Democratic messenger., 1888-10-27


things they have no business with. They
try TO foretcll what Is going to come to
them aud what Is going to come ON the
earth. They know nothing about il.
Christ Is the only one who can break the
seal for the future. Bible prophecy was
not written to help us TO tell things in the
future, but 10 have US, when the things
actually do come to pass, compare them
with prophecy and so learn Cons fore
knowledge and the inspiration of the
Scriptures. But you go into the study Of
the prophecies In order to find out wha,
Is going to happen year from now, or 20
years from now. or 100 years from now,
and ! will make prophecy of my own.
and that IL that you will have your brain
added. IL you DO not positively get into
public or private insane asylum. where
the greatest OF expoundcrs and preachers
|ofprophecy ended his life in few years
since. and where you may regalc the visi.
tors ot the institution by incohercni mum.
blings over something from Daniel or
Revelation about the leopard which means
Greece, and the bear which means Medic.
Persia, and the image with the great toes.
What forestall events make ofihai mira.
Gle OF preachers. Edward Irving, of Lon.
don. II would take several mad.houscs
TO hold the dementci victims of the i'm
proper use Of the prophecies of Danicl
and Revelation. What! are not those
books TO be studiedi Yes. No part Of the
Bible Is more important, Neither is there
any more important shelf In tha, apothc.
cary's store than the shelf 0n which are
the belladonna and the morphine, but lc
more careful in using them than In the
use of peppermint and ginger Keep your
hands of the seven seals. Christ will
break them soon enough. Don't go 10
some necromancer or spiritualist, or
sOothsayer. or fortunc.tcllcr, TO find on,
what is going TO happen To yourself. or
your family, or your friends. Wal, till
Christ breaks the seal to find ont whether
in your ownpersonal life, or the life of
the nation, or the life of the world, II is
going TO be the white horse Of prosperity,
or the red horse Of war, or the black horse
OF famine. You will soon enough see
him paw and here him neigh Take care
Of the present, AMI the future will take
care Of ITSELF
THE SEVEN TmUNDERs
There Is another mighty seven of the
Bible, viz. the seven thundcrs What
those thundcrs meant we are not told,
and there has been much guessing about
them; but they are to come. we are told,
before the end Of all things, and the world
cannet get along without them. Thundc.
as the speech Of lightning. There are
evils in our world which must bs thunder.
ed down, and which will require at leas,
seven volleys 10 prostratc them We
are all doing nice. delicate soft t-hand work
In churches and rcformatory institutions
against the evils of the world, and much
Of II amounts 10 a teaspoon dipped out the
Atlantic ocean, or clam she'll digging
away at a mountain, or u tack hammer
shifting the Gibraltar What is needed is
thunderbolts, and nj least seven of them
There Is the long line of fraudulent com
mercial establishments; every stone in the
foundation, AMI every brick l. the wall.
and every nail in the raiirr made ou, of
dishonesty: skeletons of poorly pa,! ser
want girls arms in every beam of iha, az
tablishmeni; human nerves worked into
every figure of that embroidery. blood in
the deep dye ofthat proifercd upholstery
billions of dollars Of accumulated fraud
entTenched in massive storchouscs and
stock companies manipulated by unscru.
pulous men until the monopoly is defiant
Of all earth and all Heaven How shall
the evil be overcomc' BY trcatiscs ON the
maxim Honesty Is the best policy: Or
by soft repetition OF the golden rule that
We must "lO To others as we would have
them do to us." No; II will not he done
that way What Is needed, and what VIII
come, IL the seven thunders There Il
drunkenness backed up by capital nigh.
tier than In any other business. InIox.
icaiing liquors enough in this country 10
float u navy. Good grain IN the amoun,
Of G7 .05O 900 bushels annually destroyed
to make the deadly liquor Brcwcrie'
dlstilleries, gin shops, rum palaces. liquor
associations, our nation spending annually
$74O, 900. 900 for rum, resulting in bank.
ruptcy, disease, panpcrism. fifth, assassi.
nations. death, ilmmitablc Woe What
will stop them High license; No. Pro.
hibliion laws? No. Churches No Moral
suasiOn; No ihunderbolls will ,lO il:
nothing else will. Seven thundcrsl
YOnder are enircnched infdcliiy aud
atheism with their magazines of literature
scotiing at our Christianity; their Hoe
printing presses busy day and nigh,
There are disappearing apostles. their
drunken Tom Palncs and libcrtinc Vol.
taires of the present ~ well the past, rein.
forced by all the powers Of darkness from
highest demon 10 lowest imp Wha, will
extirpate those monsters of inlldelily and
atheism : John Browns shorter cate.
chism about "who made you - or West.
minister calechism about What is the
chief end of man :" M Thundcrholls
The seven thunders.
For the impurities of the world. en-.
placed u.s. well as cellarc,i, cpaulcltcd rs
well as ragged. enihronc,l as well n
ditched. for corrupt legislation which NJ
times makes our state aud national capi-
tails u hemisphccric stencil sumrs,iiions
that keep whole nations in squalor, cen
tury after century, their Iuggcrnanis
crushing, their knives decorating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyrcs
burning-the seven thundcrs'
oh! men and women. dishearicned at
the bad way things oilen go. hear you no,