The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-02-15

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will and purpose toward the children
OF men. This. to me. makes Joshua
one OF Gods monumental characters
There is one word associated with
Joshua that we cannot forget. We
shall ever thinks OF him as the oOur-
ageous one. BE strong. and OF good
courage is a command thrice repeat
ed in the commission that made him
Moses successor. Perhaps, like Moses,
Joshua was appalled, by the magni-
tude OF the responsibility given him.
but unlike Moses, he never demurred.
With courage and faith he assumed
his place of command, and ever before
him was the promise that he would
not fail.
There shall not any man be able
10 stand before thee all the days OF
thy life: as / was with Moses, so
| will be with thee; / will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee
Joshua could not fail for his cause
was the Lords. | cannot but think
that Theodore Roosevelts career
somehow suggests Joshua. At least
they had many points in common.
No one ever accused Mr.. Roosevelt OF
being other than very courageous in
anything he under took Once. to-
ward the end Of his career, he said.
In the long fight for righteous
ness the watchword for us all is,
spend and be spent. 1t is OF little
matter whether any one man fails
or succeeds; but the cause shall
not fail, for it is the cause OF man
kind
Here Mr. Roosevelt phrased uni
'ersal truth, and here he is linked with
he courageous Joshua. Both, though
widely separated in time, were OF one
pirit in the same task: that of driv-
ig out the enemy from the promised
md wherein should dwell righteous
ess. In either case. the cause shall
OF fail for it is the cause of mankind.
"Yet Joshua failed in one respect, !
ut every leader has likewise failed. c
, the blame is not Joshua's, but the
ilure of the people to go with him
the uttermost in his faith and cour- i,
Re. The land that Joshua was to b
nquer had dimensions much larger v
an the land actually occupied after o
c conquest From the wilderness,
d this Lebanon, even unto the great :,
'er, Euphrates and unto the ~,
eat sea toward the going down OF a,
. sun, shall be your border. Those
re the boundaries prescribed as the
i OF God for the children of Israel r
I only small strip of that area,
ng the Mediterranean Sea. was ever
ually conquered by Joshua and his
MES. Not even David, greatest OF
wish warriors, ever extended his
gdom as far east as the Euphrates
er. The land was theirs by divine
But they had to occupy it,
ly the Jews themselves had the 5
YER to conquer, but because that
YER was never exercised the won
ful valley of the Euphrates went
another nation. Had not the Am
an people had the vision, the
rage and the faith to occupy this
continent which is now our ma
some other nation would, and
~ our country might have had \
Mississippi for its western boun-
:. Thank God the American peo-
had the will to make the most OF
God offered them. Had the Z
), under Joshua. had his faith and
IN, he would have died the con-
or of all the promised land and
4 part of it.
am firmly convinced" concluded
Judge. that the trouble with us IA
Y, as people. is that we are not ~
,g to follow our heaven-sent lead II
ar enough. Joshua's failure was =
he failure of his people to follow =
far enough. The wretched fail
( the European powers to realize a,
}, after the great war had brought la'
the collapse of the militaristic M
r that brought it on, was the fail -
4 European politicians to incor- 1
c in that treaty at Versailles the wi
lid spirit and unselhsh purpose wa
which Mr.. Wilson stood. Our sns
iation repudiated Mr.. Wilson and of
$ works, and the promised land he;
rid peace is land still occupied me
tly by the foes of the common we
Although not a member Of the Ia
al party which he led, l wish to rig
tribute TO the courage of our twc
chieftain, for l firmly believe oIo
5 raised up for the crisis of these my
erilous times, and that, under "9
ie used the extraordinary power dru
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