New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
happen to yourself, Or your family, or your

happen to yourself OF your family, or your
friends :,
Wait till Christ breaks the seal TO find ont
whether in your own personal life or the life
of the nation or the life of the world IL is go.
ing to be the white horse prosperity or The
red horse of war or the black horse of famine.
lou Will soon enough see him paw and hear
him neigh. Take care of the present and the
future will takecare of ITSELF IF a man live 10
years his biography is on a scroll having at
least seven seals; and let him not during TIL:
first 10 years Of his life try to look into the
twentles, nor the twenties into the thirties
nor the thirties into the forties, nor the for.
ties into the fifties, nor the ffties into the
sixties, not the sixties into the seventies.
From the way the years have got the habit
of racing along. guess you will not have to
wait a great while before all the seals of the
future are broken. would not give cents
to know how long I am going to live. or In
what day of what year the world is going to
be demolished. | would rather give
81, 900 not to know. Suppose some one
could break the next seal in the scroll
of your personal history, and should
tell you that on the 18th of July, 1890.
how much would you be good for between
this and that? 1t would from now until
then be prolonged funeral. You would be
counting the months and the days, and your
family and friends would be counting them;
and next 18th of July you would rub your
hands together and Whine-ssOne year from
today am to go. Dear me! / wish no one
had told me SO long before. wish that
necromancer had not broken the seal of the
future" And meeting some undertaken you
would say: y hope you will keep yourself
free from an engagement the 4th of July,
1890. That day you will be needed at my
house. To save time you might as well take
my measure now, 5 feet, IL inches. !" / am
glad Christ dropped thick veil over the
hour of our demise and theh hour ofthe worlds
destruction when he said: .sOf 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 thun-
ders mean 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 cannot get along with
out them. Thunder is the the speech of
lightning. There are evils in our world which
must be thundered down, and which will re-
quire 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 teaspoon dip
ping out the Atlantic ocean, or a clam shell
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mer shifting The Gibralter. WHAT'S needed
is thunderbolts, and at least seven of them.
There is the long line of fraudulent CONNER
cial establishments; every stonein the founda-
ton, 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 establishment;
human nerves worked into every figure
of that embroidery; blood in the deep dye
of that proffered upholstery, billions of
dollars of accumulated fraud entrenched in
massive storehouses and stock companies,
manipulated by INSCRIPTIONS men until the
is defiant of all earth and all
heaven How shall the evil be overcome?
By treatise on the maxim Honesty is the
best policy? Or by soft REPETITION Of the gold
en- rule that we must 'sdo to others as we
would have them do to us?" 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 capital
mightier than in any other business III
toxicating liquors enough in this country to
float navy. Good grain to the amount
of 81, 95O,000 annually destroyed to make
the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin
shops, rum palaces, liquor associations, our
nation spending annually $740, 100000 for
rum, resulting in bankruptcy, disease
pauperism, filth, assassination, death, linn
liable woe. What will stop them? High
license? No. Prohibition laws? No.
Churches? No. Moral sllasion? No. Thunder
bolts will do it nothing else will Seven
thunders.
Yonder are intrenched infidelity and
atheism with their magazines of literature
scoffing at our Christianity; their hoe print
ing presses busy day and night. There are
their disappearing apostles, Voltaries of the
present as well as the past, reinforced by all
the powers of darkness from highests demon
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monsters OF infidelity and atheism? John
Browns shorter catechism about "Who
made you?" or Westminster catechism about
"What is the chief end of MANI" No, thun-
derbolts! The seven thunders!
For the impurities Of the world empalaced
as well as colared, epauletted as well as
ragged, enthroned as well as ditched; for cor.
rupt legislation which at times makes our
state and national capitals a hemisphere
stencil; for superstitions that keep whole ma
tions in squalor, century after century their
Juggernauts crushing, their knives lacerat-
ing, 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 one side. the seven thunders of
the Almighty? Don't let US try to WELD
them ourselves; they are too heavy and too
AOl y 1OA uo w A1uulC, bQO wv CcA t1ud zOOu
will; and when all mercy has failed and all
milder measure exhausted, then Judgment
will begin. Thunderboltsl Depend upon it,
that what is not done under the fash of the
seven candlesticks will be done by the tramp
ling of the seven thunders. IS
But leave this imperial and multipotent
mineral seven where the Bible leaves it, i'm
bedded in the finest wall that was ever built,
or ever will be constructed, the wall of heav-
en-. 1t is the seventh strata of precious
stones that make up that wall After NAM
ing six of the precious stones in that wall,
the Bible cries out the seventh chrysolitelo
The chrysolite is an exquisite green, and in
that seventh layer of the heavenly.
wall shall be preserved forever the domi-
nant color of the earth we once in
habited. I have sometimes been satdened
at the thought that this world, according to
science and revelation, is to be blotted out Of
existence, Tor it is 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 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 sea. One glance at that green chrysolite,
q million years after this planet has been ex-
tinguished, 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 obtained full eyesight in heaven:
"If you would knowh how the earth appeared
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