fore the enemy. There are two long
lines of battle. The battle opens with
great slaughter, but the Canaanftes
soon discover something They say:
THAT is Joshua. That is the man
who conquered the spring freshet and
knocked down the stone walls of
Jericho and destroyed the city of All
There is no use lighting They sound
a retreat, and as they begin to retreat
Joshua and his host spring upon them
like panther, pursuing them over the
rocks, while the catapults of the sky
pour voiley of hai,stones into the val
ley, and all the artillery of the heav-
ems. with bullets of iron. pound the
Canaanites against the ledges of Beth
horon. "Oh,' says Joshua, ''this is
surely a victoryI' But do you not
see the sun is going down? Those
Amorites are going to get away after
all, and then they will come up some
other time and bother US, and perhaps
destroy us. See, the sun is going down.
Oh, for a longer day than has ever
been seen in this climatei''
Look out when good man makes
the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his
face, radiant with prayer, and looks
at the descending sun over Gibeon and
at the faint crescent of the moon, for
you know the queen of the night
sometimes will linger around the
palaces of the day. Pointing one hand
at the descending sun and the other
at 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 still upon Gibeon.
and thou, moon, in the valley of
Ajalon." They halted Whether it was