The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-01-22
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SERMON or DR.. TALMAGs IN PA2iS
SUNDAY, JAN. y.

Goo Win Never Allow His True Line t"
Be Entircly Cut Off
PARIS. Jan. 12.-The Rev. T. De
Witt Taimage, D. D., of Brooklyn,
preached in this city today. He IS
making his way home, which he ex-
poets to reach in the early part Of
February. Dr. Talmage's text was:
''Jehosheba, the daughter Of King 20
ram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the
son OF Ahaz;ah, and stole him from
among the kings sons which We're
slain; and they hid him, even him
and his nurse. in the bedchamoer
from Athaliah, so that he was not
slain. And he was with her hld IN
the house Of the Lord six years. I'll
Kings, xi, 2, 3. He said:
Grandmothers are more lenient with
their children's children than they
were with their own. At forty years OF
of age, if discipline be necessary, chas-
tisement is used, but at seventy, the
grandmother, looking upon the nllSoe-
havior of the grandchild. IS apologize
and disposed to substitute confec-
tionery for whip. There is nothing
more beautiful than this meilowlng OF
old age toward childhood. Grandma
ther takes out her pocket handkerchief
and wipes her spectacles and puts them
on, and looks down into the face Of
her mischievous and rebellious de-
scendant, and says: Il don't think he
meant to do it: let him Off this time;
I'll be responsible for his behavior in
the future" My mother, with the Sec
ond generation around her-a bolster
Gus crew-said one day: Il suppose
they ought to be disciplined, but can't
do it. GrandmothcrS are not tit to
bring up grandchildren" But here, In
my text, We have grandmother of a
different hue.
THE RESCUE OF JoAsH.
I have within a few days been at
Jerusalem, where the occurrence Of
the text took place, and the whole
scene came wildly before me while l
was going over the site Of the ancient
temple and climbing the towers Of the
kings palace Here in the text II IS
old Athaliah, the queenly murderess
She ought to have been honorable:
Her father was a king. Her husband
was king. Her son was a king. And
yet we find her plotting for the extea-
naination of the entire royal family.
including her own grandchildren.
The executioners' knives are sharpen
ed. The palace is red with the blood
of princes and princesses. On all sides
are shrieks, and hands thrown up, and
struggle, and death groan. No mer
cyl Kill! Kill! But while the ivory
Socrs Of the palace run with carnage,
and tie whole land is under the Sha6-
ow of great horror, a feet footed wo-
man, aclergyman's wife, JehoSheba by
name, stealthily approaches the I'M
perial nursery, seizes upon the grand
child that had somehow as yet es-
capped massacre, wraps it up tenderly
but in haste, snuggles it agz inst her,
flies down the palace stairs, her heart
IN her throat lest she be discovered IN
this Christian abuction. Get her out
of the way as quick as you can, for she
carries precious burden, even young
king. With this youthful prize she
presses into the room Of the ancient
temple, the church of olden time, un-
wraps the young king and puts him
down, sound asleep as he IS, and un-
conscious of the peril that has been
threatened; and there for six years he
IS secreted in that church apartment.
Meanwhile old Athaliah smacks her
vlinss with. satisfaction, and thinks that
al the royal 1sm45v -
But the SIX yeass 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 Atha-
Gah. The arrangements are all made
for political revolution. The military
come and take possession Of the tenn
ole, swear Loyalty to the boy Joash
and stand around for his defense. See
the sharpened swords and the burnlsh-
ed shields! Everything is ready.
Now, Joash, half afrighted at the arm
ed tramp of his defenders, scared at
the vociferation of his admirers, 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 huzzaed, and trumpeted.
ssWhat is that2" said Athaliah. What
IS that sound over in the temples" And
she flies to see, and on her way they
meet her and say: "Why, haven YOU
hearda You thought you had slain all
the royal family, but Joash has come
to light" Then the queenly murder
es, frantic with rage, grabbed her
mantle and tore it to tatters, and cried
until she foamed at the mouth: you
have no right to crown my grandson.
You have no right to take the govern
ment from my shoulders. Treason!
Treason!" While she stood there cry
ing that, the military started for her
arrest, and she took a short cut
though back door of the temple, and
ran through the royal stables: but the
battle axes of the military fell on her
in the barn yard, and for many day,
when the horses were being unloosed
from the chariot, after drawing out
young Joash, the fiery steeds would
snort and rear passing the place, as
they smelt the place of the carnage.
TIE LORD WILL PRESERVE his SEED.
The first thought I hand you from
this subject is that the determination
of righteousness is an impossibility.
When a woman is good, she is apt
to be very good, and when she is bad,
she is apt to be very bad, and this
Athaliah was one of the latter sort. She
would exterminate the last scion of
the house of David, through whom
Jesus was to come. There was plenty
of work for embalmers and under
takers. She would clear the land of
all God fearing and God loving peo-
pie. She would put an end to every
thing that could in anywise interfere
with her imperial criminaEty. She
folds her hands and says: "The work is
done; it is completely done" Is it? In
the swaddling clothes Of that church