Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-24

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"ZCE must not he reading t12C Bible. and he
ruatched i a|aT fTy7u Lc~. And though In
thai Bible was q iC1< o. Galr o the deal
chjlL-tIe only child tsao tod had ever
given them-Ae pitched the book with is
contents into the IRE, ard stirred it with the
t0rgs, ana spat on It. and CURSE H. ana said:
''Suzan, never have any more Of that damn
able stuff here"
How many individual and organized at
Temps have been made 70 c-ternllnate that
Bible, Have tEev done i; Have they e.
terminated the Amer. Bible Society
Have they extern;nated the British and
Foreign Bible Society? Have they eE1erEni-
mated the thousands CT Christian institutions
whose only object it is to multiply copies OF
the Scriptures and throw them broadcast
around the world? They have exterm.natet
until instead 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 looms, and send great boxes OF them
everywhere II they get on as we'll as ihev are
now going on in the work OF determination.
I do not know but that our children may
live 20 see the millennium, zee. If there
should come time of persecution IL which
all the known Bibles of the earth should be
destroyed, all these lamps of light that blaze
in our pulpits and in our families eXtin-
cruished-in the very day that lnfideIlty and
sin should be holding q jubilee over the uni
yersal extinction, there would be II some
closet Of backwOOds church a Secretel copy
Oc the Bible and this JOash of eternal 1iJara-
tura would come out and come up and take
the throne and the AthaIiah Of iufiieEry
and persacut ton 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 ezte-minat8 Christi
anity. You cannot Kill Joash!
The second thought l hand you from nv
subject IS. that there ara opportunities in
which we may save royal lie You know
that profana history is repiete with stories Of
strangled NCnarchs and Of young Princes VINO
have been put out Of the way. Here i the
story Of young King saved. dow
JehOsheba the cle@gyman's wife, must have
trenlbIed as she rushed into the imperial nErs-
erv and snatched M Joash. How she hushed
h1;n, lest by his cry he hinder the escape.
i'Iv with him! .TehOsheba, YOU hold in your
Fail. and he is slain. Succeed and YOU turn
the tide Of the worlds history in the right
direction. Tt seems as if between that young
King and his assaSsins there Is nothing but
the frail arm of a woman. But why should
we spend our time in rraising this bravery OF
expedition when God asks the same thing of
you and me? All around US are the imperiied
children of great King.
They are born of Almighty parentage, and
viii cOmetOa throne or a crown, If permitted.
But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth TO the
massacre. MurderOus temptations are out
/ for the assassination. Falens, the Emperor,
/ was told that there was somebody in his realm
who would usurls his throne, and that TIE
name of the man who should be the usurper
would begin w tn the letters T. H. E. 0. D..
aud the edict went forth from the EnperOT'S
! throne: 'kill everybody whose name begins
/ with T. H E. o. Do And hundreds and
thousands were slain hoping by that mas
! Sacre to put an end to that one usurper But
: sin is more terrific in its denunciation. 1t
matters not how you spell your name, you
/ come under its knife, under its sword, under
it's doom, unless there be some OnlnipOtent
/ relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be
God there is such q thing as delivering
royal soul? Who will snatch away Joash?
! This afternoon IN your Sabbath school
class there will be a Prince Of GOd-sonle
one who may yet reign as King forever be-
fore the throne: there will be some one in
your class who has q corrupt physical inner
ttance; 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 III
your class who is destined to COM
mand in church or state-sOme Cr0n-
well to dissolve a parliament, some
Beethoven to touch the worlds harp strings,
some John Howard TO pour fresh air into the
laZaTattO, some Florence Nighting gale TO band
age the battle wounds, some Miss Dix 20
/ sOOtne the cr8zed brain, some John Frederick
Ob9rIln 20 educate the beSOtted, some David
. Br3inard to change the Indians war whOOD
TO Sabbath song some John Wesley to IuaT-
shall three-IOurt Of ChTistend00l, some J Ohm
Knox to make Queens turn pale, some JOash
to demOliSh idOlatry and strike for the king
dom OF heaven.
there are playing il yOWr nurseries by day,
imperial souls waiting for dominion, and
. whichever side the cradle they get out viii
decide the destiny OF empires. For each one
81 those children sin and holiness contend
Athaiiah on the one side and JeaOshaba on
the other. But [ hear people say: CIV hats
Sue use Of botherinG children with religious
instruct III? Let them grow up and choose
for themselves. Don't interfere with their
v0ljtioa." Suppose some one had said TO
. JehO5haba. Don't Interfere with that young
J0ash. 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 Volt
ton" JehOSheba knew right well that I'M
less that day the young King was rescued, he
I would never be rescued at all.
tell you, my friends, the reason we don't
reclaim all our children from wOrIdliness is
because we begin too late. Parents wait
ill 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 all wrapped up
IN this world before they tell them OF g. bat
ter world. Too late with your prayers Too
at5 with yonr discipline. Too late with
your ban9diCtiOn. y on put all care
upon your children between twelve
and eighteen. Why do you not put the chief
rare between four AMI nine? 1t is too la5a
20 repair a vessel when it has got out OF the
The executioners have broken in. May God
arm Us ali for this work of snatching royal
I souls from death to coronation. Can you
. imagine any SIbin1er work than this soul
+ saving? That was what flushed Paurs cheek
with enthusiasm, that was what Led MunsoH
70 risk his life amid Bornesian cannibals;
that was what sarG Dr.. AbeaI to preach
uuder t1e consuming skies OF China; t1at
was what gave courage to PhOcus IN
the third century. When the military