The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-01-18
'TALMAGE IN PARIS.
De Relates The Story Of How a
Kings Life Was
Saved.

He Was Secreted by Jehosheba
in the Temple for Six
Years.
PARIS, special.-The Rev. T. De Witt Tai
mage, D. d., OF Brooklyn, preached in this
city. He is making his way home, which he
expects to reach in the early part Of Febru.
airy. DR.. Talmage's text was: 'sJehosheba,
the daughter Of King Joram. sister Of Ahaz-
iah, took Joash, the son Of Ahaziah, and
stole him from among the Kings sons which
were slain; and they hid him, even him n
his nurse, in the bsdchamber from Athaliah,
10 that he was not slain. And he was with
her hidin the house of the Lord six years.
III Kings, ri, 2,3. He said:
Grandmothers are more lenient with their
children's children than they were with their
OWE. AT 40 years of age, if discipline be
necessary, chastisement is used, but at 20,
the grandmother, looking upon the misbe-
havior Of the grandchild, is apologize and
disposed to substitute confectionery for
whip. There is nothing more beau
tiful than this mellowing old age toward
childhood. Grandmother takes out he r
pockethandkerchief and wipes her spectacles
and puts them on, and looks down into the
face of her mischievous and rebellious descend
ant, and says: 9! don't think he meant to
do II; let him off this time; I'll be responsible
for his behavior in the future" My mother,
with the second generation around her-a
boisteroue crew-said one day: "~Isuppose
they ought to be disciplined, but l can't do
Il" Grandmothers are not fit to bring up
grandchildren. But here. in my text, we
have q grandmother of a different hue. =
where the occurrence OF the text took place,
and the whole scene came wildly before
me while I was going over the site of the
ancient temple and climbing the towers Of
the kings palace. Here in the text it is
old Athaliah, the queenly murderess: She
was q king. Her husband was a king. Her
son was q king. And yet we find her plotting
for the determination of the entire royal fam
lily, including her wi grandchildren. The
executioners' knives are sharpened. The
palace is red with the blood of princes and
princesses. Gu all sides are shrieks, and
hands thrown up, and struggle, and death
groau. No mercy Kill! KILL But while
the ivory floors of the palace run with earn
age, and the whole land is under the shadow
of q great horror, q feet-footed woman, a
clergyman g. wife, Jehosheba b Dynamo. stealth
lily approaches the imperial nursery, seizes
upon the grandchild that had somehow as
yet escaped massacre, wraps it up tenderly
hut in haste, smugglesit againt her, hiesdown
the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest
she be discovered in this Christian abduction.
Get her out Of the way as quickly as you can,
for she carries q precious burden, even a
young King. With this youthful prize she
the church Of olden time, unwraps the young
King, and puts hin down, sound asleep as
he is, and unconscious of the peril hat has
been threatened; and there Tor six ear he Is
secreted in that church. apartment. Mean
while old Athaliah smacks her lips with sat
" are dead.
But the six years expire and it is now time
for young Joash to come forth and take the
throne, and to push back into disgrace and
death old Athaliah. The arrangements are
all made for political revolution. The mill
tary come and take possession of the temple,
swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand
swords and the FURNISHED shields! Every
thing lie ready, Now, Joash, half affrighted
at the vociferation Of his admirers, is brought
forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority
lie put in his hands, the coronet OF government
is put on his brow, and the people clapped,
What is that?" said Athaliah. what is
that sound over in the temple?" And she
flies to see, and on her way they meet her and
say: "Why, haven't you heard?. You
thought you had slain oil the royal family,
but Joash has come to light" Then the
her mantle and tore it to tatters. n cried
until she loaned at the mouth You have no
right to take the government from my
shoulders. Treasonl Treason!" While she
stood there crying that, the military started
for her arrest, and she took a short cut
through 9 back door Of the temple, and ran
through the royal stables; but the battle
axes Of the military fell on her in the barn
yard, and for many a day, when the horses
were being Embossed from the chariot, after
drawing out young Joash, the fiery steeds
would snort and rear passing the place, as
they smelt the place of the carnage.
The first thought I hand yon from this
ness il an impossibility. When q m is
good, she Is apt to be very good, and whom
she is bad, she is apt to be very bad, and this
Athaliah was n of the latter sort. She
would exterminate the lastscion of thahouse
Of David, through whom Jesus was to come.
There was plenty of work for embalmers
and undertakers. She would clear the land
OF all God fearing and God loving people.
She would put an end to everything that
could in any wise interfere with her imperial
criminality. She folds her hands and says;
1.-THE work is done; it is completely done"
l0 III III Un6 eWduuHHS CAolucn VI tAdO
church apartment are wrapped the cause
food, and the cause Of good government.
That 10 the scion Of the house Of David;
il IL Joash;@ thu Christian reformer; it
ID Joash. the friend of God; it is Joash,
the demoliaher of Baalitish idolatry. Rock
him tenderly, nurse him gently. Ath-
allah, you may kill all the other children, but
uou cannot kill him. Eternal deenses are
1hrown around him, and this clergyman's
wife, Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the
palace nursery, and will run up and down with
h.s~ainto the house of the Lord, and there sho
win SH4<de him for six years, and ct the end OF
that t;mHa he will come forth for your de.
thrnnemenf end O~bliteration.
Wal nv trends, just as poor q botch does
the World always make distinguishing right
eousness. Superstition rises up and says: II
will lust put an enc to pure religion
Domitian slew 40, 900 Christians. Diocletian
eleH $4,000 Christians. And the scythe
OF persecution has been swung through
the guillorine chopped, and the Bastile
aroaned; but did the foes Of Christianity ex-
terminate It? Did they exterminate Alban,
Tho first British sacrifice; OF Iuinglius, the
Swiss reformsr; or John Oldcastls, the
Christian nobieman: or Abdallah, the Ara
ssbian martyr; or Anne Askew, or Sanders. or
Cranmer?s Great work OF determination
they made oft. just at the time when they
thought they had slain all the royal family
81 Jesus, some Joash would spring up and
out, and take throne OF power, and WELD o
very ecepter az Christian dominion.
Infidelify says: slII just exteEminate the
Bible, and the Scriptures were thrown into
the street for the mob to trample or and
they were piled up in the public squares and
ret ON IRE, and mountains Of indignant cOn-
tempt were hurled on them, and learned