Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-02

painting of red horse, and that meant
bloodshed, and SO it really came to pass,
and the next ninety years were red with
assasinations and wars. Christ broke
the third seal and unrolled it and there
was painting of black horse. which. Ill
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 all of US is q sealed
scroll, and I am glad that no one but
Christ can open it. Do not let us join
are trying to break the seven seals OF the
future. They are trying to peep into
things they have no business with. They
try to foretell what is going to come to
them and what is going to come on the
earth. They know nothing 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 actually do come to pass, COM
pare them with prophecy and so learn
Gods foreknowledge and the inspira-
ton of the Scriptures. But you 90 into
the study of the prophecies in order to
find out what is going to happen year
from now, or twenty years from now, or
one thousand years from now, and will
make a prophecy of my own, and that is
that you will have your brain added. If
you do not positively get into a public
or private insane ASYLUM, where the
NJ Of Iorc n oh
prophecy ended his life q few years
since, and where you may regale the
visitors of the institution by inyoherent
mumblings over something from Daniel
or Revelations about the leopard which
means Greece, and the bear which means
Medic Persia. and the image with the
great toes. What mental wreck did
the persistent attempt to forestall events
make of that miracle of preachers, Ed
ward Irving, of London. 1t would take
several mad houses to hold the demented
victims of the improperuse of the proph-
ecies pfDaniel 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
sayer, or fortune teller to find out what
is going to happen to yourself, or your
family, or your friends. Wait till Christ
breaks the seal to find out whether in
your personal life or in the life of the
nation or the life of the world it is
going to be the white horse of prosper
ity or the red horse of war or the black
horse of famine. You will soon enough
see him paw and hear him neigh, Take
care of the present and the future will
take care of itself. If man live seventy
years his biography is in q scroll having
at least seven seals; and let him not
during the first ten years of his life try
to look into the twenties, nor the twen-
ties into the thirties, nor the thirties
into the forties, nor the forties into the
tifties, nor tho tifties into the sixties,
nor the sixties into the seventies. From
the way years have got the habit of racing
along, guess you will not have to wait
a great while before all the seals of the
future are broken. would not give 2cents
what day of what year the world is going
to be demolished. would rather give
81 900 not to know. Suppose some one
could break the next seal in the scroll
of your personal history, and should tell
you that on the 4th of July, 1890, you
were to die, the summer after the next;
how much would you be good for be-
tween this and that? 1t would from
now until then be a prolonged funeral.
You would be counting the months and
the days, and your family and friends
would be counting them; and next 4th
Of July you would rub your hands to-
gether and whine-"One year from to-
day 1 am going to die. Dear me! wish
no one had told me SO long before.
wish that necromancer had not broken
the seal of the future" And meeting
some undertaken you would say: Il hope
you will keep yourself free from an en-
gagement the 4th Of July, 1890. That
save time you might as we'll take my
measure now, five feet eleven inches"
I am glad that Christ dropped a thick
veil over the hour Of our demise and the
hour of the worlds destruction when he
said: "Of that day and hour knoweth
no man; no, not the angels, but my
Father only" Keep your hands off the
seven seals.
THE SEVEN THUNDERS.
There is another mighty seven of the
Bible, viz, the seven thunders. What
those thunders meant we are not told,
andIthere 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 re-
quire at least seven volleys to PROSTATE
them. We are all doing nice, delicate,
soft-handed work in churches and re-
formatory institutions against the evils
of the world, and much Of it amounts to
q teaspoon dipping out the Atlantic
Ocean, or calm she'll digging away at q
mountain or tack hammer shifting the
Gibraltar. What is needed is thunder
bolts, and at least seven of them. There
is the long line of fraudulent CONNER
cial 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 every figure of that embroidery;