Milford chronicle., 1888-10-26
TERMS: sl.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.

mental wreck did the persistent attempt to
forestall events make Of that miracle Of
preachers, Edward Irving, Of London. It
would take several mad houses to hold the
demented victims Of the improper use Of the |
prophecies Of Daniel and Revelation. What
are not those books to be studiedi 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 |
pepPerment and ginger. Keep your hands of |
OF the seven seals Christ will break them soon |
enough. Don't go to some necronaneer or I
spiritualist, or soOthsayer, or fortune teller |
to find out what Is going to happen to your !
self, or your family, or your friends. Wait |
till Christ breaks the seal to find out whether |
In your own personal life or the life Of the |
nation or the life Of the world It is going 10 /
be the white horse OF prosperity or the red /
horse Of 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. II a man live
seventy years his biography Is in scroll |
having at least seven seals; and let him not /
during the first ten years Of his life try to |
look into the twenties, nor the twenties into /
the thirties, nor the thirties into the forties,
nor the forties into the ffties, nor the fifties |
into the sixties, nor the sixties into the sew
enties. From the way the years have |
got the habit OF racing along, / guess 1
you will not have to walt great
while before all the seals Of the future /
are broken, would not give two cents to |
know long am going to live, or in what day /
Of what year the world is going TO be demoI- /
ished. / would rather give a thousand dol 1
lars not to know. Suppose some one could /
break the next seal in tho scroll Of your per
sonal history, and should tell you that on the |
4th of July, 1890, you were TO die, the sum
mer after the next; how much would you be /
good for between this and thati It would /
from now until then be a prolonged funeral /
You would be counting the months and the /
days, and your family and friends would be |
counting them; and next 4th Of July you |
would rub your hands together and whine
"One year from today I am togo. Dear mel |
I wish no one had told me so long before. /
wish that necromancer had not broken /
the seal Of the future.n And meet /
ing some undertaken you would say: 1
Il hope you will keep yourself free for |
an engagement the 4th Of July, 1890. That |
day you will be needed at my house. To save |
klue you ull9uE Us we'll NhkG my measure |
now, five feet eleven inches l am glad that /
Christ dropped thick veil over tho hour Of |
our demise and the hour of the worlds de /
struction when no said: "Of that day and /
hour knoweth no man; no, not the angels, |
but my Father only" Keep your hands of
the seven seals.
THE SEVEN THUNDERS.
There Is another mighty seven Of the Bible, |
viz, the seven thunders. What those thun- |
ders meant we are not told, and there has |
been much guessing about them; but they I
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 |
lightning There are evils in our world |
which must be thundered down, and which |
will require at least seven volleys to prostrate |
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 dip |
ping out the Atlantic ocean. or a clam |
shell digging away at mountain or
tack hammer smiting the Gibraltar. |
What Is needed is thunderbolts, and at
least seven of them There is the |
long line Of fraudulent commercial estab-
lshments; 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 establishment; human nerves worked |
into every figure Of that embroidery; blood |
in the deep dye Of that profRered upholstery; |
billions Of dollars Of accumulated fraud en- |
trenched in massive storehouses and stock /
companies manipulated by unscrupulous |
men until the monopoly is defiant Of all
earth and all heayen How shall the evil be /
,,-4,,,
esty is the best policyl 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 will come, is the seven thunders. |
There is drunkenness backed up by a capital |
mightier than In any other business IntOx-
icating liquors enough in this country to
float a navy. Good grain to the amount Of
67,95O,000 bushels annually destroyed to /
make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distil |
leries, gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associa- |
tions, our nation spending annually seven
hundred and forty millions of dollars for |
rum, resulting in bankruptcy, disease, pau
perisrn filth, assassination, death, illimitable |
woe. What will stop theml High licensed
No. Prohibition lawsl No Churchesi No. |
Moral suasionl No. Thunderbolts will do /
It; nothing else viii. Seven thunders.
IxFDELITY AND ATHEISM.
Yonder are intrenched inAdelity and athe |
ism, with their magazines of literature scof- |
ing at our Christianity; their Hoe print |
ing presses busy day and night. There |
are their blaspheming apostles, their |
drunken Tom Paines and hbertine |
Voltaires of the present as well as1the |
past, re-enforced by all the powers OF dark |
ness from highest demon to lowest imp |
What will extirpate those monsters Of in |
fidelity and ntheisml John Browns shorter |
catechism about "Who made your or West |
minister catechism about "What is the chief |
end Of manF No, thunderboltsl The seven
thundersl
For the impurities Of the world empalaced |
as we'll as cellared, epauletted as well as
ragged, enthroned as well as ditched; for |
corrupt legislation which at times makes our
state and national capitals a hemisphere |
stencil; fer superstiGions that keep whole 4
nations ii squalor, century after century
their Juggernauts crushing, their knives lac
Grating, their waters drowning, their funeral |
pyres burning, the seven thundersl
Oh, men and women dishearteded at the
bad way things often go, 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 too
iery for US to handle; but God can and God
will; and when all mercy has failed and all
milder means nre exhausted, then judgment
will begin Thunderboltsl Depsnd upon it,
that what IS not done under the hash Of the
seven candlesticks will be done by the tramp
ling Of the seven thunders.
But leave this imperial and multipotent
numeral seven, where tie Bible leaves it,
imbedded in the finest wall that was ever
built. or ever will be constructed, the wall Of
heaven. It is the seventh strata Of precious
stones that make up that wall. After nam
ing six Of the precious stones in that wall,
the Bible cries out-"the seventh chrysolite"
The chrysolite Is an exquisite green, and in
that seventh layer Of the heavenly wall shall