Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-10-27

and forty millions of dollars for rum, result
ing in bankruptcy, disease, paupersln, iitn,
assassination, death, illimitable woe What
will stop theml High license. No. Thunder
bolts will do it; nothing else Will. seven
I thunders!
Yonder are ntrenched inldeity and athe'
ism with their magazines OF literature Scoll-
ing presses busy day and night There are
their disappearing apostles, their drunken
Tom Paines and libortine Voltaires OF the
present as we'll rs of the past, reinforced
by all tue powers of darkness from highest
demon to lowest imp. What will eXtirpaie
| those monsters of infidelity and athelsms
John Browns shorter catechism about VINO
made yous" or Westminster catechlSln about
"What is the chief end OF man!" NO,
Thlnderboltsl Tho seven thunders!
For the impurities of the world empnlaced
rs well as celared, cpaulettcd rs well us rag
ced, enthroned us well as ditched for cor
rupt legislation which at times makes our
State and National capitals a hemispheric
stencil for superstitionS that keep whole mn
tions in squalor, century after century, their
Juggernauts crushing, their knives lacerat.
Ing. their waters drowning, their funeral
pyreS burning, the seven thuuders!
Oh men and women, diSlleartened at the
bad way things often go, hear you not q
ru,nbling down the sky of heavy artillery.
coming in on our side, the seven thundels or
the Almighty. Don't let lis try to WELD them
ourselves; they are too heavy and to fiery for
us to handle; but God can and God
will; and when all mercy has failed and all
miller means are exhausted, then Judgment
will begin ThunderboltS! Depend upon It,
that what is not done under tile Hash OF the
seven candlesticks will be done by the tramp
ling of the seven thunderS.
But leave this imperial and multipotent
numeral seven, where the Bible leaves 1t,
| imbedded in the finest wall that was ever
built OF ever will be constructed, the wall oil
| heaven. 1t is the seventh strata of precious
stones that make up that wall. After nam
| ing six of the precious stones i'll that
| wall, the Bible cries out-"the sew
enth chrysoliteln 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
dened at the thought that this world.
| according to science 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 embedded, this strata of green
is to be photographed, and embalmed, and
perpetuated, tho color of the grass that
that fills the forest, the color of the
deep sen. Ono glance at that green chrysol-
ito. Il million years after this planet has been
extinguished, will bring to mind just how II
looked in summer and spring. and we VIII
say to those who were born blind on earth,
and never saw at all in this world,
after they have 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 the cbrysolite" And while we
stand there and talk, spirit with spirit, that
old color of tie earth which had more sway
than all the other colors put together, Will
bring back TO us our earthly experience, and
noticing that this green chrysolite is tho
seventh layer of crystaliZcd magnlicence we
may bet.iink ourselves of the domination OF
that numeral seven over all other numerals,
and thank God that i'll the dark earth we left
behind us we SO long enjoyed the light OF
the seven golden candlesticliS and were all
of us permitted TO shine among the seven
stars OF more or less magnitude, and that all
She seven seals Of the mysterious future have
been broken wide open for u' by q loving
Christ. and that The seven thunders having
done their work have ceased rcverberatlon,
and that the mineral seven. which diu such
tremendous work in the history OF nations
on earth, has been given such high place i'll
that Niagara Of colors, the wall OF heaven,
"the first foundation Of which is Jasper; tho
second, sapphire the third, a chalcedony; the
fourth, an emerald: the fifth, sardony!; the
sixth, sardius; the SEVENTH chrysolite"
"When shall these eyes thy hcaycn-built walls
And peary gates behold,
Thy bnlwarks with salvation strong,
And streets Of shining gold?