The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13

they made of il. Just at the time when
they thought they had slain all the roya
family Of Jesus, some Joash would spring
up and out, and take the throne Of power.
and WELD very scepter Of christian do
ninion.
Infdelity SAYS" I'll just exterminate the
Bible" and the Scriptures were thrown
into the street for the mob to trampie on,
and they were pied up in the public
squares and set On fire. and mountains OF
indignant contempt were hurled on them,
and learned universities decreet the Bible
out of existence Thomas Paine said: In
my Age Of Re is1n' have annihiated the
Scriptures. Your Washi Igt1n Is a puSll-
Luminous christian. but l am the e OF
Bibles and Of churches o, how many as
ssults upon that World All the ho'tliitles
u1at have ever beel created upon earth
are not to be compared with the hos.iliiies
3 gainst that one book Said one man. IN
b Is infidel desperation 70 his wife; You
must not be reading that Bible" and he
Snatchei 1t away from her. And though in
L iat Bible was a lock of hair of the dead
cllild-the only child that God had ever
gwen tlem-he pitched the book with its
q IntentS into the fire, and stirred 1t with
tie tongs, and pat on II, and cursed 1t, and
s. id: Susan never have any more Of that
q Emnable stuff herem-
How mlny individual and organized
q ttempts have been made TO exterminate
I ,at Bible! Have they done IL Have they
e Eterniuated TIE American Bible SOcia5ys
/ lave they exterminabed the British and
T oreign Bible Society," Hsv vt e ex ermi-
ated the thousands of Christian l..ssitu-
Ions, whose only object it IS to multiply
ppieS Of the riptures, aud throw them
Z roadcast around the world? They
ave extermiuated until instead of
ore or two copies of the Bible In
our houses we have eight or tea and
we pile them up in the corners of our Sab
ath school rooms and send great boxes Of
/ hem everywhere II they get on as well
a they are now going on In the work OF
determination, do not know but that our
children may live TO see the millennium!
Yea, if there should come a time of perss-
cution in which all the known Bibles of the
earth should be destroyed, all these lamDs
OF light that blaze in our pulpits
and in our families extinguished-
in the very day that infidelity
and sin should be holding a
Jubilee over the univ ersal extinction, there
would be in some closet of a backwoods
church a secreted rpy of the Bible, and
this Joash of eternal literature would come
out aud come up and take the throne, and
he Athaliah of intidelity and persecu ion
would fly out the back or of the palace,
and drop her miserable carcass under
the hoofs of the horses Of the
kings stables. You cannot exterminate
The second thought | hand you from my
Subject is that there are opportunities in
which we may save royal life. You know
That profane his DRY is replete with stories
of sirangled monarchs, and of young
princes who have been put out of the way.
Here is the story of young king saved.
How Jehosheba, the clergyman's wife, must
have trembled as she rushed into
tae imperial nursery and snatched up
Joash. How she hushed him, lest by
bis cry he hinder the escape. Fly with
him Jehosneba, you hold in your ms
the cause of God and good government
Fail, and be is slain. Succeed, and you
turn the tide Of the worlds history in the
right direction. Ii seems as If between that
young king and his assassins there is moth
ing but the frail arm of a woman. But
why should we spend our time in praising
this bravery of expedition when God asks
the same thing Of you and me! All around
US are the imperiled children of great
king.
They are born of Almighty parentage,
and will come to a throne or a crown, if
permitted. But sin, the old 4 thaliah, goes
forth TO the massacre. Murderous temp
tations are out for the assassination. Valens
the emperor, was told that there was some
body in his realm who would usurp
his throne, and that the name of the
man who should be the usurper would
l. r..
and the edict went forth from
the emperors throne: "Kill every
body whose name begins with T. H E. o.
d" And hundreds and thousands were
slain. hoping by that massacre to put an
end TO that one usurper. Bat sin is more
terrific in its denunciation. 1t matters not
how you spell your name, you come under
Its knife, under its sword, under its doom,
unless there be some omnipotent relief
brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God,
there Is such thing as delivering a royal
soul Who will snatch away Joashs
This afternoon, in your Sabbath school
class, there will be prince of God-some
one who may yet reign as king forever be-
fore the throne; there will be some one in
your class VINO has corrupt paysical in
heritance; there will be some one in your
class who has father and mother who do
not know how TO pray; there will be some
one in your class VINO is destined to com
mand in church or state-some Crom-
well to dissolve a parliament, some Beeth-
oven to touch the worlds harp strings, some
John Howard to pour fresh air into the
iazaretto, some Florence Nightingale to
bandage the battle wounds, some Miss Dix
10 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-fourtns of cnristendom, some
e John Knox to make queens turn pale, some
Joash to demolish idolatry and strike for
the kingdom of heaven.
There are sleeping IN your cradles by
night, there are playing in your nurseries
by day. imperial souls waiting for domin
ion, 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 side, and
Jehosheba on the other. But ! hear peo-
pie say: Whats the use of bother
ing children with religious instruction?
Let them grow up and choose for them
selves Don't interfere with their volition.n
Suppose some one had said to Jehosheba:
s'Don't interfere with that young Joash.
Let him grow up and decide whether he
likes the palace or not, whether he wants to
be king or ot. Don't disturb his volition.n
Jehosheba knew right we'll 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 worldli-
ness is because we begin too late. Parents
wait until their children lie before they
teach them the value Of truth They wait
until their children swear before they teach
them the Importance of righteous conversa-
tion. 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 benedict n You put all care
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