The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-22
SEVEN IN THE BIBLE.
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will come, is the seven thunders. There
is drunkenness backed up by a capital
mighter than in any other business. In
toxicating liquors enough in this country
to float navy. Good grain to the amount
OF 81, $4,000 bushels annually destroyed
to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, dis
tilleries, gin shops, rum palaces, liquor as
sociations, our nation spending annually
$40, 900, coo for rum, resulting in bank
ruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth, assassin
alton, death, illimitable woe. What will
stop them? High license? No. Prohibit
ton laws? No. Churches? No. Moral
suasion? No. Thunderbolts will do it;
nothing else will. Seven thundcrs!
Yonder are intrenched infdelty and
atheism, with their magazineso 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
Voltaires OF the present as well as the past,
reinforced by all the powers OF darkness,
from highest demon to lowest imp. What
will extirpate those monsters of intdelity
and atheism2 John Brown shorter chat.
echsm about "Who made your" or West
minister chatcchism 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
hemisphere stencil; for superstitions that
keep whole nations in squalor century
after century, their Juggernauts crushing,
their knives lacerating, 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
rumbling down the sky Of heavy artil-
lery, 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 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
candlcsticks will be done by the trampling
of the seven thunders.
But leave thisimperial and multpotent
numeral seven, where the Bible leaves II,
imbedded in the finest wall that was ever
built, or ever will be constructed, the wall
OF heaven. II 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 sew
enth chrysolite" The chrysolite is an eX'
quisite green, and in that seventh layer o
the heavenly wall shall be preserved for
ever the dominant color OF the earth We
once inhabited. have sometimes been
saddcned at the thought that this world
e. al il 4
be blotled out OF existence, for IL /,
such beautiful world. But here II
this LAYER OF the heavenly wall
where the numcral seven is TO b,
embedded, this strata OF green is to b,
photographed, and embamed and perpet
uatcd, the color Of the grass that coyer
the earth, the color OF the foliage that dill
the forest, the color OF the decp sea. Ont
glance ut that green chrysOlite, million
years after this planet has been eXtin
guishcd, will bring 10 mind just how !
looked in summer and spring, and we vii
say to those who were born blind ON earth
and never saw at all in this world, aiie
they have obtained full cycsight in heaven
III YOU would know how the earth Az
pearei in June and August look at tia
seventh layer Of the heavenly wall th
green Of the chrysolile." And while W
stand there and talk, spirit with spirit
that oil color Of the earth which had NOR
sway ;han oil the other colom put togethc
will bring back to NJ our earthly expert
enccs; and noticing that this green chryso
lite Is the seventh layer Of crystllizcd mag
niconce We may beihink ourselves {
the domination Of that numcral Ecvc
over all other numerals and thank Go
that in the dark earth We left behind u
We 10 long enjoyed the light Of the seyc
golden candlcsticks. and were all,0i as pei
miticd 30 shine among the seven stars {
morc or less magnitude, and that all Oh
seven seals OF the mysterious future Ia,
been broken wide open Tor ms 10y loyin
Christ. aud that the seven thunden, ha'
ing done their work, have ceased rcycrbc
alton, and that the numeral seven, whic
did such tremendous work in the hstor
oi nations ON earth, has been given such
high place in that Niagara OF colors, Il
wall Of heaven, "the first foundation
which i jasper, the second sapphire, Il
ihird a chalccdony the fourth an cmeral,
the 9Th sardunyX, the sixth slrdius, q
seventh Chysoiitc.
"Whru shall thcso eyes thy hcaycu.blllt walls
AMI ~ rly gates behold.
Thy hIlWat.s with salvation strong
Aud str.yts ui shiuiu. E0ld"