The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1899-06-30
SUBSCRIPTION: Sl.CO Per Year.

off" Take eight or ten sheets of fools
cap paper, paste them together and roll
them into a scroll and have the scroll
at seven different places sealed with
sealing wax You unroll the scroll until
you come to one of those seals, and tleu
you can go no farther until you break
hat seal. Then unroll again until you
come to another seal, and you cGn go
! farther until you break that seal. Then
! you go on until all the seven seals are
broken and the contents of the entire
scroll are revealed. Now that scroll
with seven seals held by the angel was
! the prophecy of what was to come on
earth. 1t meant that the knowledge of
! the future was with God, and no man
! and no angel was worthy to open 1t,
! but the Bible says Christ opened it and
! broke all the seven seals. He broke the
first seal and unrolled the scroll, and
there was a picture of a white horse.
and that meant prosperity and triumph
| for the Roman empire, and so 1t really
came to pass that for 90 years virtuous
| emperOrs succeeded each Other-Nerva,
! Traian and Antoninus. Christ in the
vision broke the second seal and un-
rolled again, and there was seal of
red horse, and that meant bloodshed,
and so it really came to pass, and the
next 90 years were red with Gssasslna-
| tions and wars. Then Christ broke the
| third seal and unrolled it, and there
was a picture of a black horse, which
| in all literature means famine, oppres-
| sion and taxation, and SO it really came
| "a
all the seven seals and opened all the
scroll. Well, the future of all of us is in
sealed SCROLL and | am glad that no
one but Christ can open it. Do not let
us ioin that class of Christians in our
day who are trying to break the seven
seals of the future. They are trying to
peep into things they have no business
with.
DO not go to some necromancer or
spiritualist or soothsayer or fortune
teller to find out what is going to hap
pen to yourself or your family or your
friends. Wait till Christ breaks the
seal to find out whether in your own
personal life or the life of the nation
or the life of the world it is going to be
the white horse Of prosperity or the red
horse of war or the black horse of fam
inc. You will soon enough see him paw
and hear him neigh. Take care of
the present, and the future will take
care Of itself. If man live 20 years,
his biography is in scroll having at
least seven seals. And let him not dur
ing the first ten years of his life try
to look into the twenties, nor the twen-
ties into the thirties, nor the thirties
into the fOrties, nor the fOrties into the
tifties, nor the fifties into the sixties,
nor 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. l would
not give two cents to know how long /
am going to live or in what day or what
year the world is going to be demol-
ished. | 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 next Fourth of July,
1901, YOU were to die, the summer after
next, 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
Fourth of July you would rub your
hands together and whine: "One year
from to-day l am to go. Dear me!
wish no one had told me so long before.
| wish that necrOmancy had not broken
the seal of the future" And meeting
some undertaken, you would say: II
hope you will keep yourself tree for an
engagement the Fourth of Jluy, 1901.
That day you will be needed at my
house. TO save time you might as well
take my measure now, 5 feet II
inches" l am glad that Christ dropped
a thick veil over the hour of our de-
mise, and of the hour of the worlds de.
structiOn when He said: ''Of 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-namely, the seven thunders.
What those thunders meant 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 speech of
lightning. There are evils in our world
which must be thundered down and
which will require at least seven vol
Ieys to PROSTATE them. We are all
doing nice, delicate, soft handed work.
in churches and reformatory institu-
tons, against the evils of the world,
and much of it amounts to teaspoon
dipped out of the Atlantic ocean, or
clam shell digging away at a mountain,
or tack hammer shifting the Gibral-
tar. What is needed is thunderbolts,
and at least seven of them. There is
the long line of fraudulent commercial
establishments, every stone in the
and every brick in the wall,
and every nail in the rafter made out
If dishonesty, skeletons of poorly-paid
sewing girls arms in every beam of
that establishment. human nerves
worked into every figure of that em.
broidery, blood in the deep dye of that
refUlgent upholstery, billions of dol
lars of accumulated fraud in1renched
in massive storehouses and stock com.
panies manipulated by unscrupulous
men, until the monopoly is defiant of
all earth and heaven. How shall the
evil be overcome? By treatises on the
maxim: Honesty is the best poIicy?"
Or by soft repetition of the Golden Rule
that we must DO unto others as we
would have them do to us?" No, it
will not be done that Vav What iS