?\YAPmrtcTo?";, Nor. IR.?Tn thia dis?
course Dr. Talmore follows Joshua **n
hin triumphal march and speaks en?
couraging words to all who arc engag
*'*l in thc betties of this life; text Josh
tin 1, 5, "There shall not nny tuan be
able to stand before thee all the days
of thy life."
Moses WM dead. A beautiful tradi?
tion says the Lord kissed him nnd in
that not drew forth the soul of the dy
lng lawgiver. Ile hnd been bulled;
only one person at the funeral tin
same One who kissed him. P'lt God
never takes a man away from any
place of usefulness until he haa some
one ready to replace him. Toe Lord
does not go looking around nmld tx
croat variety of candidates to find som**
one especially fitted for the vacated po?
sition. He makes n man for that place.
Moses has passed off the stagehand
Joshua, the hero, puts lils foot or* the
platform of history so solidly that all
th*1 uses echo with the trend. Ile was
a magnificent fighter, hut he always
fought on the right side, and he never
fought unless Cod told him to fight.
Ile got his military e*|ulpment pom
Ood, who gave him the promise at tho
?^tart. "There shall nol any man harbin
to stand before thee all the days of thy
life." dod fulfilled this promise, al?
though Joshua's first battle was With
the spring freshet, the next with a
stone wall, the next hading on a regi?
ment of whipped cowards ami the next
battling acainst darkness, wheeling tho
sun and the moon Into his battalion
and the last against the king of ter?
rors, death five great victories.
I'l.rMnu tho Jordnn.
