The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-02
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There is another mighty seven of the
Bible, viz: the seven thunders. What
those thunders meant we are not told, and
there has been guessing about them; but
they are TO come, we are told, before tho
the end of all things and the world can
not get along without them. Thunder is
the speech of lightning. There are evils
in our world which must be Numbered
down, and which will require at least sew
en- volleys to PROSTATE them. We are ali
doing nice, delicate, soft handed work I'm
churches and reformatory institutions
against the evils of the world, and much
of it amounts to teaspoon dipping out
the Atlantic Ocean, or clam she'll Dig
ging away at a mountain, or teck-ham@
mer smlting the Gibraltar. What is
needed is thunderbolts, and at least sew
en- of them. There Is the long line
of fraudulent commercial establish
ments; every stone in the fOun-
dation and every brick in the wall and
every nail in the rafter male out OF dis
honesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing
girls arms in every beam of that estab-
lishment; human nerves worked into
every figure of that embroidery; blood in
the deep dye of that proffered uphol-
stery; billions OF dollars of accumul lated
fraud entrenched in massive store houses
and stock companies manipulated by un-
scrupulous men until the monopoly is de-
fiant of all earth aud all Heaven. How
shall the evil be Overcome9 BY treahses
on the maxim, Honesty is the best poll
cy2 Or by soft repetition of the golden
rule that we must edo to others as we
would have others do to us?" No, it will
not be done that way. What is needed,
and what will come, is tho seven thun-
ders. There is drunkenness backed up
by a capital mightier than in any other
business. Intoxic ating liquors enough
in this county to float navy. Good grain
to the amount of sixty seven million
bushels annually destroyed to make
deadly liquid. Brewerles, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor asso-
Citations, our Nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty million dollars
for rum, resulting in disease, pauperism,
filth, assassination, death, illimitable
woe. What will stop them? High Ii
censef No. Prohibition laws? No.
Churches? No. Moral suasion2 No.
Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else
will. Seven thuuders.
Yond er are intrenched infdolity and
atheism with their magazines of litera-
ture, scnfing at our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night,
There are their blaspheming apostles,
their drunken Tom Paines and Ibertfne
VOltaires, of the present as we'll as the
past re-enforced by all the powers Of
darkness from highest demon to the low
est imp. What will extirpate these mon
sters of iufidelity and atheism? John
Browns shorter catechism about "WhO
made your" or Westminster cRtechis IN
about "What is the chief end of manF'
No. Thunderboltsl The seven thunders
For the impurities of the world em-
palaced as we'll as cellared, epauletted as
well as ragged, euthroned as well rs
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| times makes our State and National Capi-
tails a hemisphereic stencil; for supersti-
tious that keep whole nations in squalor,
| century after century. their Juggernauts
crushing, their knives decorating, their
waters drowning, their funeral pyres
burning, the seven thundersl
On, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often go, hear you not
a rumbling down the sky of heavy artil-
| lery, coming in on your side, tho 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.
| Thunder boltsi Depend upon it, that
| what is not done under the fash OF the
seven caudlesticks will be done by the
| trampling of the seven thunders.
| But leave this imperial and omnipo-
! tent numeraI seven, where the Bible leaves
| it. imbedded in the finest wall that was
ever built or ever will be constructed
| the wall of Heaven. 1t is the seventh
| strata of precious stones that make up
| that wall After naming six of the pre-
| cious stones in that wall, the Bible cries
out: ''The seventh, ehrysolitei" The
chrysolite is an exqu islte green, and in
| that seventh layer of the Heavenly wall
! shall be preserved forever the domin ont
| color Of the earth we once inhabited. l
| have sometimes been saddened at tho
thought that this world, according to sci-
ence and Revelation, is to be blotted out o.
| existence, for 1t is such beautiful world.
| But here in this layer Of the Heavenly
wall, where the numeral seven is to be
| imbedded, this strata of groen Is TO be
photographed, and embalmed, and per-
| petuated, the color Of the grass that COW
ers the earth the color Of tho foliage that
| fills the forest the color OF the deep sea
/ One glance at that green chrysolito, q
| million years after this planet has been
| extinguished, will bring to mind just how
| it looked su MINER 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 eyesght
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 ths
chrysolite." And while We stand ther0
and talk, spirit with spirit, that old color
of the earth which had more sway than
| all the other colors put together, viii
! bring back to us our earthly eXperien res,
| and noticing that this green chrysolite is
the seventh layer of crystalized magnih-
| cence we may bethink ourselves Of the
| denomination Of that numeral seven over
/ all other numerals, and thank God that
in the dark earth we left behind US We 50
! long enjoyed the light of the seven golden
candleshcks, and were all Of us permit-
| ted 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 loving
| Christ and that the seven thunders hav-
/ ing done their work have ceased rever-
/ beration, and that the numeral sovent
| which did such tremendous work in tho
history Of nations on earth, had been
given such high place in that Niagara Of
colors, the wall Of Heaven, "the first
| foundation of which is jasper, the second
/ sapphire, the third a chalcedony the
/ fourth an emerald. the fifth sardonyI, the
] sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite"
/ When shall these eyes thy Heaven-built walls
| And pearly gates behold;
| Thy bulwarks with salvation strong,
/ And streets Of shining goldf
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