The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-11-01


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I tbs Turtles. nor the rkirtlss izGo t1s
Z tox1Ess. nor ths forriss il - the 1ttlass nor
the Hfties into the sixties, 1or the
sixties INTO the seventies Prom the
way fhs years hare g0t Ire habit q
I racing along. / gusss yOu VII ast hsve e
E wa5s 3 Ereaf while before al ths seals 81
I the future ars broken. I void not gRTe
/ two cents 70 know how long / an going
4 10 live, CT in what day q what Tezr the
world is goizg 70 be demolished I would
rather give 3 Eh0asald dollars not &c
f know Suppose soEs enc could b. e4E
( the next seal ia che scroll u your per-
s0nal history, and should tau yoa that Oh
/ TIE sth q Jusv. 1ss3. ron we're 30 die the
Z summer after ths next. how much would
Z yea ts good for between this aid t5sts
Z Il wocld from nov anti then be q pro-
/ Iaug@d funeral Y9n woald Be counting
( the months s-d the days, and your family
and friends would be counting them, and
ths next 4th o J1ly you would rub your
+ hands together and whiues One year
T from to-day I an 20 &C Dear ne!
Z Ssh No one had told me 50 long before.
! ! EisL that 1scr5E z2eeT had not broken
z the seal % the future" All meeting
( some undertaken Jon wozld say: Il
I hope Tou viii keep yourself tTee for az
4 engagement tina 4.A o. July. 1s98 That
+ day you VIII be needed 81 my house. To
Z saTe time ron might as we'll take ICY
I measure nov, I've feet eleven inches"
E an glad that Christ dropped q thick vail
1 over the hour ot oar demise and the hour
Z q the WORLDS destruction when he said.
/ '-Ot thar DAP and hour knOweth 10 man;
/ 10, lot tbs angels. b1t NY Father oaly."
{ Keep your hands II tae sevs1 seals
There is another mighty seven q TIE
I Bible. viz. the seven thu1dsrs. What
/ those tEunders meant re are not tod. aud
/ there has been crossing ahoa; them; but
/ they are 70 cone. we are tod before the
E the sE1 q al things a1d the world can
lot get aloEg without them. Thunder i
/ the speech # lightning There are erils
/ IN cur world which must be thuldered
down, and which viii require a. least sew
+ el TglleTs 70 PROSTATE them. We ara all
doing nice. delicate. sott-hau3ed work il
+ churches and refgruatorv institutions
+ against the evils q the world. and much
I o. i amounts 70 q teaspoon dipping ont
I the Atlantic Ocean or clam she'll dig
/ ging away a. d m0uutsia. " a tsek-ban-
/ mer shifting TIE Gibraltar. WHAT is
/ needed IS thzudeTbolt-, aad az least sew
en- O. them. There Is the long line
/ o. traudulsat commercial establish
/ msnts: every stone in the toEn-
+ datIOu and every brick IN the wall and
/ every nail IA the fer made ogt o. dis
/ honesty: skeletons OF poorly paid sewing
girls arms IN every be am q that estab-
/ lishue1t; human nerves worked into
/ every 6g1re og that embroidery; blood in
/ the deep dye % that prgE=red uphol
/ stsry: billions % dollars Of aeczu1 atsd
/ 1yaa9 eutreIched IL massive store houses
! and stock companies manipulated By IN
! Ecrupulo1s men until tie monopoly IS de-
/ faut % al earth aad all Heaven. How
shall the evil be overcome: By treauses
I On the maxim Honesty is the best poll
! c.: Or By soft repetition o; the golden
I rule that We must "3o 70 others as We
+ would have Others do % uz:7 No, il viii
not bs done that way. What is needed,
and what VIII come. is the seven thun-
I ders. There is drunkenness backed up
I b. capital mightier than in any other
I business. Intoxicating liquors enough
| in this county 10 90at navy. Good grain
70 the amount q sixty seven million
{ bushels annually destroyed to make
/ deadly liquid Brswer.ss, disti.leries,
/ gin shops. rum palaces, liquor asso-
Citations, our Nation spending annually
I sswen hundred and forty million dollars
for rum, resulting IL disease, pauperisrn,
| filth, assassination. death, illimitabls
woe. What viii stop thems High Il
cense: No. Prohibition lawss No.
/ Churches: No. Moral suasioas No,
! ThHnderbolts VIII do il; nothing else
will. SeTen th1Qders.
Yonder ara Iurencaed iHh4eIity and
( atheism with their magazines 81 litera-
| ture. seafing a. our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night
/ There are their blasphemiug apostles,
| their drunken Tom PaInes aud hbertiue
/ Foltalres, 81 the present as wen as tbs
I past, re-eBforced by all the powers q
darkness from highest demon 70 the low
! est imp. What Will extirpate these mon
| sters % iufdslity and atheism: Joh1
Browns shorter cayec1ism about "Wh8
1 made yOus" or Westminster catec1is n
| about ~What is the chief end Of maat"
No ThuuaeTb0,ts, TIE seven flanders
For the impurities Of the world en-
palaced as wei as cellared epauletted a.
| well as ragged enthro8sI as we'll rs
ditched; for corrupt legislation which al
/ ii mes makes our state aud National capi-
/ tails q hemis phersic stencil; for supersu-
| tons that keep whole nations in sQual0r,
| century after century. their Juggernauts
! crushing. their knives decorating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyres
/ burning, the seven thlnders,
On men and women, disheartened al
the bad way things often 90. hear you not
a rumbling down the sky Of heavy artil-
| lery, coming ia on your side. the seven
thunders % the Almighty; DJn't let Us
| try 10 WELD them ourselves, they are too
| heavy and too fiery for Us 70 handle, but
/ God can, and God viii; and when all
| mercy has failed and all milder means
are exhausted, then Judgment win begin.
| Thunderbolts! Depend upon it. that
| what il not done under the fash % the
/ seven candiesticks viii be done By the
| trampliug Of the seven thuuiers-
But leave this imperial aud omuipO-
| tent mineral seven, where the B BILE leaves
| it. imbedded in the finest wall that was
| ever built or ever will be constructed,
| the wall OF Heaven. It is the seventh
| strata OF precious stones thar make up
/ that wall After naming xix " the pre-
| cious stones in that wall, the Bible cries
/ out: The seventh, chrysolits,' 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 saddeued az the
/ thought that this world, according 20 sell
| ence and Reyelation,is tc be blotted out Of
| existence, for it IS such a beautiful world.
/ Bg. here in this layer Of the Heavenly
| wall, where the uumeral seven Is 10 be
| imbedded, this strata OF green is % be
! photographer and embalmed, aud per-
! petuated the color Of the grass that COW
ers the earth. the color ot the foliage that
/ fills the forest the color % the deep sea.
I One glance al that green chryso.ite, a
! m lion wears after This uIRurf has hpzu