The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-07-05


tons and wars. Then Christ broke tie
third seal and unrolled it, and there
was a picture of black horse, which in
all literature means famine, oppression
and taxation, 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
a sealed scroll, and | am glad that no
one but Christ can open it. Do not let
us oin that class Of Chritians 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 so to some Hecromancer or
spiritualist or soothSayer or fortune tel
| Ter to find out what is going to happen
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 a scroll having at
least seven seals. And let him not
during the first ten years of his life try
to look intothe twenties, nor the twen-
ties into the thirties, nor the thirtles In
to the fortics, nor the forties into the
ffties, 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 great while before all the seals
of the future are broken. would not
give 2 cents to know how long | am go
ing to live or in what day of what year
the world is going to be demolished.
l would rather give 81, 900 not to know.
Suppose some one could break the next
seal in the scroll of your personal his
tory 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 prolonged funeral. You would be
counting the months and the days, and
your family and friends would be count
ing them, and next 4th of July you
would rub your hands together and
whine: Zone year from today l am to
60, Dear me! I wish no one had
told me so long before I wish that ne.
cromancer had not broken the seal of
the future" And meeting some under
taker, you would say: Il hope you will
keep yourself free for an engagement
the 4th of July, 1901. That day you
will be needed at my house. To save
time yeu might as well take my me.>
ure now, 5 feet II inches" | am g;.,
that Christ dropped thick veil over The
hour of our demise and Of the hour OF
the worlds destruction when he said:
''Of that day and hour kno1eth 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
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 without
them. Thunder is the speech Of light
ming. There are evils in our world
which must be thundered down and
which will require at least seven volleys
to PROSTATE them. We are all doing
nice, delicate, soft handed work in
churches and reformatory institutions,
against the evils of the world, and
much Of it amounts to teaspoon dip
ping out the Atlantic ocean, or clam
shell digging away at mountain, or a
tack hammer shifting the Gibraltar.
What is needed is 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 out
of dishonesty, skeletons Of poorly paid
sewing girls arms in every beam Of that
/ establishment, human nerves worked
into every figure of that embroidery,
blood in the deep dye of that refulgent
upholstery, billions Of dollars Of accu-
mulated fraud intrenched in massive
storehouses and stock companies mani
pulated by unscrupulous men, until the
monopoly is defiant of all earth and
| heaven How shall the evil be over
come? BY treatises on the maxim,
Honesty is the best pclicy?" Or by
soft repetition Of the golden rule that
We must "Do unto others as we would
have them do to u.s." No, twill not
be done that way. What is needed and
will come is the seven thunders.
There is drunkenness backed up by a
capital mightier than in any other busl-
ness. intoxicating liquors enough in
this country to float navy. Good
grain to the amount of 81, $50, 900 bush
els annually destroyed to make the
deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries,
gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associa-
tions, our nation spending annually
$40, 1000, 600 for rum, resulting in bank
ruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth, assas-
sination, death, illimitable woe. What
will stop them? High license? No.
Prohibition laws? No. Churches?
No. Moral suasion? No. Thunder
bolts will do it; nothing else will. Seven
thunders.
Yonder are intrenched infdelity and
atheism, with their magazines Of litera
ture scofing at our Christianity, their
Hoe printing presses busy day and
night. There are their blaspheming
apostles, their drunken Tom Palnes and
libertime Voltaires of the present as
well as the past, e-cnforced by all the
powers of darkness, from highest de-
mon to lowest imp. What will extirpate
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