The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-02
HAVE MORE LIGHT.
What DR.. Talmage Has to Say About
Melancholy Music, Pecksniifing
Minister'S and Canting
Hypocrites.

nope anu ne undismayed."
DR.. Talmagc's sermon was on "Scven In
the Bible" and his text, Genesis, CHI. 9, "
90: "God Blessed the Seventh Day." The
preacher said:
The mathematics Of the Bible Is noticeablo
the geometry and the arithmetic the square
Ezekiel; the circle spoken of in Isainh; the
curve alluded to in Job; the rule Of fractions
mentioned in Daniel; tho rule floss and
gain in Murk where Christ asks the people
to cipher out by that rule what
it would profit n man il he
gain the whole world and lose his SOUL" But
there liz zone mathematical figure hat is crown
cd above all Others in the Bible. 1t is tho
nnmcral seven. which the Arabians got from
India nnd all following uScs have taken from
the Arabians 1t stands between tho figure
six and the figure eight. In the Bible all the
other numerals bow to il. Over 300 times i.
it mentioned in the Scriptures, either alone
or compounded with other words In Genesi.
the week is rounded into seven days, and
Use my text because there this numerical II
for the first introduced in journey which
halts not until in the close of the Book o
Revelation it's monument IL built into thu
wall of heaven In crysolite which in the strata
Of precious stones is the seventh III
tho Biblo We find that jacob had
but she WINS worth 1T; and forctel
ing the years of prosperity lind flmine in
Phornohs tima the scvci fat oxen were
eaten up Of the seven lean oxen: and wisdom
lis said to he built on seven pillars; and the
ark was left with the Philistincs seven years
\ mud Naaman for tho cure of his leprosy
plunged i'll the Jordan seven times; the dead
child, when Elisha breatlicd into his mouth
| signaled its arrival back into consciousness
hy sncezing seven times; to the house that
| Ezekiel saw in his vision there were seven
steps; the wallis OF Jericho before they fell
down were comprised seven days; Zachariall
describes u stone with seven eyes: to rleansc
leprous house the door must lie sprinklel
with pigeons blood seven times; in Cnnna,,
were overthrow seven nations; on one orc;l.
| sion Christ east out seven ,lcvis: on noun.
tain he fed Il multitude Of people with seven
loaves, the fragments left filling seven has
ke;s; nnd he closing passages of the Bible
are magnificent and overwhelming with tho
imagery made up of seven churches seven
stars. seven cnndlesticks, seven seals, seven
angels. and seven heads, and seven crowns
| and seven horns, and seven spirits, AM, seven
walls, AMI seven plagues, and seven thundcrs
Yea, this nnnieral seven seems Il iavori.c
| with the Divine mind, outside as well as in
side the Bible, for are there not seven pris
matte rolors? And when God with the rain
bow would never have another deugc he
wrote it OH The scroll the sky in ink OF
seven colors. He grouped into the Pleiatles
seven stars. Rome the capital of the world
sat on seven hills. When God would make
the most Intelligent thing on earth
| it with seven fcaturcs-thc two ears, the
| two eyes. the two nostrils and he mouth
Yea our body lnsts only seven years, and We
| gradually shed it for another body after nm
other seven years, and no on. for VIC arc, us
to our bodies. sc!tcnnial animals. So the
numeral seven ranges through mature and
through revelation. 1t is the number of per-
fiction, and SO use it while speak OF tIt
| seven cun,lcsticks, the seven stars, the seven
seals and the seven thun,lcrs,
The seven golden cnndiesticEs were and arf
tie churches Mark you, the churches mover
can he, candles. They ale only can,llcsticks
| They nre not the light A room in the night
and yet You could not zee your hand before
your face. The only use of u candlestick
and the only use of n church. liz to
hold up the light. You SEQ it is a,lark world
the night OF sin. the night of trouble, tho
night Of superstition, the night of prosccu
ness. the night of death, aye about 80 nights
have interlocked their shadows. The whole
ruce goes stumbling over Frustrated hopes
fallen fortunes, and empty flour barrels and
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