The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1907-10-16

Sunday School Association ofieers.
President. w. C. Van Ness. Denison.
Vice President. j. B. Alfred. Manila.
Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. K. Movers,
Denison.
Department secretaries are as follows: Home
p peptmentl Pro MfI s. y n. Fe,,a pea'sG panis Normal Ho, dss
to house, Mrs. Harper, Dow City. Primary, Mrs.
Yoss. Denison: Temp. rance. Sears McHenry,
Uenison. Missionary. Miss Sadie Medley. Manila.
Oct. 90. The Capture of Jericho,
Josh. 6. 800.
1t will not be necessary to here
relate the incident of the fall of
Jericho. before the hosts of the Chill
dren of Israel. All will remember
how by command of Joshua the SOL
diers marched around the walled city
once each day for six days and then
about it seven times on the seventh
day. and there upon the walls fell and
the men under Joshua went straight
up and the city and contents were
theirs.
Saint Paul in his epistle to the
Hebrews. states that the walls of
Jericho fell Through faith, after
they had been comprised about seven
days. 1t certainly wat an exhibition
of faith. when restraining their natur-
al impulse to fight and proceed by d.
rect assault. the men Of Israel con
tented themselves with simply march
ing around the walls.
The method of taking the walled
city Of Jericho was but another ex-
ample of Gods way OF teaching the
Jews and the Christians of this day
how their greatest victories are to be
accomplished. The Children of Isreal
entered the land of promise with a
mighty army. under the leadership of
their greatest soldier. The fighting
men from the tribe of Reuben. from
Cad. and the half tribe of Manasseh
passed over with their bretheren to
help conquer the country. Then when
the people are in military array they
are held in check by Gods command
and n of their greatest victories is
accomplished by means utterly at
variance with ordinary warfare.
There could be no doubt that the
power of God had done it. and the peo-
pie entitled to practically no credit
for the victory. 1t will be remem-
bered that the army of Gideon vas re-
duced to a band of three hundred be-
fore his victory SO that there could
be no doubt that there was a triumph
solely through supernatural means.
These are but a few instances out of
many in the bible when God made
strong the weakness of His people or
gave them victory in a way to show
plainly that He had brought things to
pass.
mot by might, nor by power, but
! by my spirit saith the Lord of Hosts.''
This declaration found in the book of
Zechariah is the key note of the en-
tire bible. The Womans Christian
Temperance Union we'll took FOR a
motto. "This is the victory that over
cometh the world. even our fatih.'
In the temperance cause it has
seemed to many as if the women had
done little more in fighting the liquor
power than to march around the walls
and yet see the remarkable results, in
the larger part of the states of the
union passing laws to either prohibit
the sale of liquors or greatly curtail
them. The Quakers who did not be-
lieve in war. by their persistent agita-
tion against slavery were a powerful
factor IN accusing the people of the
north so against the evils Of slavery
that in time the curse was wiped out
by the proclamation of the immortal
Lincoln.
So the great truth to be gained
from this lesson lies in impressing the
fact that the greatest things in the
world are not brought about by physi-
cial force. but through the workings
Of the active omnipotent God. BY
faith in Him and faithfully doing His
will, seemingly doing so foolish a
thing as taxing a walled city by
marching around it. are the greatest
thing in uplifting the world and
crushing out sin accomplished. May
this be the lesson learned by the
study of the fall of Jericho as told in
the scripture for consideration this
day.
Deafness Cannot BE Cured
by local applications. as they connot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one