West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-01

lightning. There are evils In our world
which must DO Numbered down, and which
will require at least seven yolleys TO pros
trate them. We are all doing nice, delicate,
Boft-handed work IN churches and reforma-
tory institutions against the evils OF the
world, and much OF II amounts to a teaspoon
dipping out the Atlantic Ocean, or q clam
shell digging away at a mountain, or a tack
hammer shifting tho 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 establish
mept; human nerves worked into every
figure OF that embroidery; blood in the
deep die OF that proffered upholstery (;
billions OF dollars Of accumulated fraud
entrenched in massive storehouses and
stock companies manipulated by un-
~scrupulous men until the monopoly
is defiant Of all earth and all HEAVIER How
shall the evil be overcomef BY treatises ON
the maxim; Honesty Is the best policy Or
by soft repetition OF the golden rule that we
must do 10 others as we would have them
done tina way. What is needed. and
what will come, is the seven thunders There
IS drunkenness backed up by IA capital
mightier than In any other business. In
toxicating liquors enough in this country to
float n navy. Good grain to the amount OF
81 ,H5O,00O bushels annually destroyed to
make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilieries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associations,
our nation spending annually seven hundred
and forty millions OF dollars for rum, result
ing in bankruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth.
assassination, death, fllimitable woe. What
will stop themf High licensef No. Thunder
bolts will do 1t; nothing else will. Seven
~thundersl
Yonder are intrenched inadelity and athe
ism with their magazines OF literature seoff-
ing at our Christianity; their Hoe print
ing presses busy day and night There are
their blaspheming apostles, their
Tom Paine aud libertine Noltaires Of the
present as well as of the past, reinforced
by ali the powers of darkness from highest
demon TO lowest imp. What will extirpate
those monsters of inidelity and atheismf
John Browns shorter catechism about "Who
made your or Westminster catechism about
"What is the chief end of manln No,
Thunderboltsl The seven thundersl
For the impurities of the world empalaced
ged, enthroned as well as ditched: for cor
rupt legislation which at times makes our
State and National capitals n hemisphere
stencil: for superstitions that keep whole ma
tons in squalor, century after century, their
Juggernauts crushing, their knives lacerat-
ing, their waters drowning, their funeral
pyres burning, the seven thundersl
Oh, 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 tbunders OF
the Almighty Don't let us try TO WELD them
ourselves; they are too heavy and to fiery for
US TO handles; but God can and God
will; and when all mercy has failed and oil
mtlder means are exhausted, then Judgment
will begin. Thunderboltsl Depend upon it,
that what is not done under the flash of tho
seven candlesticks will be done by the tramp
ling OF the seven thunders
but 4 leave this imperial ana muItipotent
mineral seven, where the Bible leaves it.
Embedded in the finest wall that was ever
built, or ever will be constructe l., the wall of
heaven. IL is the seventh strata of precious
stones that make up that wall. After nam
ing SIX or the precious stones in that
WALL, the Biblo cries out-"the sew
enth chrysoliteln The chryso'ite 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 heen sud-
dened at tho thought that this world,
according to science and revelation, is
TO be blotted out of existence, for it Il such a
beautiful world. But here in this LAYER
OF the heavenly wall, where the numeral
seven is to be embedded, this strata of green
IS TO be photographed, and emhalmed, and
perpetuated, the color OF the grass that
covers the earth, TIE co'or OF the foliage
thRt fills the forest the co'or OF the
deep sea. One glance at that green chrysol-
lie. n million years aft + this planet has been
~extinguished, will bring to mind just how Il
looked in summer and spring. and we will
bdy u hOot WHO were nDin Dlluu ON GuEIns
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 the chrysolite.n 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 experience, and
noticing that this green chrysolite is the
seventh layer of crystaliZed magnificence we
may bethink ourselves of the domination of
that numeral 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, end were all
or us permitted to shine among the seven
stars of more or less magnitude, and that all
the seven seals of the mysterious future have
been broken wide open for us by a loving
Chrlst, and that the seven thunders having
zone their work have ceased reverberation,
ana That the numeral seven, which did such
tremendous work i'm the history OF nations
ON earth has been given such a high Place in
mat Niagara Of cOlOrs, the wall OF heaven,
the first foundation Of which Ia jasper; the
.eeond, sapphire the third, n chalcedony; the
fourth, an emerald; the fifth. s~ardonyx: the
Sixth, s%ardius; the seventh, chrysolite."
when shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls
and nearly gates behold.
1hy bulWarke with salvation strong.
And streets OF shining 0.ldq'I