The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-02

field said to Gen. Wellesley, who came to con.
dole with him: ~ led them straight;. didn't
lend them straight, general?' God has put
ns ministers az captains in this battlefield Of
our chagrin Il We fail leading the people the
II when the battle ia over we cati hand our
sword back TO our great Commander, saying:
Lord Jesus! We led the people straight;
didn't We lead them straight" Those min.
some other gospels are not stars but CO NETS,
and they flash across the heavens little
while and make people stare. and throw
downn few meteoric stones, and then go out of
| sight if not out of existence. Oh, brethren
in the ministry, let us remember that God
calls us stars, and our business ia to shine
and to Keep our own sphere. and then when
We get done trying to light up tho darknesS
OF. this world we will wheel into higher
spheres, md in us shall be fulfilled the prom.
i've, "Thcy that turn many to righteousness
sllnll shine us the stars forever and ever"
All! the ministers are not all Pecksniffs and
cantins hypocritcs. ns some would have you
think! Forgive me il, having in your pres
ence mt other times gloriticd the medical pro.
fcssiOn and the legal profession and tho liter
ary professional glorify my own have
seen them in their homes and heard
them in their pulpits, and u grander array
of men never hreathetl, and the Bible figure
is not strained when it calls them stars; and
whole considerations of glorious ministers
have already taken their places on high
where they shine even brighter than they
shone on earth; Edward N. Kirk. Of the Con-
grcgntional church. Stephen H. Tying, Of
the Episcopal church, Matthew Simpson, of
Baptist church; Samuel X. Talmage, of the
Presbyterian church, DIR. Dewitt, Of the Re-
formed church; John chambers. of the Inde-
pendent church. md there stop, for it SO
happens that l have mentioned the seven
\ stars Of tho seven churches.
| pnSs OIL to another mighty Bible seven,
md they ure tho seven seals. st. John in a
vision saw a scroll with seven seals, and lie
heard an ungcl cry: "Who is worthy to
lOOse tho souls thereof"
| Take eight or ten sheets of foolscap paper,
paste them together mud roll them into q
scroll, aud hive the scroll at seven different
places sealed with scaling wux. YOU unrOll
the scroll till you cometO one Of these seals,
ind than you can go no further until you
break that seal; then you 90 on until nll the
seven seals are broken, md the contents of
the entire scroll fl revealed. Now that scroll
witt. sew, seven seals held by the angel was the
prophecy Of what was to come on the earth;
it mennt TINT the knowledge of the future
was with God, and no man and no angcl
WINS worthy to open it; but tho Bible
snys Christ opened it and broke
| all the seven seals. lie broke the first seal
tthu uhroieu tiie scToil, Nnu there WIS paint.
ing OF white horse, and TINT meant pros
| perity aud triumph for the Roman empire,
md so u really came to rnss that for 80
yours virtuOusEmprrorss succeeded each other,
| Ncrvu, Trnjan and AntOninus. Christ in a
vision broke the second scnl md unrollcd
again aud there was u painting ia rcd horse,
ind that meant blootlshed, and SO 1t really
came To pass, and the next so yenrs were rcd
| with assassination and wars. Then Christ
broke the third seal and unrollc,l it,
and there was IL painting of u black
horse, which in all literature means
fnminc, oppression aud taxation: and
so il really came to piss. Christ went onun-
til he broke al the seven seals and opened
| nll the STROLL. Well, the future of all us is
II sealed scroll, and l am glad that no
one but Christ eau open il. DO not let us
join that class Of Christians in our day who
are trying to break the seven seals 0f the
future; They are trying to- peep into things
they have no business with They try to
forteil what is going to come to them aud
| what is going to come on the earth. They
know nothing about it.
| Christ is the only one who can break the
seal OF the future Bible prophecy was not
written to help us to tell things in the future,
but to have us, when the things actually do
come to pass, compare them with prophecy,
md so learn Gods forc.knowlclgc. and the
inspiration of the Scriptures But You 30
into the study Of the prophecies in order to
find out what isgoing to happen II year from
now or 90 years from now, or 900 years
own and that is that yon will
have your brain added. if You
do not positively got into IL pub
lie or private ins;,Lc asylum, where the grcnt-
est of cxpountlrrs and preachers of prophecy
ended his life II few years since. and where you
with ncoherent mumbngs over something
from Revelations about the leopard that
means Greece, and the bear which means
Medo-l'ersia and the image with the great
toes. What II mental wreck did the persist
cnt attempt to fOrestnll events make of that
miracle of preachers, Edward Irving of Lon
don. 1t would TAKE several Warehouses; to
hold the dementel victims of the improper
Use of the prophecies of Daniel md Revela-
tiOns. What tire not those hooks to be
studied? Yes. No part Of the Bible is more
important. Neither is there any more i'm
portant sllelfin that urothrcary's storethan
the shell OH which are the bellndOnnn and the
morphine, but he more careful in using them
than ntheusc ofpcppermint AMI ginger. Keep
| your hands oil OF the seven seals. Christ will
break them soon enough. Don't go to some
necromancer or sriritualist or soothsayer
fortune-tellrr to find out what IL going to
happen to yourself, or your family, or your
friends.
Wait till Christ breaks the senl to find out
| whether in yourOwn personal life or the life
| Of the nation or the life Of the world it is go
| i'm. to be the white horse prosperity or the
red horse of war or the black horse Of famine
| You will soon enough sH him paw and hear
him neigh: Take care of the present and the
| future will takcrarc of itself. II man live 20
years his biography is on II scroll having ut
least seven seals: and let Him not during the
| first 10 years of his life try to look into the
twcntcs. nor the twcntics into the tlirties,
nor the thirties into the forties. nor the for
ties into the ffties. nor the les into the
sixties, not the sixties into the seventies
| From the way the years have got the habit
Of racing nlong. ! guess you will not have to
| wait IL great while before all the seals of tho
future IRE broken. l would not give . cents
to know how long 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 4th Of July. 1880.
you were to die. tho summer after the next;
| how much would you he good for between
| this and that? 1t would from now until
then he n prolonged funeral. You would be
counting the months and the days, and your
family and friends would I've counting them;
aud next ith Of July you would rub your
hands together and whine-"One year from
today ,.,n to go. Dear me! l wish no one
had told me so long before. wish that
i
future" And meeting some undertaken you
would say: II hop" you will keep yourself
free from an engagement the fth ofJuly,
1880. That day you will be needed ut my
house. To save time YOU might ;ls well take
my measure now. ) feet, l inches" am
glad Christ dropped thick veil over the
hour of our demise and the hour Ofthc world Il
| destruction when he said: "Of that day and
hour knowcth no man: no, not the angels,
hut my Father only" Keep your hands of
| the seven seals
There in another mighty seven of the Bible,
viz, the seven thun,lers. What those thun-
tlcrs mean We nIr not told, and there has
been much guessing about them: hut they
are to come. we are told, before the end of all
things, and the world cnnnOt get ulong with
out them. Thunder in the the speech OF
lightning. There are evils in our world which
must be thun,lcrcd down, and which will re.
quire Mt least seven volleys to PROSTATE
them. We ara ;lil doing nice, delisate, soft
handed work in churches and reformntory
institutions against the evils of the world,
and much of it amounts to n teaspoon dip.
| ping out the Atlantic ocean. or IL clam shell
digging away ut u mountain, or tack ham,
mcr shifting the Gibralter. What il needed
| is thun,ierbolts. and ut least seven of them.
There il tile long line of fraudulent CONNER
cinl establishments every stone in the f,unda.
ton, and every brick in the wall, and every
nail in the rniter 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
l L. Il. II