The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-11-22

world is going to be demolished. would
rather give thousand dollars not to
know. Suppose some one could break
the next seal in the scroll of your per-
sonal history, and should tell you that on
the 4th of July. 1899, you were to die, the
summer after the next; how much would
you be good for between this and that?
1t would from now until then be pro-
longed funeral. You would be counting
the months and the days, and your family
and friends would be counting them, and
the next 4th of July you would rub your
hands together and whine: zone year
from to-day |. am to go. Dear mel
wish no one had told me so long before.
] wish that necromaucer had not broken
the seal of the future" Aud meeting
some undertaken you would say: 81
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 time you might as we'll take my
m easure now, five feet eleven inches" j
am glad that Christ dropped thick vail
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 off 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 guessing about them; but
they are to come, we are told, before the
the end of all things. and the world can
not get along without them. Thunder is
the speech Of lightning. There are evils
in our world which must be Numbered
down, and which will require at least sew
en- volleys to prostrat 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 teaspoon dipping out
the Atlantic Ocean, or a clam she'll Dig
ging away at a mountain, or a tack-ham-
mer shifting the Gibraltar. What is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least sew
en- of them. There Is the long line
of fraudulent commercial establish
ments; every stone in the foun-
dalton and every brick in the wall and
every nail in the rafter made out of dis
honesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing
girls arms in every beam of that estab-
lishment; human nerves worked into
every figure of that embroidery; blood in
the deep dye of that proffered upho1-
stery; billions of dollars of accumu lated
and stock companies manipulated by un-
scrupulous men until the monopoly is de-
faint of all earth and all Heaven. How
shall the evil be overcome? By treat1ses
on the maxim, Honesty is the best poll
cy? Or by soft repetition of the golden
rule that we must ssdo to others as we
would have others do to us?n No, it will
not be done that way. What is needed,
a yph at Wi 10 he
ders. There is drunkenness backed up
by capital mightier than in any other
business. Intoxicating liquors enough
| in this county to float navy. Good grain
to the amount of sixty seven million
bushels annually destroyed to make
deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor asso-
Citations, our Nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty million dollars
for rum, resulting in disease, pauperism,
| filth, assassination, death, illimitable
woe. What will stop them? High Ii
cense? No. Prohibition laws? No.
| Churches? No. Moral suasion? No.
Thnnderbolts will do it; nothing else
| will. Seven thunders.
| On, men and women, disheartened at
| the bad way things often go, hear you not
rumbling down the sky of heavy artil-
| lery. coming in on your side. the seven
| thunders of the Almighty? Don't let us
| try to WELD them ourselves, they are too
! heavy and too 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.
Thunderboltsi Depend upon ii, that
what is not done under the fash of the
seven candlesticks will be done by the
| trampliug of the seven thunders.
But leave this imperial and omnipo-
| tent mineral seven, where the Bible leaves
| it, Embedded 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 naming six of the pre-
cious stones in that wall, the Bible cries
out: 1.-THE seventh, chrysolitei" The
chrysolite is an exquisite green, and in
| that seventh layer of the Heavenly wall
shall be preserved forever the dominant
color of the earth we once inhabited. !
have sometimes been saddened at the
thought that this world, according to sci
ence and Revelation, is to be blotted out oil
| existence, for it is such a beautiful world
| But here in this layer of the Heavenly
wall. where the numeral seven is to be
imbedded, this strata of green is to be
photographed and embalmed, aud per-
petuated, the color of the grass that cov-
ers the earth. the color of the foliage that
| fills the forest, the color of the deep sea-
One glance at that green chrysolite, a
million years after this planet has been
| extinguished, will bring to mind just how
| it looked su MINER and spring, and we will
say to those who were born blind on
earth, and never saw at all in this world,
after they have obtained full eyesight
| In Heaven: IF you would know how the
earth appeared in June and August,
look at that seventh layer of the
Heavenly wall, the green of tn
| chrysolite." And while we stand there
and talk, spirit with spirit, that old color
of the earth which had more sway than
| all the other colors put together, will
bring back to us our earthly experiences,
and noticing that this green chrysolite is
the seventh layer of crystalized magnifi
cence we may bethink ourselves of ths
denomination of that mineral seven over
| all other numerals, and thank God that
| in the dark earth we left behind us we SO
long enjoyed the light of the seven golden
candlestIcks, and were all of us permit
| ted tn shina arnouO fba eavan cforc oP