Sunsets on the Hebrew Mountains Author:John Ross Macduff Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: cessful Joshua in the plain, because he looks with the eye of faith to the great pleading Intercessor on the true mount in heaven, whose hands never "grow heavy ... more »;" for " He fainteth not, neither is weary." " Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, My foot slippeih; thy mercy, 0 Lord, held me up." Let us advert to one other element in Joshua's character. Trust in God's faithfulness. This was only the necessary concomitant and result of the preceding. Let us speak of it more in connexion with the closing period of his life, when he came to take a retrospect of his past history. When he first undertook to lead the armies of Israel, this was the warrant and encouragement on which he set out :— "/ the Lord am with thee whithersoever thou r/oest." No promise could have been stronger or more unqualified. " There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life. As I was with Moses, ao will I be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee." Have these repeated asseverations been rigidly fulfilled ? Has "He been faithful that promised?" " Yes," says Joshua ; " God has been true to His word. He- has been better than His word ! " When the land had been partitioned to the various tribes, he records this emphatic attestation, " There failed not ought of any good thing ivhich the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel : all came to It is a beautiful picture to see this burning and shining Ps. xciv. 17, 18. f Josh. xxi. 45 light of the old firmament nearing his glorious sunset! —this old warrior of Israel thus coming forth from the seclusion of his old age to bear witness to the faithfulness of a promising God! His public work is over—his sword is sheathed—his spear and shield are resting as proud tr...« less