The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-23

ken the seal of the future" And meeting
some undertaken. you would say: II hope
you will keep yourself free for an engagement
the 4th OF July, 1880. That day you will be
needed at my house. To save time, you might
as well take my measure now: five feet, eleven
inches" 1 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 I;
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 Beven thunders. What those thun-
ders meant VIC 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 lightning There
are evils in our world which must be thunder
ed down, and which will require at least seven
yolleys to PROSTATE them. We are all doing
nice, delicate. soft-handed work in churches
| and reformatory institutions against the evils
| of the world, and much of it
| amounts TO teaspoon dipping
out the Atlantic ocean, or a clam shell
digging away at a mountain, or tack ham
mer shifting the Gibraltar. What is needed
| is thunderbolts, and at least seven of them.
There is the long line Of fraudulent CONNER
| cial establishments: every stone in the founda-
ton, 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 en-
| broidery blood in the deep dye of that prof
! fered upholstery; billions of dollars of accu-
mulated fraud enrenched in massive store
| houses and stock companies manipulated by
| interruptions men until the monopoly is de-
! FAINT 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 usP No. it
will not be done 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. Intoxi-
eating liquors enough in this country to float
navy. Good grain to the amount of 81, $50, 600
bushels annually destroyed to make the deadly
liquid, Dreweries, dstilleries, gin shops, rum
palaces, liquor associations, our nation spend
ing annually seven hundred and forty millions
of dollars for rum, resulting in bankruptcy
disease, pauperism. filth, assassination, death,
illimitable woe. What will stop them? High
license? No. Prohibition laws? No.
Churches2 No Moral suasion? No. Thun-
derbots will do it, nothing else will. Seven
Yonder are entrenched infdelity and
atheism with their magazines OF
literature soothing at our Chris
tianity; their Hoe printing presses busy
day and night. There arc disappearing apoS-
ties, their are drunken Tom Paines and liber-
tine Noltaires Of the present as well as the
past, reinforced by all the powers of darkness
from highest demon TO the lowest imp. What
Will eALlTDdIo lllCSo lllODBI1TS OF ana
atheism? John Browns shorter catechsm
about About who made YOU" or Westminster
catechiSm about "What is the chief end Of
MANI" No, thunderboltsl The seven thunders!
For tho impurities of the world empalaced
as well rs cellared ,epaulatted as we'll asragged,
enthroned as well as ditched for corrupt leg
islation which at times makes our states and
national capitals hemisphere stencil: for SUI
persttions 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 ard women, dishearteued at the
bad way things often CO. hear you not rumb-
ling down the sky of heavy artillery coming in
on our side, the seven thunders of the AL
mighty? Don't let us try to WELD them our
selves they are too heavy and too fiery for us
TO handle; but God cen, aud God will and
when all mercy has failed and all milder
means are exhausted, then judgment will
begin Thunderboltsl Depend upon it, that
| what is not done under the flash of the seven
candlesticls will be done by the trampling of
| the seven thunders.
! But leave this imperial and muitipotent
| numeral seven, where the Bible leaves it, inn
bedded i'll the finest wall that was ever B-ilt,
or ever viii be constructed, the wall of heaven.
1t is the seventh strata of precious stones that
make mp that wall. After naming six
of the precious stones in that
wall, the Bible cries ont, "the
seventh chrysolite!" The chrysolite is an ex-
heavenly wall shall be preserved forever the
dominant color of the earth we once inhabited
| have sometimes been suddened at the
thought that this world, according to Science
and Revelation, is to be blotted out of exist
ence, for it is such beautiful world. But
here III this layer of the heavenly wall, where
the numeral seven is to be embedded, this
strata of green is to be photographed, and
embalmed and perpetuated, the color of the
grass that covers the earth, the color of tho
foliage that fills the forest, the color
of the deep sea. One glance at that
green chrysollte million years af-
ter this planet has been extin-
guished, will bring TO mndijust how ii looked
in summer and spring, and we win say to
those who were born blind on earth, and never.
saw at all i'll this world, after they have OBJ
tanned full eyesight in heaven: "1fyou would
know how the earth appeared in Juno and
August, look at that seventh layer of the
heavenly wall, the green of the chrysoite."
And while we stand there and talk, spirit
with spirit, that old color of the earth, which
had moro sway than all the other colors put to-
gether, VIII bring back to us our earthly ex-
periences and noticing that this green chryso-
lite is the seventh layer of crystalzed magni-
ticence we may bethink ourselves of
the domination of that numeral seven
over all other numerals, and thank God that
In the dark earth we left behind us we so long
enjoyed the light of the seven golden candle-
sticks, and were all of us permitted to shine
among the seven stars of more or less magui-
! tudo, and that all the seven seals of the
| mysterious future have been broken wide open
for us by loving Christ, and that the seven
| thunders have done their work, have ceased
reverberatioS, and that the numeral seven
| which did such tremendous work in the his
tory of nations on earth, has been given such
| high place in that Niagara OF colors, the wall
of heaven "tho first foundation of which Is
| jasper, tro second sapphire, the third chaloe-
| dony, the fourth an emerald, the fifth sar-
| donys, tho sixth sardius, the seventh chryso-
| lite"
"When shall these eyes thy heaven-bullt walls
And Yearly gates behold:
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong
And streets of shining goid?'
"COol Wave" Probable,
| From the New York Herald
| Vhe recent rise of temnernfrra in the stntes