Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-11-15

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make prophecy Of my own, and that is that
you viii have your brain added, if you dc
not positively get into a public or private
insane asylum, where the greatest ex
Founders aud preachers Of prophecy ended
his life a few years since, aud where you
may regale the visitors Of the institution by
incoherent mumblings over something from
Daniel or Revelations about the leopard
which means Greece, and the bear which
means Medo-Persia and the image with the
great toes. What mental wreck did the
/ persistent attempts to forestall events make
of that miracle Of preachers, Edward Irving,
of London.
II would take several mad houses TO hold
/ the dementei victims of the improper use Of
the prophecies Of Daniel and Revelation.
What are not those books 70 be studied
/ Yes. No part Of the Bible is more important
/ Neither is there any more important shelf
in that apotheeary's store than the shelf on
/ which are the belladonna and the morphine,
/ but be more careful in using them than in
/ the use Of peppermint aud ginger. Keep
4 your hand of Of the seven seals. Christ will
/ break them soon enough. Don't 90 to
/ some necronaneer or spiritualist or s0oth-
! sayer or fortune-teller to find out what
is going 10 happen 70 yourself, or year
I family. or your friends Wait all Christ
I breaks the seal 10 fiud out whether in your
/ own personal life or the life Of the nation or
the life OF the world il is going to be tue
white horse Of prosperity. or the red horse OF
I war. or the black horse OF famine You
will soon enough see him paw and hear him
neigh. Take care OF the present and the
future will take care OF itself If a man live
seventy years, his biography is in a scroll
having at least sefen seals; and let him
notduringthe first ten years Of his life try 20
look into the tweuties nor the twenties into
the thirties nor the thirties into the fOrties.
nor the foriies into the iifties nor th-s tifties
into the sixties nor the sixties into the seven
ties. From the way the years have got the
habit OF racing along ! guess you will not
have 70 wait great while before al the seals
OF the future are bro ga. would not give
Two cents 20 know how long am going 20
i've or IA what day Of what wear the world
Is going % b. demoiis le1 | wo uld rather
give THOUSAND lpiiArs not 70 know Sup
pose some one c1ald brea the next seal IN
the scroll Of your personal history, and
should tell You TIA - the Fourth Of July,
lss1 sou were 70 die tae summer after the
next; how much would you be good FOR be-
tween this and thatf II would from now IN.
III then be a prolonged funeral You would
be counting the months aud the days, and
your family ana IRE ID woIid BE- counting
them and next Fourth Of July you would
rub your hands together ana whine. zone
year from to-day ] am 70 90. Dear met
wish no one hal told me SO long before.
wish that necromancer had not broken the
seal Of the future And meeting some IN
dertaker you would say 4 hope you will
keep yourself free for an engagement the
Fourth of JulV l-iN IHIf NuW Won will Ba
needed at my house. To save time you
might as well take my measure now, FIVE
feet eleven inches am glad that Christ
dropped thick veil over the hour OF our
demise, and be hour ofthe worlds destruc-
ton when he sad ''Of that day and hour
knOweth no man, not the angels, but my
Father only Keep your hands on the
seven seals
There is another mighty seven OF the
Bible, viz, the seven thuuders. What those
thunders meant we are not told and there
has been much guessing about themi but
they are 70 come, we are told, before the end
of al thiag7, and the world can not get along
without them Thunder IS the speech Of
lightning There are evils in our world
which must be Numbered down. and which I
win require at least seven vdlleys 70 pros I
trate them. We are all doing nice, delicate, /
soft-handed work in churches and reforma- /
tory Institutions against the evils Of the 1
world and much of II amounts Tablespoon f.
dipping out the Atlantic Ocean, or clam
shell digging away al a mountain, or a tack .
hammer shifting the Gibraltar.
What IS needed is thunderbolts, aud at
least seven Of them. There is the long line 4
Of fraudulent commercial establishments;
every stone in the foundation, and every .
brick in the wall, and every nail ia the
rafter made out Of dishonesty: skeletons Of
poorly paid sewing girls arms in every
beam OF that establishment; human nerve
worked into every figure Of that embroid-
cry; blood in the deep dye Of that proffered
upholstery; billions OF dollars Of accumu-
lated fraud entrenched in massive store
houses and stock companies manipulated
by INSCRIPTIONS men until the monopoly is
defiant of all earth and all Heaven. How
shall the evil be overcomel By treaties on
the maxim: Honesty is the best policyi Or
by soft repetition Of the golden rule that we
must 'do 20 others as we would have them do
to uslr No. it will not be done that way. :