The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-08
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Fourth OF July, 1890. That day yop will %
needed at my house, To save time you mlghs
as well take my measure nov, tive feet eleven
nchesn l 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, no, not the angels, but my Father
only" Keep your hands oil tho seven
seals.
There is another mighty seven Of the Bible.
viz, the seven thunders. What those
thunders mean we are not told, and there
has been much guessing about them; but they
are to come, we are told before the end OF al
things. and the world cannot get along
without them. Ihunuer IS the speech VI
lightning There are evils in our world
which must be Numbered down, aud which
will require ut least seven volleys TO pros
trate theni. We are all doing nee, delicate,
soft handed work IN churches and retorma-
tory institutions against the evils oil the
world, and much OF 1t amounts to teaspoon
dipping out the Atlantic Ocean, or a clam
shell digging away at a mountain, OF tack
hammer shifting the Gibraltar. What Is
needed Is thunderbolts and at least seven OF
them. There is the long line Of frauduient
commercial establishments; every stone IN
the foundation, 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 establish
ment human nerves worked into every
figure of that embroidery; blood IN the
deep die of that proifered upholstery;
billions of dollars of accumulated frauo
entrenched in massive storehouses ana
stock companies manipulated by un-
scrupulous men until the monopoly
is defiant Of all earth aud all heaven. How
shall the evil he overcome! BY treatses on
the maxim: Honesty is the best policys Or
by soft repetition of the golden rule that we
must do to Others as we would have them
do to usf' No. it will not be
done that way. What is needed, and
what viii come. is the seven thunders. There
is drunkenness backed up by IA capital
mightier than In any other business. IN
toxicating liquors enough in this country to
float a navy. Good grain to the amount OF
81, ,950,0 900 bushels annually destroyed to
make the deadly liquid Breweries, dlstilleries,
gin shops rum palaces, liquor associations,
our nation spending annually seven hundred
and forty millions Of dollars for rum, result
ing in bankruptcy, disease, pauperisin, nitn,
assassination death, ilimitable woe Nhat
will stop themi High license' No. Thunder
bolts will do it; nothing else will. seven
thundersi
Yonder are intrenched intidelity and athe-
ism with their magazines of literature scoH-
ing at our Christianity their Hoe print
ing presses busy day and night There are
their blasphemiug apostles, their drunken
Tom Paines and libertine Voltaires OF the
present as well as of the past, reinforced
by all the powers of darkness from highest
demon to lowest imp. What will extirpale
those monsters of in6delity and atbeismf
John Browns shorter catechism about Who
made youF or Westminster catechism about
"What is the chief end of manp NO,
Thunderbolts The seven thundersl
For the impurities of the world empalaced
as well as celared, epauetted as well as rag
pa5 optbropa1 wall 6itpbpd. for cor
rupt legislation which at times makes our
State and National capitals hemisphere
stencil: for superstitions that keep whole ma
tions in squalor, century after century, their
Juggernauts crushing, their knives lacerat-
ing, their waters drowning, their funeral
pyres burning, the seven thunders!
Oh, men and women, disheartened at the
bad way things often so, hear you not
rumbling down the sky of heavy artillery,
coming in on our side, the seven thunders OF
the Almighty! Don't let us 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
milder means are exhausted, then Judgment
will begin. Thunderboltsl Depend upon it,
that what is not done under the flash 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 it,
lf1ueuUGu III Tue llHeSG wan tudb was O'Oh
built or ever will be constructed, the wall OF
heaven. 1t is the seventh strata of precious
stones that make up that wall After NAM
/ ing six of the precious stones IN mat
wall, the Bible cries out-"the sew
enth chrysolitel" The chrysolite is an
exquisite green and in that seventh layer OF
f, the heavenly wall shall be preserved forever
the dominant color of the earth we once
inhabited ! have sometimes teen sad
dened at the thought that this world,
according to science and revelation, Is
to be blotted out of existence for it is such a
beautiful world But here in this layer
of the heavenly wall, where the numerai
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 co'or of the foliage
that fills the forest the co'or OF the
deep sea. One glance at that green chrysol-
lite million vearT nft MS nldna1 ist n, how ;t
looked in summer and spring. ana we VIII
nav to those who were born blind on eartn,
and never saw at all in this word,
after they have obtained full eyeslgh1
in heaven: "If you would know how tne
earth appeared in June and August, look =, az
that seventh layer of the heaVehly wall, ~,
the green of the chrysolite." And while we
stand there and talk, spirit with spirit, tna1
old color of the earth which had more sway
than all the other colors put together, VII,
bring back to US our earthly, experience, ana
noticing that this green chrysohte is tne
seventh layer of crystalized magnlhcence we
NAV bethink ourselves of the domination OF
that nune. al seven over all other numerals,
and thank God that in the dark earth we ieIs
behind us we so long enjoyed the Hght OF
the seven golden candlcsticks, and were al
of us permitted to shine among the seven e,
stars of more or less magnitude, and tnat all
] the seven seals of the mysterious future have
been broken wide open for US by loving
Christ, and that the seven thunders having
done their work have ceased reverberation,
and that the numeral seven, which did sucn
tremendous work in the history OF nations
on earth, has been given such high pace IN
that Niagara of colors, the wall OF heaven,
''the first foundation of whichls JASPER w .he
fourth, an emerald; the fifth. sardonyX' tne
sixth, sardius; the seventh, ehrysolite.
"Whcn shall these eyes thy heaven-buit walls
! And peary gates behold,
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong
| And streets of shining gold?'