Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-01-18
AT the END OF that time ne VIII come
forth for your dethronement and OBJ

fo-ty-four thousand Christians AND
the scythe of persecution has been
swung through all the ages, and the
flames Kissed, and the guillotine
chopped, and the Bastilc groaned; but
did the foes of Christianity extermi-
nate it9 Did they exterlninatc Alban,
the first British sacrifice; or Zulnglius,
the Swiss reformer; or John Oldcastle,
the Christian noblelnan; or Abdallah,
the Arabian martyr; or Anne Asliew,
or Sanders, or Cranmer3 Great,work
of determination they made OF it. Just
ut 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, ana
WELD very scepter of Christian DO
minion.
THE 1MPERIsHABLE BIBLE.
.-...In6delity SAYS: "I'll just cxtermi-
,snates.tbe. Bible Sc anu; e-seriilpturres
were throw atosthc street sstke
mob Is tra:n 81 oii, and wefs
piled up in tho public squares and set
ION. fire, and mountains oftindignant
contermi pts4We sthiirle a $onsth Gfn said
learned universities ldccfaeu stliss Bible
out-of cxistence.. Thomas;P Paine said:
SIN my Age OF: Reason | lave anni-
hilated the Scriptures. > Your. Wash
inston is a pusillaninaous Christian,
but / am the foe of Bibles and of
churches" o, how many assaults
upon that Worll-. All the Shostilitics
that have ever been created on earth
are not to be compared with the hos.
tilities against that one book Said
one man, in his infidel desperation,
to his wife: "You must not be read
ing that Bible" and lie snatched it
away from her And though:in that
Bible was q lock Of hair OF the. dead
cllild-thc only child tllats Cod had
ever given thcm-he pitched the book
with its contents into the fire, and
stirred it with the tongs, and spat on
it, and cursed it, and said: Susan,
never have any moro of that damna-
Bile stuff herc!"
How many individual andorganized
attempts have been made 10 cXterml-
nate that Bible! Have they done ita
Have they exterminated the American
Bible society," Have they extcrmi-
dated the British and Foreign Biblc So
ciety9 Have they cxterminatcd the
thousands of Christian Institutions,
whose only object it is to multiply
copies of the Scriptures, and throw
them broadcast around the worldf
They have extcrminatcd until instead
Of ono or two copies of the Biblc in
our houses VIC have eight or ten, and
we pile them up i'll .hc corners OF our
Sabbath school rooms, and send great
boxes Of them everywhere. If they
get on as well as they are now going
on in the work Of determination, l do
not know but that our children may
live to sec tho niAenniuml Yea,
if there should come o time OF persc-
cution in which all the known Bibles
Of the earth should be destroyed, all
these lamps OF light that blaze in our
pulpits and III our families cxtln-
gnished-in the very day that mil
jubilee over tho universal extinction,
there would be in some closet of a
buckwoods church a secrctcd copy OF
the Bible,s and this Joasl of eternal
literature would come out and come
up and take the throne, and the Atha-
liah of infidclity and persecution would
fly out the back door of tho palace,
and drop her miserable carcass under
the hoofs of the horses Of the kings
stables. You cannot exterminate
Christianity You cannot kill Joash
THE WEAKEST AR21 MAY SAVE.
The second thought hand you from
my subject is, that there arc oppor
tunities i'll which we may save royal
life. You know that profanc history
is replcto with stories of stranglcd
monarchs and of young princes who
have been put out of the way. Here
is the story of q young king saved.
How Jehoshcba, tho clergylnan's wife,
must have tremblcd as she rushed into
the imperial nursery and snatched up
Joash. How she hushed him, lest by
his cry he hinder the escape. Fly with
him! Jehosheba, you hold in your
arms the cause of God and good gov
eminent. Fail, and he is slain. Sue
coed, and you turn the tide of the
worlds history in the right direction.
1t 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 expedition when God
asks the same thing of you ind mes
All around us are the irlperiled chill
dren of great King.
They are born of Almighty parent
age, and will come to throne or
a crown, if permitted. But sin, the
old Athaliah, goes forth to the mas
sacre. Murderous temptations are
out for the assassination. Valcns, the
emperor, was told that there was
somebody in his realm who would
usurp his throne, and that tho name
of the man who should be the usurper
would begin with the letters 7. H. E.
o. D., and the edict went forth from
the emperor's throne: Kill every
body whose name begins ms, with ,itA Z {ndHd.
: e. rs We're We're slain, hoping by that mas
sacro to put an end to that one
'tatsdT Der But sin is more terrific in
ifs Il .nc;et;n-a---:Is-'=---- ~ "
y Va ds sped your name, you come under
its knife, under its sword, under its
doom, unless there be some omnlpo-
tent relief brought to the rescue. But,
blessed be God, there is such q thing
as delivering q royal soul. Who will
snatch away Joash2
This afternoon, in your Sabbath
school class, there will be prince
of God-some one who may yet
reign as king forever before the
thsone; there will be some one
in your class who has a cor.
rupt physical inheritance; there Will
be some one in your class who has
father and mother who do not know
how IN may. there will be some one