THE DEFEAT OF THE MIDIANITES.

Gideon got together a large army, but God told him that only a part must fight. So Gideon picked out the three hundred bravest men and divided them into three companies of one hundred each, and put a trumpet in each man’s hand and an empty pitcher and a lamp inside the pitcher. About the middle of the night they came to the camp of the Midianites and blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers and held up the lamps and cried “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” The Midianites were afraid and ran about and cried out and killed one another. The Israelites ran after them and drove them out of the country.

“THE SWORD OF THE LORD, AND OF GIDEON.”