Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-06-26

clam shell digging away at a noun
tain, or a 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 en-
broidery; blood in the deep dye Of that
refulgent upholstery; billions of dollars
of accumulated fraud intrenched in
massive storehouses, 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"
Or by soft repetition Of the golden rule
that we must "do to others as we
would have them do to usY" No; it
will not be done that way. What is
needed and will come is the seven
thunders
There is drunkenness backed up by
capital mightier than in any other bust
ness. Intoxicating liquors enough in
this country to float a navy. Good
grain to the amount of CT 100000 BUSH
els annually destroyed to make the
deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries
ginshops, rum palaces, liquor associa-
lions, our nation spending annually
seven hundred and forty millions of
dollars for rum, resulting in bankrupt
cy, disease, pauperism, filth, assassina-
ton, death, illimitable woe. What will
stop them? High license? No. Pro
hibition laws? No. Churches? No.
Moral suasion? No. Thunderbolts will
do it; nothing else will. Seven thun-
derS!
Yonder are intrenched infidelity and
atheism with their magazines of litera-
ture scoffing at our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and
night. There are their disappearing
apostles, their drunken Tom Paines
and Iibertine VoItaires 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 infidelity and
atheism? John Browns shorter cate
chism about "Who made you" or
Westminster catechism about what
is the chief end of manw No. Thun-
derboltsi The seven thunders! For
the impurities of the world, empalaced
as well 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 a hemisphere stencil; for SUI
perstitions that keep whole nations in
squalor century after century their jug
gernauts crushing, their knives lacerat-
ing, their waters drowning, their flu
neral pyres burning the seven thun-
derSi
The Seventh ChrysOlfte.
Oh, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often go, hear you
not a rumbling down the sky of heavy
artillery, coming in on our side, the
seven thunders 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 it that what is not done
under the flash of the seven candle
sticks will be done by the trampling
of the seven thunders. But 1 leave
this imperial and multipotent mineral
seven, where the Bible leaves it, i'm
bedded 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 chryso-
lite is an exquisite green, and in that
seventh layer Of the heavenly wall
shall be preserved forever the domi-
nant color of the earth we once inhab-
tied. / have sometimes been saddened
at the thought that this world, accord
ing to science and revelation, is to be
blotted out of existence, for it is such
a beautiful world. But here is this
layer of the heavenly wall, where the
mineral seven is to be embedded, this
strata 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 a mil
lion years after this planet has been
extinguished will bring to mind just
how it 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 OBJ
tanned full eyesignt in heaven, eff you
would know how the earth appeared
in June and August, look at that sew
enth layer of the heavenly wall, the
green of the chrysolite.''
And while we stand there and talk,
spirit with spirit, that old color Of the
earth which had more sway than all
the other cOIorS mt together will bring