The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1890-01-15


tempt were hurled on them, and learned uni
versties decreed the Bible out of existence.
Thomas Paine said: "In my Age of Reason
have annihilated the Scriptures Your
Washington Is a pusillanimous Christian, but
am the Zoe Of Bibles and Of churches" o,
how many assaults upon that World All the
hostilities that have ever been created on
earth are not TO be compared with the hos
tilities against that one book. Said one man,
I'm his iniidel desperation, to his wife: "You
must not be reading that Bible" and he
snatched il 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 stirred it with the tongs,
and spat on it, and cursed IL, and said;
Susan, never have any more Of that damna-
BILE stuff herer'
How many individual and organized at
tempts have been made to exterminate that
Biblei Have they done itl Have they ex-
terminated the American Bible society," Have
they exterminated the British and Foreign
Bible society," Have they extermnated the
thousands Of Christian institutions, whose
only object IL is to multiply copies of the
Scriptures, and throw them broadcast around
the worldi They have exterminated until in
stead Of one or two copies OF the Bible in our
houses we have eight or ten, and we pile
them up in the corners of our Sabbath school
rooms, and send great boxes Of them every
where II they get ON as well as they are now
going on in the work Of determination,
l do not know but that our children
may live to see the millennium Yea,
II there should come a time Of persecution in
which all the known Bibles of the earth
should be destroyed, all these lamps of life
that blaze In our pulpits and in our families
extinguished-in the very day that infidelity
and sin should be holding jubilee over
the universal extinction there would be In
some closet OF backwoOis church
secreted copy of the Bible, and this Joash
Of eternal literature would come out and
come up and take the throne, and the Atha-
liah of infidelity and persecution would fly
out the back door of the palace, and drop her
miserable carcass under the hoofs of the
horses of the kings stables. You cannot ex-
terminate Christianity You cannot kill
Joash! a-
The second thought hand you from my
subject is, that there are opportunities in
which we may save royal life. You know
that profane history is replete with stories of
strangled monarchs and OF young princes
who have been put out of the way. Here is
hosheba, the clergymans wife, must have
trembled as she rushed into the imperial
nursery and snatched up Joash How she
hushed him, lest by his cry he hinder the es-
cape Fly with him! Jehosheba, you hold
In your arms the cause of God and good gov
eminent. Fail, and he is slain. Succeed,
and you turn the tide of the worlds history
in the right direction. IL seems asif between
that young king and his assassins there is
nothing but the frail arm Of woman. But
why should we spend our time in praising
this bravery Of expedition when God asks
the same thing of you and met All around
us are the imperiled children of a great King.
They are born Of Almighty parentage, and
will come to q throne or a crown, If permit
ted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to
the massacre. Murderous temptations are
out for the assassination. Valens, the emit
peror, was told that there was somebody in
his realm who would usurp his throne, and
that the name Of the man who should be the
usurper would begin with the letters T. H.
E. o. D., and the edict went forth from the
emperor's throne: "Kill everybody whose
name begins with T. H. e. o. D." And hun
dredsand thousands wereslain, hoping by that
massacre TO put an end to that one usurper.
But sin is more terrific in its denunciatiOn.
come under its knife, under its sword, under
its doom, unless there be some omnipotent re-
lief brought TO the rescue. But blessed be
God, there is such a thing as delivering a
royal soul Who will snatch away Joashi
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 who has a corrupt physical inher-
itance; 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 who is destined to command in
church or state-some Cromwell to dissolve
q parliament some Beethoven to touch the
worlds harp strings some John Howard to
pour fresh air into the lazaretto some Flor
ence Nightingale TO bandage the battle
wounds, some Miss Dix to soothe the crazed
brain, some John Frederick 0berln to edu-
cate the besdtted, some David Brainard to
change the Indians war whoop to Sabbath
song, some John Wesley to marshal three
fourths OF Christendom, some John Knox 10
make queens turn pale, some Joash to de-
molish idolatry and strike for the kingdom
Of heaven.
There are sleeping in your cradles by night,
there are playing in your nurseries by day,
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, Jehosheba on the
other. But hear people say; whats the
use of bothering children with religious in
structioni Let them grow up and choose for
themselves Don't interfere with their Volt
tiOn." Suppose some one had said to Jehoshe-
ba; Don't interfere with that young Joash.
Let him grow up and decide whether he likes
the palace or not, whether he wants 10 be king
or not Don't disturb his volition." Jehoshe-
ba knew right well 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 worldliness Is
because we begin too late. Parents wait I'M
til 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 conversation. They
wait until their children are all wrapped up
In this world before they tell them Of bet
ter world Too late with your prayers. Too
late with your discipline. Too late with your
benediction. You put all care upon your
children between twelve and eighteen Why
do you not put the chief care between four
and ninei 1t is tor late to repair vessel
when it has got out of the dry docks. Ii Is
too late To save Jo3sh after the eXecutiOners
have broken in. May God arm US all for
this work OF snatching royal souls from death
70 coronation Car Oh imagine any sublner