The Tupelo journal., 1902-10-24
HI SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lesson In the International series
for October &c, 10O2-Joshua
ana Caleb.
II LESSON TEXT.

the children of Israel did. and they divided
the land.
6. Then the children of Judah came unto
Joshua In Gilgal: and Caleb the son Of Je-
phunneh the kenezite said unto him, Thou
knowes the thing that the Lord said, unto
Moses the man~of God concerning me and
thee in kadeshbarnea.
4 Forty years old was / when Moses the
servant OF the Lord sent me from Kadesh-
parnea to espy out the land; and l brought
MIN word again as it was in mine heart.
). Nevertheless my brethren that went
up with me made the heart Of the people
melt: but wholly followed the Lord my
God.
y. And Moses sware on that day, saying,
surely the land wherein thy feet rave
trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy
chiidren's forever, because thou hast who'll
ly followed the Lord my God
TO- And now, behold, the Lord hath kept
me alive, as He said, these 40 and five years,
even since the Lord spake this word, unto
Moses. while the children of Israel wan
dered in the wilderness: and now, 10, l am
this day fourscore and five years old
II. And yet l am as strong this day as l
was In the day that Moses sent me-: as my
strength was then, even SO Is my strength
now, Tor war, both to go out, and to
come In
IL. NOW therefore give me this mountain,
whereof the Lord spake in that day; for
thou heardest in that day how the Anakims
were there, and hat the cities were great
and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with
me, then l shall be able to drive them out,
as the Lord said.
IL. And Joshua blessed him, and gave
unto Caleb the son of J~ephunIeh Hebron
for an inheritance.
IA. Hebron therefore became the inner
ttance Of Caleb tho CON nf Ianhnpnph the
kenezlte unto this day, because that he
wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.
10. And the name of Hebron before was
kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man
among the Anakims. And the land had
rest from war.
GOLDEN TExT.-He wholly followed
the LOrd.-JOsh. 14;14.
OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURAL SECTION.
Defeat and victory ..........Josh viii, viii.
Compact with the Observation-Disclosures. tx.
Conquest of southern Canaan.......Josh. X.
Conquest of northern Canaan......Josh. XII.
Inc portions ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. xiii
CdieD S claim oSh. 14:6-l5
TIME.-B. c. 1451, 1850 and 1445.
PLACE.-Gilgal.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Conquest.-It took about seven
years to subdue Canaan with anything
like completeness, though the victory
was practically assured in much less
time. Joshua's plan of campaign was
mastery. By taking Jericho and All,
and by securing the cities of Gideon,
Beerooth and Chephirah and Kiriath-
jearim through the Gibeonites
(9:1-1S), Canaan was divided into two
parts by a line runningfrom Jericho to
the Mediterranean, so that the kings
of the north and of the south were cut
off from cooperating with each other.
Then Joshua first conquered the south
and then the north by the swiftness of
his movements and the impetuosity of
his attacks. All this was done before
the redemption of the promise made to
Caleb.
The Two Campaigns.-Chapter vii. re-
lates the defeat of a small detachment
of men at All, as the result of the dis
obedience of Achan, who had taken
some of the plumber of Jericho for his
own use; the detection and punishment
of the offender and, with him, the ston-
ing to death of his innocent children.
Joshua was a noble servant of God, but
we who have known Christ's revelation
of the heart of God cannot believe
that he was right in supposing all the
cruelty and barbarism of those days to
be pleasing in Gods sight. The next
two chapters relate the taking of All,
and the stratagem of the Gibeonites.
The accounts of the conquest found in
Joshua indicate two distinct cam
paigns carried on by the nation as a
first was in the southern part of the
country, and began with the defeat of
the five Amorite kings. 1t brought
about the complete subjugation of
that part of the country and the ex-
termination of most of the original
Inhabitants. The northern campaign
began with the defeat of the coalition
under Jabin, king of Hazor, and was,
throughout, a sweeping victory. The
accounts in Joshua and Judges have
never been satisfactorily harmonized.
Joshua perhaps gives a sort of con-
densed account of what really took a
much longer time than would appear
or the surface.
Caleb's Claim.-"The children of
Judah drew nigh unto joshua" Caleb
belonged to the tribe of Judah by
for he was not one of the
Hebrews by birth. He was "Caleb-
the Kenezite." .'The thing that Je-
hovah spake-concerning me-" He
based his claim on Jehovah's prom
Use, spoken more than 40 years be-
fore. Forty years old was l." Ca
leb was IS years old at the time of
this lesson. my brethren" Caleb
is referring to the ten cowardly
who had been enemies
to the whole nation. but he speaks
kindly and nurses no resentment in
his heart. 81 am as strong this day
1 was:" His life had not been
easy, but it had been pure and good
and strong. and he assured Joshua
that he was just as well able to con-
quer the Anakim as ever, though he
was IS years old. .'This old veteran,
whose services would have entitled
him to almost any reward he might
ask, did not seek for a soft place for
his declining years, but for author
ity to do yet more hard fighting."-
Prof. Beecher.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
He who wholly follows the Lord
may expect at times to offend 9TH
ers.
He who wholly follows the Lord
will always have a present reward
In the approval of his conscience.
He who wholly follows the Lord
Ill - kha ard r-s~ .~--1- 49,.