Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-10-27

| the L0rd, rHDu there she VIII hide MIN
for six years. and at the end of that
time he VIII come forth for your de
thronementa and oblteratlon.
Foes Of Religion Defeated.
Well, my friends. Just as poor q
botch doesEthe world always make OF
extinguishmg righteousness. Supersti-
tion rises W and says. 81 will just put
an end tof pure religion" Domltlan
slew 10000 Christians, Dlocletian slew
S44,0 900 Christians. And the scythe OF
persecution. has been swung through
all the ages and the flames Kissed. and
the gulllotine chopped and the Bastllle
groaned. but did the foes of Christian
ity exterminate III Did they exterml-
nate Alban. the first British sacrifice,
or Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, or John
Oldcastle, the Christian nobleman. or
Abdallah, the Arabian martyr. or Anne
Askew or Sanders or Cranmer? 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 very scepter Of Christian do
minion.
In6delity says, II will extermlnate
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 Pnine said: "In my Age Of
Reason | have annihilated the Scrip
lures. Your Washington Is a puslllani-
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 bis infldel desperation
to his wife, "You must not be reading
that Bible" and he snatched It away
from her. And though In that Bible
was 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 curs-
ed It 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 its enemies
done It? Have they extermlnated the
American Bible society? Have they
externinated the British and Foreign
bible society? Have they exterminat-
ed the thousands Of Christian institu-
tions whose only object It is to multi
ply copies Of the Scriptures and spread
them broadcast around the world?
They hare 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. II they get on
as well ~ they are now going on in the
work OF exterminatIon. 4 do not know
but that our children may live to see
the millennium. Yea, II 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 extlnguished, In the very day
that in1delity and sin should be hold
In, jubilee over the universal extinc-
tion there would be In some closet of a
backwoods church 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 infdelity 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
tlanity! 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 young king saved. How Je-
hosheba, the clergyman's wife, must
have trembled as she rushed Into the
imperial nursery and snatched up
Joashl 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 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 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 parentage and will come to a
throne or a crown II permitted. But
sin, the old Athallah, goes forth to the !
massacre. Murderous temptations are
out for the assassination. Valens. 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. XIII everybody |
whose name begins with T. II. E, 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 Its denuncation. 1t
matters not how you spell your name.
,ou come under It's knife under its
sword, under It's doom, unless there be
some omnipotent relief brought TO the
rescue. But, blessed be God, there Is
such thing as delivering a royal soul.
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