The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-07-01

them INTO n scroll ana nave the scroll
at seven different places sealed with
sealing wax. You unroll the srrollunti
you come TO one of those seals, and then
you can go no farther until you break
that seal. Then unroll again until you
come to another seal, and you can go
farther until you break that seal. Then
you 20 on until all the seven seals are
broken and the contents of the entire
scroll are revealed. Now that scroll
with seven seals held by the angel was
the prophecy of what was to come on
earth. 1t 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 il and
broke all the seven seals. He broke tile
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 II really
came to pass that for 90 years virtuous
emperors succeeded each other-Nerva,
Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the
vision broke the second seal and un-
rolled again, and there was seal of a
red horse, and that meant bloodshed,
and so il really came to pass, and the
next 90 years were red with assassina-
tions and wars. Then Christ broke the
third seal and unrolled 1t, and there
was n picture of black horse. which
in all literature means famine, oppres-
sion and taxation, and so it really came
to pass. Christ went on until lie broke
oil the seven seals and opened all the
scroll. Well, the future of all of us is in,
sealed scroll, and am glad that no
one but Christ can open ii. Do notlet
us join that class of Christians in our
day who are trying to break the seven
seals, of the future. They are trying to
peep into things they have no business
with.
DO not go to some necromancer or
spiritualist or soothsayer or fortune
teller to find out wha; is going to hap
pen to yourself or your family or your
friends. Wait till Christ breaks The
seal to find 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 a man live 20 years,
his biography is in scroll having at
least seven seals. And let him not dur
ing the first ten years of his life try
to look into the twenties, nor the TWEEN
ties into the thirties. nor the thirties
into the forties, nor the forties into the
fftes, nor the ffties into the sixties,
nor the sixties into the seventies. From
the way the years have got the habit OF
racing along | guess you will not have
to wait Il great while before all the
seals of the future are broken. Iwould
not give two cents to know how long |
am going to live or in what day or what
year the world is going TO be demol-
ished. | 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 so long before.
| wish that necromancy had not broken
| the seal of the future" And meeting
some undertaken, you would say: Il
hope you will keep yourself tree for an
engagement the Fourth of Jluy, 1901.
That day you will be needed at my
| house. TO save time you light as well
take my measure now, feet II
inches" am glad that Christ dropped
| Il thick veil over the hour of our de-
mise, and of the hour of the worlds de-
struction when lie said: "Of that day
| and hour knoweth no man; no, not the
| angels, but My Father only" Keep
your hands off the seven seals.
There is another mighty seven OF
| the Bible-namely, the seven thunders
| What those thunders meant we are not
d
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 will require at least seven vol
legs to PROSTATE them. We are al
doing nice. delicate, soft handed work
in churches and reformatory institu
tons, against the evils OF the world
and much of it amounts 10 n teaspoon
dipped out of the Atlantic ocean. or q
clam shell digging away at Il mountain
or tack hammer shifting the Gibral
tar. What is needed is thunderbolts
and at least seven of them. There u
the long line of fraudulent commercia
establishments, every stone in the
foundation and every brick in the wall
and every nail in the rafter made out
II dishonesty, skeletons of pooriy-pait
sewing girls arms in every beam o
that establishment. human nerves
worked into every figure of that em
broidery. blood in the deep dye of tina,