Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-02-13

the besotted, some David Beainard to
change the Indians war-whoop to Sab.
bath song, some John Wesley to mar
shall three-fourths 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 are
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 got put the chief care be-
tween four and nine? 1t is too late to
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 sub
liner work than this soul saw
ing? That was what flushed Paul's
cheek with enthusiasm; 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.
Whom 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 Of their host. He said: ut is the
will of God that l should die" and he
stood on the margin of his own grave
and they beheaded him. You say it is
mania, a 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
my text is that the Church of God is
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 and
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 to
take him somewhere. She hears the
cry Of the mob in the street; she hears
the shrek Of the dying nobility; so she
rushes with Joash unto the room of the
temple, into the house of God, and then
she puts him down. She knows that
Abdaliah and her wicked assassins will
not bother the temple great deal; they
are not apt to go very much to church,
and so she sets down Joash in the tenn
Pile. There he will be hearing the songs
OF the worshipers year after year; there
he will breathe the odor of the golden
censers; in that sacred spot he will tarry,
secreted until the six years have passed,
and he come to enthronement
Would God that we were as wise as
Jehosheba, and know that the Church OF
God is the best hiding place.
o men of the world outside there, be-
trayed, caricatured and cheated of the
world, why do you not come in through
the broad, wide open door of Christian
wish | could act the part |
Of Jehosheba to-day, and steal you away
from your perils and hide you in the
temple. How few of us appreciate the :
fact that the Church of God is a hiding
place. There are many people who put !
the Church at so low mark that they |
begrudge it every thing, even the few
dollars they give toward it, They make
no sacrifices. They dole little out of
their surplusage. They pay their butch
sr's bill. and the pay their doctors
bill, and they pay their landlord,
md they pay every body but the Lord,
md they come in at the last to pay the
Lord in His Church, and frown as they
,ay: "There, Lord, it is; IL You will
nave it-now take it, take it; send me
receipt in full, and don't bother me soon
lgainv'
l tell you there is not more than one
nan out of a thousand that appreciates
What the Church is. Where are the
ouls that put aside one tenth for Chris
ian institutions-one tenth of their in
ome? Where are those who, having
,ut aside that one tenth, draw upon it
Why, it is pull, and drag,
nd hold on. and grab, and clutch; and
living is an affection to most people
vhsn 1t ought to be an exhileration and
rapture. Oh, that God would remodel
ur sopls On this subject, and that we
night appreciate the house of God as
he great refuge. II your children are
o come up to lives of virtue and happi-
less. they will come up under the shad-
w Of the Church. II the Church does
lot get them the world will.
All. when you pass away-and it will
Iot be long before you do-when you
ASS away it will be satisfaction to see
our children in Christian society. You
rant to have them sitting at the holy