The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-11-02

| guess you will not have to wait great
while before all the seals of the
future are broken. would not
| give two cents to know how long
am going to live, or in what day of
what year the world is going to be de-
molished. I would rather give 81, 600 not
| to know. Suppose some one could break
the next seal in the scroll Of your personal
history. and should tell you that on July
4. 1890. you were to die, the summer after
the next, how much would you be good
for between this and that? 1t would from
now till 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 July you
would rub your hands together and whine:
''One year from to-day am to go. Dear
me! l wish no one had told me 50 long
before. l wish the necromancer had not
broken the seal of the FUTURE" And meet
ing some undertaken you would say: 81
hope you will keep yourself free
for an engagement July 4. 1890.
That day you will be needed at
my house. To save time you might as
well take my measure now, Ave feet eleven
inches" am glad that Christ dropped q
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 of the seven
seals.
There is another mighty seven of the
B BILE, 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 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
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 At
lantic ocean, or clam shell digging away
at mountain, or a tack hammer shifting
the Gibraltar. What is needed is thun-
derbolts, and at least seven of them.
There is the long line of fraudulent COM
mercial 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 sew
ing girls arms in every beam of that es-
Enlistment: human nerves worked into
every figure of that embroidery: blood in
the deep dye of that protfered upholstery;
billions of dollars of accumulated fraud
intreuched in massive storehouses and
stock companies manipulated by I'M
scrupulous men until the monopoly
is defiant of all earth and all Heaven.
How shall the evil be overcomes 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 u.s." 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 capt.
tai that is mi ghtier than in any other busi-
ness; intoxicating liquors enough in this
country to float navy; good grain to the
amount of $3.50, 900 bushels annually de-
stroyed to make the deadly liquid; brew
cries. distilleries, gin shops, rum palaces,
liquor associations: our Nation spending
annually $40, 100000 for rum. resulting in
bankruptcy, disease. pauperism, filth. as
sassination, death. illimitable woe. What
will stop them? High license? No. Pro-
hibitiou laws? No. Churches? No. Moral
suasion? No. Thunderbolts will do it;
nothing else will. Seven thunders.
Yonder are intrenched infidelity and
atheism with their magazines Of literature
SOOTHING at our Christianity; their Hoe
printing presses busy day and night.
There are their disappearing apostles, their
drunken Tom Paines and libertine Vol
taires of the present as we'll as the past.
reinforced by all the powers of darkness
from highest demon to lowest imp. What
will extirpate those monsters of indelity
and atheism? John Browns shorter cat
echism about ''Who made your" or West
minister catechism about "What is the
chief end of mani" No, thunderbolts? The
seven thundersl
For the impurities Of the world empal-
aced as well 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; for superstitions that
keep whole nations in squalor, century
after cen tury, their juggernauts crushing,
their knives decorating, their waters drown
ing, their funeral pyres burning, the seven
thunders.
o, men and women, disheartened at the
bad way things often go, hear you not a
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 fiery for US to handle; but God can.
and will; and when all mercy has failed, |
and all milder means are exhausted, then |
Judgment will begin. Thunderbolts! |
Depend upon it, that what is not done |
under the flash of the seven candlesticks |
will be done by the trampling Of the seven |
thunders.
But | leave this imperial and multipo- |
tent numeral seven, where the Bible leaves |
it, imbedded in the finest wall that was |
ever built or ever viii, be constructed. the |
wall of Heaven. 1t is the seventh Sta sta !
Of precious stones that make up that wall. |
After naming six Of the precious stones in |
that wall. the Bible cries out, 'the seventh |
crysolitew The crysolite 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. I have sometimes
been saddened at the thought that this
world, according to the science and revela-
ton, is to be blotted out of existence, for
t rs such a beautiful world. But here in
this layer of the heavenly wall, where the
numeral seven is to b embedded, this
strata Of green is to be photographed, and
smbalmed and perpetuated, the color Of
The grass that covers the earth. the color
of the foliage that fills the forest, the color
IF the deep sea. One glance at that
green chrysolise, million years
after this planet has been extin-
yuished, will bring to mind just how it
ooked in summer and spring, and we will
Jay to those who were born blind on earth,
md never saw at all in this world, after
hey have obtained full eyesight in Heaven;
If you would know how the earth ap-
oeared in June and August, look at that
seventh layer Of the heavenly wall, the
green Of the chrysolite." And while we
'tand there and talk, spirit with spirit,
hat old color of the earth which had mora I