That  old  story  of  the  fall  of  Jericho  lights
up  afresh,  when  we  note  that  ''  all  men  of  war  "
were  to  share  in  the  march.  It  was  not,  as
in  the  pictures  of  our  cliildhood's  days,  a
handful  of  priests  with  a  band  of  a  few  hundred
followers,  but  the  sustained  tramp  of  the
600,000  of  the  fighting  strength.  Supposing
the  city  to  have  been  three  miles  in  circum-
ference (a  large  computation),  this  would  mean
a  complete  surrounding  of  the  city  by  ranks
at  a  yard's  interval,  100  men  to  a  rank,  marching
round  once  a  day  to  the  continued  blast  of
the  rams'  horns,  uninterrupted  by  any  other
sound  to  break  the  vibration.  May  it  not  be
that  as  God's  miracles  generally  lie  in  a  line
with  the  laws  of  nature,  intensified  by  the
powers  of  the  world  to  come,  this  vibration
may  have  caused  a  disintegrating  of  the  struc-
ture, accelerated  by  the  sevenfold  march  of  the
seventh  day,  so  that  the  shout  that  ended
it  only  completed  the  shattering,  and  brought
the  wall  down  flat  ?

If  so,  onward  with  our  intercession,  vibrating
with  the  Name  that  has  power  to  move  all
things   in   heaven    and   earth   and   under    the


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earth,  not  even  the  walls  of  Islam  can  resist
the  impact  of  that  power,  if  we  hold  on.
