The Forrest City times., 1890-01-18
TALMACE IN PARIS
Tho. Celebrated Brooklyn Clergy man on
 His Homeward Way.
The Determination of Righteousness is an mpossibility.-when Man is Good He is Apt to be Very Good and Vice Versa

Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage preached in Paris last Sunday. He is making his way home, which he expects to reach in the early part of February. Dr. Talmage's text was "Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahazah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the kings sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him from his nurse, in the bed chamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years. m-lI Kings, xii, 2 3. He said:
 Graddmothers are more lenlent with their chldrens children than they were with their own At forty years of age If disci- pline be necessary, chastisement is used, but at seventy, the grandmother looking upon tho misbehavior of the grandchild, is apologetic and disposed to substitute con fectionery for whip. There Is nothing more beautiful than this mellowing of old age toward childhood Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief and wipes her spectacles and puts them on, and looks down into the face of her mischievous and rebeilious descendant, and says. s'I don't think he meant to do 1t; let him off this time; I'll be responsible Tor his behavor in the future" My mother, with the second generation around her-a boisterous crew--said one day; 'l suppose they ought to bc disciplined but I can't do it. Grandmothers are not fit to bring up grandchildren" But here, in my text, we have grandmother of a different hue.
 have within a few days been at Jerusa- lem, where the occurrence of the text took place. and the whole scene came vividlv be- fore mo while was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers .of the kings palace. Here in the text it is old Athliah, the queenly murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was king Her husband was king. Her son was king. And yet we find her plot. ting for the extermiuation of the entire royal family, including her own grand children. The executioners' knives are sharpened. 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 mercy Kill! Kill But while the ivory floors of the palace run with carnage, and the whore land is under the shadow of great horror, fleet footed woman, a clergyman's wife, Jehosheba by name, stealthily ap- breaches the imperial nursery, seizes upon the grandchild that had somehow as yet escaped massacre, wraps 1t up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it against her, flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this Christian abduction Get her out of the way as quick us you can, Tor sue car rics a precious burden, even a you ng king. With this youthful prize sue presses into the room Of the ancient temple, the church of oldea time, unwraps the young king and puts him down. sound asleep as he is, and unconscious of the peril that has been threatened; and there for six years he is secreted in that church apartment Mean time old Athaliah smacks her lips with satisfaction, and thinks that ali the royal family are dead.
 But the six years expire, and it is now time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne, and to push back iuto dis grace and death old Athaliah. The arrange ments are all nude for political revolution. The military come and take possession of tho temple. swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around for his defense. Sec the sharpepod swords and the bur nished shields! Everything is ready Now, Ioash, half frighteuei at tie armed tramp of his defenders, scared at the voeiferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regaa The scroll of author- ity Is put In his hands, tho coronet of gov erument is put on his brow. and the people clapped, and waved and huzzaed, and trumpeted. "Nhat is that,n said Athaliah "Nhat is that sound over in the tenn ple,a And she flies to see, and on her way they meet her and say Why haven't you heardl You thought you had slain all the royal family, but Joash has come to light Then the queenly murder ess frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore 1t to tatters and cried until she foamed at the mouth; You have no right 10 crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason Treasonm While she stood there crying that the military started for her arrest, and she took short cut through back door Of 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 unoosed from the chariot after drawing out young Joash, the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place, as they smelt tho place of the carnage
 The first thought hand you from this subject is that the exterminatiou of right eousness is an impossibility. When n woman is good, sha is apt to be very good, md when she is bad, she is apt 10 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 people She would put an end to everything that could in anywise interfere with her imperial criminalty. She folds her hands aud says: s'The work is done; it is completely done n Is iti In the swaddling clothes of that church apartment arc wrapped the cause of God, and the cause of good government That is the scion of the house of David it is Joash, tho Christian rnformer; 1t is ioash. the friend of God; it is Joash, tho demolisher of Baalit- ish idolatry. Rock him tenderly, nurse him gently, Athaliah, you may kill all the other children. but you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses arc thrown all around him, and this cergyman's wife, Johosheba will snatch him up from the palace nursery, and will run up and down with him into the house of tho Lord and there she will hide him for six years, and Ut tho end of that time he will come forth for your dethronement and collaboration.
 ell, my friends Just as poor n botch does the world always make of extnguish. ing Righteousness Superstition rises up and says "l will just put an end to pure religion" Domitiou slow forty thousand Christians, Diocletian slew eight hundred and forty four thousand Christians And the scythe of persecution has boon swung through all the ages, and tho flames hissed, anu the guilloune chopped. and the Bastiic groaned but did the foes of Christianity ex terminate iti Did thoy exterminate Alnan, tho first British sacrifice; or Zuinglius, the Swiss rcformer; or John Oldcastle the Christian nobleman; or Abdallah the Arabian martyr; or Annie Askew, or san ders, or Cranmari Great work of axier- imitation they made of it Just at the time when they thought they had slain all the royal family Of Jesus, soma Joash would spring up and out and take the throne of power, and wield yery soeptar of Christian dominion.
 lnddelisy says "Ill Just exterminate the Bible and the Scriptures were thrown il to the street for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in tho public squares and set on fire and mountains of tndignant contempt were hurled ou them and learned universities deereed the Bible out Of existence. Thomas Paine said: .'ln my Age cf Reason have annihilated tho