The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-26

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dad that Christ dropped a thick veil over
the hour Of our demise and Of the hour OF
the worlds destruction when he said
"Of that day and hour knoweth no man;
no, not the angels, but my Father only. y
Keep your hands of the seven seals.
The Seven Thunders.
There 10 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 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 seven volleys to PROSTATE them.
We are all doing nice, delicate, soft hand
ed work, in churches and reformatory in
stitutions, against the evils of the world,
and much of 1t amounts to teaspoon
dipping out the Atlantic ocean. or a clam
shell digging away at a mountain, or q
tack hammer shifting the Gibraltar.
What is needed Is thunderbolts, and at
least seven Of them. There is the long
: line of fraudulent commercial establish
ments, 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 establish
ment, human nerves worked into every
figure of that embroidery, blood in the
deep dye of that refulgent upholstery.
billions of dollars of accumulated fraud
intrenched In massive storehouses and
stock companies manipulated by unscru-
pulous 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 policyW Or
by soft repetition of the golden rule that
we must "Do unto others as we would
have them do to us2" No, it 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 navy. Good grain to
the amount Of 81, 950, 600 bushels annual
ly destroyed to make the deadly liquid.
Bfeweries, distiller1es, gin shops, rum
palaces, liquor associations, our nation
spending annually $740, 000, 900 for rum,
resulting in bankruptcy, disease, pauper-
Ism, filth, assassination, death, illimita-
Bile woe. What will stop them? High H.
cense? No. Prohibition laws? No.
Churches? No. Moral suasion? No.
Thunderbolts will do it; nothing else will.
Seven thunders!
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atheism, with their magazines of litera-
ture soothing at our Christianity, their
Hoe printing presses busy day and night.
There are their disappearing apostles,
their drunken Tom Paines and libertine
Voltaires of the present as well as the
past, REINFORCED by all the powers of
darkness, from highest demon to lowest
imp. What will extirpate those monsters
of infidelity and atheism? John Browns
shorter catechism about "Who made
you" or Westminster catechism about
"What Is the chief end Of MANI" No.
Thunderbolts! The seven thunders! For
the impurities of the world, empalaccd
as we'll as cellared, epauleted as well as
ragged, enthrOned as well as ditched; for
corrupt legislation which at times makes
our state and national capitals hemis-
pheric stencil; for superstitions that keep
whole nations in squalor century after
century, their juggerpauts crushing, their
knives decorating, their waters drowning,
their funeral pyres burning, the seven
thunders!
The Heavenly Wall.
Oh, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often go, hear you
not rumbling down the sky of heavy
artillery, coming In on our side, the seven
shunders Of the Almighty? Do not 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.
Thunderbolts! Depend upon 1t, that
what Is not done under the fash Of the
seven candlesticks will be done by the
trampling of the seven thunders. But l
leave this imperial and multipotent nu-
neral seven, where the Bible leaves it,
imbedded in the finest wall that was ever
built or will be constructed, the wall of
heaven. 1t is the seven strata Of precious
stones that make up that wall. After
naming six Of the precious stones in that
wall the Bible cries out, "The seventh
chrysolite" The chrysolite is an exquis-
lite green, and in that seventh layer of the
heavenly wall shall be preserved forever
the dominant color Of the earth we once
inhabited.
l have sometimes been saddened at the
thought that this world, according to sci
ence and revelation, is to be blotted out
of existence, for it is such beautiful
world. But here in this layer of the
heavenly wall, where the mineral seven
Is to be imbedded, this stratum of green is
to be photographed and embalmed and
perpetuated, the color Of the grass that
covers the earth, the color of the foliage
that fills the forest, the color Of the deep
sea. One glance at that green chrysolite,
l 100000 years after this planet has / IL
extinguished, will bring to mind just how
1t looked in summer 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 eyeslght 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 the chrysolite.'
Anu WnhS VIC Stuhu thShS az" tathb
spirit with spirit, that old color of the
earth, which had more sway than all the
other colors put together, will bring back
to us our earthly experiences, and, MOTTO
ing that this green chrysolite is the sew
enth layer of crystallzed magniiicence. we
may bethink ourselves of the domination
Of that numeral seven over all other MI
merals and thank God that in the dark
earth we left behind us we so long en-
joyed the light Of the seven golden can
dlesticks and were all Of Us permitted 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 seven.
which did such tremendous work in the
history of nations on earth, has been Civ
en- such high place in that Niagara OF
colors, the wall Of heaven, "the first foun-
dalton of which is jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the
fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the
sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite."
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy buwarks with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining gold?