Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 May 1895 — Page 6

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Annual Address to the Gallant Thirteenth Brooklyn. Words of Congratulation and Walcomo to the Veterans Who Risked All to Save the Union—A I/esson From the Feats of Joshua. Rev. T. DeWitt delivered liia annual aermon as chaplain of the Thirteenth regiment N. G. 8. N. Y. at Embury Memorial church, Brooklyn. He took for his subject: “The Greatest Soldier of All Time,” basing it on the text: There shall not be any man able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.-Joshua 1., 5. For the most part, when the general of an army starts out in a conflict he would like to have a small battle In. order that he may get his courage up and he may rally his troop® and get them drilled for greater conflicts; but this first undertaking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or the thundering down of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had just,been melting and they poured down into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canaanites If stand on the bank and they look I across and see Joshua and the Israel- [ ites, and they laugh and say: “Aha! aha! they can not disturb us until the freshet falls; it is impossible for them to reach us.” But after awhile they look across the water and they see a movement in the ‘army of Joshua. They say: “What’s tlie matter .now? Why, there must be a panic among these troops, and they are going to fly, or perhaps they are going to try to march across the River Jordan. Joshua is a lunatic.” But Joshua, the chieftain of the text* looks at his army and cries: “Forward, march!” and they start for the bank of the Jordan. One mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just tibuch the rim of (the water with their feet than by an Almighty fiat, Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on without getting their feet wet, over the bottom of the river? a’ path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tamarisks and willows and pull them

ouiTVO up u uuun vi*<a vjr vt *vi vj feet high, and having gained the other bank, they clap their shields and their cymbals, and sing the praises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters begin to dash and roar, and With a terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. Out yonder they have stopped; thirty miles up yonder they halted. On this side the waters roll off toward the salt sea. But as the hand of the Lor<| God is taken away from the thus uplifted waters—waters perhaps uplifted half a mile—as the Almighty hand is taken away those waters rush down, and some of the unbelieving Israelites say: “Alas, alas; what a misfortune! Why could not those waters have stayed parted? because perhaps we may want to go back, Oh, Lord, we are engaged in a risky business. Those Canaanites may eat us up. How if we want to go back? Would it not have been a more complete miracle if the Lord had parted the waters to let us come through and kept them parted to let us go back if we are defeated?” My friends, God makes no provision for a Christian’s retreat. He clears the path all the way to Canaan. To go hack is to die. The same gatekeepers that swing back the amethystine and crystalline gate J of the Jordan to let Israel pass through,, now swing shut the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to keep the Israelites from going back. I declare it in your bearing to-day, victory ahead, water forty feet deep in the rear. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead; behind you death and darkness and woe and hell. But you say: “Why didn’t those Cauaanites, when they had such a splendid chance—standing on th.e top of the bank thirty or forty feet high, completely demolish those poor Israelites down in the river?” I will tell you why. God had made a promise, and He was going to keep it. “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.”

Ilut this is no*place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command: “Forward, march!” In the distance > there is a long grove of trees, and at the end ot the grove is a city. It is a city of arbors, a city with walls seeming to reaeh to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. It is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by Pompey, and it was afterward captured by Herod the Great, and it was afterward captured by * the Mohammedans; but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be too swords, no shields, no bat- - tering ram. There shall ' be only one weapon of war, and that a ram’s horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken and holes were punctured in it, and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his fingers over this rude musical instrument, and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take thesp rude, rustic musical instrumeiits, and they were to go around the city every day. for six days —once a day for six days, and then on the seventh -day they were to go around blowing these rude musical instruments seven times, and then at the close of the seventh blowing of the rams’ horns on the seventh day the peroration of the whole scene was to be a shout at which those great walls should tumble from capstone to base. The seven priests with the rude musical instruments pass all around the city walls ,#n the first day, and a failure. Hot to much as a piece of plaster

