The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-10-26

tian nObleman, or Abdallah the Ara
bian martyr, or Anne Askew, or San
ders, or Cranmer? Great work of en-
termination they made OF it, Just at
the time when they thought they had
slain all the royal family OF Jesus some
Joash would spring up and out and
take the throne of power and WELD
very scepter of Christian dominion.
PcrpetuIiy OF the Bible.
How many individual and organ
terminate that Bible? Have its enc
mics done II? Have they exterminat-
ed the American Bible society? Have
they eXterminated the British and For
eign Bible society? Have they exter-
minated the thousands of Christian In
situations whose only object it is 20
multiply copies of the Scriptures and
spread them broadcast around the
world? They have exterminated un-
til instead of one or two copies of the
Bible in our houses we have eight or
ten, and we pile them up in the cor
ners of our Sabbath school rooms and
send great boxes OF them everywhere
If they get on as well as they are now
going on in the work of determination,
| do not know but that our children
may live to see the millennium. Yea,
if there should come time or perse-
cution 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 eXtingul5h-
ed, in the very day that infdelity and
sin should be holding jubilee over the
universal extinction. there would be
in some closet of backwoods church
a secreted copy of the Bible, and thls
Joash of eternal literature would come
out and come up and take the
throne, and the Athalah of infidelity
and persecution would fly out the back
door of the palace and drop her miser-
able carcass under the hoofs OF the
horses of the kings stables. You can
not exterminate Christianity. You
cannot kill Joash.
The second thought hand you from
my subject is that there are oppor-
tunities in which We may save royal
life. You know that profane history
is replete with stories of strangled
monarchs and of young princes VINO
have been put out of the way. Here
is the story of a young king saved.
How Jehosheba, 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 turn the tide of the
worlds history in the right direction.
It seems as if between that young king
and his assassins there is 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 the imperiled children
of a great king. They are born OF AL
mighty parentage and will come to
throne or a crown if permitted. But
sin. the old Athaliah, goes forth to the
massacre. Murderous temptations are
out for the assassination. Valens, the
emperor was told that there was
somebody in his realm that would
usurp his throne and that the name OF
the man should begin with the letters
T.H,E,O, D, and the edict went forth
from the emperor's throne, XIII ev-
erybody whose name begins with T, H,
E, O. D." And hundreds and thou
sands were slain, hoping by that mas
sacre to nut an end to that one usurp-
err. But sin is more terrific in its de-
nunciation. 1t matters not how you
smell your name, you come under the
knife, under its sword, under its doom,
unless there be some omnipotent relief
brought to the rescue. But, blessed
be God. there is such thing as deliv-
ering a royal soul. Who will snatch
away Joash?
Instruction for Chi dren.
This afternoon in your Sabbath
school class there will be a prince of
God. some one 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 a 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 parliament;
some Beethoven to touch the worlds
harp strings, some John Howard to
pour fresh air in the lazaretto, some
Florence Nightingale to bandage the
battle wounds, some Miss Dix to
soothe the crazed brain, some John
Frederick Oberlin to educate the be-
sotted some David Brainerd to change
the Indians warwhoop to a Sabbath
song, some John Wesley to marshal
three-fourths of Christendom, some
John Knox to make queens turn pale.
some Joash to demolish idolatry and
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