Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-10-31
and said, Susan, never have any more

of that damnable stun mere.
How many individual and orGanzed at
tempts have been made to exterminate
that Bible? Have its enemies done IL
Have thev exterminated the American
the British ana Foreign Bible Society
Have they exterminated the thousands oil
Christian institutions whose only OBJECT
it is to multiply copies of the Scriptures
and spread them broadcast around the
worlds They have extermnated until in-
stead of one OF two copies OF the Bible IN
our houses we have eight or ten, and we
pile them up i'll the corners OF our Saobatn
school rooms and send great loXes OF
them everywhere. If they get on as Wen
as thev are now going on in the work OF
determination. / do not know but that
our child,-u NAV live to see the mIl'en-
MUM lea, ii there should come time
of persecution in which all the known B.
bles of the earth should be destroyed, az
these lamps of life that blaze IN o,ir pull
pits and in our families extinguished. IN
the very day that infdelitv al sin shonld
be holding Jubilee over the universal eN-
tinction there would be in some clio ct OF
a backwoods church secreted copy OF the
Bible. and this .Joash of eternal literature
would coz out and come up and take the
throne and the Athalah of iniidelitv and
persecution would fly out the back door oil
the palace and drop her miserable carcass
under the hoofs of the horses OF the king
stables. You cannot exterminate Chris
tianity! You cannot kill Joash!
The second thought / hand you from
my subject is that there are opportun,lies
in which You may save royal lite. You
know that prof ne history Is replete with
stories of strangled monarchs and OF young
princes 40 have been put out OF the
way. Here is the story of young KING
saved. How Jehosheba, the clergyman
wife, must have, trem5led as she rushed rus
into the imperial nursery and snatched up
Joashl How she hushed him lest by. his
cry he hinder the escape! Fly with hlm,
Jehosneba, You hold in your arms the
cause of God and good governm' IT ran
and he is slain. Succeed, and you turn
the tide of the worlds history in the right
direction. 1t seems as if between that
young king and his assassins there is moth
ing bu the frail all of woman. but
why should we sr9nd our time IN praising
this bravery of expedition when God asks
the same thing of YOU and me! All
around us the imperied children OF
great king. They are born of Almighty
parentage, and will come to a throne or a
crown if permitted. But sin, the old Ath-
allah, goes forth to the massacre. Muir
derous temptations are out for the assas-
sination. Valens. the Emperor, was told
that there vas somebody in his realm who
would rsurp his throne, and that the name
of the man who should be the usurper
would begin with the letters I, II. L. o,
D. and the edict went forth from the En-
perors throne, xiii everybody whose
name begins with L, H, E, o, D." And
hundreds of thousands We're slain, hoping
by that massacre to put an end to that
one usurper. But sin is more terrific IN
its denunciation. 1t matters not how YOU
spell your name. you come under its 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 delivering a royal soul.
Who will snatch away Joash;
How few of us appreciate the fact that
the cuhrch of God is hiding place. There
are many people who put the church at so
low a mark that they begrudge 1t every
thing, even the few dollars they give to-
ward it. They make no sacrifices. They
dole a little out of their surpiuslge. They
pay their butchers bill, and they pay their
doctors bill, and they pay their landlord.
and they nay everybody but the Lord. and
they come in at the last to pay the Lord
in His church and frown as they say:
''rhere, Lord, it is. Send me receipt in
full and don't bother me soon again.
There is not more than one man out OF
thousand that appreciates what the
church is. Where are the souls that put
aside one-tenth for Christian Institutions
one-tenth of their income? Where are
those who, having put aside that one-tenth
draw upon it cheerfuliy; Why, 1t IS pull
and drag hold on and grab and clutch,
when it ought to be an exhilaraton and a
rapture.
Oh that God would remodel our souls
on this subject and that we might appre-
ciate the house of God as the great ref
uge. If your children are to come up to
lives OF virtue and happiness, they will
come up under the shadow OF the church.
If the church does not get them, the
world will.
All, when you ass away-and it will not
be long before you do-when you pass
away, it will be satisfaction 10 see
your children in Christian society. You
want to have them sitting at the holy sac
raments. You wan. them mingling IN
Christian associations. You would like
to have them die in the sacred precincts.
When you are on your dying bed and your
little ones cor up to take your last word,
and you look into their bewildered faces,
you viii want to leave them under the
church's benediction. | do not care how
hard you are, that is so.
And so, IN )ugh you may have been wan
derers from God, and though you may
have some times carIcatured the church. OF
Jesus, it is your great desire that your
sons and daughters should be standing all
their lives within this sacred nclosurc.
More than that. You yourself will want
the church for a hiding place when the
mortgage is foreclosed, when your laugh
ter, Just blooming into wOmanhood, sud
0eniN clasps nef ndndS IN Il SluIhbtl lhlt
knows no waking; when the gaunt 7. ub.e
walks through the parlor and the ing
room and the dining hall and the nurs- ,
you will want some shelter from the TEN
pest Ah some of you have beeu run
upon by misfortune and trial. Why do
you not come into the shelterg
! said to a widowed mother after she
had buried her only son-mOnths after
l said to her. How do you get along now
adays?" oh" she replied. Il get along
tolerably well except when the sun shines.
said, What do you mean by th,t?''
when she said: Il can't bear to see the
sun shine. My heart is so dark that all
the brightness of the natural world SCI MS
a mockery to me-
o darkened soul, broken hearted
man, broken hearted woman, Why do
you not come into the shelter? | swing
You W ~ place where your troubles
shall b. Interpreted, where your burdens
shall be unstrapped, where your tears shall
be wiped away.
Church of God. be a hiding place to all
these people! Give then seat where
they 5in rest Their weary souls. Flash
some light from your chandeliers upon
their darkness. With some soothing
hymn hush these griefs.
Oh, church CT God, gate of heaven. let
me go through it! All other institutions
are ~oing t. fall but the church of God
its foundation is the Rock of Ages. its
charter Is for everlasting years. It's KEYS
are held b. the universal Proprietor. It's
dividend is heaven, its president i God,
Sure cs Thy truth shall last,
i To Zion shall be given
The highest glories earth can yield
And brightest bliss of heaven
God grant thaC all This audience. the
youngest, the eldest, the. worst. the best
may fin their slfe and glorious hiding
place where Joash found tin the temi,'r
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