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until he was dead, az was The briil'au
young American soldier Nathan Hal.
l am using these two noted historical
illustra tons to SHOW The risk that SPY
runs In order that his general may
learn the position and the strength Of
the enemy ! am also using them 90
prove that only the pblcst and the bray
est and the best soldiers OF an army
ore ever detailed by the commanding
officers to perform the duty of spy.
a spy once caught in the cnemy's lines
Is always executed as soon as q court
martial can be summoned.
Spies For Moses.
Moses may not have been IN orator
like Aaron, but he had the eloqucnce OF
action. He was one of the wisest lead
ers of men who ever lived with mar
veous executive skill he led the chill
dren of Israel out from the Egyptian
enslavement. He led them through the
Red sea- Now he was face to face
with his intrenched foes. The prom
iced land was before him. Moses was
Ike Hannibal about 10 Invade the Ro-
man empire. lie was like Nerxes with
his million followers about to cross the
Hellespont or the strait of DardanellcS.
He was like julius Caesar invading the
land Of the Gauls. Moses knew not
what was ahead Therefore as wise
general and leader of men he selected
his spies and sent them forward TO
find out what kind of people lived in
Canaan. lie wanted to find out what
were the Notifications of his enemies,
what was their military discipline and
the easiest way for the Isrlolites TO at
tack them. He did just what General
james Wolfe did when about to at
tack Quebec. lie sent forward his spies
TO learn the way up the heights of
Abraham. Then when the British COM
mander knew the way he commanded
the troops 30 advance TO the onslaught.
Now. what did the children OF Israel
hear about their foes when these spies
came back with their reports? "Whr,'
said most of these Spes, 1--WE can new
or capture those lands. The inhabit-
ants are a race Of giants. \ little five
year-oli child has just as much show
Of whipping his father as we have Of
staying those men. Those giants are
also intrenched in impregnable for.
trpsses. Each city is u huge walled
town. Then these men are not only
giants. but their numbers are as multi
tudnous as the sands of the sea. There
are many nations there and all work
ing together. Oh, why did We come?
Oh, why did we leave orr homes in
Egypt Thus did most Of the spies
report who went into the promised
land. Yet Forty years afterward the
sons Of those men overcame the giants
and their strongholds, as they them
selves might have done If they had
put faith in God. So some tinid dis
ciples Of Christ IN our day shrink from
alta ckinG the forces of sin In their in
trPnChments. They think Of their own
weakness instead OF the Omnipotence
of God, who will fight for them Our
fault is that Of these ancient Hebrews.
Instead of. going boldly to the fight we
hold back and whnper We saw the
giants. the sons of Anak, which come
of giants
They We're Not Pygn1ies,
In the first place, these Hebrew spies
saw men of tremendous physical pro-
portions. The inhabitants of the prom
fsed land We're not pygmies, such as
Stanley found in the heart of Africa
| They were the sons of Anak. They
| loomed up before the Hebrew spies
| like some of the Kentucky men who
are six or seven feet in height. They
Were like the Goliath whom David, the
shepherd boy, fought. They We're for
midable human monsters Of bone and
sincw and muscle, They were men OF
| mighty physical proportions. The same
, END OF giants are inhabiting the 1u-
| Gaean hills today. When the tourist
| travels through the Holy Land and
Bees long line Of Bedouins riding past
upon their beautifully caparisoned Ara
ban thoroughbreds, they loom up SO
big that it seems as though they could
take you Up as a child and with their
mighty arms crush you as easily as q
| huge boa constructor could strangle a
| little fawn. There are living today in
| Palestine among the DedCuin tribes
men just as great and strong as was
| the Philistine adversary whom David
| heard taunting and dcfyin9 Sauls ar.
my.
DO you, as wise men, think It was
| wrong for these Hebrew spies to take
a true measurement Of the physical
| proportions of these giants? l do not.
| If / had been one Of those spies
would have said to Moses and the peo-
| pie waiting for my report. as l would
say now to the Christian young man
| going into the temptations Of the
| world: You are going to have giants
| to fight in this world. You are
not going to fight a lot Of pygmies.
| You must develop your brain. You
must develop the strength OF yonr
arm. You must clean your weapons
| and put them in the finest trim. 40
| man is ever able to successfully tri-
umph over the mighty giants Of life
unless he fully draws upon all his re-
sources of body, mind and soul" lie
would be foolhardy David who went
| forth to battle against Il Goliath who
was son of Anak unless his sling was
In perfect condition. unless he chose
the smoothest and roundest stones from
| the brook and unless he had practiced