The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-11-01

way the years have got the habit OF
racing along, guess you will not have to
welt great white before oil the seals OF
the future are broken. would not give
two cents to know how long am going
to live, or in what day OF what year the
world is going to be demolished | would
rather give q thousand dollars not to
know. Suppose some one could break
the next seal in the scroll Of your per-
sona1 history: end should tell ycu th5t on
the 4th Of July. 1892, You were TO die, the
summer after the next; how much would
, ,vu uv goou TOR betwesn this ana tua,G
1t would from now until then be pro-
longed funeral You would he counting
the months and the days, ard your family
| and friends would be counting them, and
| the next 4tb Of fuly you wQuld rub your
hands together and HhlBet zone year
| from day | am tc 20. Dear me! !
wish no one had told Inc 50 long before.
] wish that necromaucar had not broken
| the seal OF the future" Aud meeting
eop'e undertaken you would say ~
| nope you will keep yourself free for an
| engagement the 4th OF July, 1899. That
| day you will be needed at my house. To
| save time you might as we'll take my
measure now, five feet eleven inches"
am glad that Christ dropped thick vail
| "tet the bou1 CT our denise and the hour
Of the worlds destruction when He said:
''6f that day and hour knoneth nd man;
10, not tire angels, but my Father only"
| Keep yOur hands off the seven seals.
There is another mighty seven OF tho
Bible, viz. the seven thunders. WEct
those thur ders L,eant we are not told, and
there has been guessing about them; but
they are to come, we are told, before the
the end OF all things, and thu world cam
not get along without them; ThtndeI ~
the rpeeCt of lightning. There are evils
in our world which must be Numbered
| down, and which will require at least sew
en- volleys to PROSTATE them. We are all
doing nice, delicate, soft handed work in
churches and refOTmatoTy institutions
| against the evils Of the world. and much
of it amounts to teaspoon dipping out
the Atlantic Ocean, or Giant she'll dig
gipg away 1t a mountain, or q tackeham-
mer smiting the Gibraltar. What is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least sew
en- OF them. There is the long line
OF fraudulent commercial establish
ments; every stone in the fOun-
daton and every brick in the wall and
every nail in the rafter male out OF dis
honesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing
! girls arms il every beam of that estab-
! lishment; human nerves worked into
| every figure of that embroidery; blood in
| the deep dye of that protfered uphol :
| stery; billions of dollars of accumu ated
| fraud entrenched in massive store houses
| and stock companies manipulated by un-
! sCrupulous men until the monopoly is de-
! fiant OF all earth and all Heaven. How
| shall the evil be overcome? By treatIses
on the maxim, Honesty is the best poll
| cy? Or by soft repetition of the golden
rule that we must 'dO to others as we
would have others do to u.s." 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 capital mightier than in any other
| business. Intoxicating liquors enough
| in this county to float a navy. Good grain
! to the amount of sixty seven million
| bushels annually destroyed to make
| deadly liquid. Breweries, dstilleries,
| 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 H.
| cense? No. Prohibition laws? No
| Churches? No. Moral suasion? No.
will. Seven thunders.
On, men and women, disheartened at
! the bad way things often go, hear you not
| a rumbliny down the sky of heavy artil-
| lery, coming in on your side, the seven
| thunders of the Almighty? Don'I 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 caudlesticks will be done by the
trampliug 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 uD
that wall. After naming six of the pre-.
cious stones in that wall, the Bible cries
out: "The seventh, chrysolitep' The
chrysolite is an exqu isite 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 se&.
One glance at that green chrySolite, a
million years after this planet has been
extinguished, will bring to mind just how
it looked summer and spring, AID we will
say to those who were born blind on
earth, and never saw at all i'll this world,
after they have obtained full eyesght
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
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 experienn nes,
and noticing that this green chrysolite is
the seventh layer of crystalized magnifi-
cence we may bethink ourselves of the
denomination 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
candlestlcks, and were all of US permit
ted to shine among the seven stars Of
more or less magnitude, 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 hav-
ing done their work have ceased rever-
beration, and that he numeral seven,
which did such tremendous work in the
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