The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-27

ties and asked what he should do Gov.
them to make atonement, and the Oh
eonites demanded seven of the sons Of
Saul that they might hang them
Whereupon David took the two SONS Of
Rizpah, one of the daughters Of SanJ
and five sons of Michal, another IT
SauPs daughters, and delivered them
to the Gibeonites, who hanged them in
the beginning of the harvest. "And
Rizpah, the daughter of Allah. took
sackcloth and spread it for her on the
rock from the beginning of harvest.
until water dropped upon them out of
heaven, and suffered neither the birds
of the air to rest on them by day nor
the beasts of the field by night"
In the last book of the Bible the rev.
citation made to St. John is addressed
" to the seven churches which are in
Asia" The first vision was of the Son
of Man in the midst of seven golden
candlesticks; the mighty angel who
came down from heaven clothed with
cloud" cried with a loud voice as
when lion roareth, and when he had
cried seven thunders uttered their
voices" One of the visions seen by
the apostle was red dragon having
seven heads and seven crowns upon his
head. Another was of a beast which
rose out of the sea, having seven heads.
Another was of the woman who sat
upon the scarlet colored beast with the
seven heads. And another was of seven
angels having the seven last plaques
and seven golden walls filed with the
wrath of God.
1t is perhaps with too venturesSfae a
pen that we allude in an article like
this to so sacred a subject as the cruel
fixion of Christ, but we are tempted to
do so for the sake of transcribing the
following fine. stanza from Mrs. Brown
ing's mother and Son.
y Christ OF the seven wounds, who look'dst
through the dark
To the face of thy Mother, consider, pray,
How we common mothers stand desolate.
Mark
Whose sons, not being Christ's, die with their
eyes turned away,
And no last word to say.
In the early days of the Church,
when there arose a murmuring of the
Greeks against the Hebrews, because
their widows were neglected in the
daily administration, seven men "of
honest repute, full of the Holy Ghost
and of wisdom,'' were appointed over
the business.
The festival of the Seven Dolors of
the Virgin Mary is on the Friday next
preceding Palm Sunday. The celebra-
ton was fixed by Benedict Kill, in
1925. The Seven Dolors were: The
prophecy of st. Simon; the journey to
Egypt; the losing of Jesus at Jerusa-
lem; the sight of the Lord bearing the
cross; the Lord upon the cross; the
piercing of his side with the holy lance,
and the. burial.
The seven sleepers, according to an
old tradition, were seven christian
brothers of Ephesus who, in 251 A. D.,
during the persecution of Decius, took
refuge in a cave, the entrance OF which
was walled up by the heathens in or
der to starve them. They slept for 200
years, when they awoke. They were
brought to Ephesus to the great edit
cation of the faithful. The Roman
Catholic Church celebrates them on
July 10.
The seven sages or wise men of
Greece were, according to most au-
thorities, Bias, Chilod, Cleobulus,
Fernandez, Pittacus. Scion and Ihales
Many aphorisms in prose and verse,
chiefly practical observations for the
regulation of life, have come down to
us as the work of these worthless.
The seven wonders of the world are
generally given as the Colossus of
Rhodes, Diana's Temple at Ephesus,
the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the
Pyramids, the Pharos at Alexandria,
Hanging Gardens at Babylon and the
Olympian Zeus.
The Seven Years war lasted from
1856 to 1868, and was one of the most
protracted and obstinately contested
conflicts known in modern history.
The nations engaged in it were Austria,
France, Sweden, Prussia, Saxony,
Hanover, Spain and Russia. A mill
ion of human beings persisted in this
war.
Jacques's division of human life into
seven acts in GAS You Like IT, is
familiar to every student of Shakes
peare the mewling infant, the whin-
ing schoolboy, the signing lover, the
quarrelsome soldier. the round bellied
Justice, the lean and slippered old man
then last-the last scene of all-second
childishness, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans
taste sans everything.
There are in the Roman Catholic
Church seven Sacraments-Baptism,
Confirmation, the Holy Eucharist, Pen
ance, Extreme Unction, Holy Order
and Matrimony. le il .eb o.
There are in Roman Catholic theology
seven gifts of the Holy Ghost-Wisdom,
Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude,
knowledge, Piety and the Fear of the
Lord. 1.ai, t-... .t...u.
There are seven spiritual works of
mercy-to counsel the doubtful, to in
struct the ignorant, to admonish sim
ners, to comfort the afflicted, to forgive
offences, to bear wrongs patiently, to
pray for the living and the dead ~
There are seven corporal works of
mercy-to feed the hungry, to give
drink to the thirsty, to cloth the naked,
to harbor the harborless, to visit the
sick, to visit the imprisoned, to bury
the dead. E.. 80
There are seven deadly sins Pride,