The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-10-26

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government That is the scion of IN
house of David. IL is Joash. the Go
worshiIdng reformer. 1t is Joash. tn
friend or tod. Ii is JOash, the democrat
izer of Baalitish idolatry. Rock hin
tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah
YOU may kill all the other children, bu
YOU cannot kill him. Eternal defense
are thrown all around him, and thi
clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, viii
snatch him up from the palace nursery
and will run down with him into th'
house of the Lord. and there she vii
hide him for six years, and at the enc
/ 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 eNtin-
gushing righteousness. Superstition
rises up and SAYS, II will just put an
end to pure religion" Domitian slew
1000 Christians. Diocletian slew S44,-
600 Christians. And the scythe OF per
secu;ion has been swung through all
ages. and the flames Missed. and the
gullotine chopped. and the Bastile
groanei. but did the foes of Christian
ity eNterminate It? Did they eN-
terminate Alban. the first British sac
rifce. 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 IL. 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 a very scepter of
Christian dominion.
Infdelity says: 81 will exterminate
the Bible" and the Scriptures were
thrown into the street for the mob 10
trample on, and they were pilsd up in
the public squares and set on Sire, and
mountains OF indignant contempt were
hurled on them. and learned unisersi-
ties decreed the Bible out OF existence.
Thomas Paine said: "In my Age OF
Reason have annihilated the Scrip
lures. Your Washington is pusil-
luminous Christian. but I am the foe
Of Bibles and churches" Oh, how
many assaults upon that word! All
the hostilities that have ever been ere
ated on earth are not 20 be compared
with the hostil'ties against that book.
said one man in his infidel desperation
TO his wife; "Nou must not be read
ng that Bible" and he snatohed IL
iWay from her. And though in that
Bible was a lock Of hair OF the dead
child-the only child that God had
yer given them-he pitched the book
Tith its contents into the fire and
stirred it with the tongs and spst on
{ and cursed IL and said. susan. never
have any more Of that damnable stun
lere."
How many individual and organized
attempts have beer made to exter-
inmate that Bible? Have its enemies
done IL? Have they exterminated the
american Bible society Have they
the British and Foreign
Bible society? Have they exterminated
he thousands Of Christian institutions
whose only object is to multiply copies
x the Scriptures and spread them
broadcast around the world2 They
lave exterminated until instead Of one
'r two copies OF the Bible in our houses
We have eight or ten. and we pile them
Up in the corners OF our Saba th-school
'ooms and send great boxes OF them
verywhere. II they get on as well as
hey are now going on in the work OF
determination. do not know but that
'ur children may live to see the mil
ennium. Yea. n there should come
time OF persecution in which all the
Inown Bibles Of the earth should be
destroyed. all these lamps OF life that
'.aze in our pulpits and in our fam
lies extinguished. in the very day that
and sin should be holding iu-
,ilee over the universal extinction there
would be I'm some secret closet OF
,ackwoods church a secreted Bible.
md this Joash Of eternal literature
would come out and come up and take
he throne. and the Athaiiah 81 isfidel-
~ and persecution would fly out OF
he back door OF the palace and drop
Ter miserable carcass under the hoofs
u the horses Of the kings stables. You
'annot exterminate Christianity! You
annot kill Joashl
The second thought hand you from
NY subject is that there are opportu.
iities in which we may save royal life.
You know that profane history is re-
'lete with stories OF strnngled mon
Irchs and OF young princes who have
been put out OF the way. Here il the
story OF young king saved How
lehosheba. the Clergyman wife. must
laNe trembled as she rushed into the
mperal nursery and snatched up
lOashl How shGllYAs&ted him lest by
MS cry he hinder the escaped Fly with
him. Jehosheba, You hold in your
rms the cause OF God and good gov
'rnment. Fail, and he is slain. Sue
eed. and you turn the tide Of the
worlds history in the right direction
I seems as IL between that young
sing and his assassins there is nothing !
Dut the frail arm OF a woman. But |
Why should We spend our time in prais- |
ng this bravery Of expedition when |
Tod asks the same thing OF you and |
ne? All around us the imperial chill !
lren OF great King. They are born |
II Almighty parentage and will come |
o throne II permitted. But sin. the |
I'd Athaliah. goes forth TO the mas
acre. Murderous temptations are out |
or the assassination. Nalens. the en- |
'eror. was told that there was some
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