The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1902-10-10

she hid the messengers that we sent.
IS And ye. in any wise keep yourselves
from the accursed thing, lest We make
/ yourselves accursed. when ye take OF the
accursed thing, and make the camp OF
Israel a curse. and trouble IL.
- But all the silver, and gold. and ves.
sells of brass and iron. are consecrated
unto the Lord: they shall come into the
treasury Of the LORD.
%. So the people shouted when the priests
blew with the trumpets: and II came 70
pass. when the people heard the sound Of
the trumpet. and the people shouted with
| a great shout, and the wall fell down nat
so that the people went up into the city.
every man straight before him, and they
took the city.
GOLDEN TExT.-By faith the wallis
Of Jericho fell down.-Heb. 11s3O.
LESSON ToPIc.-God's Word as % the
OUTLINE OF sCRIPTURAL SECTION.
Keeping the passover .-......Josh. sl-i1
Divine INSTRUCTIONS ...........yosh. s-iS-sS
Inc city taken .......-.-....... - Osl wv
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
An Unmilitary Delay.-When the
inhabitants of Canaan heard OF the
miraculous crossing of the Jordan.
"their heart melted, neither was
there spirit in them any more, be-
cause of the children of Israeli
(5:1). 1t is well-known military
principle that the best of all times
to strike en- enemy is when he Is
paralyzed with fear. According to
this. Joshua should have marched
without delay against Jericho. But
at Gods command he halted at Gil
gal. that the Israelites might renew
their covenant with Jehovah through
the rite of circumcision. and that
they might celebrate the passover.
Our lesson shows that nothing was
lost by this delay.
Keeping the Passover.-The inhab-
itants of Canaan were paralyzed
with fear at the approach Of the
Hebrews, and at the marvellous way
in which all obstacles vanished be-
fore them. There was absolutely
no danger of attack. and so Joshua
rested for a time at Gilgal, which
was his headquarters throughout the
conquest. During this time the rite
of circumcision. which had been dis
continued during the years Of wan
dering, was Reconstructed. and the
passover anniversary of the fight
from Egypt was observed for the
: first time in the land of promise
. Notice that the miraculous supply
. of food was not continued after il
became possible to obtain food in
any other way. 1t was not Gods
purpose to encourage laziness.
Divine Instructions.-In seeing the
. "prince of the host Of jehovah"
Joshua had his vision as Moses had
. his at the burning bush. In the
, great responsible, that had been
, laid upon Joshua ne needed n spe-
cial. personal assurance of Jehovah's
actual leadership. lie received II
! here.
The City Taken.-The order Of
march was az a company of armed
! horns. (3) the ark. (4) the rest Of
the hostile "rearward." The his
, torian tells us that the siege Of Jeri-
! cho was very effective (6:D. and that
/ its final fall was wrought by the
, hand of God alone, mans part being
simply the movements described in
the text The account purposes to
teach Mt least these four things: m
Obedience. The Hebrews were
. armed men. They were 'strong and
J of good courage" They must have
, been tempted to attack the city in
the usual way, but they obeyed. ex-
J ercising great self-control. for they
! were allowed to make no demonstra-.
: ton against the city except the SOL
emn one divinely ordered. The fall
, Of the city was the reward of obedi-
cnce. (2) Faith. They were exhort-
ed TO be strong. and then Mt onrc
commanded not to use that strength.
. They needed the strength. but they
!. also needed TO learn not to rely on
. II. Here the historian saw n lesson
: Of trust in God. "By faith the walls
; OF Jericho fell down" (3) Israel
: made to see the conquest from two
points Of view. First, God was taxi
, ing the land Of Canaan for his people,
Z Israel. and second, God was using
his people as IN instrument with
: which to inlct deserved punishment
: on a race whose existence, for the
a best interests of mankind ut large,
4 could no longer be tolerated. 4)
I, The conquest was n religious move
= merit. II was faithfulness to God
! and the law that brought success.
' and unfaithfulness that brought fall
e ure.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
!. The love Of God is the light OF man.
!. Gods orders are not 10 be criti-
: ,ised. but are TO be carried out
+ II the church triumphs. II will be
d through faith and obedience.
: Gods tapparenD foolishncss Is
l. wiser than the wisdom Of the wisest
men.
. II the church triumphs. II will do
!, a. through Gods methods and not
: through mans.
n q the church triumphs, II viii DC
4 90 in way that will especially.
honor God rather than itself