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Instructions to change or discontinue an ar0000 ofsement Tun POST 1)st 01 lateleft rthanTuesday of each week. This is imperative. EtT. 101. Ai1C:Bxt, Editor and Proprietor. The Battle of Jericho, (i+aodi '11111 ado's BORN ) "And it shall oomo to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, the wall of the city shall fall down fiat."—Joshua, 0th °bapter and 5th verse. The armies of Israel had but recently crossed the Jordan, and were encamped before Jericho. Moses had been gather. ed to his falhere and Joshua bad been placed in command by divine authority.. New movements were at ohne begun, and a campaign altogether different from previous operations was immediately inaugurated. Instead of wandering aim• lesely about in the wilderness with no object in sight, Joshua issued General Order No. 1 dirroting that rations should be at once prepared, and the army held in readiness to arose the Jordan as soon as the signal should be given from head. quarters. I have an idea that this an• nouocement must have created about the greatest commotion the camp had wituos• sed since the sons of Jacob bad . turned their backs on Sinai. As the desert•worn veterans stood about the Damp fires that night cooking rations for the coming march, I can imagine that there was much shaking of head and looking wise, and wondering what in the world had got into the head of Joshua, that he should take such an unexpected departure. "Moses would never have thought of doing such a- thing," I think I can hear one of the tallest men in the tribe of Reuben say, as he gives the boiling man- na in the camp kettle a stir to see bow it is coming on. "Moses thought a good deal of Lie men, and he would no more have thought of rushing us into danger like this, when there wasn't a bit of call for it, without knowing where he was going to come out, than he would have thought of putting a shingle roof on the tabernacle. I'd like to know what's the use of our being in such an immoderate hurry to cross the river that we can't wait until the flood is over. If we could take forty years to get here, I don't see why we shouldn't wait another month for the river to fall, so that it wouldn't be such a bard matter for 1)e to cross." As a oommander, Joshua was a new and untried man. Nobody knew any• thing of hie ability. He had never op• erated an independent command. He had the prestige of no past success to give his army confidence in him. The men in his department had never known any other leader than Mose+. He had bean a father to them, and they had be. come so accustomed to his ways that they always knew about what to expect when they heard the trumpets sound. When Moses was gone, and Joshua Dame into command, it was natural that he should continually suffer from aom- parison with Moses in everything, from the appearance of his person to the Ian. 500500f his general orders. Whenever be did anything in a new way there was a murmur of disapproval all over the camp, and everybody would say : "That isn't the way Moses would have done it. Moses would have gone about ib eo end so." Whenever a new preacher takes charge of a flock, the same difficulties and troubles come to him as thoee which be- set Joshua. Here continually contrasted with his predecessor, and everything ho does and says is criticised a000rdingly. "He doesn't preach one Lit like Brother Barker, and who ever saw anybody lead a prayer meeting the way he does 9" But Joshua's first movement was enc• oeesfully executed, notwithstanding the disaffection there may have been in the ranks, and at the beginning of this chap• ter wo see him about to begin a second exploit and that of a still mare startling character than the first. All the advant- age, as seen from a human point of view, was against him. The enemy was strongly intrenched, in great numbers, in a walled city, abund- antly supplied with stores, 'indwell able to stand a long siege. His army was ofti• cerad by experienced men of valor, and hie troops were strengthened by the knowledge that they would fight under the eye of their king. Yet Joshua im- mediately took the defeneive without the slightest tremor of fear as to the final result. He was not acting blindly, but had shown himself to be a careful and prudent commander, by getting all the information he could obtain concerning the strength and position of his enemy. His spies had penetrated the intrenoh• menta at Jericho, and had returned with full information as to the interior at. =gement of the citadel, and the strength of its garrison. In addition to this, Joshua had himself made a detour in per- son, and while so doing had acme upon One with a drawn sword in his hand, who etood over against him, At this Joshua immediately gave the usual mili- tary challenge : "Who goes there 9 Friend or foe 9 Are you for 1)e, or for our adversaries 7" Tho reply was t "As captain of the host of the Lord am I now come 1" The Captain of the Lord'e host was a manifestation of the Spirit of God to Joshua, and from him he learned all the details of the expedition ho was about to make against the fortified oily in his im- iB':feIfoleg;.,.::tyw0-1u...irve-srrgt, mediate front, He woe a8Oured in ad. Mee that the city and its Bing, and all its army had been given to him, and that he should win it oomploto victory. He wee oolnmanded to fame his army and marsh woe entirely around the city Ouch day for