Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-22

stop. fcr Is 50 hspr ems that h.ve men
TONED the seven strs Of the seven
churches.
1 pass on to snothe. mighty Bible
eeven, sEc the are the seven seals. St.
john in visic +@ky scroll with seven
seals, enc be heard an angel cry: "Who
IS worthy 70 loose the seals therefor
Take eight or ten ehsets OF fool5csp
psper, plste them together and roll them
into scroll, SIC have the scroll =. seven
difaren: pisces sealed with sealing Wsx.
You u3rcu the scroll till you come to
enc Of these seals, srd then you csr 60 nc
further uutil you break that seal; then
unrol sgstn uutii you coma 10 another
seal and you cA0 go no further until you
or esk that seal; then you 60 until ell the
seven seals are broken, and the contents
Of the entire scroll Is revesled. Nov,
tins. scroll with seven seals held by the
sngel wss the prophecy Of what was to
come n the earth; 1t meant that the
know.edge OK the future was with God,
and no msn and no angel WAS worthy 30
open it; put the Bible says Christ opened
it and broke all the seven seals. Hs
broke the 1.s. seal and unrclled the
scroll, end tbere Was q painting OF s
white horse, aad that meant prosperity
end triumph for the R,msn empire, and
go 1t really came to pass that for ninety
years virtuous emperors succeeded each
other. n 1--WE, Trsj N and Antoninus.
Christ In the vision broke the second
sesl snd unrolled again ind there WAS q
painting OF red horse, and that mean.
bioodshed, and so 1t really came to pass,
snd the next Ninety years were red with
ass.esinstions sud wars. Then Christ
broke the third seal and unrolled 1t and
there was a painting Of tlick horse,
which in all literature means famine,
OPPRESSION AND TAXATION;
and so Il really came to paes. Christ
wcet CT unti! He broke all the seven scala
sad opened ail the scroll. Well,
the futrre Of all OF US ls a
sealed scroll and an CAD
thai no one gu. Christ can open It. Do
NOT let US Join that class of Christians IN
our day VINO are trying to break the seven
seels of the future. They are tying 10
peep into things they have no business
win. They try to foretell wnaE is g1lng
to come to them and what ia going to
come on the earth. They know nothing
ab3u. It. Christ is the only one who can
break the seal 0. the future. Bible propi-
ecy was not written TO help us TO tell
things n the future. bu! to have US, when
me things actually do come to pass, com :
pare them with he prophecy and 80 learn
Coos toreknowledgs and the inspiration
Of the Scriptures. But you go into the
study Of the prophecies IL order to find
out whist is going to happen IS yesr from
now. Or twenty years from now, or one
thousand years from now, and l will
make prophecy of my own, and that is
that you will have your brain added, II
you do not positively get into pusllc or
private insane nsylum, where the greatest
Of expoupders and preachers OF prophecy
ended his life few years since, and
where you may regale the visitors CT the
institution by incohetent mumbiings over
somethiug from Daniel or r 3yela.ions
about the Leopard, which means Greece,
and the beBr, which means MedosPersis.
and the image with the great toes. What
@ mental wreck did the persistent At
tempt to forestsll events make Of tdst
miracle OF preachers, Edward Irving OF
l. 1ndon. 1t would take several mad
hcuses to hold the demeuted victims OF
the improper use of the prophecies Of
Daniel ord Revelation. Whist! Are not
those books TO be studied? Yes. Nd
part OF the Bible is more imp1rtsnt.
Neither is there any llore important shelf
in
THAT APoTHKCARY's STORE
than the shelf on which are the bella-
donna and the morphine, but bs more
careful in using them than in the use Of
peppermint and ginger. Keep your hands
off Of the seven seals. Christ will break
them soon enough. Don't so to some
necTomancer or spri.uslist or soothsayer
Or fortune teller TO hnd Oh. whs. is going
to happen to yourself or your family or
your friends. Wait till Christ breaks the
seal to fad out whether In your own per-
sonal life Or the HE Of the nation or the
life of the world it is gong to be the
vnite horse OF prosperity or the red
horse Of war or the black horse Of famine.
You will soon enough see bin paw and
hear him neigh. Take care OF the present
and the future will take csre Of Itself. II
NAN liv3 seventy years his biog raphy is
in sctoll having at least seven seAls;
and let hin 20. curing the first ten years
Ct his life try to Look into the twentiec,
uDE t0S tNGNtlsc lusJ ZIG kulEllCe1 LOI Tue
thir.ies into the forIies, nor the forties
into the fiiies, nor the fities into the
siIties, nor the six les into the seventies
From the way the years have got the
hsot CT racing along l guess you will not
h.ve TO wait 6 great while before sill the
seals OF the future are broken. I would
not give TWO cents to know how long
am going 20 live or in what day Of what
ye.r the weird is goiEg to be demolished. I
would rather give a thousand dollars n s
to know. Slppos9 some one could break
the zeal In the next scroll of your per
sonal history, and should tell you thst on
the 4sh Of July, 1890, you were TO die, the
summer sitter the next, how much would
you be good for between this and ;ns,?
1t would from now until then be
PROLONGED FUNERAL.
YOU would be counting the months and
the days, snd your family aud friends
would be counting them, and next 4sh of
July you would rub your hands together
and whine-"One year from to-day am
to go. Dear ma! wish no one had
told me 50 long before. l wish that
necromancer hsd not broken the seal of
the future" and meeting some under
tsker you would say: 81 hope you will
keep yourself free for "a engagement: the
4sh Of July, 1890. That dsy you will be
needed at my house. To save time you
might as well tske nv measure now, FIVE
feet, eleven incheSu | am glad that