The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-10-26

God, there Is such a thing as deliyei
q royal soul. Who will snatch al
Joashp
Can YOU imagine any sublimer vi
than this soul saving? That was vi
flushed Paurs cheek with enthusial
that was what led Munson TO risk
life amid Bornesian cannibals;
was what sent DR.. Abeel TO preI
under the consuming skies of Chi
that was what gave courage TO Phl
in the third century. When the
tary officers came To put him TO al
for Christ's sake. he put them 10
that they might rest, while he
self went out and in his own
den dug his grave and then came
and said; IL am ready" But
were shocked at the idea OF taking
life OF their host. He said: III
the will Of God that ] should
and he stood on the margin OF his
grave, and they beheaded him.
say IL is mania. a foolhardinesI
fanatieism. Rather would | call
glorious self-abnegation, the thfII
eternal satisfaction. the pluckinpI
Joash from death aud raising hint
coronation
The third thought band TO yol
that the church OF God Is a good
ing place. When Jehosheba rushes
TO the nursery Of the king and p
up Joash. what shall she do with h I
Shall she take him TO some room
the palace? No. for the official
peradoes will hunt through eI
nook and corner Of that build
shall she take him 10 the resided
Of some wealthy citizen? No: n
citizen would not dare to harbor Il
fugitive. Hut she has TO take
somewhere. She hears the CRY OF j
mob in the streets. she hears
shrek of the dying nobility; so
rushes with Joash unto the room
the temple, into the house OF n
and there she puts him down. 81
knows that Athaliah aud her wieSl
assassins will not bother che tend
great deal. They are no, apt to
very much TO church. and -, she Il
down Joash in the temple. There
will be hearing the songs OF the ID
shippers year after year; there he Il
breathe the odor of the golden 81
sers; in that sacred spot he will tarr
secreted until the six years lad
passed and he come 20 cnthrone ,ns d
Would God that we were all az " !
as Jehosheba aud knew that n
church OF God il the best hiding p'aae
Perhaps our parents took VS. there
early days. They suatched - ava
from the world and hid US behind u
baptismal fonts aud amid the Bod
and psalm books. O glorious 1
closure! We have been breathing a.
breath OF the golden censers all u
time. and We have seen the Lamb O.
the altar. and we have handled a
Walls in which are the prayers Of 4
saints, and We have dwclt under III
wings Of the cherubim Glorious IN
ciOsurel When my father and mothe'
died and the property was settled y
there was hardly anything left. ~
they endowed us with a proyeri,
worth more than any earthly posse.
sion because they hid us in the Temple
And when days Of temptation hs,l
come upon my soul hs.t gone Their
for shelter. and when assaulted 81
sorrows I have gone there for com
fort. and there I mean To live. war,
like Joash. to stay until coronation.
o men Of the world outside there
betrayed. caricatured and cheated OF
the world, why do you not come In
through the broad. wide-open door ol
communion | wish / could
act the part Of Jehosheba to-day and
steal you away from your perils and
hide you in the temple How few OF
US appreciate the fact that the church
OF God is a hiding place! There are
mary people who put the church Al 50
low mark that they begrudge II
everything. even the few dollars they
give toward II. They make no saori-
fees. They dole n little out OF their
surplusage. They pay their butchers
bill. and they pay their doctors bill
and they pay their landlord. and the,
pay everybody but the Lord. and thel
come in az the last to pay the LORD
in His church, and frown as they say
There, Lord. II is. Send me re
ceipt in full and don't bother me soot
again" There is not more than one
man out OF a thousand that appreci
ates what the church is. Where are
the souls that put aside one-tenth ioT
Christian institutions tenth Of
their income? Where are those who.
having put aside that one-tenth. draw
upon IL checrfully? WHY. IL is nut
and drag and hold or and grab and
and giving is an affection tc
most people, when IL ought 10 BE- an
and a rapture. Oh. that
God would remodel our souls on this
subject and that we might appreciate
the house Of God as the great rcfug,i
II your children are to come up 10
lives Of virtue and happiness. The,
viii come up under the shadow OF Nv,
church. II the church does not get
them. the world will.
Church OF God. be hiding place b.
al these people! Give them sea,
where they can rest their weary SOM.
Flash some light from your chandel.er,
upon their darkness. With some soofh
ing hymn hush their griefs. Oh. churc,
'f God. gate OF Heaven. let me %
through III All other institutions az,
going to fail. but the church OF God.
IS foundation is the Rock Of Ages hi.