The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-27
NUMBER 16.
were shocked at the idea of taking tho

and he stood on the margin of his own
grave, and they beheaded him. You
say it is a mania. foolhardiness. .
fanaticism. Rather would l call it
glorious self-abnegation, the thrill of
eternal satisfaction. the plucking of
Joash from death and raising him to
coronation.
The third thought 1 hand to you is
that the church of God is good hid
ing place. When Jehosheba rushes in
to the nursery of the king and picks
up Joash, what shall she do with him?
Shall she take him to some room in
the palace? No, for the official des-
peradoes will hunt through every
nook and corner of that building.
Shall she take him to the residence
of some wealthy citizen? No; that
citizen would not dare to harbor the
fugitive. But she has to take him
somewhere. She hears the cry of the
mob in the streets: she hears the
shrek of the dying nobility; SO she
rushes with Joash unto the room of
| the temple, into the house of God,
and there she puts him down. She
knows that Athaliah and her wicked
assassins will not bother the temple
great deal. They are not apt to go
very much to church, and SO she sets
down Joash in the temple. There he
will be hearing the songs of the wor-
shippers year after year; there he will
breathe the odor of the golden CEN
sers; in that sacred spot he will tarry.
secreted until the six years have
posSal and he pnf brOnPrnHnt.
Would God that we were all as wise
as Jehosheba and knew that the
church of God is the best hiding place!
Perhaps our parents took US there in
early days. They snatched us away
from the world and hid US behind the
baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles
and psalm books. o glorious in
closure! We have been breathing the
breath of the golden censers all the
time, and we have seen the Lamb on
the altar, and we have handled the
vials in which are the prayers of all
saints, and we have dwelt under the
wings of the cherubim. Glorious in
closure! When my father and mother
died and the property was settled up,
there was hardly anything left. But
. they endowed us with a property
worth more than any earthly posses
sion because they hid us in the temple.
And when days of temptation have
come upon my soul 1 have gone there
o for shelter, and when assaulted of
Il sorrows I have gone there for COM
fort, and there l mean I > live. want,
{ like Joash, to stay until coronation.
: o men of the world outside there,
;. betrayed. caricatured and cheated OF
i the world, why do you not come in
, through the broad, wide-open door OF
: Christian communion? l wish l could
t act the part of Jehosheba to-day and
!, steal you away from your perils and
i hide you in the temple. How few of
;, US appreciate the fact that the church
of God is hiding place! There are
e. mary people who put the church at so
n low a mark that they begrudge it
l. everything. even the few dollars they
2 give toward it. They make no sacri-
= fees. They dole little out 6f their
l. surplusage. They pay their butcher 5
e bill, and they pay their doctors bill,
e and they pay their landlord, and they
W pay everybody but the Lord, and they
u come in at the last to pay the Lord
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ie the house of God as the great refuge
ne If your children are to come up tc
s. lives of virtue and happiness they