The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-10-25

stars; ana whole consultations OF glori-
GUS ministers have already taken their
places on high, where they shine even
brighter than they shone on earth; Ed
ward N. Kirk, of the Congregational
church; Stephen II. Tying, of the Epis-
copal church; Matthew Simpson, of the
Methodist church; John Bowling, of the
Baptist church; Samuel z. Talmage, Of
the Presbyterian church; DR.. De Witt,
of the Reformed church; John Cham
bers, of the Independent church; and
there l stop, for it so happens that have
| mentioned the seven stars of the seven
| churches.
pass on to another mighty Bible
seven, and they are
THE SEVEN SEALS
| st. John in vision saw scroll with
seven seals, and he heard an angel cry:
/ "Who is worthy to loose the seals there
OFF" Take eight OF ten sheets Of fools
cap paper, paste them together and roll
them into scroll. and have the scroll at
seven different places sealed with sealing
wax. You unroll the scroll till you come
to one of these seals, and then you can
go no further until you break that seal;
then unroll again until you come to an
other seal and you can 60 no further
until you break that seal; then you go
until all the seven seals are broken, and
tile contents Of the entire scroll is re-
vealed. Now, that scroll with seven
seals leld by the angel was the prophecy
OF What WIS to cOnle on the earth; it
meant that the knowledge of the future
was with God, and no man and no angel
was worthy to open it; but the Bible
| says Christ opened it and broke all the
seven seals. He broke the first seal and
unrolled the scroll. and there was paint
ing of a white horse, and that meant
prosperity and triumph for the Roman
empire, end so it really came to pass that
| for ninety years virtuous emperors sue
ceeded each other, Nerva, Trajan and
Antoninus. Christ in the vision broke
the second seal and unrolled again and
there was painting of red horse, and
that meant bloodshed, and so it
really came to pass, and the next
ninety years were red with assassina-
tions and wars. Then Christ broke
the third seal and unrolled it
and there was painting of black
horse, which in all literature means
famine, oppression and taxation; and SO
it really came to pass. Christ went on
until he broke all the seven seals and
opened all the scroll. Well, the future
Of alfcf us is sealed scroll, and am
glad that no one but Christ can open it.
Do not let us join that class of Christians
in our day who are trying to break the
seven seals Of the future.s They are try
ing to peep into things they have no bus
mess with. They try to foreten what is
going to come to them and what is going
to come on the earth. They know moth
ing about it. Christ is the only one
who can break the seal of the future
Bible prophecy was not written to
help us to tell things in the future,
but to have us, when the things ac-
| tually do come to pass, compare them
with prophecy and SO learn Gods fore
knowledge and tho inspiration of the
Scriptures. But you so into the study
of the prophecies in order to find out
what is going to happen year from
now, OF twenty years from now, OF one
thousand years from now, and | viii
make a prophecy of my own, and that is
that you will have your brain added, if
you do not positively get into public or
private insane asylum, where the greatest
of expoundcrs and preachers of prophecy
ended his life few years since, and
where you may regale the visitors of the
institution by incoherent mumblings over
something from Daniel or Revelations
about the leopard which means Greece,
and the bear which means Medo-Persia,
and the image with the great toes. What
o mental wreck did the persistent at
tempt TO forestall events make of that
miracle of preachers, Edward Irving, of
London. 1t would take several mad
houses to hold the demented victims of
the improper use Of the prophecies Of
Daniel and Revelation. What! are not
those books to be studied? Yes. No
part of the Bible is more important.
Neither is there any more important
shelf in that apothecary's store than the
shelf on which are the belladonna and
the morphine, but be more careful in
using them than in the use of pepper
mint and ginger. Keep your hands
off Of the seven seals. Christ
will break them soon enough.
Don't go to some necromancer OF
spiritualist or soothsayer OF fortune teller
} to find out what is going to happen to
yourself, or your family, OF your friends
Wait till Christ breaks the seal to fine
, out whether in your own personal life ol
the life of the nation OF the life of the
, world it is going to be the white horse Of
prosperity or the red horse of war or the
black horse of famine. You will soor
, enough see him paw and hear him neigh
Take care of the present and the future
will take care Of itself. If man liv,
! seventy years, his biography is in scrol
having at least seven seals; and let hin
not during the first ten years Of his lif
3 | try to look into the twenties, nor the
} twenties into the thirties, nor the thirtie
[; into the forties, nor the forties int,
the fifties, nor the fifties int
/ the sixties, nor the sixties into the seven
ties. From the way the years have so
2 the habit of racing along, guess yoV
!; will not have to wait great while be
I fore all the seals of the future are broken
| I would not give two cents to know hov
/: long am going to live, or in what da,
!; of what year the world is going to be de
Q molished. ] would rather give thou
sand dollars not to know. Suppose som,
5 one could break the next seal in the scrol
0 of your personal history. and shoult
, tell you that on the 4th 0
9 July, 1890, you were to die
t the summer after the next; how mucl
would you be good for between this an'
s that? 1t would from now until then b
D prolonged funeral. You would b
Q counting the months and the days, an,
s your family and friends wonld be count
r ing them; and next 4th of July you woul
0 rub your hands together and whine
: .sOne year from today am to go. Dea
r me! I wish no one had told me SO lon
t before. / wish that necromancer ha
S not broken the seal of the future" An
g meeting some undertaken you would say
r Il hope you viii keep yourself free fo
n en- engagement the 4th of July, 1896
= That day you will be needed at my house
Q 10 save time you might as well take M
i measure now, five feet, eleven inches.
: | am glad that Christ dropped thic
Q veil over the hour of our demise and tll
n hour of the worlds destruction when 3
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