Connecticut western news., 1890-01-15
A KINGS LIFE SAVED.
Lessons Drawn from the Deed of JehOs.
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Rev. Dr. Talmage of Brooklyn Breaches in the French Capital on the Deliverance of Joash and His Restoration-How Royal Lives May Be Saved in These
 

of JOash and His RestOration-How
 Royal Lives May Be Saved in These
 Times.
 PARIS, Jan. 12, 1890. The Rev. T. De Witt D. D., of Brooklyn, preached in this city today. He is making his way home, which he expects to reach ill the early part of February. Dr. Talmage's text was: .'Je- the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the kings sons which were slain, and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedcham1cr from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. s.'-II. Kings, Xii, ?, 5. Dr. Tal- mage said:
 Grandmothers are more lenient with their children's children than they were with their own. At 40 years of age, if discipline be necessary, chastisement is used, but at 70, the grandmother, looking upon the misbehavior of the grandchild, is apologetic, and disposed to substitute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful tban this mellow ing of old age toward childhood. But here, in my text, we have grandmother of J different hue.
 have within few days been at Jerusa- lem, where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly be. fore me while l 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 murdcress. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was king. Her husband was king. Her son was king. And yet we find her plot ting for the determination of the entire royal family, including her own grandchildren. But while the ivory floors of the palace run with carnage, and the whole land is under the shadow of great horror, a tieet-footed woman, clergyman's wife, Jehosheba by cto a nursery, siezes upon the grandchild that had somehow as yet escaped massacre, wraps it up tenderly but in haste, flies down the pal ace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this Christian abduction. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the ancient temple, the Church of Olden Time, unwraps the y, ung king and puts him down, sound asleep as he is, and unconscious of the peril that has been threatened: and there for six years he is secreted in that church apartment.
 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. Now Joash, half affirighted at the armed tramp of his defend- CTS, scared at the vociferatiOn of his ad- mirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority is put in his hands, the coronet of government is put on his brow, and the people clapped, and waved, and hug zaed, and trumpeted. Then the queenly murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tatters, and cried until she loaned at the mouth: ''You have no right to crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shOnl- ders. Treason! Treasonv' While she stood there crying that, the military started for her arrest, and she took short cut through back door of the temple, and ran through the royal stables, but the battle axes of the mili- tary fell on her in the barn yard.
 The first thought I hand you from this sub ject is that the determination of righteousness is an impossibility. Superstition rises up and says: q will just put an end to pure relig- ion." Domitian slew 10000 Cnl istans, Dio- scythe of persecution has been swung through all the ages, but did the foes of Christianity eXterminate it! Did they eX- terminate A ban, the first British sacri- flee; or Quinglins. the Swiss reformer; or John Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman; or Abdallah, the Arabian martyr; or Anne Askew, or Sanders, or Cranmer? Gr, at work of eX+ermination they made of it! 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 wield very sceptre of Chris tian dominion.
 How many individual and organized at tempts have been made to eXterminate the Bible !! 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 everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now going on in the work of eXtermin- ation, I do not know but that our children may live to see the millennium! You cannot exterminate Christianity. You cannot kill Joash.
 The second thought I hand you from my subject is that there are opportunities in which we may save royal life. You know that profane history if replete with stories of strai. .gled monarchs and of young princes who have been put out of the way. Here is the story of young king saved. How Je- hosheba, the elergyman's 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 escape.
 It seems as if 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 expedi- tion 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 percentage, and will come to throne or crown, if permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massacre. Mur- derous temptations are out for the assassina- tion.
 This afternoon, in your Sabbath school class, there will be a prince of God-some 
 the throne; there will be some one in your class who has corrupt physical inheritance; ; there will be some one in your class who has a father and mother who do not know how to pray; there will be some one in your class who Is destined to command ill church or state-some Cromwell to dissolve parlia- ment, some Beethoven to touch the worlds harpstrngs, some John Howard to pour fresh air into the lazaretto, some Florence Nightingale to bandage the battle wounds, some Miss Dix to soothe the craZed brain, some John Frederick Oberlin to educate the Indians war whoOp to Sabbath song, some John Wesley to marshal threc-fourths of Christendom, some John Knox to make queens turn pale, some JOash to demOlish idolatry and strike for the kingdom of heaven.
 there are playing in your nurseries by day, imperial souls waiting for dominion, 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 people say: What's the use of bothering children with religious instruction? Let them grow up and choose for themselves. Don't interfere with their volition." Suppose some one had said to Jehosheba; s'Don't inserfere with that young Joash. Let him grow up and decide whether he likes the palace or not, whether he wants to be king or not. Don't disturb his voli- tion." Jehosheba knew right we'll that un- less 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 until their children lie before they teach them the value of the 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. You put all care upon your children between 12 and IS. Why do you not put the chief care between and9? It is too late to repair vessel when 1t has got out of the dry docks.
 The third thought hand to you from my text is that the church of God is good hid- inu lalaca When Iehasheha rlsheS into the