The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-01-18

hurled on them, and learned UNIVERSE
ties decreed the Bible out of existence.
Thomas Paine said: I'm my Age OF
Reason l have annihilated the Script,
ures. Your Washington is a pusillan-
imous Christian, but l am the foe OF
Bibles and Of churches.
o., how many assaults upon that
World All the hostilities 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 hat Bible," and
he snatched it away from her her. And
though in that Bible was o 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 II with the tongs,
and spat on 1t, and cursed 1t, and said:
"Susan, never have any more OF that
damnable stuff here!"
How many individual and organized
attempts have been made to extermi-
nate that Biblel Have they lone itP
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 1t Is to multiply copies Of the
Scriptures, and throw them broadcast
around the world? They have extermi-
mated 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. II they
get on as we'll as they are now going
on In the work Of determination, l. do
not know but that our children may live
to see the, millennium! Yea, IL there
should come q time of 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
our families extinguished-in the very
day that infdelity and sin should be
holding q jubilee over the universal OK
tinctlon, there would be In some closet
Ola b~ackwoods 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 persecution would fly
out Of tho back door OF the palace and
drop her miserable carcass under the
hoofs Of the horses Of the Kings stables.
You can not exterminate Christianity!
You can not kill Joash!
The second thought / hand you from
my subject is, that there are opportuni.
ties In which VIC may save royal life.
NAU E-A.V Shat ~rAf-n hsnNa..K L. 40
plete with stories of strangled mon
archs and Of young Princes who have
boon put out OF the way. Here Is The
story Of g young King saved. How Je-
hosheba, the clergyman's wife, must
have troubled as she rushed into the
imperial nursery and snatched up Joash.
How she hushed him, lest by his cry he
hinder his a Fly with him! Je-
hosheba, you hold in your arm the
cause Of God and good government.
Fail. and he is Sian. Succeed, and you
turn the tide of the worlds history In
the right direction. 1t seems as II be-
tween that young King and his assas-
sins there is nothing but the frail arm
Of a woman. But why should we spend
our time in praising this bravery of ex-
petition when God asks the same thing
OF you and me? All around us are the
imperiled children of a great King.
They are born Of Almighty parentage.
and will como to a throne or q crown, II
permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah,
goes forth TO the massacre. Murderous
temptations are out for the assassina-
ton. valens, the Emperor, was told
shat - ara ~ uaunahnlxy in hfo raa1n,
who would Gsurp his throne, and that
the name Of the man who should be the
usurper would begin with the letters r.
II. E. y. d., and the edict went forth
from the Emperor's throne: xiii
every body whose name begins with T.
II. E. o. D." And hundreds and thou
sands were slain. hoping by that massa-
ere to put an end to hat one usurper.
But sin Is more Terrific In its d%enuncia-
ton. 1t 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 q royal soul.
Who will snatch away Joash?
This afternoon, in your Sabbath
school class, there will be q 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 inheritauce; there will
be some one in your class who has q
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 to
dissolve q parliament, zone Beethoven
TO touch the worlds harp strings, some
John Howard to our fresh air into the
lazaretto. some Florence Nightingale to
bandage the battle wound, some Mish
DIX 20 soothe the crazed brain. some
John Frederick oberlin to educate the
besotted, some David Brainard, 10
change the Indians, war whoop to q Sab
bath song. some John Wesley to marshal
t~hree-fourths Of C~hristendom, some
John Knox to make Queens turn pale.
some Joash to demolish idolatry and
strike for the Kingdom Of Heaven.
There are sleeping in your cradles by
night, there are playing in your nurs-
cries by day, imperial souls waiting for
dominion, and whichever side the cradle
they get out will decide the destiny Of
empires For, each one OF those chill
dren sin and holiness contend-Athaliah
on the one side and Jehoshebs on the
other. But l hear people say:
"What's the use of bothering children
with religious Instruction. Let them
grow up and choose for themselves.
Don't interfere with their yplitioa."
Suppose Some one had said TO Jeho-
sheba;
Don't interfere with that young 30.
ash. Let him grow up and decide
whether he likes the palace or not,
whether he wants to be King or not.
Don't disturb his volition." Jehosheba
knew right we'll that unless that day
the young King was rescued, he would
never be rescued at all.
/ tell you, my friends. the reason we
don't reclaim all our children from
worldliness is because we begin too late.
Parents wait until their children lie be-
fore they teach them the value Of truth.
They wait until their children swear
before they teach them the Importance
OF righteous conversation. They wait
until their children are all wrapped up
in this world before they tell them Of .
better world. Too late with your
prayers. Too late with your discipline.
Too late with your benediction. You
put all care upon your children between
twelve and eighteen. Why do you not
put the chief care between four and
nine2
1t Is TOO late 10 repair a vessel when
1t has got out Of the dry docks. 1t
Is too late to save Jossh after
the executioners have broken in,