Connecticut western news., 1900-10-25

Askew or Sanders or Cranmer? Great work of extermination they made of 1t. 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 wield very scepter of Christian do- minion.
 In1delity says, II will exterminate the Bible," and the Scriptures were thrown into the street for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up In the public squares and set on fire, and mountains of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universi- ties decreed the Bible out of existence. Thomas Paine said: Tn my Age of Reason l have annihilated the Scrip lures. Your Washington Is pusillani- nous Christian, but am the foe of Bibles and of churches" Oh, how many assaults upon that word! All the hostilities that have ever been created on earth are not to be compared with the hostilities against that one book. Said one man in his infidel desperation to his wife, "You must not be reading that Bible," and he snatched 1t away from her. And though in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child the only child that God had ever given them-he pitched the book with It's contents into the fire and stirred 1t with the tongs and spat on 1t and curs- ed 1t and said, Susan, never have any more of that damnable stuff here"
 Enemies of the Bible Routed.
 How many individual and organized attempts have been made to extermi- nate that Bible? Have it's enemies done 1t? Have they exterminated the American Bible society? Have they exterminated the British and Foreign Rible society? Have they exterminat- ed the thousands of Christian institu- tions whose only object 1t is to multi ply copies of the Scriptures and spread them broadcast around the worldf 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 Sab bath school rooms and send great box es of them everywhere. If they get on as we'll as they are now going on in the work of extermination, do not know but that our children may live to see the millennium. Yea, if there should come time of persecution 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 extinguished, in the very day that infldelity and sin should be hold ing jubilee over the universal extinc- tion there would be in some closet of a backwoods church a secreted copy of the Bible, and this Joash of eternal lit- erature would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecution would fly out the back door of the palace and drop her miserable carcass under the hoofs of the horses of the kings sta bles. You cannot exterminate Chris tianity! You cannot kill Joash!
 The second thought hand you from my subject Is that there are opportuni- ties 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 a young king saved. How Je- hosheba, 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 ernment Fail, and he is slain. Sue ceed, and you turn the tide of the worlds history In the right direction. It 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 percentage 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. Yalens, the emperor, was told that there was somebody 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, E,
 O, D, and the edict went forth from
 the emperor's throne, 'Kill everybody
 whose name begins with T, H, B, O,
 D." And hundreds and thousands were
 slain. hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin Is
 more terrific In It's denunciation. It
 matters not how you spell your name, you come under its knife, under Its sword, under its doom, unless there be some omnipotent relief brought to the
 rescue. But, blessed be God, there Is such thing as delivering royal soul. Who will snatch away Joash?
 Reclaim the Children.
 This afternoon in your Sabbath school class there will be a 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 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 con- mand in church or state-some Crom- we'll to dissolve parliament, some Beethoven to touch the worlds harp strings, some John Howard to pour fresh air in the lazaretto, some Flor | ence Nightingale to bandage the bat | tie wounds, some Miss Dix to soothe
 the crazed brain, some John Frederick Oberlin to educate the besotted some
 war whoop to a Sabbath song, some
 John Wesley to marshal three-fourths | of Christendom, some John Knox to
 make queens turn pale, some Joash to
 demolish idolatry and strike for the | kingdom of heaven. There are sleep
 ing in your cradles by night, there are l nh yinoz In xnnr nurSarioS hu day iInnn.