REV. DR TALMAGE day Sermon. “The Greatest Soldier of All ime,’ Subjects mile—as the Almis those waters rush 4 beliey : y misfortune Why 11d ed parted? Pecause, peri On, Lord, we are en- L rsky business, Those Canaanitos may vat us up. How if we want to go Would it not have been 8 more f miracie il tae Lord had paried the waters let us come through and Kept them parted to 16 is go back if we are defeated?’ M; friends, God makes no provision for u Christian's retreat. He clears the path fil the way to Canaan. To go back is to die, The same gatekeepers that swing back the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordaii to let Israel pass through now swing mav gaged in fo 20 back. completes § the Jordan to keep the Israelites from going back, 1 declare it in your heariog to-day, vietory ahead, water forty feet deep in the rear. Triumph ahead, Canaan ahead; be hind you death and darkness and woe and hell. But you sav, ‘Why didn't those Canannites, when. they hitd such a splendid chance—standing on the te= of the bank thirty or forty Test high-<completely des river?! § will tell you why. God had made a promise, nnd He wae golag to keep it, “There shall not ‘any ‘man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy Jife.” But this 18 no place for the host to stop. Joshus gives the command, “Forward, saarch!™ In the distance there Is a long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is nn ocity. It is a city of arbors, a eity with walls seaming to reach to the heénvens, to buttress the very sky. It is the great mero olis that commands the mountain pass, It b 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 cam gn the Lord plans, swords, no shields, no Shall be only one weapon of war, and that a ram's horn, The horn of the times taken and hole and then the musician nent to his lips, and he wi slain ram was sal it piace for the hnat of rward, There ia if Gib Hf under the protection of word: “The: Are going to « ik, Send us help right away. un has athree dave march more than ) On the morning of the third day he fa before the enemy, here are two tines of battle, The battie opens with great slaughter, but the Canaanites soon discover something. They say: “That fs Joshua, That is the man who conquered the spring freshet and knocked down the stone wall and destroyed the city of Al There is no use fighting.” And thoy sound A retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like « pastther, pursuing them over the rooks, and as these Canaanites, with sprained ankles and gashed foreheads, retreat the catapults of the sky pour a voliey of halistones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens with bullets of iron pounds the Cannaanites against the ledges of Beth-horon, “Oh,” says Joshus, '‘this is surely a victory!" “But do you see the sun is going down? Those Amorites are going to get away after all, and they will come up some other tine and bother us and perhaps destroy us,’ Hee, the san is going down. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in this climate! What ia the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apopletiec fit? No, prayer, Look out when a good man makes the Lord his ally, Joshua raises his face, radiant with prayer, and looks st the de. seonding wan over Gibeon and at the faint cremeent of the moon, for you know the queen of the night sometimes with linger around the palnces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other hand at the fuint crescent of the moon, futhe name of that God who shaped the worlds and moves the worlds, he eries, “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, moon, in marcel ries J the city Joshua ve Rings after nd are 1s, He phie quick, . the valley of Ajalon.” Ana they stood { sun’ { planet A TERRIZLE Daughter Sees Her Motley lier Will Her er and sing de rashed to her room, her husband's rev at herself The daughter from Her mother, 1 i Annnt se red where var and fired Myrtle who re igie, and herseil s shot took the weapon gained it after a desperate ptr then killed her husband, SL through the heart, she fell a body, Hing ross his lifeless IRON PRODUCTION OF 1894, loth the Output and the Price Decrease] Materially, Iron ore statistics prepared for the United | States Geological Survey by Joho Birkinbine, ol Philadelphia, show that the product of jiron ore in the United States for 1894 in. | creased only about 214 per cent. over the { product of 1898, and most of tals increase | came from the Lake Superior region, Minne | sota showing the greatest increase, ranking second among the iron ore producing Mates, while in 1803 she was third, Michigan eon tinued to be the larger producer. Alabang has fallen from second place in 1803 to third in 1804; Virginia bas improved her standing, | rising from fifth in 1893 to fourth in 1804, | while Pennsylvania has fallen from fourth in 1863 to fifth in 1884. The prices realized averaged only $1.14 a ton in 180, aguinst $1.66 a ton in 1893, i To Replace Cocon Cellulose. Bearmant Herbert appointed a Board con sisting of Naval Constructors Linnard, Tay- lor and Daghiel, to meet iu Pailadeliphin to examine a pew material made from toe pith of the Indian corn stalk, which is expected to displace cocon cellulose in the construc tion of war vessels, All other Pe ywders made bd tals Mexi sastors of {IRG0.761, X ISTO of HO.000 there 186573; ano; The 1.000) 0) and in Cochin China 48 per 1.068) mpire an bout According to Dr. tables the con geccond eo cost France soldiers Lagneau's demographic tury from 1705 to 1805 death in battle or by disease of 6,000, 000 French soldiers, witnessed the mE ————————— Old but Good. More of Edward Fitzgerald's letters current number of Temple Bar, One of them contains, says the New York Tribune, this anecdote, told him, observes, by man:" Scene ter's evening: congregation, with Old he out some dismissal words, Good old parson, not at all meaning rhyme: “The light has grown so very dim, I scarce ean see to read the hymn!” Congrega- tion taking it up, to the first half of Old Hundred: “The light has grown so very dim, 1 scarce can see to read the hymn.” Pauge, as usual; pastor, mildly impa. tient: “I did not mean to read a hymn; I only meant my eyes were dim.” Cone gregation, to second part of Old Hun. dred: “1 did not mean to read a hymn; 1 only meant my eyes were dim.” Parson, out of patience, ete.: “1 didn’t mean a hymn at all 1 think the devil's in you al.” ' Hi ra Ne i PROSPECTIVE MOTHERS = #2 Pe uns Kowiges int ine swell, w i Collars ur Five Pal Ceists A Same Collar sr Couls. 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