Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1918 — FOLLOW CAMPAIGN OF JOSHUA [ARTICLE]

FOLLOW CAMPAIGN OF JOSHUA

British Army Duplicates Victory of Head of Israelite Hosts, Marching Over the Same Ground. And now the British Mesopotamian army has captured Hebron, 20 miles from the birthplace of Christ, observes the Wichita ((Kan.) Beacon. More than 83 centuries ago Joshua, at the head of the Israelite hosts, marched over the same ground capturing Hebron and putting Its king to death. In one of the battles he found the time was too short and so he commanded "the sun and moon to stand still while his men fought. Forty years before, Moses was leading the children of Israel out of Egypt to this promised land of Canaan. He sent out spies, who were overawed by the giant sons of Anak whom they saw at Hebron. All but Joshua and Caleb gave unfavorable reports, and the Lord was displeased at the perverseness and the credulity of the Israelites, and decreed that they must wander 40 years In the wilderness. "How are the mighty fallen,” mournfully sang David as a requiem for his friend Jonathan, nearly 3,000 years ago, and then he asked the Lord for guidance. God commanded him to go to Hebron, and there he was anointed king of Judah and reigned seven years before going to Jerusalem. And almost 40 centuries ago Abraham built an altar at Hebron and there bought his first land. There was burled his faithful wife Sarah, and also Isaac and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah and Joseph. The bones of the ..shepherd patriarchs, of David, the sweet singer Qf Israel; of Joshua, the mighty warrior; have crumbled and mingled with the sands of the centuries, but the world flghta on over Its ancient battlegrounds, and mankind, like Sisyphus, rolling the great burden to the top of the hill, sees It roll back and create another task. But mankind has learned. Upon reaching Hebron It refuses to be awed by the giants who bar the way to the promised land of world peace and freedom. It Is a strange and wonderful drama that Is taking place on earth today.