Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-03
The MINERAL seven
DR.. Talmage Discourses Upon
the Mineral Seven
Of the Bible.
That Number the Favorite OF
the Bible-Its Les
sons.
Zeal Of Atheism in Behalf OF An
IL Christianity-The Seven
T~hunders.
ARITHMETIC IN SCRIPTURE.

Talmage. ID. d., gave a running com.
men,ary on the twentieth Chapter of
Revelation, concerning the claiming of
the old dragon. The congregation joined
in singing the familiar hymn Of Paul
Gcrhart beginning:
"Give 10 toe winds thy fears,
Hope AID be uudismayyd."
DR.. Talmage's sermon vas on Seven
in the Bible. and his text, Genesis, Oh.
z, v. %:
God Blessed the Seventh Day"
The preacher said:
The mathematics of the Bible is notice
able; the e, ometry and the arithmetic;
the square in Ezekiel; the circle spoken
of in Isaiah; the curve alluded to in Job;
the rul" Of fractions mentioned in Daniel;
the rule of loss and gam in Mark where
Christ asks the people to cipher out by
that rule what it would profit a man if
he gain the whole world and lose his
soul" But there is one mathematical
figure that is crowned above all others in
the Bible; ii is the mineral seven, which
the Arablans got from India and all D.
lowing ages have taken from the
Arabians. 1t stands between the figure
six and the figure eight. In the Bible all
the other numerals bow 10 il. Over
three hundred times is i; mentioned in
the Scriptures, either alone or com
pounded with other words. In Genesis
the week is rounded into seven days, and
/ use my text because there this numeral
is for the first introduced in a journey
which halts not until in the close Of the
Book of Revelations and its mOnu,
ment is built int the wall of
Heaven in ely sUlite which in
the strata OF precious stones
is the seventh. In the Bible We find that
Jacob had TO serve seven years to get
Rachel, but she was well worth it; and
fOretelllng the years OF prosperity and
famine in Pharoah time the seven fat
oxen were eaten up OF the seven lean
oxen; and wisdom is said to be built on
seven l%ilIars; and The ark was lett with
tie pniiiistines seven years, and Naaman
for the cure of his leprosy plunged in the
JORDAN seven times: the Gedd chile, when
Elisha bralted intoits mouth, signalied its
arrival back into consciousness by snecZ-
ing Sevcnlimes. 20 the house that Ezekiel
saw III his vision there were seven st' ps;
the walls of JrrchO hefOrcthey fell down
were COMPRISED seven days, IachaTlan
describes u stone with seven eyes; TO
cleanse "A leproEs house the door must be
sprinkltd with pigeons blood seven
times; in Canaan were OverthrOwn seven
...,..,, lNI,,c, ,nCt A,,t
seven devils: on Il mountain he fed "a
multitude OF people with seven loaves,
the fragment left filling seven baskets;
and the closing passages OF the Bible are
magnificent and overwhelming with the
imagery made up of seven churches,
seven stars, seven candlesticks, seven
seals, seven angels, and seven heads, and
crowns, and seven horos, and seven
spirits, and seven riais, and seven plaques
and seven thuntcrs.
THE EAv0RITE NUMBER
Yes, this mineral seven seems "A favor
tie with the Divine mind outside as well
as inside the Bible, for are there not
seven prsmatic c0sors! And when God
with the rninbow wrote the comforting
thought that the world would never have
another deluge, lac wrote it on the scroll
Oh the skp III lin vi SCNSu NOiolo' -
grouped into the Pleiades seven stars.
seven hills. When Goo would make the
most intelligent things on earth, the hu-
man c~ountenance, He fashions it with
seven features-the two ears, the two
cyee, the two nostiils and the mouth.
Yea, our body lasts oply seven years, and
we gradually shed il for another body
after anoih seven years. and SO on, for
we are. as 10 our bodies, +septennial ami
mails. SO the numeral seven ranges
througt nature AMI Though revelation.
II is The number OF perfection .and so
use il while | speak OF the seven candle
sticks. the seven stars, the seven seals
and the seven founders.
The seven golden candlesticks were
and are the churches. Marx you, the
churches never were, and never candles.
They are only and esticks. They are
not the light, but they are TO holdtthe
light. A room in the night might have
in itl500 candlesticks, and yet You coEld
not see your hand before your face. The
only use Of a candlestick, and The only
use Of IA church. is to hold up the light.
You see it is a dark world, the night of
III. the night of trouble, the night of
lperstition, tn night Of persecution, the
ulSUJ VI 4tVNNiiy thS piSht VI q uNSo,
he nigkA.of death; aye, about fifty nights
nave intarloCked their shadows. The
whole race goes stumbling over pros
trated hopes and fallen fortunes, and
empty four barrels, and dislocated
cradles, and death beds. On, how much
we nave use for all tle seven candle
sticks. with lights blazing from the top
of eSch one 0f them! Light Of pardon
for all that sin! Light of eoQnfort for all
4rouhle, Light OF encouragement for all
lespondencyl Light of eternal riches
for all poverty Light of rescue for al
nersecut on! Light Of reunion for all
he berefsl Light Of heaven for all the
lying And that light is Christ, who is
he Light that shoh yet irradiate the
n%cmispher 6. But mark you, when say
churches are not candies, but candle.
sticks, | cast n9 slur on cAndicsiick5, /
believe in beautiful cindlesticks. The
,andleslicks mat God ordered for the
ancient tabernacle were something eX.