The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-22


a mental wreck did the perss ent attempt
TO forestall events make Cf that miracle OF
| preachers Edward Irving OF LONDON. 1t
wolld take several mad-houses TO hold the
demeuted Wet ms of the improper use or the
proDbecies Of Daniel and Revelation
| What! are not those books to be stuffed
Yes. No part of the Bible is more import
ant Neither is there any more important
| in that aDothecary'S store than the shelf on
| shelf which are the be ladonna and the NOR
| mime but be more careful in using them than
| in the use of peppermint and ginger Keep
your hands off Of tue seven seals. Christ
| viii break them soon enough. Don't go to
| some necromaucer, or spirltuallst. or sooth-
| saver. or fortune teller 10 find out what IS
| goi 10 to happen to yourself, or your family,
| or your fir ends Wait till Christ break
the seal to End out whether, in your own
personal life, or the life OF the nation,
or the life Of the world. it
is going to be the whlte
| horse of prosperi ty or the red horse of war
or the black horse of famine. You win
| soon enough see him paw and hear him
neigh. Take care of the present and the
| future will take care of itself. If a man
| live seventy years, his biography is in
scroll. having at least seven SEALS and let
| him not, during the first tel years of his
| life, try to look into the twenties, nor the
| twenties into the thirties, nor the thirties
| into the forties. nor the 70 ties into the
| fifties. nor the fifties into the sixties, nor
| sixties INTO the seventies From the way
| the wears have got the habit of racing
| along, / guess you will not have to Wait
a great while before all the seals of the
future a c broken. | would not give two
centS to know how long | am going TO live,
or in what day of " hat year the world
is going to be demolished.
would rather give a thousand dollars not to
know. Suppose some one could break the
next seal III the scroll of YOUR personal his
tory, and should tell you that on July 4.
1890, you We're to die, the summer after the
next How much would you be good for
between this aud that. 1t woull. from now
until then, DO II prolonged funeral. Yoa
would be quitting the months AID the da S,
and your family and friends woIld bs
counting them; and July next you would
rub your hacds together and whine: "One
year from to- lay | am to GO Dear mel |
wish no one had tol me so long before. !
visa that necromancer had not broken the
al OF the future" And meeting some I'M
devtaker you would say: II hope you will
keep yourself free for an engagement July
4, 1890. That DAY you viii be needed at
my house. To save time y u might a. we'll
take my measure nOw-tive feet eleven
inches" am glad that Christ dropped n
thick veil over the hour of our demise and
the hour of the worlds destruction when
ne Stllus vi JltJ udt uOuI hIiONbGD
no man; no, not the angels, but my Father
only" Keep your hands OF 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 ED of all things, and the world cannot
get along without them. Thunder is tie
speech of lightning. There are evils in our
world which must be thundered down, and
which will require at least seven volleys to
PROSTATE them. We are all doing nice,
delicate, sost-handed work III churches and
reformatOry institutions against the evils If
the world, and much of it amounts TO tea
spoon dipping out the Atlantic ocean, or
cl am shell digging away at a mountain, or
tack-hammer shifting the Gibraltar.
What is needed is thunderbolts, and at least
seven OF them. There is the long limo 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 establishment; human nerves
worked into very fig IRE OF that
| embroidery; blood in the deep
dye of that proffered upholstery =;
billions of dollars of accumulated fraud
| entrenched in massive storehouses and
stock companies manipulated by unscrupu-
lous men until the monopoly is defiant of al
| earth and all heaven. How shall the evil be
| overcome! By treatises on the maxim,
Honesty is tie best policys Or by soft
| repetition of the golden RUE, that we must
| ''do to others as we ould have them do to
| usW No, it will not be done in that way.
| What is needed, and what will come, is the
seven thunders. There is drunkenness,
backed up by a capital mightier than in any
| other business. Intoxicating liquors enough
| in this country to float navy. Good gram
to the amount of sixty-seven million nine
hundred and fifty thousand bushels an
nually DESTROYED to make the deadly liquid.
| Breweries, distilleries, gin shops, rum
| palaces liquor associations, our nation
| spending annually seven hundred and forty
millions of dollars for rum, resulting IN
bankruptcy, disease, pauperisn,, filth, as
sassination, death, illimitable woe. What
will stop theml High licenses No. Pro
hibition lawsa No. Churchess No Moral
suasiona No. Thunderbolts will do it
nothing else will. Seven thunders!
| Yohder are entrenched infdelity and
/ atheism with their magazines of literature
scoffing at our christianity; their Hoe priut
ing presses busy day and night. There are
their disappearing apostles their drunken
Tom Paines and libertine FoltaireS of the
| present as we'll as the past, reinforced by al
the powers of darkness from highest demon
to lowest imp. What will extirpate those
monsters of infdelity and athesms John
Browns shorter catechism about "WhC
! made youi" or Westminster catechism about
"What is the chief end of manW No.
| ThunderboltS The seven thunders
For the impurities of the world empalaced
as well as clllared epauleted as well a,
ragged, enthronei as well as ditched; for
corrupt legislation which at times make;
our state and national capitals hemisphere
stencil; for superStitions that keep whole
nations in squalor, century after century
their juggernauts crushing, their knives
decorating, their waters drowning, their
funeral pyres burning, the seven thunders
Oh, men and women, disheartened at the
way things often go, hear you not rumb-
ling down the sky of heavy artillery, com
ing in our side, The seven thunders of the
Almightyl Don't let us try to wield 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 al
milder means are exhausted, then judgment
will begin. Thunderbolts! Depend upon
it, that what is not done under the fash OF
tue seven candlesticks will be done by the
trampling Of seven thunders.
But leave this imperial and multipotent
mineral seven where the Bible leaves it
imbedded in the finest wall that was ever
built, or ever will be constructed, the wal
of heaven. II is the seventh strata Of
IreCiOus STONES that mako nm FIN AZ wall