Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-01-18
.ruE pRrNoEs IN rHE CRADLE.


the cradle they get out will decide the
destiny of empires. For each one OF
those children sin and holiness con-
tend-Atlaliah on the one side and Jc-
hosheba on The other. But | hear peo-
pie say: whats the use OF botherlng
children with religious Instructions
Let them grow up and choose tor
themselves. Don't interfere with their
volition. Suppose some one bad saad
TO Jchosheba: Don't Interfere witnE
that young Joash. Let linn grow up
and decide whether he likes the palace
or not, whether he wants to be king or
not Don't disturb his volition." Je-
loshcba knew right well that unless
that day the young King was rescued,
he would never be rescued at oil.
| tell you, my friends, the reason
VIC don't reclaim ell ourchlldrenfrom
worldliness is because we begin toe
late. Parents. wait until their chill
dren lie before they teach them the
! valuo of truth. They wait until their
children swear before they teach them
the importance of righteous converse
ton. Ihey wait until their children
: arc all swrapped UP in this ;iworldsbe-.
as.theyetell them. Of 10 better world !,
z Too:late With your; pray Too late
with your discipline Too latesswlth
;5.your :benedi ctio1. = OIL put al care
.st5o II va lareu Jc lFp
aid eightcc y.lliS 81, gu NOT put
/. the chief care between four;and nliief
It is,tooslatc to repair a vessel whensit
/. has got out of the dry docks. Itistoo
! late to save Joash after the execution
ers havo broken in. May God arm us
all for this work of snatching royal
soulsIrom death to coronation. Can
YOU imagine any sublimer work than
this soul saving7 That was what
flushed Paul's check with enthusiasm I;
that was what led Munson to risk
. his life amid Bornesian canniSals; that
. was what sent DR.. Abel to preach ul-
der the consuming skies of China;tliat
! was what gave courage to Phocus IN
T; the Third century. When the mill
tary officers came to put him to death
(. for Christ's sake, he put them TO bco
that they might rest while he Himself
/ went out, and in his own garden dug
| his grave, and then camcs back and
/ said: II am ready" but they were
! shocked at the idea of taking the life
! of their host. He said: 1t is tue will
| of God that / should die" and lie stood
j on the margin of his own grave and
they beheaded him. You say it is q
mania, foolbardiness, n fanaticism.
j Rather would l call it q glorious self
abncgation, the thrill of eternal salts,
! faction, the plucking of Joash from
! death, and raising him to coronation.
COPS ALTAR THE TRUE REFUGE
The third thought I hand to you
! from my text is that the church of God
I; is good hiding place. When Je-
I hosheba rushcs into the nursery of the
!! king and picks up Joash, what shall
/ she do with him2 Shall she take him
Ito somo room in the palacea No; for
! the official desperatloes will hunt
Through every nook and cornerof that
! building. Shall she take himto the
residence of some wealthy citizen2 No;
that citizen would not dare to harbor
the fugitive. But she has to take hin,
somewhere She hears the cry of the
mob in the streets; size hears the
: shrek of the, dying NobilitY;s SO she
ruslieS With JOaSh unto INC roUEf OF
the temple, into the house of God, and
then she puts linn down. She knows
that Athaliall and her wicked assassins
will not bother the temple a great
/ deal; they are not apt to go very much
! TO church, and SO she sets down Joasli
/! in the temple. There be will BIO hear
i ing the songs Of the worstiipcrs year
| after year; there he will breathe the
odor of TIC golden ccnscrs; i'll that So
| cred spot he will tarry, secrcted until
! the six years have passed, and he come
to cnthroncmcnt.
Would God that we were as wise as
/ Jehosheba, and knew that the. church
of God is tho best hiding place. Per
haps our parents took us there in carly
days; they snatchcd lis away from the
world and hid US behind the baptismal
fonts and amid the Bibles and the
psalm books. o, glorious inclosure
We have been breathing the breath Of
the golden censers all the time, and VIC
have seen the lamb OH the altar and we
have handled the plials which arc the
prayers of all saints, and we have
dwclt under the wings of the cllcru-
bin. Glorious irclosurc When my
father and mother died, and the prop
erty was settled up, there was hardly
anything left; but they endowed lis
with a property worth more than ans.
earthly possession, because they hid(8
in the temple. And when daysGf
temptation have come upon my SOIL
have gone there for shelter; and w!gn
assaulted of sorrows, L have gone th5re
for comfort, and there mean to live.
I want, like Joash, to stay there until
coronation. I mean to he buried out
OF the house of God.
o men of the world outside there,
betrayed, caricatured and cheated of
the world, why do you not come in
through the broad, wide open door of
Christian communion? Iwish l could
act the part of Jehosheba today, and
steal you 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
11uy PeoPle Wllo 1ut taS e.tolo ~ %
low a mark that they bcgrudge it
everything, even the few dollars they
give toward it. They make no sacri-
5affp Sl sagsy df0hIss y ply LYLE Sit pitchers
bill, and they pay their doctors bill,
and they pay their landlord. and they
pay everybody hut the Lord, and they
come in at the last to pay the Lord in
his church, and frown as they say:
There, Lord, it is; if yen will have
it, take it-now take it. take 1t; send
me 4 receipt in full. and don't bother
me soon again!"
SEEK GoDLY SOCIETY.
I tell you there is not more than one
man out of a thousand that apprcci-
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