_Fear not _. .. _ I have given into thy hand the king Of Ai._ THE USE OF FAILURE “Fear not.” How much of our misery arises from fear! How many a beating heart, how many a shaking nerve, how many a sleepless night have come, not from evil experienced, but from evil apprehended! To save one from the... [ Continue Reading ]
_So Joshua arose, and all the people of war._ ALL THE PEOPLE AT WORK FOR JESUS I. Consider the advice of the spies which led to such a shameful defeat (Joshua 7:3). 1. Here we shall have to deal with the error of supposing that a part only of the Church will be sufficient to perform the work of t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then Joshua built _. .. _ an altar of whole stones._ THE PLASTERED ALTAR Let us behold in the story of Joshua’s altar in Mount Ebal the mirror of an honest Christian life. 1. It is well to recognise the fact that this world is under the curse, a true Mount Ebal. Is human existence hard? There is... [ Continue Reading ]
_Gerizim _. .. _ Ebal._ EBAL AND GERIZIM The valley between these two is one of the most beautiful in Palestine. Jacob’s well lies at its mouth, and all its luxuriant extent is covered with its verdant beauty of gardens, and orchards, and olive groves, rolling in waves of billowy beauty up to the w... [ Continue Reading ]