The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-01

10 wait Breat whiis Deiofe a' 'ns
seals Of the future are broken.
would not give two cents to know
how long am going to live, or in what day
OF what year the world Is going to be de.
molished. ! would rather give n thousand
dollars not to know. Suppose some one could
break the next seal In the scroll OF your per-
sonal history. and should tell you that on the
4th Of July. 1890, you wee TO die, the sum-
mer after tho next: how much would you be
good for between this and thatl 1t would
from now until then be n prolonged funeral.
You would be counting the months and the
days, and your family and friends would he
counting them; and next 4th of July you
would rub your hands together and whine
zone year from to-day am to go. Dear mol l
wish no ono had told me so long before. l
wish that necromancer had not broken the
seal of the future.n And meeting some
undertaken YOU would say: II hope you will
keep youryelf free for an engagement the
Fourth OF July, 1890. That day you will be
needed Mt my house Tc save time you might
as well take my measure now, five feet, eleven
inches" / am glad that Christ dropped a
thick veil over the hour of our demise and
the hour of the worlds destruction when ho
said "Of that day and hour knoweth 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 thoss
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
lightning. There are evils IN our world
which must be Numbered down, and which
will require at least seven solleys to pros
trate them We are all doing nee, delicate,
soft handed work IN churches aud rcforma-
tory institutions against the evils OF the
world, and much of IL amounts TO teaspoon
dipping out the Atlantic Ocean, or a clam
Shell digging away at n mountain, or n tack
hammer smiting the Gibraltar. What is
needed Is thundorhoits. and at least seven OF
them. There Is the long line oi frau ulpnt
commercial establishments; every stone IN
tue foundation, and every brick m the wall,
and every nail in the rniter made out of
dishonesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing
girls arms in every lclm of that establish.
mont; human nerves worked into every
hsure of that embroidery; blood in tine
deep die OF that prolCrCd upholstery;
billions of dollars of Accumulated fraud
entrenchei IN massive sturchouscs anl
stock companies manipulated 10y un-
sCrupulous men until the monopoly
is defiant Of all earth and ali heaven How
shall the evil le overcome By trcatisos ON
the maxim: Honesty is the hest policy. Or
10y soft repetition OF the golden rule that wo
must do To other, as we would have them
do TO usH No, 1t VIII not 10
lbllt tilil way. w nav IL utthtu,
what Will come, is tho seven thun iers There
is drunkenness backed up 10y n capital
mightier than in any other business In
toNIcating liquors enough IN this country to
float navy. Good grain to the amount of
G1,95O.0OO bushels annually destroyed TO
make the deadly liquid. Brewerics, dstillrricS,
Gin shops. rum palaces. liquor associations,
our nation spending annually seven hundred
and forty millions Of dollars for rum. result.
inS IN bankruptcy disease, pnupcrSm, fifth,
assassination death. iliimltable woe What
will stop them! High license: No. Thunder
bolts VIII do 1t; nothing else will. seven
thunlers!
Nonder are intrenched inildelity and athe.
ism with the er aJincs OF literature scott
ing ut our Christianity: their hoo print
ing presses tusy day and night. There arc
Their baSpheming apostles, their drunken
Tom Paines ana llberiino Noltaircs of the
present rs well as of the past reinforced
ly all the powers of darkness from highest
demon To lowest imp What will extirpate
those monsters of inndcity aud atheisni
John Browns shorter Catechlsm about "Nho
mude YOU" or Westminster catechlsm about
wv hat is the chief end of manp No,
IhundeiboIts The seven thunders!
For the impurities of the world empalaced
ns well as cclared, cpaulctted rs well rs rag.
ged, enthroned as well rs ditched for cor
rupt legislation which at times makes our
state and National capitals II h miSpheric
stchch; Tor super,tltions that keep whole ma
lions IN sGualor, century after century, their
JuggernautS crushing, their knives laccrat.
lnS. their wate drowning, their funeral
pyres burning, the seven thuudcrs,
On, men anI women, dishearteEel NJ the
ha way things often go, hear you not n
rulnblng down thr sky of heavy artillery,
coming IN on our SIDE, the seven thundcrs of
the Almighty: FONT let us try TO weld them
ourselves, they are too heavy and to fiery for
Us to handle; but God can and tod
VIII: and when al mercy has failed and all
mildcr means are exhausted, then Judgment
will begin. Thunderholts! Depend upon IL,
that what is not done under the flash OF the
seven candIeStlcks will he done by the tramp.
ling of the seven thunders
but leave tins imperial and mutipotent
numcral sevcn where the Bible leaves it,
mbedded IN tho finest wall that was over
Quilt, or ever Will bc ronS,ruCte |, the wall OF
heaven. IL is the seventh strata of precious
stones that make up that wall After nam
ng six OF the precious stones in that
wall, the Bible cries Out-"the sew
.nth rhrysoltcn The chryso'ite is an
..iquiste green, and in that seventh layer OF
che heavenly wall shall he preserved forever
the dominant co,ur of the earth we once
inhabited. | have sometimes teen sad
iened at tho thought that this world.
according to science and revelation, is
to be hlotted out of existence, for It is such a
beautiful world But here in this iayer
u lIt ItaNtnlN wall. Nncro Inc nllinpral
seven is to be embedded, this strata of green
$ to be photographed. AMI emhnlmei, and
perpetuated, the color of the grass that
covers the earth, the coor o. the foliage
hat fills the fore,t the co'or of the
ieep sen. One glance at that green chrysol-
'e, million yenrs Mt this planet has beon
extinguished, will bring to mind just how it
looked in summer and spring, aud we will
say to those who were born blind on earth,
and never saw mt all in this world,
after they have obtained full eyesight
in heaven: IF you would know how tho
earth appeared in June and August, look at
that seventh layer of the heavenly wall.
the green of the chrysolite.n And while We
stand there and talk, spirit with spirit, that
old color of the earth which had more sway
than all the other colors put together, will
bring back to ms our earthly experience, and
noticing that this green chrysolite is the
seventh layer Of crystalzed magnlicence we
may bethink ourselves of the domination of
that numeral seven over all other numerals,
and thank God that in the dark enrth we left
behind us we so long enjoyed the light OF
the seven golden candlesticks, and were all
OF us permitted TO shine among the seven
stars OF more or less magnitude, and that all
the seven seals of the mysterious future have
been broken wide open for us by loving
hrist, and that the seven thunders having
ione Their work have ceased reverberaton,
and that fla nnmarul gnvaV ,pht,.h lil g,,,k