The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-19


! they? Enervated by the great heat
which degrades all the inhabitants o.
| the Ghor, and unable to endure OF
| their bodies aught but linen, 1t wa!
riors. or anything but irrigators. pad.
/ dlers in water and soft earth. We for.
| get how near neighbors they had beer
| to Sodom and Gomorrah. No grea'
man was born in Jericho; no heroic
deed was ever done in her. She has
| been called the key and the guard
| house of Judaea; she was only the
pantry. She never stood a siege, and
| her inhabitants were always running
| away"
great is the power of self-restraint
about the walls of Jericho, one
march a day, had shaken the founda-
lions of the inhabitants confidence
daybreak. the march was repeated
seven times. The story is most dra-
matically told in the words of Scrip
ture:
And it came to pass on the seventh
day, that they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and comprised
the city after the same manner seven
times; only on that day they COM
passed the city seven times And it
came to pass at the seventh time,
when the priests blew the trumpets,
Joshua said unto the people, Shout,
for Jehovah hath given you the city.
So the people shouted. and the priests
blew the trumpets; and it came to
pass when the people heard the sound
of the trumpet, that the people
shouted with a great shout, and the
wall fell down fiat, so that the people
went up into the city, every man
straight before him, and they took the
city,
What of Ether Vibrations?
The fall of Jericho has seemed in
credible to rationalists. It just
couldn't be. they said; it was only an
other of the fairy stories of that out
of-date book, the Bible. But the
Bible has a way of being up-to-date
that frequently confounds its critics.
Hitherto commentators have fain
taken refuge in the earthquake theory
to explain the sudden fall of those
walls. And that guess may be right.
Or the more modern theory of at
mospheric vibrations may explain the
miracle, if explanation we must have.
In this day of wireless biography we
have learned that it is not only the
believed. Science has also demon
strated the physical force of sound
vibrations. Now here comes the an
nouncement, in today's newspaper,
that a Frenchman has patented a de-
vice for sending force by wireless
All of which is interesting chiefly as
indicating that Gods inexplicable ac-
lions in the past may become clear as
he more fully reveals his secrets to
men He has more ways of helping
his own that the wisdom of the world
has ever dreamed. If he wants to
break down the walls of any Jericho
before the face of his faithful, he
knows how The practical point is
that the child of God is in alliance
with a leader who has infinite re-
sources with which to work his will.
This is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith
A Conquest Without Loot.
Now that China is waking up so
wonderfully. thoughtful persons are
beginning to look back upon the days
of 1900 in Picking and wish that the
forces of civilization had done little
less 1ooting and murder. Our record
may be uncomfortable to face one of
these days, when the unforgetting
Chinese hold it up before u.s. Loot
on the part of a conqueror is un-
civilized. Might never made thieving
right. Not even a tfme-worn proverb
can prove that 'HTo the victor belong
the spoils." The Hague Conference
has removed the UNDERMINING from
that vicious aphorism.
Joshua was directed to make a |
conquest without loot. The religious
lost if it should be followed by an
orgy of pillagfng and pilfering. The |
essential thing was to show the ma
tons that the defeat of Jericho was |
4 deed of Jehovah; therefore the vic |
.ors should conduct themselves re- |
ig1ously. So it was declared that all |
he people, except the woman and her |
family who had befriended Israel's |
SPIES should be Overwhelmingly |
destroyed as a sacrifice to Jehovah. |
The gold and silver and iron and brass /
should be reserved for the treasury of
God.
One man violated this edict and |
brought shame and defeat upon |
israel. Gods glory Is more important |
han mans profit. That is a. truth |
which some modern business men
5 fatal which is not based on loyalty
o Gods law. AS a. later leader of |
israel learned, '"To obey is better than
'acrif1ce, and to hearken than the fat
,f rams"