The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-01-15

house OF the Lord, and there she VIII
hide him for six years, and at the end OF
that time he will come forth for your de-
thronement and obliteration.
Well, my friends, just as poor botch
does the world always make of extin-
gushing Righteousness. Superstition
rises up and says: 81 will just put an
end to pure religion" Domitian slew
forty thousand Christians, Diocletian
slew s44, 900 Christians. And the scythe
of persecution has been swung through
all the ages, and the flames hissed, and
the guillotine chopped, and the bastile
groaned; but did the foes Of Christianity
exterminate it? Did they exterminate
Alban, the first British sacrifice; or
Zuinglius, the Swiss reformer; or John
0ldcastle, the Christian nobleman; or
Abdallah, the Arabian martyr; or Anne
Askew, or Sanders or Cranmer? Great
work of determination they made OF 1t!
Just at the time when they thought
they had slain all the royal family OF
Jesus, some Joash would spring up and
out, and take the throne Of power, and
WELD very scepter of Christian do
minion. ~ ,sra, p. 'eN
Infdelity says: "I'llj just exterminate
the Bible," and the Scriptures we're
thrown into the street TO- 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 universi-
ties decreed the Bible out Of existence.
Thomas Paine said: "In my Age Of
Reason / have annihilated the Scrip
lures. Your Washington is pusillani-
nous Christian, but / am the foe OF
Bibles and churches" o, how many as
saults upon that world All the hostili-
| ties that have ever been created on earth
are not to be compared to the hostilities
against that one book. Said one man, in
his infidel desperation, to his wife: "You
must not be reading that Bible" and he
matched it away from her. And though
in that Bible was 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 fire, and
stirring it with the tongs, and spat on
1t, and cursed 1t, and said: "Susan,
never have any more Of that damnable
stuff herep' 3t.
| How many individual and organized
attempts have been made to extermi'
nate that Biblel Have they done III
Have they exterminated the American
Bible Society Have they exterminated
the British and Foreign Bible Society
Have they exterminated the thousands
Of Christian institutions, whose only OBJ
ject it is to multiply copies Of the Scrip
lures, and throw them broadcast arount
the world? They have exterminatet
until instead Of one or two copies OF th'
Bible in our houses we have eight OF
ten, and we pile them up in the corner
OF our Sabbath-school rooms, and sen,
great boxes Of them everywhere. !
they get on as well as they are now GO
ing on in the work OF determination,
do not know but that our children ma
, live to see the millenniuml Yes, II ther
, should come Hme Of persecution /
which all the known Bibles Of the cart
should be destroyed, all these lamps (
/ light that blaze in our puipits and !
5 our families extinguished--in the yer
, day that infldelity and sin should b
: holding jubilee over the universal 9,
, tinction, there would be in some close
! OF backwoods church Q secreted copy
! the Bible, and this Joash Of eternal lite
8 ature would come out and come up an
!. take the throne, and the Athaliah oil I'M
8 deity and persecution would ny out tn
Q back doorof the palace, and drop nc
miserable carcass under the hoofs OF th
v horses of tho kings stables. You ca
not exterminate Chrisnanlty! fou co
0 not kill Joashi al5l n.
q The second thought hand you fro
/ my subject is, that there are opportun
a ties In which we may save royal III
v You know that profane history isreplei
\ with stories of strangled monarchs an
a Of young princes who have been put OF
O Of the way. Here Is the story OF
4 young King saved. How Jehosheba, u
a clergyman's wife, must have trembi'
q as she rushed into the imperial nursei
II and snatched up Joash. How she hush'
q him, lest by his cry he hinder the
4 cape. Fly with him Jehosheba, "
|. hold in your arms the cause OF God al
4 good government. Fail, and he is slai
4 Succeed, and you turn the tide OF u
q worlds history in the right directio
4 1t seems as II between that young XII
3 and his assassins there is nothing b
Il the frail arm OF woman. But wi
y should we spend our time in praisii
il this bravery OF expedition when q
q asks the same thing Of you and m'
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