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Rh to another part of the Word, and they will be observed to be used with the same meaning and in a similar way.

Note the much discussed passage taken from the book of Jasher belonging to a lost Word, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou moon in the valley of Ajalon." This was not a violation of natural law, the disarrangement of the universe for a small body of fighting men, but it is a parable of great spiritual facts as surely as is the story of the Prodigal Son.

The battle Joshua was fighting stands for one that we fight in temptation. The sun and the moon standing still, is the continuance of love and faith in our struggle in spiritual night and battle that the victory of redemption may be won.

Again, we read in Acts, that on the day of Pentecost was the fulfillment of the prophecy of Joel," the sun should be turned to darkness and the moon into blood before that great and notable day of the Lord." This did not mean the literal