Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-06-30

that Christ dropped a thick veil over
the hour Of our demise and Of the hour
of the worlds destruction when be
said. "Of that day and hour knoweth
no man; no. not the angels, but my
Father only" Keep your hands OF
the seven seals.
There is another mighty seven OF the
BIble-yiz, the seven thunders. What
those thunders meant we are not told.
and there has been much guessing
about them: but they are 10 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 Numbered down and
which will require al least seven vol
leys to PROSTATE them. We are all do
ing nice. delicate. soft handed work
In churches and reformatory nstitu-
tlons against the evils OF the world.
and much Of II amounts to teaspoon
dipping out the Atlantic ocean. or a
clam shell digging away at a noun
tain, or q tack hammer shifting the
Gibraltar. What Is needed is thunder
bolts, and at least seven Of them. There
Is the long line OF fraudulent CONNER
cial establishments, every stone in the
foundation. and every brick In the wall.
and every nail in the 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 em-
broidery; blood In the deep dye Of that
refulgent upholstery; billions Of dollars
or accumulated fraud intrenched IN
massive storehouses. and stock compa-
nies manipulated by unscrupulous men,
until the monopoly is defiant or all
earth and heaven. How shall the evil
be overcomel BY treatises on the
maxim: Honesty is the best policyl"
Or by soft repetition Of the golden rule
that we must do to others as we
would have them do to usT No; 10
will not be done that way. What Is
needed and will come is the seven
thunders.
There is drunkenness backed up by a
capital mightier than in any other busi-
ness. intoxicating liquors enough in
this country to float a navy. Good
grain to the amount OF 81 100000 BUSH
els annually destroyed to make the
deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries
ginshops, rum palaces. liquor assocla-
tions, our nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty millions OF
dollars for rum, resulting In bankrupt
cy, disease, pauperism. filth, assasslna-
ton, death, lllimitable woe. What will
stop theml High license? No. Pro
hibition laws? No. Churchesl No.
Moral suasionl No. Thunderbolts will
do II; nothing else will. Seven thun-
ders!
Yonder are intrenched infdelity and
atheism with their magazines OF lltera-
ture scoflng at our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and
night. There are their disappearing
apostles, their drunken Tom Paines
and libertine Yoltalres OF the present
as well as the past, REINFORCED by all
the powers Of darkness from highest
demon to lowest imp. What will extir.
pate those monsters Of infdelity and
atheism? John Browns shorter cate
chism about "Who made your or
Westminster catechism about What
Is the chief end OF manY No. Thun-
derbolts! The seven thundersl For
the impurities Of the world. empalaced
as we'll as cellared, epauletted as well
as ragged, enthroned as well as ditch
ed: for corrupt legislation which at
times makes our state and national
capitals hemisphere stencil; for su-
perstitions that keep whole nations ~
squalor century after century their jug
gernauts crushing. their knives lacerat
ing, their waters drowning, their fu
neral pyres burning the seven thun
dersl
The Seventh Chrysolite.
Oh. men and women. disheartened al
the bad way things often 90. hear you
not a rumbling down the sky Of heavy
artillery, coming In on our side. tho
seven thunders Of the Almighty DC
not let us try to WELD them ourselves
they are too heavy and too fiery for u
TO handle; but God can, and God Will
and when all mercy has failed and al
milder means are exhausted, theE
Judgment will begin. Thunderbolts
Depend upon II that what is not dom
under the fash OF the seven candle
sticks will be done by the tramplini
of the seven thunders. But | leay'
this imperial and multipotent numera
seven. where the Bible leaves II. i'm
bedded In the finest wall that was eve
built or will be constructed. the wal
of heaven. y is the seven strata o
precious stones that make up that wall
After naming six Of the preciou
stones In that wall the Bible cries out
~the seventh chrysolitel" The chryso
lite Is an exquisite green. and In tina
seventh layer OF the heavenly wal
shall be preserved forever the doml
nant color OF the earth we once inhaI
. tied. have sometimes been saddene'
at the thought that this world. accord
ing to science and revelation. Is to b
blotted out Of existence. for II is sue
a beautiful world. But here Is thi
layer OF the heavenly wall. where tn
, numeral seven is to be embedded. thi
strata Of green Is TO be Photographic
, and embalmed and perpetuated. th
color Of the grass that covers the eartl
, the color OF the foliage that fills th
forest, the color Of the deep sea on
glrnee at that green chrysOlite a mi
, lion years after this planet has bee
, extinguIshed will bring to mind Jus
, how II looked In summer and sprin
, and we will say to those who wer
, born blind on earth and never saw q
|, all In this world after they have oil
tained full eyesignt in heaven. IF 20
I would know how the earth appeare
In June and August, look at that SCI
, enth layer OF the heavenly wall. tn
green Of the ehrysolIte."
And while we stand there and tall
, spirit with spirit, that old color OF II