six days, The order of march was as follows :—A body of armed men^ ^pasaibiy Joshua's awn body guard —was to lead the way. 1 allowing them were to come eeven.prieete,eae'h With a ram's horn trumpet, upon which they were to blow continually, and iminedi• ately oar them would march other prieste, bearing the ark of the covenant, and after these would Dome the remain, der of the army. Ou the, seventh day they woo to Oompase the walla oeven times, and at the completion of the seventh circuit the priests were to blow a long blast upon their ram's horse, and thie was to he the signal for every man in the army to shout with all the power in him. These marches were all to be made in absolute silence. Not a word was to be spoken, or a sound ubbered by any ex- oept the priests who blew upon the trumpets of ram's horns. I think I see them going out againsb Jerioho on the first day. There is a good deal 0f trouble in getting them to take their places in proper order, Some of those who ought; to march behind the ark want to get in front of it, and a good many others whose place le in the ad- vance guard are found after a good deal of delay away back near the tail end of the procession. Perhaps one of the priests who is to help bear the ark has overslept himself, and more. time is lost iu bunting him up and getting him where he ought to be. Just as the column is about to move, itis disoovered that one of the priests has a trumpet that won't blow, and he is sent beat in a hurry to find a better one. It isn't noticed until he has got into line again that he has brought a silver horn, and there's another hitch right there, and more time is loot. When the rolls are caned there ie not a oompany with a full representation. A good many have feigned sioltnese, and are even now groaning in the tents with all imaginable disorders. Others have gone howling to the dootors witlo pretended toothache, to get excused from duty. Some have lost their spears, and others can't find their javelins. More have broken bows, and othere have no arrows. Some have deserted and swum the Jordan to get bank into the wilderneee, while others have hidden themselves among the baggage, and their company commanders are obliged to report them missing. As Joshua gave the oommand that put the column in motion, it didn't look much like the march of a oouquering army. There was mutiny in the ranks. On every brow there was a black, rebel - Hone look. Instead of stepping off quick- ly and firmly as one man, with shoulders thrown well back, heads high up, and plumes waving defiantly, they went straggling along without step, their heads hanging down, as though they expected nothing but disaster and speedy death. In spite of all the officers could do, they could not preserve silence in the ranks. The men kept talking and growling among themselves, finding fault with everybody in general, and Joshua in par. tioular. "What in this world do you suppose Joshua is trying to do now 7" "Going out against a walled pity with bows and arrows, and spears and ram's horns !" "Who ever heard of such a thing 2" "Moses would never have taken us out on such a wild goose chase as this." "I don't believe in going to war in this way" 'Vika hka to see things done deoeutly and in order." "Just because Joshua's got a little power he wants to show himself." "He thinks he's a bigger man than Moses." "Who ever beard of taking priests in. to battle before 7" "Those ram's horns are something I can't get over." "It's enough to brieg Moses to life again." "Moses forgot more than Joshua ever knew." "Those fellows who are doing the blow- ing think they are somebody." "Instead of those priests with their ram's horns, Moses would have had a lot of Benjaminites with battering rams to knock the walls down." "I wonder why they don't have more ram's horns 7" "If I didn't know how to handle a 0pear any better than that man over there does, I would pat on an apron and stay in a tent." We have all witnessed just such scene as this when efforts have been made look- ing towards a revival. Somebody wante more prayer, and somebody else more preaohing. One thinks the sermons have too muoh brimstone in them, while an- other says they don't contain half enough. This one thinks there ought to be more music, and that one says there is too much. One wants to know why the preaohor don't fire into the sinners, and ( another thinks the 0aints haven't been peppered half enough. But the man God sonde never fails. Joshua was a man who walked by faith and not by eight. He didn't care a tent stake for appearanoe0. It was a matter of no consequence to him how strong the enemy, was, nor how weak his own Torres were. Had the walls been a mile thiole and ten miles high, he would have gone out against them with the came boldness. He was not depending on his soldiers, or on his priests, or on the weather, or on the ram's horns. He was not depending on himself, or the state of his feelings, but was depending only and entirely on IMO word of his God. When Joshua first appears in eight with his host, his enemies aro at a great loos to know what to make of it. This is something new. They have never heard of anything like it before. They know what the usage hits been in the cam. paigns of Moses, but this ie a new de- parture altogether. They get on top of the walls, and look carefully over to note every move that le made. They do not know What to do, because they do not known