St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-07-29

TO wait great while before all the
seals of the future are broken. Iwould
not give two cents to know how long l
am going to live or in what day or what
year the world is going to be demoi-
ished. l would rather give $1,000 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 am to go. Dear me! /
wish no one had told me 50 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 free for an
engagement the Fourtl, of Jluy, 1901.
That day you will be needed at my
house. To save time you might as well
take my measure now, feet II
inches" am glad that Christ dropped
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 on 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 Numbered down and
which w:il require at least seven vol
ieys to PROSTATE them. We are ali
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 a
clam shell digging away at a mountain
Or tack hammer shifting the Gibra
tar. What is needed il thunderbolts,
and at least seven of them. There IS
the long line of fraudulent commercial
establishments, every stone in the
foundation and every brick in the wall,
and every nail in the rafter made ont
of dishonesty, skeletons of poorly-paid
sewing girls arms in every beam of
that establishment, human nerves
worked into every figure of that en-
hroidery. blood in the deep dye Of that
refulgent upholstery. billions of dol
lars of accumulated fraud intrenched
in massive storehouses and stock COM
panies manipulated by INSCRIPTIONS
men. until the monopoly is defiant OF
all earth and heaven. How shall the |
evil be overcome? By rreatises on the |
maxim: Honesty il the best policy?"
Or by soft repetition of the Golden Rule
that we must do Unto others as we
would have them do to us?" No, il |
will not be done that way. What is |
needed and will come is the seven thun.
Gers.
There is drunkenness backed M by |
a capital mightier than in any other |
business. Intoxicating liquors enough |
in this country to float navy. Good |
grain to the amount of 81, $50 600 bush
els annually destroyed to make the
deadly liquid. Breweries, dixtilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associa-
tons, our nation spending annually
$740. 100000 for rum. resulting in bank
ruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth, as
sassination, death, illimitable woe.
What will stop them? High license?
No. Prohibition laws? No. Churches?
No. Moral suasion7 No. Thunder
bolts will do it; nothing else will.
Seven thunders!
Yonder arr intrenched infidelity and
atheism. with their magazines Of lit
erature scohing at our Christianity,
their Hoe printing presses busy day
and night. There are their blasphem-
ing apostles, their drunken Tom l'aines
and libertine Voltaires of the present
- well as the past, reinforced by all
The powers of darkness, from highest
demon to lowest imp. What will ex-
tirpate those monsters of infJelity
Ind atheism? John Browns shorter
about ''Who made you" or
catechism about "What
is the chief end of man?" No Thun-
1erboltsi The seven tlmnders: For
the impurities of the world, empaIaced
70 well as cellared, epauleted Al well
as ragged, enthroned - well -
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Il times makes our state and national
lapitals = hemisphereic stencil: for
that keep whole nations
n squalor century after century. their
crushing. their knives
acerating, their waters drowning,
heir funeral pyres burning, the seven
ihunders!
Oh, men and women, disheartened at .
he bad way things often go, hear you .
Not rumbling down the sky Of heavy
rtillery, coming in ON our side, the ;
even thunders Of the Almighty? Do ,
lot let W try to WELD them ourselves. /
They are too heavy and too fiery for
. to handle, but God can and God win.
nd when al mercy has failed and all
nilder means are exhausted. then judg-I
nent will begin. Thunderbolts! De-
END upon it. that what 10 not done
nder the fash Of the seven candle
ticks will be done By the trampling :
4 the seven thunders. But I leave
his imperial and multipotent numeral
even. where the Bible leaves It, inn
edded in the finest wall that was ever
Wilt or win be constructed, the wall
1 Heaven. IL IL the seven strata Of
recious stones that make up that wall.
After naming nix Of the poecious stones
! that wall the Bible cries out: The
sveoth chTysolitel"