Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-11-02

their Tom Paines, and libertlne Vol
taires of the present as we'll as the past,
reinforced by all the powers of dark
ness from highest demon to lowest imp.
What will extirpate those monsters of
infidelity and atheism? John Browns
shorter catechism about Who made
you?" or Westminster catechism about
what is the chief end of man." No
/ thunderbolts! The seven thunders!
Forfhe impurities of the world en-
palaced as we'll as cellared, epauletted
as we'll as ragged, enthroned us we'll as
ditched; for corrupt legislation which at
times makes our State and National cap
itals hemisphere stencil; for supersti-
tions that keep whole notions in squalor.
century after century, their Juggernauts
Gushing. their knives decorating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyres
burning, the seven thunders!
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 thunders Of the Almighty? Don't
let us try to WELD them ourselves; they
handle; but God can and God 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 seven thun-
dels.
But leave this imperial and multip-
otent numeral seven, where the Bible
leaves it, imbedded in the finest wall
that was ever built, or ever will be con-
structed, the wall Of Heaven. It is the
seventh strata of precious stones that
make up that wall. After naming six Of
the precious stones in that wall, the
Bible cries out-"the seventh chryso-
lite!" The chrysolite is an exquisite
heavenly wall shall be preserved forever
inhabited. have sometimes been sad
dened at the thought that this world,
according to science and revelation, is
to be blotted out of existence for it is
such 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 embalmed and perpetuated, the
color of the grass that covers the earth,
the color of the foliage that. fills the
forest, the color of the deep sea. One
glance at that green chrysolite, million
years after this planet has been extin-
guished, will bring to mind just how it
looked in summer 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 OBJ
tanned 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. And while we stand
there and toll, cnirit with cnir;t 4hot
old color Of the earth which had more
gether, will bring back to us our earthly
experiences, and noticing that this
green chrysolite is the seventh layer of
the domination of that numeral seven
over all other numerals, and thanksGod
that i'll the dark earth we left behind us
we SO long enjoyed the light of the
seven golden candlesticks, and We're all
of 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 low
ing Christ, and that the seven thunders
having done their work have ceased
reverberation, and that the numeral
seven. which did such tremendous work
in the history of nations on earth, has
been given such a high place in that
niagara Of colors, the wall of Heaven,
the first foundation of which is jasper;
the second, sapphire; the third, n
chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the
fifth. sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the
seventh, chrysolite.
When shall these eyes thy Heaven-built walls
And penrly gates behold;
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?