broke loose from the well—not so much as a-loosened rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. “There,” say the unbelieving Israelite, “didn’t I tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The 1 idea of eoiog around the city with those musical instruments and expecting in that way to destroy it! Joshua has been spoiled; be thinks because he has overthrown and destroyed the spring freshet, be can overthrow the stone wall. Why, it is not philosophic. Don't you see there is no relation between the blowing of these musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall. It isn’t philosophy.” And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted, and with the forefinger of the right hand to the forefinger of the left band, arguing it all out, and showing it was not possible that such a cause should produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of philosophy and caricature, and if Joshua had been nominate for any high military position, he would not have got many votes. Joshua’s stock was down. The"* second day, the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city, and a failure. Third day, and a failure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure. The seventh day comes, the climacteric day. Joshua is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all around about, looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, and a failure. There is only one more thing to do, and that is to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening themselves up. filling their lungs for a vociferation such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host: “Shout; for the Lord hath given you the,, city!” All the people begin to cry, “Down, Jericho; down, Jericho!” and the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and move and rock. Stand from under. She falls. Crash! go the walls, the temples, the towers, the palaces; the air is blackened with the dust. The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canaan

ites commingle, anu Joshua, standing there in the debris of the wall, hears a voice saying: ‘*There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But Joshua’s troops may not halt here. The command is: “Forward-, march!” There is the city of Ai, it must be taken. Ilow shall it be taken. A scouting party comes back and j says: “Joshua, we can do that without you; it is going to be a very easy job; you must stay here while we go and capture it. They march with a small regiment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Israelites run like reindeers. The northern troops at Bull Run did not make such rapid time as these Israelites with the Canaanites after them. They never cut such a sorry figure as when they were on the retreat. Anybody that goes out in the battles of God with only half a force, instead of your taking the men of Ai, the men of Ai will take you. Look at the church of God on the retreat. The Bornesian cannibals ate up Munson, the missionary. “Fall back!” said a great many Christian people—“Fall back, oh church of God! Borneo will never be taken. Don’t you see the Bornesian cannibals have eaten up Munson, the missionary?” Tyndall delivers his lecture at the University of Glasgow, and a great many good people say: “Fall back, oh, church of God! Don’t you see that Christian philosophy is going to be overcome by worldly philosophy? Fall back!” Geology plunges its crowbar into the mountains, and there are a great many people who say: “Scientific investigation is going to overthrow tha Mosaic account of the creation. Fall back!” Friends of God have never any right to fall back.

Joshua fell on his face in chagrin. It is the only time yon ever see the back of his head, lie falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says: “Oh, Lord God, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side of Jordan! For the Cana&nites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round and cut off our name from the earth.” I am very glad Joshua said that. Before, it seemed as if he were a supernatural being, and therefore could' not be an example to us; but I find he is a man, he is only a man. Just as sometimes you find a man under severe opposition, or in a bad state of physical health, or worn out with overwork, lying down and sighing about everything being defeated. I am encouraged when I hear this cry of Joshua as he lies in the dust, God comes and arouses him. How does He rouse him? By complimentary apostrophe? No. He says: “Get thee up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?” Joshua rises, and I warrant you, with a mortified look. But his old courage comes back to him. The fact was, that was not his battle. If he had been in it he would have gone on to victory. He gathers his troops around him and says: “Now let us go up and capture the city of Ai; let us go up right away.” They march on. He puts the majority of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends a comparatively small battalion up in front of the ejty. The men of Ai come *ut with a shout. This battalion In stratagem fall back and fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in, pursuit of this scattered cr seemingly scattered battalion, Joshua, stands on a rock—I see his locks flying in the wind aa he points

