Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-20

getting ready for opportunity is the
one great task for youth, and 1t Is the
burden Of this lesson.
. .. The Git Of a Leader.
Who was it who said something to
the effect that "The qualities Of lead
ership are three: First, boldness;
second, more boldness; third, still
more boldness?' The phrase sounds
like an echo Of this first chapter Of
the book Of Joshua. Three times with
In single paragraph the Lord bids
Joshua BE strong and very courag-
eous." Indeed, that Is the first and
last injunction laid upon the new lead
er. For then, as now and forevermore
courage is the one supreme essential
to leadership. The timorous person
belongs in the rear ranks; only the
brave may lead the van.
Wherever the Bible is given it's way
with human life, 1t makes him cour-
ageous. Men of the book have always
been men of holiness. The surest
cure for faint-heartedness is a course
in Holy Scriptures. They who believe
in Gods word, dare. Fill your boys
and girls full of Bible courage If you
would At them to play a heroic part
in life. Nobody can lead without cour-
age; and courage comes through the
book which teaches us to fear God and
nobody else. That Is one explanation
why SO many of our new social and
political leaders are graduates of the
Sunday school and Of the Christian
Endeavor society. .
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tion which was laid upon Joshua by
Jehovah. He was to be strong and
of good courage; and he was to COB
serve to do according to all the law
= This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth. but thou shalt
thereon day and night" There
is your recipe for creating Joshuas!
Stout hearts, made by study of the
Bible That will work in any Sunday
school class.
Facing The Fierce Foe.
Do you recall how Joshua and Caleb
declared that the 1sraeiites could eat
up the assorted heather who dwelt In
Canaan? Now Joshua's chance to
make good" had come. He had kept
on growing for thirty.elght years. He
was not one of the good young men
who are early smitten with that ter
rible disease Of arrested development
which comes from contemplation Of
ones own virtues. The people had
wanted to stone Joshua for his declara-
ion that they could overcome the land.
now the man Of vision had come to the
hour for the fulfillment of his own
prophecy. Years had not dimmed his
confidence or his enthusiasm.
The territory to be conquered was
sketched before Joshua by Jehovah. It
was formidable then, even as now. An
important issue in current near east
ern diplomacy is, who shall occupy
Palestine which the Turk has proved
himself unfit to govern? The Hittites
were especially mentioned. The cock
sure scholars of an older day used to
scoff at these Hittite passages in the
Old Testament, declaring that there
never had been such people. Now,
if any of those critics still live, they
may 60 by steam to Carchemis on the
Euphrates, and sit at the feet OF the
British Museum archaeologists, who
are making wonderful finds there.
Every knows now that the Hit
tites were a mighty empire; we may
expect to read any day in the cable
grams that these new inscriptions
have been deciphered. We have a
new respect for the mighty foe faced
by Joshua. He was given that highest
reward of the brave-a hard task.