Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-11-23
Only one house spared who lives there?


That there Is mercy for the chief OF SIM
ners. !.
The red cord of divine injunction reach.
ing from her window to the ground SO
that when the people saw the RED cora
they knew it was the divine indication
that they should not disturb The prem;
Uses; making us think of the divine cord
of a Saviour's deliverance, the red eorG
of a Saviour's kindness, the red cora Oh
a Saviour's mercy, the red cord OF our
rescue. Mercy for the chief Of sinners.
Put your trust in that God, and no dan-
age shall befall you. a.
When our world shall be more terribly
surrounded than was Jericho, even by the
trumpets of the judgment day, and the
hills and the mountains, the metal bones
and ribs of nature, shall break, they VINO
have had Rahab's faith shall have Kahaps
deliverance.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ether
And heavens last thunder shakes the
earth below.
Thou. undismayed, shalt Ger the ruins
smile ;. si
And light thy torch at natures funeral
pile.
But Joshua's troops may not halt here;
The command is Forward, march,. lhere
IS the city of All. 1t must be taken. A
scouting party comes back and says;
HJoshua. we can do that without YOU lt
is going to be a very easy job. You must mus, !,
stay here while we go and capture IL:
They march with small regiment. IN
front Of that city. The men OF Al look AT
them and give one yell, and the israehtes
run like reindeer.
Look out when good man makes the
Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, fa-
diant with prayer, and looks at the des,
cending sun over Gideon, and at the ram.
crescent of the moon, for you know inc
queen 6f the night sometimes VIII hnger
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 i,ame of that God who. shaped the
J worlds and moves the worlds ne cries;
"Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, ana
al 90 the way of all the earth, and not
one word Of the promise has failed, not
one word thereof has failed; all has come
| I'd pass, not one word thereof has failed"
And then he turns to his family, as dy;
| ing parent will, and says: Choose now
whom you will serve, the God OF Israel or
| the God of the Amorites. As for me and
my house, we will serve the Lord" A
dying parent cannot be reckless or
| thoughtless of his children. Consent to
part with them forever. at the door of
| the tomb we cannot. By the cradle in
which their infancy was rocked, by the
bosom on which they first lay, by the
blood of the covenant by the I'D nj
Joshua it shall not be. We will not part;
we cannot part. Jehovah-Jireh, we take
| Thee at Thy promise. II will be God to
| thee and thy seed after thee"
Dead, the old chieftain must be laid
| out. Handle him. very gently. That
sacred body is over ITO years of age. Lay
| him out, stretch out those feet that
walked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close
| those lips which helped blow the blast
at which The walls of Jericho fell. Fold
| the arm that lifted the spear toward the
doomed city of All. Fold it right over the
heart that exulted when the five kings
| fell. But where shall we get the burn
| ishe,, granite for the headstone and the
| footstone? / bething myself now. / inn
| agine that for the head it shall be the
sun that stood sill upon Gideon and for
| the foot the moon that stood still in the
valley of Ajalon.
tbou moon. in. the valley OF Ajalon. They
| halted Whether it was by refractlon OF
tbe suns rays or by the stopping OF the
whole planetary system do not know and
| do not care. / leave it to the Christian
| Scientists and the infidel scientists to set
| lie that question while tell you | have
seen the same thing. What" say you
"Not the sun standing still2" Yes. Ihe
same miracle is performed nowadays;
The wicked do not live out half Their
| day. and their sun sets at noon.. But le'
a man start out in battle for God and tn'
truth and against sin, and the day OF hi
usefulness is prolonged and prolonged AMI
prolonged.
! There was time for FIVE funerals before tn
sun Of tnat prolonged day set. VINO WI wa
preach their funeral sermon! Massillol
preached the funeral sermon over Lou
xvi who will! preach the funeral ser
mon of those five dead kings-king
Jerusalem, king of Hebron, king Of jar
muth, king of Lachish, king OF ESlon
let It be by Joshua. What is his text
What shall be the epitaph put on the doc
of the tomb? "There shall not any MAJ
be able to stand before thee all the day
of thy life"
Before you fasten up the door | wan
five more kings beheaded and thrust IN
King Alcohol, King Fraud, Klng Lqs'
King Superstition, King lnhdeiity' ~, lie
them be beheaded and hurl them IN. Inc
fasten up the door forever.
What shall the inscription and VIVA
shall the epitaph be? For all Christia
philanthropists of all ages are goilnl
r. come and look at it. What shall tn
;nscrintion be? 'There shall not an
man be able to stand before thee all tn
days of thy life
But it is time for Joshua to go hom'
He is ITO years old. Washington, wer
down the Potomac and at Mount Verno
closed his days. Wellington died peace1u
ly at Apsley House. Now, where sna
Joshua rest? Why, he is to have n
greatest battle now. After llO years |,
has to meet king who has more sui
jects than all the present population 9
the earth, his throne pyramid OF skull
his parterre the graveyards and the CEN
teries of the world, his chariot the world
hearse-the king of terrors. But II this
Joshua's greatest battle 1T Is gong 10
Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers n
friends around him and gives his val
| dictorv. and it is full of Renaissance.
| Young men tell what they are going
do: old men tell what they have done. Ar
as you have heard a grandfather or grea
grandfather seated by the evening n
tell of Monmouth or Yorktown and the
lift the crutch or staff as though it we
a musket to fight and show how the o
battles were won, so Joshua gathers b
friends around his dying couch, and
tells them the story of what he has be-
| through and az he lies there, his viii
locks showing down on his wrinkled for
head. / ask If God has kept His promi
all the way through. AS he lies there
tells the story one, two or three times
you have heard old people tell sto
two or three times overland he answer