his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down and the flying battalion of Israelites return, and between these two waves of Israelitish prowess the men of Ai are destroyed, and the Israelites gain the victory; and while I see the curling smoke of that destroyed city on the sky, and while I hear the huzza of the Israelites and the groan of the Canaanites, Joshua hears something louder than it all, ringing and echoing . through his soul: “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life.” But this is no place for the host of Joshua to stop. “Forward, march!” eries Joshua to the troops. There is the city of Gideon. It has put itself under the protection of Joshua. They sent word: “There are five kings after us; they are going to destroy us; send troops quick; send us help right away.” Joshua has a three days’ march more than double quick. On . the morning of the third day he if'be- | fore the enemy. There are two (long lines of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, but the Canaanites soon discover j something. They say: “That is j Joshua; that is the man who conj quered the spring freshet and knocked dewn the stone wall and destroyed the city of Ai. There is no use fighting.” And they soupd a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther, pursuing them over the rocks, and as these Canaanites, with sprained ankles and gashed foreheads, retreat, the catapults of the sky pour a volley of hailstones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens, with bullets of iron, pounds the Canaanites against the ledges of Beth-horon. “Oh!” says Joshua, “this is surely a victory.” “But do you not see the sun is going down? Those Amorites are going to get away after all, and they will come up some other time and bother us, and perhaps destroy ns.” See, the sun is going down. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate. What is the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apoplectic fit? No. He is in prayer. Look out when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant with prayer, and looks at the descending sun over Gideon and at the

lainv creaccub ui muuu, iyr yuu know, the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other hand at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that God who shaped the worlds and moves the worlds, he cries: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” And they stood ' still. Whether it was by refraction of the sun’s rays or by the stopping of the whole planetary system. I do not know, and do not care. I leave it to the Christian scientists and infidel scientists to settle, while I tell you I have seen the same thing. “What,” you say, “not the sun standing still?” Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day. and the sun sets at noon. But let a man start out and battle for God, and the truth, and against sin. and the day of his usefulness is prolonged, and. prolonged, and prolonged. Robert McCheyne was a consumptive Presbyterian. It was said when he preached, he coughed so it seemed as if he would never preach again. His name is fragrant in all Christendom, that name mightier to-day than was ever his living presence. He lived to preach the gospel in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee, but he went away very early. He preached himself into the grave. Has Robert McCheyne’s sun set? Is Robert McCheyne’s day ended? Oh, no! His dying delirium was filled with prayer, and when he lifted his hand to pronounce the benediction upon his country, he seemed to say: “I can not die now; I want to live on and on. I want to start an influence for the church that will never cease. I am only thirty years of age. Sun of my Christian ministry, stand still over Scotland.” And it stood stilL

But it is time for Joshua to go home. He is one hundred and ten years old. Washington went down the Potomac, and at Mount Vernon closed his days. Wellington died peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? . Why, he is to have his greatest battle now. After one hundred and ten years he has to meet a king who has more subjects thau all the present -population of the earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre the graveyards and the cemeteries of the world, his chariot the world’s hearse— -the king of terrors. But if this is Joshua’s greatest battle, it is going to be Joshua’s victory. He gathers his friends around him and gives his vale* dictory, and it is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do; old men tell what they have done. Dead, the old chie ftain must be laid out- Handle him very gently; that sacred body is over one hundred and ten years of age. Lay him out, stretch out those feet that walked dry shod the parted Jordan. Close those lips which helped blow the blast at which the walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arms that lifted the spear toward the doomed city of Ai. Fold it right over the heart, that exulted when the five kings fell. But where shall we get the burnished granite for the headstone and the footstone? 1 bethink myself now. I imagine that for the head it shall be the sun that stood still upon Gideon, and for the foot the moon that stood still in the valley of Ajalon. —Nations like individuals, live or die, but civilization can not perish.— Mazzini. ^ —None pities him that’s in the sna-e, who, warned before, would not be warn —Herrick. . 1 4£

