The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-01-29


Lord, and there she will hide him for
six years, and at the end of that time he
will come forth for your dethronement
and obliteration.
Well, my friend, 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
40, 900 Christians. .Diocletian slew S44,-
900 Christians. And the scythe of perse-
cution 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
Zwinglius, the Swiss reformer; or John
Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman or
Abdallah, the Arabian martyr; or Anne
Askew, or Sanders, or Cranmer? Great
work of determination 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
WELD very scepter of Christian domin-
ion.
Infidelity says: 'I'll just exterminate
the Bible" and the Scriptures were
thrown into the street for 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 univer-
stiles decreed the Bible out of existence.
Thomas Paine said SIN my Age of Rea-
SON have annihilated the Scriptures.
Your Washington is a pusillanimous
Christian, but / am the foe of Bibles and
of churches" O., how many assaults
upon that word! All the hostilities that
have ever been created on earth are not
to be compared with 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 snatched 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 stirred it with the tongs, and spat
upon it, and cursed it, and said: Susan,
never have any more of that damnable
stuff here"
How many individual and organized
attempts have been made to extermin.
ate that Bible! Have they Gone it,
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 object is to multiply copies
of the Scriptures, and throw them broad
cast around the world? They have exter
minated until instead of one or two cop
les of the Bible in our houses we have
eight or ten, and we pile them up in the
corners of our Sabbath-school rooms. an(
send great boxes of them everywhere
If they get on as we'll as they are nov
going on in the work of determination
do not know but that our children ma,
/ live to see the millennium! Yea, i
there should come time of persecution
in which all the known Bibles of tn,
earth should be destroyed, all thes
| lamps of light that blaze in our pulpit
J and in our families extinguished-il
tho very day that infdelity and sill
/ should be holding a jubilee over the uni
, versal extinction, there would be il
some closet of backwoods church sc
) GREETED copy of the Bible, and this Joasl
of eternal literature would come GU
and come up and take the throne, an,
, the Athaliah of infidelity and persecu
ton would fly out the back door of tn
, palace and drop her miserable carcas
, under the hoofs of the horses of tn
| Kings stables. You can not extermin
ate Christianity You can not kill Joasf
r The second thought l hand you fror
my subject is that there are opportun
: ties in which we may save royal life
f! You know that profane history is re
{ plete with stories of strangle
monarchs and of young prince
S who have been put out c
: the way. Here is the story of youn
, king saved. How Jehosheha, the clel
$ gyman's wife, must have trembled a
Q she rushed into the imperial nurser
/, and snatched up Joash. How she hushe
y him, lest by his cry he hinder the e'
1 cape. Fly with him! Jehosheba, yo
o hold in your arms the cause of God an
Y good government. Fail, and he is slail
t Sncceed, and You turn the tide of tn
n worlds history in the right direction.
s seems as if between that young kin
: and his assassins there is nothing BIT
r the frail arm of woman. But VIII
d should we spend our time in praisin
Il this bravery of expedition when Go
IL asks the same thing of you and me? A
t around us are the imperiled children {
" a great King.
g They are born of almighty parentag'
c and will come to throne or a crown,
r permitted. But sin, the old Athalial
goes forth to the massacre. Murderou
O temptations are out for the assassin;
o ton. Valens, the Emperor, was tol
n that there was somebody in his reall
n who would usurp his throne, and tn;
@ the name of the man who should be tn
d usurper would begin with the letters 7
g II. L. o. d., and the edict went fort
from the Emperor's throne: "Kill ever
n body whose name begins with I. III.
( o. d." And hundreds and thousand
n were slain, hoping by that massacre
Y put an end to that one usurper. But 81
0 is more terrific in its denunciation.
e matters not how you spell your nam
i yoa come under it's knife, under i
= sword, under its doom. unless there |