The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-10-27

wise interfere with her imperial erin
| inality. She folds her hands aud says
"The work is done. II is completed,
OF that church apartment are wrappe,
the cause of God and the cause of goo,
government. That is the scion of tn,
house of David. 1t is Joash, the Go,
worshiping reformer. 1t is Joash, tn,
friend of God. 1t is Joash, the demoral
izer of Baalitish idolatry. Rock hin
tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah
you may kill all the other children, but
you cannot kill him. Eternal defensei
are thrown all around him, and this
clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, will
snatch him up from the palace nursery
and will run down with him into the
house of the Lord, and there she will
hide him for six years, and at the end
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 extin-
gushing righteousness. Superstition
rises up and says: II will just put an
end to pure religion" Domitian slew
40, 900 Christians. Diocletian slew S44,-
600 Christians. And the scythe OF per-
secution has been swung through all
ages. and the flames Kissed, and the
guillotine chopped, and the Bastile
groaned, but did the foes of Christian
ity exterminate it? Did they ex-
terminate Alban, the first British sac
rificc, 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 it, 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 sccpter of
Christian dominion.
Infidelity says: 81 will exterminate
the Bible" and the Scriptures were
thrown into the street for the mob ia
trample on, aDd, they were piled up in
the public sq6ares and set on fire, and
mountains Of indignant contempt were
hurled on them. and learned universe
ties decreed the Bib.e out of existence
Thomas Paine said: I'm my Age OF
Reason / have annihilated the Scrip
lures. Your Washington is pnsil'
luminous Christian, but 1 am the foe
of Bibles and churches" Oh, how
many assaults upon that word! All
the hostiities that have ever been Gre
ated on earth are not to be compared
with the hostilities against that book
Said one man in his infidel desperation
to his wife: "You must not be read
ing that Bible" and he snatched it
away from her. And though in that
Bible was n lock of hair of the dead
child-the only child that God had
ever given them--he pitched the book
with its contents into the fire and
stirred it with the tongs and spat on
it and cursed it and said: Susan, never
have any more of that damnable stuff
here"
How many individual aud organized
attempts have been made to eXter-
inmate that Bible? Have its enemies
done it? Have they exterminated the
American Bible society? Have they
eXterminated the British and Foreign
Bible society? Have they exterminated
the thousands of Christian institutions
whose only object is to multiply copies
of the Scriptures and spread them
broadcast around the world? They
have exterminated until instead of one
or 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
rooms and send great boxes of them
everywhere. IL they get on as well as
they are now going on in the work Of
our children may live to see the mil
lennium. Yea, IL there should come
time of persecution in which all the
known Bibles of the earth should be
destroyed, all these lamps of life that
b.aze in our pulpts and in our fam
lilies extinguished. in the very day that
infidelity and sin should be holding ju-
bilee over the universal extinction there
would be in some secret closet of a
backwoods church n secreted Bible.
and this Joash of eternal literature
would come out and come up and take
the throne, and the Atha.iah of infidel-
ity and persecution would fly out of
the back door OF the palace and drop
her miserable carcass under the hoofs
Of the horses Of the kings stables. You
cannot exterminate Christianity! You
cannot kill Joash!
The second thought hand you from
my subject is that there are opportu-
mites in which we may save royal life.
You know that profane history is re-
plete with stories of strangled mon
archs 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 gov
eminent. Fail, and he is slain. Sue
ceed, and you turn the tide of the
worlds history in the right direction.
1t seems as II between that young
king and his assassins there is nothing
but the frail arm of a woman. But
why should we spend our time in prais-
ing this bravery of expedition when
God asks the same thing of you and
me? All around us the imperial chill