what Joshua is going to do, and so all they can do is to watch and wait for devolopmente, (To 1)E CONCn0DED.N10XT {VEEN ) Thera are six 0,000 of small pox in Hamilton, According to the Berlin News a citizen of that anti•prohibition town has pre- pared himself for prohibition by purohas- mg a silver -headed walking Dano which is so constructed ae to hold about 10 drinks of whiskey, with a diminutive glass to drink it with. G,eoaet't17, New, who Oro at the World's 'Mar Buildings on Monday night paused about 11200,000 damage bo exhibits, Chby lira anti smoke, Qbin Boy tie0 been sentenced at l3at- tleboro', VI,, to 80 days in gaol and to pay 5200 tine for'dmnggling Olunnow» eoroee the line. Ives defeated Simon in the billiard Match at Ohioago Tuesday night by 000 to 100, and equalled Sohmfer'e great aver- age in New Yorlt. A brilliantand novel nee of eleotrio lighting bite been devised by a New York theatre. fn the afternoon, ae soon as Broadway is dark 0tl0ogh to show off the lights, four ooal•bla011 horses, drawing one of those smart, highly polished box wagons, such (to florists use for delivery, aro driven: slowly up and down that thoroughfare, harem; and wagon is out- lined with electric light lamps, and on eaoh horse's head and bank an 0100tr10 lamp blazes steadily. The device ie simple enough. In the wagon is an electric storage battery from which wires am led to the lamps, the horses being wired along the harness. The unusual spectacle of an infant be- ing offered for sale at a market stand was witnessed at Indianapolis on Wed- nesday of last week, when Mrs. Jackman, an elderly woman who has a eland at the Nast market, offered to dispose of a 2 - months -old babe to her customers. She said that the child was born to a young woman who gave her name as May Lewis and her home as °bicago, and who said that the name of the child's father was Ztothohild. The child was born. at her house, and as she had brought up eleven children of her own, she did not care to undet'take the rearing of another. The mother paid two weeks' board for the ohild and then disappeared, and Dire. Jaokman said that sloe had brought the babe to the market in hopes of finding a home for it. A large erowd assembled about the stand and finally attracted the attention of the police. When an officer approached a woman offered to take the babe and care for it, and it was turned over to her, but an hour later she return- ed with the babe, Baying her husband would not let her keep it, Mrs. Jaok- man still has the baby. M. Cliquot, a Frenoh•Oanadian sword swallower, Last week swallowed fourteen 22 inch swords at one time and now he lies unconscious and suffering from in. tercel injuries at the Union Square Hotel, New York. M. Cliquot and his wife arrived in New York last week and on the day of his arrival he gave an exhi• bition in sword swallowing in his room at the hotel. After swallowing all sorts of swords he swallowed a long cavalry sabre and to show there was no deeep. tion about the act he placed a bar on the hilt, which protruded from his mouth, and weighted the bar with a 14 pound dumb bell. Then he took fourteen swords. whose blades were about an inch wide, and, putting them in his mouth swallowed them. A doctor, for whose benefit the exhibition was given, instead of drawing the swords out singly, drew them all out together, cutting Cliquot severely. Cliquot was reported in a critical condition and is not expected to x0000300. Mrs, John Emmons, of North Judson, Ind„ was taken suddenly siok and ap- parently died. The doctors pronounced it a Dasa of brain fever, while others thought it a possible case of suicide. Her husband desired to keep the body for a few days to make sure of death. It seems that her mother went into a trance for four days, rallied and lived five years; also that her grandfather on her mobber'e side, after having been pronounced dead for six days, awoke and lived for 23 years. Mrs. Emmons' body was kept until last Saturday, when on demand of the physician and numerous residents it was interred. 'During the time between Monday and Saturday the body did not become rigid, and when the nose was weighted down and then the weight re• moved, it immediately assumed its natural shape. The corpse looked as lifelike at the time of burial as it did on the day of death, although the physicians applied the different death testa and pro. flounced her dead. Mortification did not set in, and sbe was laid to rest, without waiting for that, the surest of all tests, to take place. Many are of the opinion that the woman has been buried alive. The annual meeting of the Distriot of Hullet L. 0. L. met in Clinton. The et• tendanae was large and the various ofl. oars delivered enbhueiastio addresses, showing the great progress of Orangeiem in this district—the lodges throughontbe- ing in a healthy condition. The officers elected for the year are :—D. Oantellon, W. D. M. ; J. S. Welsh, W. D. D. M. ; Geo. Hanley, Ohap. ; W. J. Vance, R. S. ; Robt. Scarlett, Treas. ; G. M. Silty, F. S. ; John Bullard, D. of C.; Levi Horney and J. F. Welsh, lecturers. The feeling of those present was strongly manifested in favor of the next 12th of July celebra- tion being held in Seaforth. Grand Tran //if you want to Travel NORTH SOUTH, EAST or WEST —TAKE THE— Grand Trunk. rot full particulars apply to J. N.IKENDALL, G. T. B. Agent, Brussels. AYER'S. 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