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IO an ordinary boat aero fail" to take the city, o with such a river bch possible. They would the exposure of the fan dan when their defend* such a torrent. Why river is fordable, when treat practicable, nml c would be possible? If not keep it on the cast three miles of Jericho? deductions of human rc made some other plan read in the record thai selves to divine guidam to them, but what God Or once across the r directions opposed all would say. Now, strike miraculous crossing ha do it at once before sue try. If we delay at all, in arranging the weapo Pause and worship. 'J tenth day of the first m in the services attendar circumcision; then the; other sacrament?the j in marching around th< or preparing any means Doubtless the men c ishness. But the foolis ?and joy be in our heal ly to God's directions. 3. They trusted God', on divine strength for action came, God bade 1 contain any inherent el not possess any spcci; gained. Walking arour bastions nor burst open or shouting with a gre; ramparts of Jericho. 1 of God can make tlios whole circumference o the victorious army o the)r knew not how the faithfully did what he bring- about the victory 4. They used the me conquer Jericho was n bade them worship an zeal they worshipped marched, with open mi sword they rushed ovei plete the conquest; wit to the tabernacle the m muted tne rest to the fl Their reliance was n forty years of wanderit wealth of Jericho, beca to God; probably defec ' r THE PRESBYTERIAN ss. If across and tliey should r if possibly. defeated in battle, ind them, escape would be imbc annihilated. And consider lilies left on the cast side of Jorers were separatd from them by not wait till summer, when the the crossing would be easy, reuccor to the families left behind the passover must be kept, whv side, rather than within two or Arc not such the plain obvious ason, that it were better to have than this? But gladly do we t the Israelites submitted them:e and did, not what seemed best directed. iver, we can see how the divine human reason. Human reason at once while the terror of this s unnerved the men of Jericho; cor can come from the hill counlet us put every moment to use ns of attack. But no! God says, Phey crossed the Jordan on the onth. They consumed four days it on one sacramental occasion? y spent eight days more in the >assover; then seven days more e city without drawing a wnr.! 0 ? " ^ of attack. )f Jericho mocked at their foolhness of God is wiser than men *ts that Israel bowed submiss;ves power. Witness their reliance the victory. When the time for them use weapons which did not fTicacy or power, and which did d adaptation to the end to be id a wall docs not undermine its its gates. Blowing of trumpets it shout will not shake the solid 'rue, most true. But the power e walls to totter and make the f the city one open avenue for f Israel to enter. Yet though T ~~-1 14 j?uiu wouia accomplish it, they bade them and trusted God to by his almighty power. . ans. Their reliance on God to ot idleness. Far from it. God d march. With whole-hearted , with earnest activity they outh they shouted, with drawn * the debris of the wall to comh scrupulous care they brought etals found in the city and comames. ot self-indulgence. Poor?after 1 rr '1 1 * ?iiit^ uciucu incmseives tne use it was the first fruits, holy tively armed, they appropriated [ OF THE SOUTH. none of the armor; withou mitted the splendid robes o need of shelter better than houses; with the cessation plied the torch to the stor< walls and trusted God to pi ornnA J <iuu nine. And this is what God d says: "By faitli the walls c day we have a foe to conqi wall of bricks, but the wor entrenched in the human hej which to conquer is faith. ] tain this faith, (i) that we victory over sin; (2) that v victory ; (3) that we trust G torv; and (4) that we use points. TALA God's Grace In A R? ArtVl.-r T 1 The main material for tl was furnished me by the lai years connected with the Ar most efficient district secret The Indian lad must hav the first twenty years of th one of those who took par ing the wounded whites wl inole war; and was himself chief, Osceola. His full r which means "Forest King, able of great atrocities, and of their young men consistei with which they committed ( they were largely provoker treachery and cruelty of the the wife of Osceola was the i woman, and was, under the by the owner of her mother, carried off under this pret chief, in righteous indignat threatening, he was seized b General Thompson, and put outrage, aggravated by insull to the point of madness; an< lie succeeded in killing Ge others with him. This was terrible war in which 7,000 S< Florida, were engaged on whole force of the United other?a war which lasted s 1 uvea, auu very nearly $15; shame of the government b< bloodhounds were called to and, to crown the infamy, un was himself captured, and di< ment in Fort Moultrie. So throws light upon the career In the fifth year of the war June 16, 190Q. t new clothing, they comf Jericho to the flames; in their tents, they burned its of the manna they apes of corn within the city ovicie lor tncm in his own escribes as faith when he }f Jericho fell down." Toicr, not Amorites behind a Id, the flesh and the devil, irt. Our only weapon with Let us be sure than we obcherish a strong desire for re trust God's plan for the lod's power to win the victhe means which God apMAS. in xndian Heart. Pierson, D. D. lis story of an Indian lad te Dr. S. J. Humphrey, for aerican Board, as one of its aries. e been born somewhere in e last century, for he was t in torturing and scalp10 fell in the famous Sema nephew of the celebrated lame was Talamas-Mic-O, " The Indians were capin part the boasted bravery i in the extreme hardihood rrimes 'of violence, to which i, however, by the greed, white man. For instance, daughter of a fugitive slave lugmvc siave law, claimed as a slave, and was actually ext; and, when the noble ion, uttered hot words of y the United States agent, in irons for six days. Such t and indignity, goaded him i, after weeks and months, neral Thompson and four the real beginning of the sminoles, scattered through the one side, against the States government on the even years, and cost t enn vw" 000,000. Finally, to the ; it recorded, five hundred the aid of the government, der a flag of truce, Osceola id after six years imprisonmuch for the history that of this Indian lad. Osceola sent away all who