Sharp County record., 1888-11-08

rather give a thousand dollars Lo'
- Srnoose some one could break
tba newt seal in the scroll OF your per-
sonal history, and should tell you .na' pu
the 4th of July, 1899, you were 10 ulo' ia s--
summer after the next how mucn "ou.9
YOU be good for between TINS auu 'nr,.
1t would from now until then Dc pio
lonped funeral. You would be counIiu5
the months and the days, and your I"llttJ
and friends would be counting IHeili' an
the next 4th of July you would ruO you.
Lords tooether and whine: zone yeaL
fror, to-day I am to 60. Dear me-
,risb M one had told me so long De1ore'
7 U-isb that necromaucer had not DroheH
Tho seal of the future" And meeting
sonoo nndertaker you would say:
hope you will keep yourself lrae e io1 Tt"t on
enaagement the 4th Of July, io9o' I1'
day Won will be needed at my mousse ~
save time YOU might as well take my
-, eosure now. five feet eleven lncheS'
am Glad that Christ dropped a thick vail
over the hour of our demise and the hour
Of tba worlds destruction when he sald'
"Of that day aud hour knoweth no man,
no not the angels, but my Father only
Raan vour hands off the seven seals
There is another mighty seven OF the
Bible. viz: the seven thunderS' "haC
those thunders meant we are not tolu' anu
there has been guessing about them; DuV
tbev are TO come, we are told, before the
the end of all things, and the world can
not get along without them. Thunder Is
tbe sueech of lightning. There are eVlIS
in orr world which must be thuhuereu
down, and which will require at least sew,
en- yollevs to PROSTATE them. We are al
doino nice. delicate, soft-handed work IN
churches and refOrmatory lnS'iIuIloI7
AGAINST the evils of the world, ana lhucn
of it amounts TO a teaspoon dipping ou'
the Atlantic Ocean, or a clam shell dl9-
pinp away at a mountain, or tack-ham-
mer smiling the Gibraltar Wnat is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least sew
en- of them. There is the long line
of fraudulent commercial estaDnsu-
ments: every stone in the toun-
dation and every brick in the wall ana
every nail in the rafter made out OF as
honesty; skeletons Of poorly pald sewing
girls arms in every beam OF that eStao-
lishment; human nerves worked lhto
every figure of that embroidery; blood ID
the deep dye of that prottered uphoI
sterv. billions Of dollars of aCCumu lated
fraud entrenched in massive store houses
and stock companies manipulated by un-
scrupulous men until the monopoly IS de-
| fant of all earth and all Heaven. How
shall the evil be overcome? By treatlses
] stI-i ic
| cv? Or by soft repetition OF the golden
| rule that we must "dO to others as we
would have others do to us" No, 1t Will
not be done that way. What is needed
| and what will come, is the seven thun-
| ders, There is drunkenness backed up
| by a capital mightier than in any other
| business intoxicating liquors enough
| in this county to float a navy. Good grain
to the amount of sixty million
bushels annually destroyed to make
deadly liquid. BrewerieS, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor asso-
| Citations, our Nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty million dollars
! for rum, resulting in disease, pauperism,
! filth. assassination, death, illimitable
woe. What will stop them? High Ii
cense? No. Prohibition laws? No.
| Churches? No. Moral suasion? No.
rnnnderbolts VIII do it; nothing else
will. Seven thuuders.
On, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often 90, hear you not
a rumbling down the sky of heavy artil-
lery, coming in on your side, the seven
| thunders of the Almighty? 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 fash Of the
seven candlesticks will be done by the
trampling of the seven thunders.
But leave this imperial and omnipO-
tent numeral seven, where the Bible leaves
it, imbedded in the finest wall that was
ever built, or ever will be constructed,
the wall Of Heaven. 1t is the seventh
strata of precious stones that make up
that wall. After naming six of the pre-.
cious stones in that wall, the Bible cries
out: "The seventh, chrysoitew The
chrysolite is an 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
thought that this world, according to sci
ence and Revelation, is to be blotted out OF
existence, for it is such beautiful world
But here in this layer Of the Heavenly
wall, where the numeral seven is to be
imbedded, this strata of green is to be
photographed, and embalmed and per-
petuated, the color of the grass that COW
ers the earth, the color of the foliage that
fills the forest, the color Of the deep sea.
One glance at that green chrysolite, o
million years after this planet has been
extinguished, will bring to mind Just how
it looked summer and spring. and we will
say to those who were born blind or
earth, and never saw at all in this world,
after they havo obtained full eyesight
in Heaven: IF you would know how the
earth appeared in June and August,
look at that seventh layer of the
Heavenly wall, the green Of tn
chrysOlite." 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 us our earthly experiences,
and noticing that this green chrysolite is
the seventh layer of crystalized magnifi-
cence we may bethink ourselves of the,
denomination of that numaraI cavap oro-