The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-10-31
THE:H0USE0F DAVID
Saved From Ex motion by j.
hosheba's Heroic Dsed.
TIE SAVING OF Souls
Rsv. Dr.. Talmags Draws a USE
full Lesson From the Res
cue Of j bash From the
Murderous Athaliah.

In this discourse or neglected incl
dent of the Bible Dr.. Talmage draws
some comforting lessons and shows that
sll around US are loyal natures that We
may help deliver. The text IS II h'nss
xi, ., 8: "Jehosheba, the daughter o.
King Jorsm, sister Ct AAaziah, took
Joash, the son of Absziah, and stots
him from among the kings sons "nlcn
were slain, and they hid him, even MIN
and his nurse, in the bedchanber from
Athsliah. so that he was not slam
And he was with her hid IN the house
of the Lord six years. =,
Grsndmothers are more lenlent with
their children's children than they
were with their own. At 40 years OF
age if discipline be necessary ehastlse
ment is used, but at 40 tie grand
mother, looking upon the misbehavior
of the grandchild, is apologetlc and dis
posed to substitute confectionery tor
whip. There is nothing more beaut-
full than childhood. Grandmother
takes out her pocket handkerchief and
wipes her specsacles and puts them Oh
and LOOKS down into the face Of her
mischlevous and rebellious d yscendent
and says: 81 don't think he meant to
do it. Let him eff this time. III be
responsible for his behavior in the tu:
ture." My mother, with the second
generation around her, holsterous
crew, said one day: Il suppose they
ought to be disciplined, but can't 90
It. Granomothers are not f. to bring
up grandchildren. But here IN my
text we have grandmother Of differ,
ent type.
I have been at jerusalem, where the
occurrence of the text took place, and
the whole scene came vivioly before
me while ! was going over the site OF
the ancient temple and climbing the
towers of the kings palace. Hete IN
the text it is old Athaliah, the royal
murderess. She ought to have been
Honorable. Her father was king.
Her husband was king. He1 son was
a king. And yet We find her plotting
for the extermination Of the entire
royal family, including her own grand
children. The executiopers knives
are sharpened. TIE palace is red witt
the blood Of princes and princesses.
On all sides are shrieks and hand:
thrown UP and struggle and death groan
No mercy! Xiii kill But while thc
ivory floors Of tie palace TUE with car
mage and the whole ls1d is under the
shadow of great horror feet footed
woman, 8 clergynan's wife. JehosheDa
BY nsme, stea!thily approaches the i'm
perial nursery, seizes upon the grand:
child that had somehow as yet escaped
massacre, wraps It up ten0erly but IL
haste, snuggles il against her, f:e:
down the palace Stars, her heart in her
throat lest she be discovered in this
compassionate abduction. Get her out
of the way as quick as you can, for she
carries precious burden, even young
king. With this youthful prize she
presses into the room Of the ancient
ample the church Of olden time, IN
Rr1os the young king aud puss him
down, sound asleep as he is and IN,
conscious of the peril tha, has been
threatened. and there for six years he
is secreted in that church apartment
Meanwhile old Athaliah suacks heI
lips with satisfaction and thinks that
all the royal family are dead But the
six yesrs expire, and it is time for
young Joash 10 come forth and take
the throne and to push back into dis
grace and death old Athaliah.
The arrangements are all made for
political revolution. TIE military
come and take possession of the temple,
swear loyslty to the boy Joash and
stand around for his defense. See the
sharpened swords and the FURNISHED
shields! Everything is ready. Now
Joash, half afrighte6 al tie armed
tramp of his defenders, scared at the
vociferstion of his admirers, is brought
orth in tull regslis. The scroll Of
authority is put in his hands, the coro-
net Of government is put on his brow,
and the people clapped and waved and
huzzaed and trumpeted. What is
thst?" said Athalaih. What is that
sound over in the temple?' And she
flies to see, and On her way they meet
here and say: Why, haven't you
heard? You thought you had slain all
the ryoal family, but Joash has come
to light" Then the royal nurderess,
frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle
and tore it to ts,ters and cried until she
foamed ct the mouth: You have no
right to crown my grandson. You have
no right to take the government from
my shoulders. Treason, treasonl'
While she stood there crying that
the military started for her arrest, ana
she took short cut through back
door Of the temple and ran through the
royal stables, but the battieaxes of the
military fell on her in the barnyard,
and for many Gay when the horses
were being unIocsened from the chariot
after drawing out young Joash the fiery
steeds would snort and rear passing the
place as they smell the place Of the
carnage.
The FIRST thought hand you from
this subject is that the extermination
Of righteousness is an impossibility.
When a 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 tc
come. There was plenty of work fol
embalmers and undertakers. She would
clear the land of all God fearirg and
God loving people. She would put an
end to everything that could IN any.
wise interfere with her imperial Grimm
atty. She folds her hands and says: