The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-10-26

man; no, not the angels, but my Father
only" Keep your hands of the seven
seals.
There is another mighty seven of the
Bible, viz,
THE SEVEN THUNDERs.
What those thunders meant we are not
told, and there has been much guessing
about them; but they are to come, we
are told, before the end of all things. and
the world cannot get along without
them. Thunder is the speech Of light
ming. There are evils in our world
which must be Numbered down. and
which will require at least seven volleys
to PROSTATE them. We are all doing
nice, delicate, soft handed work in
churches and reformatory institutions
against the evils of the world, and
much OF it amounts to a teaspoon dipping
out the Atlantic ocean, or clam shell
digging away at u mountain, or a tack
hammer shifting the Gibraltar. What is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least seven
of them. There is the long line of
fraudulent 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 establishments; human
nerves worked into every figure of that
embroidery; blood in the deep dye of
that coffered upholstery; billions of
dollars of accumulated fraud intrenched
in massive storehouses and stock COM
panies manipulated by unscrupu-
lous men until the monopoly is de-
faint of all earth and all heaven.
How shall the evil be overcome9 BY
treatises on the maxim: Honesty is the
best policy? Or by soft repetition of the
golden rule that we must "do to others
as we would have them do to us?" No,
it will not be done that way. What is
needed, and what will come, is the seven
thunders. There is drunkenness backed
up by a capital mightier than in any
other business. Intoxicating liquors
enough in this country to float a navy.
Good grain to the amount of 67,95O, 900
bushels annually destroyed to make the
deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associ-
ations, our nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty millions of dol
lars for rum, resulting in bankruptcy,
disease, pauperism, filth, assassination,
death, illimitable woe. What will stop
them? High license? No. Prohibition
laws? No. Churches9 No. Moral
suasion? No.
THUNDERBOLTS WILL DO 1T.
Nothing else will. Seven thunders!
Yonder are intrenched infidelity and
with their magazines Of litera-
ture scoffing at OUR Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night.
There are their disappearing apostles,
their drunken Tom Paines and libertine
Voltaires of the present as well as the
past, re enforced by all the powers of
darkness, from highest demon to lowest
mp. What will extirpate those mon
'ters of infidelity and atheism? John
Browns shorter catechism about "Who
made your" or Westminster catechism
about ''What is the chief end of man?'
No. Thunderbolts! The seven thun-
lers!
For the impurities of the world en-
,alaced as well as cellared, epauletted as
veil as ragged, enthroned as well as |
litched; for corrupt legislation which at
lines makes our state and national CAPT.
ais a hemisphere stencil; for supersti-
ions that keep whole nations in squalor,
century after century, their Juggernauts
their knives decorating, their
waters drowning. their funeral pyres
the seven thunders.
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he bad way things often go, hear you
lot rumbling down the sky of heavy
rtillery, coming in on our side, the seven
numbers of the Almighty Don't let us
ry to WELD them ourselves; they are
90 heavy and too fiery for us to
andle; but God can and God will and
7hen all mercy has failed and all milder
neans are exhausted, then judgment will
egin. Thunderbolts Depend upon it,
hat what is not done under the flash of
he seven candlesticks will be done by
he trampling Of the seven thunders.
But leave this imperial and multi
otent numeral seven where the Bible
caves it, imbedded in the finest wall
hat was ever built, or ever will be con-
tructed, the wall of heaven. Isis
THE SEVENTH STRATA
f precious stones that make uD that
yall. After naming six of the precious
tones in that wall, the Bible cries out:
The seventh chrysolite!' The chryso-
tie is an exquisite green, and in that
eventh layer of the heavenly wall shall
g preserved forever the dominant
olor of the earth we once inhabited. I .
ave sometimes been saddened at the I
bought that this world, according to '
,ience and revelation, is to be blotted
ut of existence, for it is such beauti-
III world. But here in this layer of the
eavenly wall, where the mineral seven
J to be embedded, this strata of green is :
, be photographed, and embalmed and
erpetuated, the color of the grass that !
overs the earth, the color of the foliage
nat fills the forest, the color of the deep |
IA. One glance at that green chryso-
tie, million years after this planet has c
cen extinguished, will bring to mind 9
lst how it looked in summer and spring, =
nd we will say to those who were
orn blind on earth, and never 9
Nv at all in this world, after they :
ave obtained full eyesight in heaven:
If you would know how the earth ap- :
cared in June and August, look at that :