The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-10-31

eud to pure religion" Dom tan slew
% 600 Christians, Diocletian slew S44,-
000 Christians. And the soythe Of per
secut:on has been swung through all
the ages, and the f smes Kissed, and the
suilotine chopped, aud the Bastllle
Iroaacd, but DID the foes Of Christianity
* .ermi1ate il? Did they exterminate
Alban the first B;itish sacrifice, or
I virgil, the SGiss refornler or } lho
Oidoastle, the Christian nobleman, or
Atdallah, the Arabian martyr, or Anne
! Askew or Sanders or Crsnner! 0reat
sork of ex ermination they made OF II,
Just at the time wien they th9uEHs
chey had slain sill the royal family OF
Jesus s,mc Jcasa would spring up sAe
ont AID take the throne Of power ana
p;slS a vSrv scepter Of Christian domln
ion. ~
10 aNT;f R;bIe. and the Scriptures were
,brown into tie street FOR the mob TO
srample on, and they were piled up in
the public squares aud set on FIRE, sud
moun:aips OF indignant contempt were
hurled on them, and learned uDiversi-
ties decyeed the Bible out Of existence
Thomas Pain said: In ny Age of
Reason | have aDnihi;ated the Scrip
lures. Your Washington is pusiI.
luminous Christian, but am the foe of
Bibles and Of churches. F" On, how
many assaults upon that worG Al the
hos,ilisies that have ever been created
On earth are not to be compared with
tie hos,iiilies agaiast that one book
Said Que man IN his infdel desperation
TO his wife, YOU must Los be reading
that Bible aud he spa,ched it away
from her And though in that Bible
WIS lock of hair of the dear child
the Only child that God had ever given
them-he pi,chedthe book with It's
contents into the fire aad stirred it with
the torgs and srat on it aud cursed 1t
and said, Susan, never have any more
Of that Gamaable stuff here.
How many Individual and orzaniz d
attempts have been made 10 extermlnate
that Bible? Have its enemies done II?
Have they externinated the American
Bible society? Have they externina;e6
the British and Foreign Bible society!
Have they externinated the thousands
Of Christian institutions who's, only 90
ject it is to multiply copies Of the
Scriptures AMI spread them broadcast
sround the world? They have exter-
minated until Instead OF one or two
copies Of the Bible in our houses We
have eight OF ten, aud We pile them up
in the corners of oGr Sabbath school
rooms and send great boxes Of them
everywhere If thay get on as well as
they are Dow going Oh in the work OF
extermination, l 90 Dot know but taat
our children may live to see the nillen-
mum. Yea, II there should come a
time Of persecution in which all the
known Bibles Of the earth should be
destro7ed, all these lamps Of Ifs that
blaze il our pulpits and in our families
extinguished, in the very day that in e.
deity snd sin should De holding jabi
| lee over the universal extinction there
would be in some close Of backwoods
church secreted copy Of the Bible.
aud this Jcash Of eternal literature
you'd come out and come up aud take
the throne, and the Athaiah of inGde(i-
ty and persecution would fly out the
back door of the palace apd drop her
miserable carcass under the hoofs Of the
horses Of the kings stables. You cau-
not exterminate Christianity, You can
net kill Joash??
The second thougat l hand you from
my suhjec: is that there are opportuoi-
ties in which ne may save royal life.
You know thai profsne history is re-
p!ete with stories Of str2nglcd moparchs
aud Of young princes who have been put
out Of the way. Here is the story Of a
young king saved. How Jehosheba,
the clergyman wife, must have trem
bled as she rushed into the imperial
nursery and snatched up Joasb! How
she hushed him lest by his cry he hin
der the escape! Fly with him Jehosh
eba! You hold in your arms the cause
Of God and good government. Fail,
and he is slain. Succeed, snd you turn
the tides Of the worlds history in the
right direction. 1t seems as if between
,nat young king au6 his assass!os there
is nothing but the fEall 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 CREST king. They are
born of Almighty parentage and will
come to throne or crown if permit
ted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes
forth to the massacre. Murderou5
temptations are out for the asssassina-
ton. Valens, the emperor, was told
that there was some body in his realm
who would usurp his throne and that
the name Of the man who should be the
usurper would begin with the letters
T, H, Z, Q, D, and the edict went
forth from the emperor's throne, kill
everybody whose name begiDs with I,
&, E, 0, D." Aud hundreds and
thousands were slain, hoping by that
massacre to put "a end 10 that one
usurper. But sin is more terrific in its
denun ,iatioa. It matters not how you
spell your name, you come under its
knife, under its sword, under its doom,
urlsss there be some omnipo,ent relief
brought to the rescue. But, blessed be
God, there is such thing as delivering
royal soul. Who will snatch away
Joash?
This afternoon in your Sabbath
school class there will be prince of
God, some one who may yet reign as
king forever before the throne; there
will be some one in your class who has
corrupt physical inheritance; there
vii! be some in your class who has a