Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-03

in u world which must be t~hundcred
down, and will require at least seven vol
leys 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 oul
the Atlantic ocean or a clam shell digging
away at a mountain or a tack hammer
shifting the Gibraltar. What is needed is
thunderbolts and at least seven Of th"m.
There is the long line Of fraudulent com
mercial establishments; every stone in
the foundation and every brick in the
wall and every nail inthe 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 EN-
broidery; blood in the deep
dye of that proNered upholstery;
billions Of dollars of accumulated fraud
%entrenchod in massive storehouses and
stock companies manipulated by un.
scrupulous men until the monopoly is de-
tiant of all earth and all heaven How
shall the evil be overcome? BY treatises
on the maxim Honesty is the best pol
icy? Or by soft repetition OF the gol len
I'llt Ahab w AlAsok Wv " RkliNlo "a VIC
Would have them 10 TO us2' No, il will
and what will come, is the seven thun
ders. There is drunkenness backed up
by IA capital mignticr bar in any other
business. intoxicating liquors enough in
his country to float "A navy. Good grain
10 the amount o. g. 10000 busncis AN
nually destroyed to make the deadly
i;.,,.. D, l.,..II,.s. -. ,l-,.
run palaces, liquor associations, our ma.
lion spending annually $40. coo 900 for
ram. resulting in bankruptcy, disease.
pauperi-m, filth, assassination, death, IL
limitable woe. What Nil stop thcm2
High ECenseI no. Prohibition laws?
No. Churches? No. Moral suasi n? No.
ThunGerbolts Will do IL; nothing else
will. Seven thundersl
ZEAL OF ATHEISM.
Wonder are ]intrenChed intdelity and
Atheism with their magazines Of litera-
ture scOiling AT our Christianity; thei
Hoe printing presses busy day and night.
There are disappearing apostles, their
drunken Tom Paines and IlDertine Vol.
ta,res of the present as well as the past,
reinforced by all the powers of darkness
vi w " y IA W hAl
will extirpate those monsters OF infidelity
and Atheism? John Browns shorter
catechism about "Who Made You?" or
the Chief End of Nam" No, Thunder
bolts! The seven thunders!
For the Impurities Of the world EN-
palaced as well as cellared, epaulet ed as
well as ragged, enthroned as well as
ditched; for corrupt legislation which al
times makes our state and nations 4
hemisphere stencil, for superstitions
that keep whole nations in squalor, cen
fury after century their Juggernaut' S
crushing, their knives decorating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyres
burning, the seven thunders!
Oh! men and women. disheartened at
the bad way things often 90, hear you not
IA rumbling down the sky of heavy artil-
lery, coming in on Il 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 ard 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 he lone by the
t%TaDnpling Of the seven thundcrs.
THE SEVENTH STRATA OF H~EArESts WALL
But | leave this imperial and mul ipo
tent MINERAL seven, whore the Bible
caves it, impedied in the finest wall tba'
WIS ever built. or ever will be construct
Cd, the wall OF heaven. Ii is the seventh
strata Of precious stones that make NJ
lhat wall. After naming six of the
precious stones that make up that wall.
the Bible cries out-"the seventh .chryso
lite The chrysolite is an exquisite green
and in that seventh layer Of the heavenly
well shall be preserved forever the
dominant color of the earth we once in
habited. | have sometimes been sad
dened at the thought that this world
&C cording to science and revelation. is tC
be blotted out of existence, for it is sucl
a beautiful world. But here in this layel
of the Heavenly wall, where the numera
seven is to be embedded, this strata %
green is to be photographed, and EN-
balmed and perpetuatcd the color OF tn
grass that covers the earth. the cO.o- O
the foliage that fills the forest, the colo
of the deep sea. One glance at tina
green chrysolite, a million years after thi
planet has been eXtinguished, will brinl
TO mind Just how it looked ia summe
and spring. and we will say to those WIZ
were born blind on earth, and never saw
at all in This world, after they have ob
tanned full eyesight in Heaven: IF 70,
would know how the earth appeared il
June and August, look at that seventh
layer OF the Heavenly wall, the green o
the chrysolite." And while we stant
there and talk, spirit with spirit, that oil,
color Of the earth which had more swa,
than all the other colOrs put together
will bring back to us our earthly expert
ences. and noticing that this green
chrysolitc is the seventh layer of crystal
lied m~agnifeence w may bethink our
selves Of the domination Of that
MINERAL SEVEN
over all other Numerals. and thank Goo
| that in the dark earth we left behind III
we SO long enjoyed the light of the sever
golden candlestickS and were all of IL
permitted to shin among the seven star
Of more or less magnitude, and that a
the seven seals Of the mys crious futur
have been broken wide open for us by
loving Christ, and that the seven thun
ders having done their work have cease
reverbcra,ion. and that the numera
seven, which did such tremendous wor
in the history of nations on earth, Ina
been given such a high place in that nj
agara of co'ors. the wall Of heaven, ''th
first foundation of which is jasper; tn
second. sapphire; the third, achalccdony
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