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

said: 'sOf that day and hour knowerh no
man; no, not the angels, but my Father
only" Keep your hands off the seven
SEALS
There is another mighty seven of the
Bible, viz,
THE SEVEN THUNDERs.
What those thunders 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 cannot get along without
them. Thunder is the speech of light
ming. There are evils in our world
which must be thundered down, and
which will require at least seven voHeys
| to PROSTATE them We are oil doing
nice, delicate, soft handed work in
churches and reformatory institutions
against the evils of the world, and
much of it amounts to a teaspoon dipping
out the Atlantic ocean, or clam shell
! digging away at q mountain, or a tack
hammer shifting the Gibraltar. What is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least seven
of them. There is the long line Of
fraudulent commercial establishments;
every stone in the foundation, and every
brick in the wall, and every nail in the
rafter made out of dishonesty; skeletons
of poorly paid sewing girls arms in every
beam Of that establishments; human
nerves worked into every figure of that
embroidery; blood in the deep dye of
that cofered upholstery; billions of
dollars of accumulated fraud intrenched
in massive storehouses and stock COM
panies manipulated by unscrupu-
lous men until the monopoly is de-
fiant of all earth and all heaven.
How shall the evil be overcome? By
treatises on the maxim: Honesty is the
best policy? Or by soft repetition of the
| golden rule that we must '.do to others
as we would have them do to us?'' Nc,
it will not be done that way. What is
needed, and what will come, is the seven
thunders. There is drunkenness backed
up by capital mightier than in any
other business. Intoxicating liquors
enough in this country to float navy.
Good grain to the amount of 81, $50, 900
bushels annually destroyed to make the
deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associ-'
ations, our nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty millions of dol-
lars for rum, resulting in bankruptcy,
disease, pauperism, filth, assassination,
death, illimitable woe. What will stop
them? High license? No. Prohibition
laws? No. Churchesa No. Moral
suasion2 No.
THUNDERBOLTS WILL DO IT.
Nothing else will. Seven thunders!
Yonder are intrenched inidelity and
| loth fl,oir- Of
ture scoffing at our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night.
There are their blaspheming apostles,
their drunken Tom Paines and hbertine
Voltaires of the present as well as the
past, re enforced by all the powers of
darkness, from highest demon to lowest
imp. What will extirpate those mon
sters of infidelity and atheism? John
Browns shorter catechism about Who
made your OF Westminster catechism
about '.What is the chief end of man2"
No. Thunderbolts! The seven thun-
ders!
For the impurities of the world en-
palaced as well as cellared, epauletted as
well as ragged, enthroned as well as
ditched; for corrupt legislation which at
times makes our state and national capi-
tails hemisphere stencil; for supersti-
tions that keep whole nations in squalor,
century after century, their Juggernauts
crushing, their knives lacerating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyrcS
burning, the seven thunders.
Oh, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often go, hear you
not a rumbling down the sky of heavy
artillery, coming in on our side, the seven
tllunders of the Almighty2 Don't let us
try to WELD them ourselves; they are
too heavy and too fiery for US to
handle; but God can and God WILL and
when all mercy has failed and all milder
means are exhausted, then Judgment will
begin. Thunderbolts! Depend upon it,
that what is not done under the flash OF
the seven candles:icks will be done by
the tranpling of the seven thunders.
But / leave this imperial and multi
potent numeral seven where the Bible
leaves it, imbedded in the finest wal
that was ever built or ever will be con
structed, the wall of heaven. 1t is
TILE SEVENTH STRATA
of precious stones that make up that
/. wall. After naming six of the precious
stones in that wall, the Bible cries out:
, "The seventh chrysolitel" The chryso
lite is All exquisite green, and in that
| seventh layer Of the heavenly wall shall
+ be preserved forever the dominant
> color of the earth we once inhabited.
{ have sometimes been saddened at the
3 thought that this world, according tc
4 science and revelation, is to be blotted
out of existence, for it is such heauti
| f,,I D,,4 =. L. Al
e heavenly wall, where the numeral sever
/ is to be embedded, this strata of green il
4 to be photographed, and embalmed ant
Q perpetuated, the color of the grass thai
, covers the earth, the color of the foliage
5 that fills the forest, the color of the deel
o sea. One glance at that green chryso
o lite, million years after this planet hai
: been extinguished, will bring to mint
t just how it looked in summer and spring
u and we will say to those who wer,
born blind on earth, and nevel
/. saw at all in this world, after they
v have obtained full eyesight in heaven
Y ''If you would know how the earth ap
: peared in June and August, look at tina
: seventh layer of the heavenly wall, th,
green of the chrysolite And while W.
i stand there and talk, spirit with spirit
/ that old color of the earth which hat
{ more sway than all the other colors pu
, together, will bring back to us ou
h earthly experiences, and noticing tina
d this green chrysolite is the seventh laye
e Of crystallized magnificence we ma,
e bethink ourselves of the domin
alton of that numeral seven owe
: all other numerals, and thank Coz
u that in the dark earth we left behind u
!: we SO long enjoyed the light of the sevel
+ golden candlesticks, and were all of u
e permitted to shine among the seven star
4 of more or less magnitude, and that a
d the seven seals Of tho mysterious futur
;: have been broken wide open for us by
n loving Christ, and that the seven thunder
]. having done their work have ceased revel
J. beration, and that the numeral seven
V which did such tremendous work in th
y history of nations on eartlh has bee
k given such high place in that Niagar
.e of colors, the wall of heaven, '.the frs
!. g. n .ss Y ..