The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-22
y Sanders, or Cranmer2 Great work
TIE npENISIAEIE EIELE-

aud take the throne OF povc", and
WELD Il vcrE sccptcr OF Christian Go
mirion.
THE MPEHIS!IAEl-E BIDLE.
Int:deiitv says: "l,il Just cNtermi-
nate the Bible" and the Scriptures
were thrown into the street for the
mob to trample on, and they were
piled up in the public squares and set
on fire, and mountains of indignant
contempt were hurled on them, and
learned universities dccreed the Bible
out of existence. Thomas Paine said:
I'm my Age of Reason | have ami
hilated the Scriptures. Your Wash
ington is pusillanimous Christian,
but am the foe of Bibles and of
churches" 0, how many assaults
upon that Word! AL the hostilities
that have ever been created on earth
are not to be compared with the hos
tilities against that one book. Said
one man, in his infdel desperation,
to his wife: ''You must not be read
ing that Bible," and he snatched it
away from her. And though IN that
Bible was lock of hair of the dead
chiM-the only child that God had
ever given then-he pitched the book
with its contents into the fire, and
stirred it with the tongs, and spat on
it, and cursed it, and said: Susan,
never have any more OF that damna"
Bile stuff here!''
How many individual and organized
attempts have been made TO externl-
nate that Bible! Have they done ita
Have they exterminated the American
Bible society2 Have they extermi-
nated the British and Foreign Bible So
ciety2 Have they exterminated the
| thousands OF Christian institutions,
whose only object it 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 well as they are now going
on in the work of determination, do
not know but that our children may
live to see the millennium! Yea,
| If there should come a time of peyse-
cution 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 eXtln-
guished-in the very day that lnt-
deity and sin should be holding
Jubilee over the universal extinction,
there would be in some closet OF q
backwoods church secreted copy OF
the Bible, and this Joash of eternal
literature would come o1t and come
up and take the throne, and the Atha-
liah Of inidehty 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 cannot extermlnate
Christianity! You cannot kill Joash! |!
THE WEAKEST ARM MAY SAVE
The second thought hand you from
my subject is, that there are oppor-
tunities in which we may save royal
life. You know that profane history
is replete 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 up
Joash. How she hushed him, lest by
his cry he hinder the escape. Fly with
him! Jehosheba, you hold in your
arms the cause of God and good gov
ernment. Fail, and he is slain. Sue
ceed, and you turn the tide of the
worlds history in the right direction
It seems as if between that young king
-ssffd nd his assassias there is nothing but
the frail arm of woman. But why
should we spend our time in pralslng
this bravery of expedition when Sod
asks the same thing of you and 1ne2
All around us are the imperlled call
dren OF a great King.
They are born Of Almighty parent
age, and will come to q throne or
a crown, if permitted. But sin, the
old Athaliah, goes forth to the mas
sacre. Murderous temptations are
out for the assassination. Valens, the
emperor, was told that there was
somebody in his realm who would
usurp his throne, and that the name
of the man who should be the usurper
would begin with the letters T. q. +.
O. D., and the edict went forth from
the emperor's throne: ''Kil every
body whose name begins with T. u.
E. D. D." And hundreds and thou
sands were slain, hoping by that mas
sacre to put an end to that one
usurper. But sin is more terrific IN
its denunciation It matters not how
you spell your name, you come under
its knife, under its sword, under its
doom, unless there be some omnipo-
tent relief brought to the rescue. But,
blessed be God, there is such thing
as delivering royal soul. Who will
snatch away Joasha
This afternoon, in your Sabbath
school class, there will be prince
of God-some one who may yet
reign as king forever before the
throne; there will be some one
in your class who has a cor
rupt physical inheritance; there will
be some one in your class who has
father and mother who do not know
how to pray; there will be some one
in your class who is destined to COM
mand in church or state-some Crom-
well to dissolve q parliament, some
Beethoven TO touch the worlds harp
strings, some John Howard to pour
fresh air into the lazaretto, some Flor
ence Nightingale to bandage the bat
tie wounds. some Miss Dix to soothe
the crazed brain, some John Frederick
Oberlin to educate the besotted. some
David Brainard to change the Indians
war whoop to a Sabbath song, some
John Wesley to marshal three-fourths
of Christendom, some John Knox to
make queens turn pale, some Joash to
demolish idolatry and strike for the
kingdom of heaven.
TRE PRINCES IN TIE CRADLE