New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-22

UhdU DlDie, anu lie SnaCcned 1T away from
her. And though in that Bible was a lock of
hair of the dead child-the only child that
4 GOD had ever given them-he pitched the
book with it's contents into the fire, and stirred
1T with the tongs, and spat on it and cursed
1T, and said: Susan, never have any more
OF that damnabe stuff here!''
How many individual and organized at
tempts have been made to exterminate that
| Bible! Have they done it? Have they ex-
terminated the American Bible Society?
Have they exterminated the British and
Foreign Bible Society? Have they extermi-
situations, whose only object is to
multiply copies of the scriptures, and
/ throw them broadcast around the
! world? They have exterminated until in
stead of one or two copies of the Bible in our
houses we have eight or ten and we pile
rooms. and send great boxes of them every
where. If they get on as well as they are
now going on in the work of extermination
do not know but that our children may
1--we to see the millennium Yea, if there
should come time of prosecution in which
all the known Bibles Of the earth should be
destroyed, all these lamps oflight that blaze
in our pulpits and in our families extinguish-
| ed-in the very day that intidelity and sin
should be holding Jubilee over the univer-
sal extinction, there would be in some closet
ct q backwoods church q secreted copy of the
|
would come out and come up and take the
throne; and the Athaliah of intidelity and
persecuti 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 exterminate
Christianity You cannot kill Joash
The second thought that hand YOU from
my subject is, that there are opportunities 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
she hushed him, lest by his cry he hinder es-
cape. Fly with him! Jeh osheba, you old in
/ your arms the cause of God and good
government. Fail, and he is slain.
| Succeed, 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 nothing but the trail
arm of a woman. But why should we spend
our time i'll praising this bravery ofex pedi.
ton when God asks the same thing of you
and me? All around us are the ilnperiled
| children OF a great king
They are born of Almighty parentage, and
will come to throne or crown, if permit
ted. But sin, the old Athaliah goes forth
to tho massacre. Murderous temptations
are out for the assassination Valans, 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 7.
ID. E. .. d.. and the edict went forth from
| the emperors throne "kil everybody whose
name begins with L. H. e. o. DE- And
hundreds and thousands were slain, hoping
by that massacre to put an end to that one
| usurper But sin is more terrific in it's de-
nunciaton. 1t matters not how you spell
| your name, you come under it's knife, under
it's sword, under it's doom, unless there be
some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue.
But, blessed be God, there is such thing as
delivering q royal soul. Who will snatch
away Joash?
This afternoon, in your Sabbath school
class. there will he prince of God-sone one
who may yet reign us king forever before the
throne; there will be some one in your class
who has corrupt physical Inheritance
there will be some one in your class who has
father and mother who does not know how
to pray; there will be some one in your class
who is destined to command in church or
state-some Cromwell to dissolve parlia-
| ment, some Beethoven to touch the worlds
harp strings. some John Howard to pour
fresh air into the lazaretto. some Florence
Nightingale to bandage the battle 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 Sabbath song,
some John Wesley to marshal three-fourths
of Chrstiandom, some John Knox to make
queens turn pale, some Joash to demolish
idolatary and strike for the kingdom of heav-
en-. d. i T.. u.s. .....s.
There are sleeping in your cradles by night
there are praying in your nurseries by day,
imperial souls waiting for dominion, and
whichever side the cradle they get out will
decide the destiny of empires. For each one
of those children sin and holiness contend
Athaliah ON the one sdesand Jehosheba on
the other. But / hear people say: What's
the use of bothering children with religious
inc rnot on IoftG nr, nj Oh
for themselves. Don't interfere with their
voltion." Suppose some one had said to
Jehoseba: "Don t interfere with tn al young
Joash. Let him grow up and decide whether
he likes the palace or not, whether he wants
to be King or not. Don't disturb his Volt
tion." Jehosheba fEew right well that unless
that day the young King was rescued, he
would never be rescued at all.
/ tell you, my friends, the reason we don't
| reclaim all our children from worldliness is
because we begin too late. Parents wait
until their children lie before they teach
them the value of truth. They wait uuti
their children swear be!ove they teach them
the Importance Of righteous conversation.
They wait nntii their children are all wrap
ped up in this world before they tell them of
better world Too late with your prayers.
Too late with your discipline. Too late
with your benedction. You put all care
upon your children between - and 49,
Why do you not put the chief care between
and 8? 1t is too late to repair a vessel
when it has got out of the dry dock. 1t is
too late to see .Ioash after the executioners
have broken in. May God arm us all Tor
this work of snatching royal souls from
death to coronation. Can you imagine sub.
liner work than this soul saying? That
was what flushed Paul's cheek with enthusi-
nsm; that was what led Munson to risk his
life amid Bornesian cann5bals; that was
what sent DR.. Abel to preach under the con-
suming skies of China that was what gave
courage to Phocus in the third century.
When the military officers came to put him
to death for Christ's sake; he put them
to bed that they might rest, while he
himself went out, and in his own garden dug
his grave. and then came back and said, II
am ready;" but they were shocked at the
idea of taking the life oftheir host. He said,
sit is the will of God that should die and
he stood on the margin of his own grave and
they heheaded him. Y on say it is q mania.
foolhardiness, Il fanaticsm. Rather would
call it glorious self abnegation, the thrill
of eternal satisfaction, the plucking OF Joash
from death, and raising him to coronation.
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