The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-29

Miss Dix to soothe the crazed brain,
some John Frederick Oberlin to educate
tine besotted, some David Brainard to
change the Indians war-whoop to a Sab
bath song, some John Wesley to mar
shall three-fopyths of Christendom,
some John Knox to make Queens turn
pale, some Joash to demolish idolatry
and strike for the kingdom of Heaven.
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 be.
fore they teach them the value of truth.
They wait until their children swear
before they teach them the Importance
of righteous conversation.
They wait until their children Sre
all wrapped 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 benedic.
ton. You put all care upon your chill
dren between twelve and eighteen
Why do you not put the chief care be-
tween four and nine? It is too late GO
repair vessel when it has got out OF
the dry docks. 1t is too late to save
Joash after the executioners have broken
in. May God arm us all for this work OF
snatching royal souls from death to cor
onation. Can you imagine any SUBJ
liner work than this soul saw.
ing? That was what flushed Pau's
cheek with enthusiasts; that was
what led Munson to risk his life amid
Bornesian cannibals; that was what sent
DR.. Abeel to preach under the consum.
ing 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: 81 am ready" but they
were shocked at the idea of taking the
life of their host. He said: cit is the
will of God that / should de-" and he
stood on the margin of his own grave
and they beheaded him. You say it is a
mania, foolhardiness, fanaticism.
Rather would / call it glorious self.
abnegation, the thrill of eternal salts
faction, the plucking Of Joash from
death, and raising him to coronation.
The third thought hand to you from
nv text is that the Church of God is a
good hiding place. When Jehosheba
rushes into the nursery of the King and
picks up Joash, what shall she do with
him? Shall she take him to some room
in the palace? No; for the official desper
does will hunt through every nook anc
corner of that building. Shall she take
him to the residence of some wealthy
citizen? No; that citizen would not dare
to harbor the fugitive. But she has t.
take him somewhere. She hears thu
cry of the mob in the street; she hears
the shrek of the dying nobility; so sh'
rushes with Joash unto the room of thu
temple, into the house Of God, and thel
,, she puts him down. She knows tina
Abdaliah and her wicked assassins viii
not bother the temple great deal; the.
are not apt to go very much to church
; and so she sets down Joash in the TEN
J pie. There he will be hearing the song
of the worshipers year after year; Their
u he will breathe the odor of the colder
. censers; in that sacred spot he will tarry
. secreted until the SIX years have passed
and he come to enforcement.
Il Would God that we were as wise al
Jehosheba, and know that the Church o
God is the best hiding place. ..,.
Omen of the world outside there, be
, trayed, caricatured and cheated of tn
= world, why do you not come in through
the broad, wide open door of Christia
communion? l wish Icould act the par
a of Jehosheba to-day, and steal you ava
g from your perils and hide you in tn
= temple. How few of us appreciate tn
= fact that the Church of God is hidin
:, place. There are many people who pu
;, the Church at so low mark that the
!. begrudge it every thing, even the fe'
, dollars they give toward it. They max
;. no sacrifices. They dole little out {
4 their surplusage. They pay their butcl
70 ers bill. and the pay their doctor
e bill, and they pay their Landlord
:, and they pay every body but the Lore
:, and they come in at the last to pay tn
% Lord in His Church, and frown as the
~ say: "There, Lord, it is; if You wi
4 have it-now take it, take it; send me
: receipt in full, and don't bother me 500
n againH'
4 tell you there is not more than on
man out of thousand that appreciate
what the Church is Where are III
r. souls that put aside one tenth for Chri
=, tian institutions-on tenth of their il
e come? Where are those who, havir
:, put aside that one tenth, draw upon
o % cheerfully? Why, it is pull, and dra,
d and hold on, and grab, and clutch; ar
II giving is an affection to most poop
- whom it ought to be an exhileration al
a rapture. Oh, that God would remod
q our souls on this subject, and that v
II might appreciate the house of God
!, the great refuge. If your children al
,s to come up to lives of virtue and hapr
a. ness, they will come up under the sha
"A ow of the Church. If the Church do
m not get them the world will.
vt All, when you pass away-and it wi
le not be long before you do-when yC
[. pass away it will be a satisfaction to S,
h your children in Christian society. Yt
" want to have them sitting at the no
,. sacrament. You want them mingling
Is Christian association. You would lii
to to have them die in the sacred precinct
in When you are on your dying bed, al