The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-10-27
LESSONS OF COMFORT.
DR.. Talmage Draws a Text from
Rescue Of JOash.
tn. Hou.s Of David saved fren En-
unctIsn BY Jehoshsbs'a He
role Deed-wor Of Scat
saving.


In this discourse on a neglected in
eident Of the Bible DR.. Taimage draws
some comforting lessons and ahows
that all around US are royal natures
that we may help deliver. The text Is
? Kings iI:2, 3: "Jehosheba. the
daughter of King Joram. sister OF
AhaHah, took Joash, the son Of Aha
Iiah. aud stole him from among the
kings sons which we're slain. and they
hid him. even him and his nurse. In
the bedehamber from Athahah, so
that be was not slain And he was
with her hid in the house of the LORD
ak years"
Grandmothers are more lenient
with their ehildrsn's children than
they we're with their own At 40 years
Of age if discipline be necessary chas-
tisement is used, but at 70 the grand
mother, looking upon the misbehAuior
of the g~randehild, is sPologetie ana
disposed to substitute confectionery
for whip. There is nothing more beau
tiful than childhood. Grandmother
takes out her pocket Handkerchief
and wipes her sPectaeles and puts
them on and looks down into the facs
Of her mischievous and rebellious de
scendant and SAYS: II don't think h'
meant TO do ii. Let him OF this time
III be responsible for his behavior II
the future" Ny mother, with tn
second generation around her, a bois
ferrous crew, said one day: Il suppose
they ought to be disciplined, but
can't do 1t. Grandmothers r not NJ
TO bring up grandchildren" But her
in my text we have a grandmother o
a different type.
have been at Jerusalem. where n
occurrence Of the text took place, sn'
the whole scene came wildly befor'
me while | was going over the site o
the ancient temple and climbing tn
towers OF the kings palace. Here Il
the text 1t Is old Athaliah, the roys
~murderess. She ought to have bee
honorable. Her father was a kint
Her husband was a king. Her so
was a king. And yet we find her plot
ting for the determination Of the en-
tire royal family, including her ow
grandchildren. The executioner
knives are sharpened. The palace
red with the blood Of princes an
p~rincesses. On all sides r shriei
and hands thrown up and struggI
and death groAn. No mercy hi
hIi But while the ivory hoors OF u
palace run with carnage and the who
land Is under the shadow Of q gre'
horror a heet-footed woman, a elerg,
mans wife, Jehosheba BY nam
stealthily approaches the imperi
nursery, seizes upon the grandehi
that had somehow as yet !escap'
massacre, wraps IL up tenderly but
haste, snuggles it against her, iii
down the palace stairs. her heart
|. her throat lest she be discovered
this compassionate abduction. Get b
out Of the way as quick as you ca
for she carries a precious burden, ev
, a young king. With this youth
|, prize she presses into the room Of
ancient temple, the church of old
time. unwraps the young king a
m puts him down, sound asleep as he
and unconscious OF the peril that
been threatened, and there for
years he is secreted in that chui
auartment. Meanwhile old Athal
. smacks her lips with satisfaction
thinks that all the royal family
=. dead. But the six years expire,
il is time for young Joash to &C
forth and take the throne and to p
back into disgrace and death old A
allah.
i, The arrangements are all made
n poIitical revolution. The military q
and take possession of the tenn
swear loyalty to the boy Joash
stand around for his defense. See
act sharpened swords and the burnis
)" shieldsi Everything is ready.
Joash, half a~ffrighted at the ar
70 tramp Of his defenders. scared at
vo~ciferation Of his admirers, is brou
forth in full regalia. The scroll OF
thority is put in his hands, the corr
. Of government is put on his brow,
". the people clapped and waved
huzzaed and trumpeted. "What
that?" said Athaliah. "What Is
ha. sound over in the templeT" And
flies to see, and on her way they I
,oo her and say: why. haven't
beard? You thought you had 4
his all the royal family, but Joash
come to light" Then the royal 1
deress. frantic with rage, grabbed
mantle and tore 1t to tatters and G
- until she foamed at the mouth: q
have no right to crown my grand
You have no right to take the 60,
ment from my shoulders. Trea
treasonl"
While she stood there crying
the military started for her arrest,
she took q short cut through a.
tile. door Of the temple and ran through
BIZ royal stables, but the battleaxes o.
aver military fell on her in the barn,
iana and for many a day when the hs
ours were being u~nloosened from the chi
ohe' after drawing out young Joash
err fiery steeds would snort and real
ing the place Is they smell the pla
the carnage.
h, The first thought / hand you
80. this subject Is that the extermini
n Ia OF righteousness Is an impossib
ore. When a woman is good. she is apt
Cali very good, and when she Is bad s
apt 70 be very bad, and this Ath
'ss. was n Of the latter sort, She v
ilest exterminate thu last scion Of the !
ano OF David. through whom Jesus "
come. There was plenty Of worI
embalmers and underiakers.
would cleave the land Of all God feI
n and God loving people. She woulI
an end TO everything that could In
wise interfere with her imperial
Mo inality. She folds her hands and
1.-THE work is done. II IL compl
done" Is Il? In the ~swaddling clI
Of that church apartment are wra
No the cause Of God and the cause Of
49, government. That IL the scion o
house Of David. II is JoaSh. the
worshiping reformer. II Ia Jossi
. friend Of God. II is Jossh, the dem
Ter Of Baalitish idolatry. Rock
tenderly. nurse him gently. Athi
M you may kill all the other children
NO you cannot kill him. Eternal def
.o'S are thrown all around him, and
clsrgyman's wife, JehoSheba,
ress snatch him up from the palace nuI
odn and will run down with him int
house Of the Lord, and there she
hide him for six years, and 81 tn
- Of that time he will come fortl
your dethronsment and obHterati
SAS. Well, my friends. just as poor .
does the world always make Of c
road gushing righteousness. superst
rises up and says: Il will just p
end to pure religion" Domitian
N, 10000 Christians, Dioeletian slew
900 Christians. And the scythe o.