The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-27

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this subject is that the determination
of righteousness is an impossibility. |
When woman is good, she is apt to be
very good, and when she is bad she is
apt to 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 undertakers. She
would cleave the land OF all God fearing
and God loving people. She would put
an end to everything that could in any
wise interfere with her imperial crfm-
inality. She folds her hands and says:
THE work is done. 1t is completely
done" Is it? In the swaddling clothes
of that church apartment are wrapped
the cause of God and the cause of good
government. That is the scion OF the
house of David. 1t is Joash, the God
worshiping reformer. 1t is Joash, the
friend of God. 1t is Joash, the demoral-
izer of Baalitish idolatry Rock him
tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah,
you may kill all the other children, but
you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses
are thrown all around him, and this
clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, will
snatch him up from the palace nursery
and will run down with him into the
house of the Lord, and there she will
hide him for six years, and at the end
of that time he will come forth for
your dethronement and obliteration.
Well, my friends, just as poor botch
does the world always make of eXtin-
gushing righteousness. Superstition
rises up and says: Il will just put an
end to pure religion" Domitian slew
10000 Christians, Diocletian slew S44,-
900 Christians. And the scythe of per-
secution has been swung through all
ages, and the flames hissed, and the
guillotine chopped, and the Bastile
groaned, but did the foes of Christian
, ity exterminate it? Did they ex-
terminate Alban, the first British sac
! rifice, or Zwingli, the Swiss reformer,
. or John Oldcastle, the Christian no
{ bleman, or Abdallah, the Arabian mar
tyr, or Anne Askew or Sanders or Gran
. mer? Great work of determination
/ they made of it. Just at the time when
p they thought they had slain all the
f royal family OF Jesus some Joash would
e spring up and out and take the throne
n of power and WELD a very scepter OF
/ Christian dominion.
n Infidelity says: II will exterminat
r. the Bible" and the Scriptures wer
n thrown into the street for the mob L
: trample on, and they were piled up Il
l. the public squares and set on fire, an
n mountains of indignant contempt wer
$ hurled on them and learned universi
IS ties decreed the Bible out of existence
d Thomas Paine said: "In nay Age o
$ Reason 1 have annihilated the Scrip
e lures. Your Washington is pusil
|, luminous Christian, but I am the TO
g of Bibles and churches" Oh. hoy
e many assaults upon that word. A
II the hostilities that have ever been ere
y ated on earth are not to be compare
q. with the hostilities against that booi
Al The second thought l hand you fror
d my subject is that there are opportr
d mites in which we may save royal lif'
N You know that profane history is re
IS plete with stories of strangled NOR
in archs and of young princes who hav
in been put out of the way. Here is III
er story of young king saved. Ho'
n. Jehosheba, the clergyman's wife, mus
N have trembled as she rushed into til
ul imperial nursery and snatched u
10 Joash! How she hushed him lest b
m his cry he hinder the escape! Fly wit
,d him, Jehosheba! You hold in yor
is arms the cause of God and good go
as ernment. Fail, and he is slain. Su
hz Nf
,h worlds history in the right direction
al 1t seems as if between that youn
nd king and his assassins there is nothir
ra but the frafl arm of a woman Bl
nd why should we spend our time in prai
ne ing this bravery of expedition whe
sb God asks the same thing of you ar
h. me? All around us the imperial chi
dren of great King. They are boz
~ of Almighty parentage and will con
~ to a throne if permitted. But sin. Il
~ old Athaliah, goes forth to the ma
"a sacre. Murderous temptations are OF
~ for the assassination. Valens. the ell
"a peror, was told that there was som
-. body in his realm who would usurp
"a throne and that the name OF the m;
~ who should be the usurper would b
~ gin with the letters I, II, E, o, d, al
-, the edict went forth from the el
80 peror's throne: xiii every body who
nd name begins with T, H, E, o, D." Al
"a hundreds were slain, hoping by tn
is massacre to put an end to that o
80 usurper. But sin is more terrific in
10 denunciation. 1t matters not how y
ast spell your name, you come under
-, knife, under its sword, under its doc
~ unless there be some omnipotent rel
,as brought to the rescue. But, blessed
,,r4 God, there is such thing as deliveri
,ar a royal soul. Who will snatch aw
;od Joash?
ON Can you imagine any sublimer wo
on. than this soul saving? That was VIII
rn. flushed Paul's cheek with enthusiast
ON. that was what led Munson to risk
life amid Bornesian cannibals; tf
hat was what sent DR.. Abeel to prea
md under the consuming skies of CHR
,ek that wac what gave courage to Phot
the in the third century. When the m
the tary officers came to put him to des