Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-07-01
Moral suasion? No. Thunderbolts will
do it; nothing else will. Seven tEun-


do it; nothing else will. Seven tEun-
ders!
Yonder nre intrenchcd intidelity and
atheism with their magazines Of lltera-
ture soothing at our Christianity; their
Hoe printing presses busy day and
night. There are their disappearing
apostles. their drunken Tom Paines
and llbertinc VoltaIres 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 lntidclity and
atheism? John Browns shorter cate
chism about WHO made you" or
Westminster catechism about What
is the chief end Of MANI" No. Thun-
derbolts The seven thunders! For
the impurities Of the world. empalaced
as we'll us cellared. epauletted as we'll
US ragged. enthroncd as well as ditch
ed; for corrupt legislation which ut
times makes our state and national
capitals hemisphcric stencil; for SUI
pcrstitions 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-
ders!
The Seventh ChrysOlite.
Oh, men and women. disheartened at
the bad way things often 90, hear you
not 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
mllder means are exhausted, then
judgment will begin. Thunderbolts!
Depend upon 1t that what is not done
under the flash of the seven candle
sticks will be done by the trampling
of the seven thunders. But leave
this imperial and multipotent mineral
seven, where the Bible leaves it, i'm
hcdded 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 lnhab-
tied. have sometimes been saddened
Mt the thought that this world. accord
Ing to science and revelation, Is to be
blotted out of existence, for 1t Is such
q 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
aud 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 sen. One
glance at that green chrysolite 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. IF 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 thore and talk,
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
noticing that this green chrysolite Is
the seventh layer Of crystnllzed mag
nificence. we may bethink ourselves Of
the domination of that mineral seven
over all other numerals. and thank
God that in the dark earth we left be-
hind lis we SO long enjoyed the light Of
the seven golden candlesticks 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 mys-
FERROUS future have been broken wide
open for US by loving Christ and that
the seven thunders having done their
work have ceased reverberation and
that the mineral seven. which did such
tremendous work in the history Of ma
lions on earth. has been given such q
high place in that Niagara Of colors,
the wall Of heaven. "the first founda-
ton of which is jasper; the second,
sapphire: the third. a chalcedony; the
fourth. emerald; the fifth. sardonyx;
the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chryso-
lite
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bnwarks with salvation strong,
And streets OF shining gold?