Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-01-16

udu hAalu al luo rolll 1umlil OF d oobuhs
some Joash would spring up and out, and
take the throne of power. and WELD q
very scepter of Christian dominion.
Infldelity says: -Tll Just exterminate
the Bible,' and the Scriptures we're
thrown into the street for the mob to
trample on, and they we're piled up in
the public squares and set on fire, and
mountains of indignant contempt were
hurled on them, and learned universities
deereed the Bible out of existence.
Thomas Paine said: In my Age of
Reason have annihilated the Scrip
lures. Your Washington is pusillani-
nous Christian, but am the foe of
Bibles and of churches o, how many
assaults upon that World All the hos
tilities that have ever been created on
earth are not to be compared with the
hostilities against that one book. Said
one man, in his infdel desperation to
his wife: You must not be reading that
Bible" and he snatched it away from
her. And though in that Bible was q
lock of hair of the dead child-the only
child that God had ever given them-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 more of that
damnable stuff here!"
How many individual and organized
attempts have been made to exterminate
that Biblel Have they done it? Have
they exterminated the American Bible
Society? Have they exterminated the
British and Foreign Bible Society?
Have they exterminated the thousands
of Christian institutions, whose only
object it is to multiply copies of the
Scriptures, and throw them broadcast
around the world? They have exter-
minated 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, and send great boxes of them
everywhere. If they get on as we'll as
they are now going on in the work of
determination, I do not know but that
our children may live to see the millen-
mum! Yea, if there should come time
of persecution in which all the known
Bibles of the earth should be destroyed,
all these lamps of life that blaze in our
pulpits and in our families extinguished
lin the very day that intidelity and sin
should be holding jubilee over the uni
versal extinction there would be in
some closet of backwoods church a
secreted copy of the Bible, and this
Joash of eternal literature would come
out and come up and take the throne,
and the Athaliah Of infdelity and per-
secution would fly out the back door OF
the palace, and drop her miserable car
cass under the hoofs of the horses of
the Kings stables. You cannot exter-
inmate Christianity! You cannot kill
Joashl
The second thought hand you from
my subject is, that there are opportu-
mites in which we may save royal life.
You know that profane history is repIete
with stories of strangled monarchs and
of young princes who have been put
out of the way. Here is the story of a
young King saved. wJehosheba. the
clergyman's wife, must have trembled
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 government. Fail, and he is
slain. Succeed, and you tnrn the tide
of the worlds history in the right di-
rection. 1t seems as if between that
young King and his assassins there il
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
and me? All around us are the i'm
periled children of a great King.
They are born Of Almighty parentage,
and will come to throne or q crown, il
tai tt Rxzkc cSr he MI lo,E
goes forth to the massacre. Murderous
temptations are out for the assassina-
tion. Valens, the Emperor, was told
that 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
L. H. q. @. D., and the edict went forth
from the Emperor's throne: Kill every
one whose name begins with I. II. q. 0.
d. And hundreds and thousands were
slain, hoping by that massacre to put
an end to that one tlsurper. But sin is
more terrific in its denunciation. Il
matters not how you spell your name,
you come under its knife, under its
sword, under it's doom, unless there be
some Omnipotent relief brought to the
rescue. But blessed be God, there is
such q thing as delivering royal soul.
Who will snatch away Joashf
This afternoon in your Sabbath
school class, there will be prince OF
God--some one who may yet reign as
king forever before the throne; there
will be some one in your class who has
a corrupt physical inheritance; there
will be some one in your class who has
father and mother who do not know
how to pray; there will be some one in
your class who is destined to command
in church or state--some Cromwell tC
dissolve q parliament. some Beethoven
to touch the worlds harp strings, some
John Howard to pour fresh DIR into the
Iazaretto, some Florence Nightingale tC
bandage the battle wounds, some Miss
Dix to s0othe the crazed brain, some
John Frederick Oberlin to educate tht
besotted, some David Brainard to change
the Indians war. whoop to o Sabbath
song, some John Wesley to marsha,
three fourths of Christendom, sons
John Knox to make queens turn pale
some Joash to demolish idolatry ant
strike for the kingdom of Heaven.
There are sleeping in your cradles b,
night, there are playing in youE nurser
les by day, imperial souls waiting foi
dominion, and whicheversidet the cradli
they get out will decide the destiny o.
empires. For each one Of those chill
dren sin and holiness contend Athalial
on the one side, Jehosheba on the other
But { hear people say: What's the use
Of bothering children with religious IN
structionP Let them growup and choos,
for themselves. Don't interfere will