Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-13
GOOD WILL NOT DIE.
Continued from First Page.l
THE WAR ON THE BIBLE.

Inhdelity says: "Ill lust 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 universities decreed the Bible
out Of existence. Thomas Paine said: TN
ny Age Of Reason have annihilated the
Scriptures Your Washington ia pusil-
Luminous Christian, but / Am the foe Of
Bibles and Of churches" o, how many
assaults upon that Word! All the HOSTILE
ties that have ever been created on earth
ara not TO be compared with the hostilities
against that one book. Said one man in
his infdel desperation, to his wife, lyon
muat not he reading that B ble," and he
snatched It away from her. And though
in that Bible wss lock of hair of the dead
child-the only child that God had ever
given them-hs pitched the book with Its
contents into the fire, and stirred it with
the tongs, and spat on it, and cursed 1t,
and said: Susan, never have any more
of that damnable stuff hereW
How many individual and organized at
tempts have been made to exterminate
that Bible! Have they done it? Have
they exterminated the American Bible 81
eiety Have they exterminated the Brit
ish and Forign Bible Society? Have they
exterminated the thousands Of Christian
institutions whose only object is TO multi
ply copits Of the Scriptures and throw
them broadcast around the world They
bsve exterminsted 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 rooms,
ond send great boxes of than everywhere.
Ii they get on az well as they are now 60
ing on in the work of determination, do
not know but that our children may live TO
see the millennium!
GOD GIVEN opportunities
The second thought l hand you from
NY subject is, that there are opportunities
in which we may save royal life. Ycu
know that profsne history is replete with
stories of strapgled mOnarchs ard Of young
prices who have been put out OF the wsy.
Here is the story of young king saved.
JshOshebs, the clergyman's wife, must
have trembled as she rushed into the i'm
perial nursery and snstched mp JOssh How
she hushad him, lest by his cry he hinder
the escape. Fly with him! Jehoshebs,
you hold in your arms the cause Of God
and coed government. Fail, and he is
slain. Succeed, and you turn the tide Of
the worlds history in the right direction.
II seams as if between that young king
and his assassiDs there is nothing but the
frail arm Of woman. Bot why should
We spend our time in praising this bravery
OF expedition when God asks the same
thirg Of you and mt? All srOund us are
the lmperiled children of a great King.
They are born of Almighty parentsge,
aud will come to a throne or q crown, If !
permitted. But siD, the old Athalish, goes
forth to the massacre. Murderous temptA-
tiOns are out for the assassination. Valens,
the emperor, was told tina. 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. +. o D and the
ediet went forth from the Emperor's
throne: Kill everyb body whose name be-
gins with T. II. l. 0. d. And hundreds
and thousands were slain, hoping by that
massacre to put an end to that one usnrptr.
But elm is more terrific in its denunciatiOD.
II matters net how you spe your name,
you come under knife, under its sword,
under its doom, unless there be some ON
nipotent relief brought to the rescue, But,
blessed he God, there is such thing as de-
liyering royal soul. Who will snatch
away Joasb?
THE CHURCH A REFCGE.
The third thought hand to you from
my text is that the church Of God is good
hiding plsce. When Jehosheba rushes
into the nursery Of the king and picks up
Joash what shall she do with himY Shall
she take him to some room in the palace?
No; for the official desperadoes will hunt
through every nook and corner of that
building. Shall she take him to the resi-
dence Of some wealthy citizen. No; that
citizen would not dare to harbOr the fugi-
tive. But she hiss to take him somewhere.
She hears the cry of the mob in the streets;
she hears the shrek of the dying nobility
so she rushes with Joash into the room OF
the temple, into the house of God, aud
then she puts him down. She knows that
Athsliah ard Ter wicked assassirs will not
bother the temple q great deal, they are
not apt TO 20 very much TO church, and so
she sets down Joash in the temple. There
he will be hearing the songs Of the wor-
shipers year after year; there he will
breathe the odor Of the goi> N censers; in
that sacred spot he will tarry, secIeted IN
til the six years have passed, and he come
to enforcement.
Would God that we were as wise as
Jehosheba, and knew that the church of
God is the beet hiding place. Perhaps
our parents took us there in early days:
they spatchtd us away from the world and
hid us behind the baptismal fronts and
amid the Bibles and the psalm books. 0.
glorious inclosurel We have been breath
ing the breath Of the golden censers ail the
lime. and we have been the lamb on the
alter and we have handled the phials which
are the prayers of all saints, and we have
dwelt under the wings Of the cherubim.
Glorious inclosurel When my father and
mother died, and the property was settled
M, there was hardly anything left; but
thew endowed us with q property worth
more than any earthly possessions, because
thew hid us in the temple. And when
dsys of temptation have come upon my
soul l have gone there for shelter; and
when assaulted of sorrows, have gone
there for comfort, and there mean TO live:
| want like Joash, TO stay thore until
coronation. mean to be buried out OF
the house of God
o. MEN OF THE WORLD
ou,side there, betrayed. caricstured and
cheated Of the world, why DO you not come
in through the broad, wide open door of
Christian communion? wish could act
the mart Of Jehosheba today, and steal
Won away from your perils and hide you
in the temple. How few Of us appreciate
the fact that the church of God is hiding
place. There are many people who put
the church at so low mark that they be-
grudge it everything, even the few dollars
thew give toward il. They make no sacri-
fees. They dole little ont of their sur
plussge. They pay their butchers bill,
and thew pay their DOCTORS bill, and they
nav their landlord, and they pay every
body but the Lord, and they come in at
the last to pay the Lord in his church, and
frovn as they say: There, Lord, 1T Is; II
Won will have it, take it-now take 1t.
take Il; send me a receipt in foil, and
don't bother me soon sgainw
tell Won there is not more than one
man ont of a thousand that appreciates
=. -. ohn,ch il Whare are the souls |