TRUE PATRIOTISM. Extract From ft Letter Written by Unb <>«a. Schofield to Gen. John B. Gordon, President of the United Confedlente Veteran Asnocthtion nnd Rend it the Recent Reunion at Boneton, Tex. Houston, Tex., May 26.—The fo llowing extract is from a letter from L leot.Oen. Scbotield. read by Gen. John B. Gordon at the ex-confederate reunion: “When the commanders of the great armies which had so fiercely contended with each other for four long years agreed upon the terms .of a mil itary convention in 1865, the world w its astonished at the terms of that convention. Nothing like it had ever occurred in the histoty of the world. Let ns recall for a moment the substamce of that convention, what obligations it imposed on either side. On the other side, that the brave confederate soldiers should cease for the future from alii acts of war, Bhould go quietly to their homes, live there in peace and. obey the laws. On the other hand, that the Union commander should protect them from all molestation on account of past acts, so long as they kept, their faith inviolate. The very essence in beauty, simplicity and sublimity of the command impressed upon the human race by the great Saviour of mankind was embodied in the terms of that convention. There was to be no punishment on account of past deeds, but only a solemn pledge of fidelity to i the glorious flag of the Union and acknowledgment of supreme allegiance to the nation which that flag represented. I am sure I express the sentiments of the vast majority of the people of the north, not only of the old Union soldiers who have shown you their confidence and’sympathy, but of the new and rising generation in whose hands the destinies of tlie country for the future must be placed. I have long | known that .the same sentiment perj vaded the people of the south, and I have stopped here to-day, upon the ini' vitation of the confederate veterans of the south, to assure them that their loyalty to the constitution, to the laws of the nation is appreciated by the great mass of the people of the north, who recognize to the fullest extent the fidelity which the southern soldiers have for so many years displayed to the solemn pledges they gave at and after the conclusion of the great contest, so that now and henceforth there can be no passible reason why the peo--1* ~ M ft!__i.1. —_1 „ # il_

soldiers and young1 soldiers, shall not fight under the flag of the Union to promote the best interests of their country and defend her throughout the world.” INTO THE WATER. A Boat Load of Poles Dumped Unto the Creek at Buffalo. Buff ado, N. Y.. May 26.— Connelly’s steam yacht Trilby, employed by the city to convey passengers across the creek at the foot of Michigan street, capsized shortly after 7 o'clock this raornifig just after leaving the docks. The little craft was loaded to the gunwales with passengers, and all were thrown into the water. It was said at first that fifteen were lost, but at 11 o’clock it was reliably reported that five persons had been drowned. The creek is being dragged for the bodies of the missing. About thirty or thirtyfive men were on board the yacht when she capsized. * THEY WERE A LX POLES, and were crossing over to the island, where they were employed at various places. The bridge at Michigan street is being repaired, and the only way for crossing there is by ferry. The yacht Trilby and a number of scows have been carrying the people across since the bridge was condemned. Especially at night and morning large numbers of workingmen cross here, and several accidents have been narrowly averted. This morning something more than the usual crowd of Poles swarmed up to the dock and began to clam ber into the boat like a flock of sheep. The Trilby took three loads of them across safely, but when she came back for the fourth load a great crowd of Poles made a rush for her,-and when they all jumped on one side of her she ! quickly lurched over and went over to the bottom.

A MASS OF STRUGGLING MEN. All of the men were throw n into the water, and for several minutes were scrambling- and struggling, shouting and clutching at each other like so many crazed animals. The dock being within easy reach, very many of them were able to clutch it, and were soon out of danger. Others who were drawn further away from the boat as she went over, and dragged down by their companions, had to struggle for some time before they got out. The boat turned bottom side up and went to the bottom. She is large enough to carry about thirty-five persons with safety, but when the combined weight of the crowd of men struck her this morning all on one side, she turned over as though she had been a tin basin. As soon as the men were out of the water the work of grappling for the bodies began. It is believed by those who witnessed the accident that it was impossible for all the men to get out. Horse* and Males Horned to Death. Richmond, Va., May 26.—The stables of Warner Moore & Co., proprietors of the Shockoe amd the Danlop mills, were destroyed by fire last night and twenty horses and mules were burned to death. The Queen’s Birthday. London, May 26.—The queen’s birthday was officially celebrated to-day, the artillery at all of the naval and military stations firing salutes and the troops parading. The queen’s household brigade performed the annual ceremony of trooping colors, which thousands of persons witnessed on the parade .ground at Whitehall. The weather was perfect. The prince of Wales, with Kazrnlla Khan, son of the ameer of Afghanistan, rode to the ground at 11 o’clock. They were surrounded by equirries, and were enthusiastically cheered..

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