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June 16, 1909. he made atonement for s accept him for a personal Take a divine Christ ou we left? May we not say question when she saw th thou?" "They have taker not where they have laid Statesville, N. C. BY FAITH THE WA1 D( A scene unaccountably tion as we read these wor red in spirit to the warm running north and south, of Moab, to the the west 1 mountains of Palestine, tortuous course of the Jc in width from sixty to th lords varying" in depth tr to twelve feet or more in Three principal fords w< to the south near Jericht Dead Sea and Gennesart . north. Naturally these fc of trade. Hence it is not s west of this plain, immedi the Palestine mountains, Jordan, in ancient times Jericho?the entrepot of c< its linen and Babylon wit It seems to have been a extent that Achan could hundred ounces of silver, goodly Babylonish garmei Its walls probably inch the same whose waters ' Elisha. We have every r n f lironlfU % rl i ? n *1 A 1 * 1 . ? wi vvvaiiti dllll II dUC IIKC thievish Moab, would be Within the last two yean uncovered. In the plain before the two or three million men, have just crossed the swc crated themselves to Jeh sacraments, circumcision i around the city seven di seven times, when sudden the air. There seems to be no < gate has been forced, no wall, no sign of surrend< city. But after the shou the mountains of Judea, city totter and fall. There whirlwind, no manifestati destruction?just the simf Israel could march up int< Such a picture may w make us ask for the ci It was a wonderful displ - * THK PRESBYTER] in and refuses or neglects to Saviour, ever be saved? t of the Bible and what have with Mary in answer to the c empty tomb, "Why weepest . t ~-,i t i : i tx w i\y m\ LiUiu, aim l M1UW him ?" W. W. M... LLS OF JERICHO FELL, DWN. strange rises to our imaginads. We seem to be transfer, fertile valley of the Jordan, To the east lie the mountains the perpendicular walls of the Through the middle runs tne irdan river, a stream varying tree hundred feet, and at the am twelve inches in summer the spring time. - ;re known upon the river, one >, one half way between the ;t, and one far away to the >rds would govern the course iurprising to find at the southately under the steep sides of and some eight miles from the wealthy, strong city of jmmerce between Egypt with h its silks, wealthy city, and to such an lay hold of and conceal one twenty ounces of gold and a it without special difficulty, ided a large perennial spring, were subsequently healed by eason to suppose that a town this, lying on the borders of strongly fortified, and it was. > its massive walls have been city lay the camp of Israel, , women and children. They >llen river, have just reconseovah by celebrating his two ind the passover. They march lys, and on the seventh day ly a mighty shout rings upon :ause for the shout. No city breach has been made in tnc :r has been offered from the t has been echoed back from lo! suddenly the wall of the is no e'aithquake recorded, no on of the ordinary powers of >le falling of the walls so that d the city and capture it. ell artest our attention, and rcumstances of this victory, ay of divine love and divine [AN OF THE SOUTH. power, but what were the coi display? What Had Israel_doi "by faith the walls of Jericho It was a victory, won not faith in God. How did that f On the part of Israel, four tl strong desire to possess this which made them ready to br; ingness to abandon all their o and to proceed in the matter s direction. 3. Abandonment ol power, and a full reliance 01 victory. 4. Careful observan God. These features are very ( Eight and thirty years before ites 011 these points, and on e At that time when the spies 1 they had hardly ceased lusti Egypt. . They cried, Would < ?let us make a captain and Their desire and longing foi feeble or absent. (2) They reliance nil ('.nrl tn facp the ? ? ? ?? spies said: "We be not able pie, for they are stronger th; cried, "Wherefore hath the L land to fall by the sword tha should be a prey?" (3) At K; unwilling to trust the Lord tc God had told them to turn sc Sea, they presumptuously turi toward Canaan and joined bi and Canaanites. In this frai the time to which the Apoi (Heb. 3: 19) "They could not lief." But the thirty-eight years passed, and the rising generati derings now look with longir land of Canaan. 1. They long for the land, I it ?o strongly that they are re possible, foolish or ridiculous thither. 2. They have acquired a re; liance on their own wisdom does this appear in the narrat estine from the east, they ar the river Jordan,?an entrant have avoided the river altog more southerly route? This r comparatively inexperienced i: tact with this walled city of J less difficult city first? Sup this route would compel them try toward Ai, through narr blockaded by an enemy: wh feasible route? Or, if they m the fords of Jordan, why tak Consider the difficulty of cross feet deep or more, with no strong that the utmost care + 9 nditions precedent to this tie to call it forth ? Simply fell down." by arms, but simply by aitli show itself? lings are prominent. I. A promised land, a desire ive all danger. 2. A willwn wisdom and plannings imply according to divine f all reliance on their own i divine strength for the ce of duties enjoined by :videntt from the history God had tested the Israelvery one they had failed, lad made their report (1) ng after the fleshpots of Joel we had died in Egypt let us return into Egypt. the promised land was then had not enough of jiant sons of Anak. The to go up against the peoan we." And the people .ord brought us into this it our wives and children idesh-barnea they were so > plan for them, that after >uthward toward the Red ned their faces northward ittle with the Amalekites tie of mind were they at >tle refers when he says enter in because of unbe of wilderness life have ion weary with their wanig eyes to their promised ong to possess it, long for ady to do what seems im, if it shall but lead them adiness to abandon all reor plans. Most vividly :ive. In approaching Pale met by the obstacle ot :e from the south would jether, why not take the oute brings them at once, n warfare, into direct conericho?why not try some pose Jericho were taken, to ascend to the nn-ennn. ow, rocky ravines, easily y not choose some more ust take this route across e it at this April season? iing with the water twelve bridge, and a current so would be needed to take