Connecticut western news., 1900-11-22
men Of .S1 al'e destroyed. ana tue IsrG elites gain the victory.
The Sun of the Wicked.

The Sun of the Wicked.
 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. It 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 Canaanites soon discover something. They say: ''That is Joshua. That is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down the stone wall of Jericho and destroyed the city of Al. There Is no use fighting" They sound 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 . | volley of hailstones into the valley, and | all the artillery of the heavens, with | bullets of iron, pound the Canaanites against the lodges of Bethhoron. "Oh," says Joshua, "this Is surely victory" 'But do you not see the sun Is going down? Those Amorites are going ts 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 eli matev What is the matter with Josh | ua? Has he fallen in an apoplectic fit? | No. He is in prayer.
 | 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 finger around the palaces of the | day. Pointing one hand at the descend | ing sun and the other hand at the faint crescent of the moon, In the name of l 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 1t was by refraction of the suns rays or by the stopping of the | | and do not care. I leave 1t to the Chris tian Scientists and the infidel scientists to settle that question while tell you have seen the same thing. "What! | say you. Not the sun standing stiliT l Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and their sun sets at | noon. But let man start out in battle | for God and the truth and against sin, | and the day of his usefulness Is pro- longed and prolonged and prolonged. | Grace of the Gospel.
 | John Summerfield was consumptive | Methodist. He looked fearfully white, I am told, as he stood in the old Sands Street church, in Brooklyn, preaching l Christ and again on the anniversary | platform In New York pleading for the | Bible until unusual and unknown glo- | ries rolled forth from that book. When be was dying, his pillow was brushed with the wings of an angel from the skies, the messenger that God sent l down. Did John Summerfeld's sun set? Did John Summerfield's day end ? Oh, mol He lives on in his burning ut ! | church. He said: "I cannot die now. am only 27 years of age. Sun of my Christian influence, stand thou still above America" and it-stood still.
 Robert McCheyne was consumptivs Presbyterian. 1t was said when he preached he coughed so 1t seemed as If he would never preach again. His name is fragrant In all Christendom. That name is mightier today than was ever his living presence. He lived to preach the gospel in Aberdeen, Edin- burgh and Dundee, but he went away very early. He preached himself into the grave. Has Robert McCheyne's sun set? Is Robert McCheyne's day ended? Oh, no! His dying delirium was filled with prayer, and when he lifted his hand to pronounce the bene- diction upon his family and the bene- diction upon his country he seemed to say: I cannot die now. 1 want to live on and on. want to start an influence
 for the church that will never cease. am only 30 years of age. Sun of my
 Christian ministry, stand still over
 Scotland" Aud it stood still.
 But Joshua was not quite through
 There was time for five funerals before
 the sun of that prolonged day set. Who
 will preach their funeral sermon? Mas
 sillon preached the funeral sermon
 over Louis XVI. Who will preach the
 funeral sermon of those five dead kings king of Jerusalem, king of Hebron
 king of Jarmuth, king of Lachish, king
 of Eglon?' Let 1t be by Joshua. What
 Is his text? What shall be the epitapt
 put on the door of the tomb? There
 shall not any man be able to stand be
 fore thee all the days of thy life" Be
 fore you fasten up the door I want five
 more kings beheaded and thrust in
 King Alcohol, King Fraud, King Lust
 King Superstition, King Infidelity. Let
 them be beheaded and hurl them in
 Then fasten up the door forever. What
 shall the inscription and what shall the
 epitaph be? For all Christian philan
 thropists of all ages are going to come
 and look at 1t. What shall the inscrip
 tion be? "There shall not any man be
 able to stand before thee all the dayI
 of thy life"
 Joshua's Greatest Battle.
 ! put IL IS tune TOT JoSnua 10 go noIne
 He Is no years old. Washington went
 down the Potomac and at Mount Yer
 non closed his days. Wellington died
 peacefully at Apsley House. Now
 where shall Joshua rest? Why, he ii
 to have his greatest battle now. After
 no years he has to meet a king who
 has more subjects than all the present
 population of the earth, his throne {
 pyramid of skulls, his parterre thu
 graveyards and the cemeteries of tho
 world, his chariot the worlds hearse-
 the king of terrors. But if this Is Josh
 ua's greatest battle 1t is going to bt
 Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers
 his friends around him and gives hii
 valedictory, and 1t is full of reminis
 cence.
 Young men tell what they are going