Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-30

The great army OF Israel under
Joshua. was encamped on the hilisides
above the Jordan, where they had been
brought to a standstill b. tde raging
river. which was floodtide and out OF its
banks.
At last the forty years OF wandering
IN the wilderness had come to an END.
The time had arrived for the tribes TO
take possession of their inhcritaucs in the
promised land.
Three days were to be devoted TO rest
and preparation for the greatest achieve
ment ever undertaken by the Jewish ma
ton. From headquarters officers were
sent throughout the camp TO Inform. in
struct and prepare the people. Perhaps a
trunpeter went with the herald to sound
the bugle to call the people together.
SPEECHES were made giving full In
eformation concerning the movement Oh
the army. Each officer would explain
what was expected of every Gan and
full information given as 20 the manner
and time when certain things happened
that were the signal for something else
to happen.
AS a commander Joshua was new ana
untried Nobody knew anything ABOUT
his ability. He had never operated an
independent command up until this tilne'
lie had no past successes as plestiSe
TO give the people confidence
The people had known no great com
mander up to this time but Moses ana II
was natural that Joshua would surfer
from comparlsoh-hls apprenticeship
guaRe-orders-new way OF doing thihSs.
When a new preacher assumes charge OIL
a church he is up against the same dill
ficulty, He is contrastcd with his prede-
cessor.
And that's the trouble, 1 guess, when
ever a wife married a second time; she
I'M against the same sort Of proposition.
You hear:
"He doesn't preach like Brother Barker
used tor
Lands sakesl. Did you ever hear any
body preach like that?'
what a queer way he led the prayer
meeting"
Man sent by God Never Fails
| imagine the people quarreling and
finding fault with Joshua.
What In the world is Joshua trying to
do now? Going out against walled city!
Who ever heard Of such a thing! Moses
would never have taken us on such
wIld-goose chased don't believe Ia going
TO war this way l like to see things done
decently and in order! Just because he
has got W. there he wants TO show off,
He thinks he is a bigger man than Moses!
Who ever heard of taking priests into
battle? Moses forgot more than Joshua
ever knew, whose rams horns he lacked.
suppose nobody ought to be guilty of
originality even when 1t comes to knock
ing down the police and pushing over
ushers and breaking windows.
All have witnessed just such scenes
when an effort is made toward revival
Of religion.
Some say, "oh, he breaches too much
hell"
Some may say he doesn't preach enough
hell. Well. believe me, I'll give you
enough hep before I'm through, All the
hell's in the Bible.
others say, He doesn't preach
enough"
Some say, HE is sensational"
Others say, 20, he is vulgar!'
some say, II don't like the music!''
Others say, I'VE have too much music"'
But the man that God sends never fails.
Had the walls of Jericho been a mile
thick and ten miles high Joshua would
have gone against them with tho same
boldness. He was not depending on his
soldiers. nor the priests. nor the weather.
nor the rams horns, nor himself, nor his
feeling, but the word Of the living God.
The wilderness-worn veterans are now
about to take the step thAS would make
them great nation-a people with q
.God-chosen destiny-a people under the
Almighty's especial care.
Before they set foot in that raging
river they had TO do more hard thinking
than they had ever done. In years agone
they had done lots OF foolish things i'm
pulsiveiy. That is why they had been
tramping forty years and never reaching
the promised landl
II they had all been as level-headed as
Moses, Caleb and Joshua their Journey
would have ended in thirty days. and
here they had been a generation in reach
ing the place where they now stood!
And it was all because they had not
tried to get anywhere!
The man God sent never fails.
the man who has no purpose in life
goes about tired because he does his
climbing in a treadmill. He is always q
zigEageer. And for every inch OF head
way, he goes a milel
Without a definite aim, he will never
travel I'm an airline. The bee goes
man who turns the world upside down
does It because that is his sole business
In life.
Man with One Idea Succeeds.
The man who undertakes TO do a thou
sand things will never amount 10 a hill
of beans. The man who deyOtes his time
and skill and energy to doing one thing
viii stand before kings"
Cod was not to blame then for mans
faults any more than he Is now. any more
than God is TO blame for the condition OF
the church today.
Paul said. This one thing do" Keel
your eye on that manf He will NOV
every mountain and pull up every tire
that is in his pathway. Nothing car
chill his ardor nor cool his courage. IL
keeps on going and growing. no matte
what interferes.
The Christian life needs to be entere.
upon as thoroughly and definitely as In
sun-browned pilgrims went into Canaan
Let man get his start in that wsy an
he will not throw away his Bible whei
he strikes hard place.
The men who had wandered aiInlessl,
are at last brought to the place wher