The Yale expositor., 1900-10-26

bian martyr, or Anne Askew, or San
ders. or Cranmer? Great work of ex-
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 ont and
take the throne of power and WELD a
very scepter of Christian dominion.
rerpeiuity of tho Bible.
How many individual and organ
lied attempts have been made to ex-
terminate that Bible? Have its enc
mics done it, Have they exterminat-
ed the American Bible society? Have
they eXtermiuated the British and For
eign Bible society? Have they exter-
minated the thousands of Christian in
stitutions whose only object Il is to
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,
l do not know but that our children
may live TO see the millennium. Yea,
if there should come time Of 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 eXtlnsIlsh-
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 -his
Joash of eternal literature would come
out and come up and take the
throne, and the Athaliah Of infdelity
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
nv subject is that there are cppor-
tunities in which We Tnay save royal
life. You know that profane history
is replete with stories of Strangled
monarchs and of young princes who
have been put out of the way. Here
is the story of 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.
1t 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 a
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 o.
the man should begin with the letters
T, II, E, o, d, and the edict went fr tn
from the emperor's throne, XIII ev-
erybody whose name begins will: T, II
e. o. D." And hundreds and thou
sands were slain, hoping by that mas
sacre to put an end to that one usurp-
or. But sin is more terrific in its de-
nunciation. 1t matters not how you
spell your name, you come under the
knife, under it's sword, under its doom,
unless there be some omnipotent relief
brought to the rescue. But, blessed
be God. there is such thing as deliv-
orirg 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 father and mother who do not
know how to pray; there will be some
one in your class who is destined to