The Red Cloud chief., 1890-01-24

pa.soA nursery. end Will q up q
down With him iato the house Of the
Lord. and there she will hide him for
elk years, end % the end o. thst time
no will como forth for yoar dethrone-
mont and o~bliteration.
Well. my friends, just - poB . botch
dWes the world always make Of extin.
gushing righteousness. Superstition
rises up and says: II will just put IN
end to pure Se1igion." Domitian slew
forty thousand Christians. Diocletian
slew eight hundred snd forty.f0ur thou.
sand Christians. And the scythe Of
persecution has bsen swung through oil
the ages, and the flames Missed. and the
guillotinc chopped, and the Bsstils
groaned. but did the foes Of Christianity
cxtcrminatc II? Ibid thcy exterminste
Alban, the nrst British sacrifice; or
Zuinglius, the Swiss rcformcr; or John
Oldcastle. the Christian nobicmsn: or
Abdallah, tho Arabian martyr; or Anne
Askew. or Sanders, or Cranmer? Great
work Of determination they made Of It,
just ut the time when they thought
they had slain oil the royal family Of
Jesus, some Joash would spring up and
out. and take the throne Of power and
WELD . very sccpter VI Christian domin.
Ion.
Inldclity says: ''I'l Just exterminats
tho Bible" and the Scriptures were
thrown into the street for the mob to
tramplc on, and they were piled up In
the public squares and act on firc, and
mountains of indignant contempt were
hurled on them, and learned ~univcrsi.
ties dccrced the Bible out Of existence.
Thomas Paine said: ''ln my Age of
Reason | have annihilatcd tho Script
ures. Your Washington Is a pusflian.
imous Christian, but I am tho foo Of
Bibles and Of churches.
o. how many assaults upon that
Word! All the hOstilities that have
ever boon created on earth are not u In
compared with the hostilitiea against
that n Book. Said one man, In his
inidcl desperation, to his wife: "Y0u
must not be reading that Bibla," and
he snstched II away from her her. And
though In that Bible was . lock Of
hair Of the dead child--the only child
that Tod had evcr given them no
pitched tho book with its contents Into
tho fire, and stirred II with the tonga,
and spat on It, and cursed II, and Aaid:
'Susan. never have any more Of that
damnable stun herc!"
How many individual and organised
attempts have been made TO extermi.
nate that Bible! Have they done IL?
Have thcy DIFFERENTIATED tho American
bible Society? Have they extcrminated
the British and Foreign Bible Society
Have they exterminstcd the thousands
Of Christian institutions. whose only
object II IL 10 multiply copies Of the
Scriptures, and throw them broadcast
around the world? They have extcrmi.
mated until instead Of n or two copies
Of the Bible In our houses wa have eight
or ten. and we pile them up ! IN the corners
III our Ssbbath-schOOl rooms, and send
great boxes Of them everywhere. n they
get n ~ well ~ they arc o going
On In the work OF determination, I do
not know but that our children may live
70 s~c tho millennium! Yea, II there
should como y time IT persecution In
which all the known Bibles Of the earth
should be destroyed, all these lamps Of
light that blaze In our pulpits and In
u families extinRuished-in the very
day that infdelity and sin should b.
holding y jubilee over the universal OK.
t~inction, thcrc would be In some closet
of . backwOOds church . secrcted copy
Of tho Bible, and this Joash Of eternal
literature would como M and come ND
and take tho throne, and the Athalinh
Vt infdclity and persecution would ny
out Of the back door Of tho palace and
drop her miserable carcass under the
hoOfs Of the hOrsos Of the Kings stablea.
You can not cxtcrminAtc Christianity!
You can not kill Jossh!
The second thought I hand you from
my subject In, that thcrc are opportuni.
ties In which We may . v royal life.
You know that proiane history Il m.
plote with stories ~ stran2led mon.
archs and Of young Princes who have
beca put out Of the way. Hero Ia tAc
STORY Of = young King saved. How Jc.
hosheba. the clcrRyman's wife. must
have troubled ~ she rushed into tho
imperial nursery and snatchcd up JoAsh.
How she hushed him, lest by his cry no
hinder his escape. Fly with him! Je.
hosheba, you hold In your arms the
cause Of tod and good government.
Fail. and he IL Sian. Succeed. and you
turn the tide Of the worlds history In
the right Direction. II seems ~ IL be-
tween that young King and his sssAs-
sins there IL nothing but the frail arm
VI = woman Hut why should We spend
our time In prSising this bravery Of OK.
petition when God asks the same thing
VI you and me? All around ~ are tho
imperilcd childva Of . great King.
They ere horn u Almighty psrcntAgc,
and will come to . throne or . crown. II
permittcd, Hut sin. the old AthAliah.
gOes forth 10 the massacre. Murderous
temptations arc out for the aasAasinA.
tiOn. valenA the Emperor, wss told
that there wss somebody II bis realm
who would ususD his theOnN md that
the name Of the man who should b the
usurper would brsia with ~ lestrrs r.
II. 4. a u, and the edics went forth
from the Enperor's throne: "kiil
every body whsss asms begins with r.
e n ~ And hunIeOAA a~A NhOn.