Sharp County record., 1890-01-30

him. and this clergyman 49,
tasboba will snatch him up from the
noIace nursery, and will run up ana
dnwn with him into the house OF the
Lord, and there she will hide MIN lor
six years, and at the end OF that time
he will come forth for your dethrone-
ment and obliteration.
Infdelity says: I'll just extermln ate
the Bible" and the Scriptures were
thrown into the street for the mob to
tramnIc on. and they were piled up IN
tho nublic squares and set on ire, ana
mountains of indignant contempt were
bnrled on them, and learned universities
decreed the Bible out OF exist
ence. Thomas Paine said: I'm my
Age of Reason have annihilated the
Scriptures. Your Washington IS
nnsiilanimous Christian, but am the
foe of Bibles and of churches" On,
how many assaults upon that WORD!
All the hostilities that have ever Deen
created on earth are not to be COM
nared with the hostilities against that
one hook. Said one man in his lntldel
desperation to his wife: "You must not
be reading that Biole," and ne
snatched it away from her ana
though in that Bible was a lock OF hair
of the dead child-the only child that
God had ever given them-he pitched
the book with its contents into the hre,
and stirred it with the tongs and spat
on II, and cursed it, and said: Susan,
never have any more Of that damnaDle
stuff here.'
How many individual and organized
at+empts have been made to EXTERN
mate that Bible! Have they done it?
Have they exterminated the British and
Foreign Bible society? Have they ex-
terminated the thousands of Chris
sian institutions, whose only object is
to multiply copies of the Scriptures
and throw them broadcast around the
world? They have exterminated until
instead of one or two copies of the Bible
in our houses we have eight or ten, and
we pile them up in the corners OF our
Sabbath-school rooms and send great
boxes of them everywhere. If they get
on as we'll as they are now going
on in the work of determination L do
not know but that our children may
live to see the millennium! Yea, II
there should come a time of persecution
in which all the known Bibles Of the
earth should be destroyed, all these
lamps of light that blaze in our pulpItS
and in our families extingnished, in
the very day that inidellty and
sin should be holding a jubilee over the
universal extinction there would be IN
some closet of backwoods church Sc
creted copy of the Bible, and this Joash
of eternal literature would come
out and come up and take the
throne, and the Athaliah OF ln1del-
itv and persecution would fly out the
back door of the palace and drop her
miserable carcass under the hoofs OF the
horses of the Kings stables. You can
not exterminate Christianity! You can
not kill Joashl
The second thought hand you from
my suject is, that there are opportu'
mites in which we may save royal life.
You know that profane history is re-
plete with stories of strangled monarchs
and of young Princes who have been
put out of the way. Here is the
story of a young King saved. How
Jehosheba, the clergyman's wife, must
have trembled as she rushed into the
imperial nursery and snatched uE
Joash. How she hushed him, lest
by his cry he hinder the escape Fly
with himl Jehosheba, you hold IN
your arms the cause of God and good
government. Fail, and he is slain. Sue
coed. and you turn the tide of the
worlds history in the right direction
1t seems as if between that young
King and his assassins there is moth
ing but the frail arm Of WON
an. But why should we spend oul
time in praising this bravery Of ex
pedition when God asks the same thing
of you and me? All around us are the
imperiled children of a great King.
They are born of Almighty parentagt
and will come to throne or crown i
permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah
/ goes forth to the massacre. Murderou'
| temptations are out for the assassina
ton. Valens, the Emperor, was told
that there was somebody in his
realm who would usurp the throne
and that the name of the man who should
be the usurper would begin with thu
letters Z. II. E. o. D., and the edic
went forth from the Emperor's throat
"Kill every body whose name begins will
T. II. E. 0. D." And hundreds anC
thousands were slain, hoping by thi
massacre to put an end to that ont
usurper. But sin is more terrible in its de
nunciation. 1t matters not how yol
spell your name you come under it
knife, under its sword, under its doom
unless there be some omnipotent relic
brought to the rescue. But, blessed b.
God, there is such thing as delverin!
a royal soul. Who will snatch ava,
Joash?"
This afternoon, in your Sabbath-schoo
class, there will be a Prince of God
some one who may yet reign as KIM
forever before the throne; there will b.
some one in your class who has a cor
runt nhvSica1 inheritancp: there will b