Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-01
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the seven churches.
The Seven Seals.
pass on to another mighty Bible
seven and they arc the seven seals. st.
John in vision saw Il scroll with seven
seals. and lie heard an angel cry, who
Is worthy TO loose the seals thereOfY"
Take eight or ten sheets OF foolscap pa
per, paste them together and roll them
| into a scroll, and have the scroll at sew
Ell different places sealed with sealing
wax. You unroll the scroll till you
come to one Of these senls, and then
you can 20 no farther until you break
that seal; then unroll again until you
come to another seal. and you can go
no farther until you break that seal;
then you so on until all the seven seals
are broken, and the contents Of the en-
tire scroll revealed. Now, that scroll
with seven seals held by the angel was
the prophecy OF what was to come on
the earth; it meant that the knowledge
of the future was with God. and no
man and no angel was worthy to open
it; 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 white
horse. and that meant prosperity and
triumph for the Roman empire, and SO
it really came to pass that for 90 years
virtuous emperors succeeded each 9th
cr-Ncrva, Trajan and AntOnlnus.
Christ In the vision broke the second
seal and unrollcd again. and there was
Il picture Of red horse. and that
meant bloodshed. and so 1t really came
to pass. and the next 90 years were red
with aSSasSinations and wars. Then
Christ broke the third seal and unroll-
ed it. and there wuS a picture Of
black horse, which in all literature
means famine, oppression and taxa
ton; and so it really came to pass.
Christ went on until he broke all the
seven seals and opened all the SCROLL
Well. the future of all Of us Is q sealed
scroll. and am glad that no one but
Christ can open 1t. DO not let us join
that class OF Christians In our day,
who ere trying to break the seven seals
Of the future They are trying to peep
into things they have no business with.
Do not 20 10 some necromancer or
splritualist 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 fluid 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 10 years. his
biography Is in n scroll having at least
seven seals. and let him not during the
first ten years Of his life try to look ID
to the twcnties. nor the t!5enties Into
the tllirtirs. nor the thrties into the
fortics. nor the forties into the ffties,
nor the lifties into the sixties. nor the
sixties into the seventies. From the
WAY the years have got the habit or
racing along. guess you will not have
to wait great while before all the
seals of the future are broken. would
,>rot give . cents t. know how long |
am going 10 live. or in what day OF what
wear the world is going to be demolish-
ed. wou d rather give $1,000 not to
know. Suppose some one could breaF
~, In cnpOlt n
sonal history and should tell you that
on the next 4th 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 a prolonged funeral. You would
be counting the months and the days,
and your family and friends would be
counting them, and next 4th of July
YOU would rub your hands together
and whine: "One year from today am
TO 20. Dear mel wish no one had
told me so long before. wish that ne
crOmancer had not broken the seal OF the
future" And meeting some under
taker, you would say: 81 hope you VIII
keep Yourself free for an engagement
the 4th of July, 1901. That day you
will be needed at my house. 10 save
time. YOU might as we'll take my meas
urc now, 5 feet II inches" am giao
that Christ dropped a thick veil over
fine 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" Keep your hands Oh
the seven seals.
There is another mighty seven OF the
Rible-yiz. the seven thunders. what
those thundcrs meant we are not toid'
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 Numbered down ana
which will require at least seven vol
J lcvs to PROSTATE them. We are all do
,nr nice. delicate. soft handed work
in churches and rrformatOry insttu-
tions against tile evils of the world,
md much Of it amounts to teaspoon
dipDinc out the .Atlantic ocean. OF
elam aiel digging away at noun
tain. CT tack hammer shifting the
Gibraltar. What is needed Is thunder
bolts, and mt 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 en-
broldery; blood in the deep dye OF that
refulgent upholstery; billions Of dollars
Of accumulated fraud intrenched III
massive storehouscs. and stock compa'
MES manipulated by inscriptions 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 policy z
Or by soft repetition of the golden rule
that we must "do to others as we
would have them do to usT No; 10