Milford chronicle., 1907-05-10

heard taunting and defying Saurs al
my.
Do you, as wise men, think it wa
wrong for these Hebrew spies to taxi
a true measurement of the physiea
proportions Of these giants? do not
II l had been one of those spies
would have said to Moses and the peO
pie waiting for my report, as I 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 your
arm. You must clean your weapons
and put them in the finest trim. No
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" He
would be a foOlhardy David who went
forth to battle against a Goliath who
was a 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
at a target week In and week out until
he can hit the smallest mark with the
accuracy Of a William Tell shooting the
apple off the head Of his son.
Be a Giant Killer.
Again, I notice that these spies re-
ported other giants in the land besides
the sons of Anak. This showed their |
wisdom. The other giants might not
be so formidable in appearance as the |
but they might be just as
powerful an enemy through being bet
ter equipped and armed. Some of these
savage giants might fight with sword
and spear, some with a hand net, some
with snares and stratagem, some with
poisoned arrows, some by starvation
md cold. So in our fight. Though a
nan is able to resist one gigantic temp
alton Of life, that does not prove that
le can resist all temptations. You are
lot drunkard, but that does not prove
'ou may not be OverthrOwn by the
,iant Of sensuality, or by the giant Of
Ivarice, or by the giant Of jealousy, or
" the giant Of the evil tongue. In an
Id legendary story we once read about
he boy called Jack the Giant Killer.
low, every man, woman and child, If
e is to be a true Christian, must be a
liant killer We all have some especial
liant to fight. and every giant attacks
is victims in a different way.
There was another fact to which the
pies called Moses attention. These
iants were intrenched. They said.
The cities are walled and very great"
hey were not a lot Of harmless nOmad ]
.ibes, living in tents and wandering s
bout from place to place in search of {
oh pasture lands. They were giants
ho were rich in gold and silver and
reciOus stones. In order to protect
ieir increasing wealth they erected C
lge walls. These walls were almost t
lpregnable. They could not be bat p
red down. They were too high to be a
aled. If the cities within these walls o
ere ever captured it must be by STRAIT 4
,em. The cities of Jericho. Al, Hesh- Il
N aud Jahaz were the GibraItars OF n
ose days. If the inhabitants were on p
cir guard and had enough food and o.
ater to resist a long siege they were Il
fe from capture. fc
No man unless he has Travelled In II
e east and has seen the width and HI
e height of those walls encompassing Ii
e ancient cities has any adequate n,
Inception Of their enormous strength. O
hen Cyrus the Great, with his con- g1
erlng host, came to the Babylonian h,
ais in 539 B. c., the pOnderOus gates
brass were slammed shut IN his ju
ee, and he was absolutely helpless. az
" after day, week after week, month st
Ter month, the siege went on. Cyrus en-
IS no nearer the conquest of Bel tn
lzzar's capital at the end Of twelve of
,nths than he was in the beginning. or
e Persian general could have scat
ed the Babylonian troops like chaff 70
fore the wind if he only could have Of
Iched them. But Belshazzar and his ag
diers simply laughed at and Knocked in
n because the BabylOnian walls vii
re between them and the besieging m,
ny. Had not Belshazzar and his bo
ny got drunk one night while cele- we
ting the kings birthday and allow
the lower gates under the river to No
left open, and had not Cyrus that lit
ht diverted the river Euphrates cal
m its channel and marched through ha
dry bed into that city during the an
ssail, the Persian general might nev- sh,
have been able to capture it. Cyrus tn,
yht be able to take Babylon by my
ltagem, but never by battering 'Cl
Vn or scaling Babylon's impregna- fro
walls.