The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-07-14
OR. 1ALMNG['S Sermon.
PREPARED ESPECIALLY For YOUNG
AND OLD.
Subject: The Sacred Observation-Disclosures
OF Seven-Iinportant Truths Of the
Bible illustrated by the Use Of That
Nunernl-Fav Ored by the Divine Mind.
rCopyripht. Louis Klopsch. 1897

u pICStnlCd u lLlIS SCI ilon III q NCIy
unusual way. Genesis H., 3, "God blessed
the seventh day
The mathematics OF the Bible Is notice
able; the geometry and the arithmetic: the
square in Ezekiel; the circle spoken OF in
Isaiah; the curve alluded to In Job; the
rule OF fractions mentioned In Daniel: the
rule OF loss and gain in Mark, where Christ
asks the people to cipher out by that rule
what it would "prOft n man il he gain the
whole world and lose his soul" But there
is one mathematical figure that Is crowned
above oil others in the Bible; it Is the
numeral seven, which the Arabians got
from India. and all following ages have
taken from the Arabians. 1t stands be-
tween the figure six and the figure eight.
In the Bible all the other numerals bow to
1t. Over 800 times it is mentioned in the
Scriptures, either alone or compounded
with other words. In Genesis the week is
rounded into seven days, and l use my text
because there this n%uIneral is for the first
time introduced In u journey which haltS
not until in the close OF the book OF Revela-
ton its monument is built into the wall OF
heaven in chrysolite, which, in the strata
OF precious stones, is the seventh.
In the Bible we find that Jacob had to
serve seven years to get Rachel, but she
was well worth it, and, fOretelling the
years OF prosperity and famine in PharaOh's
time, the seven fat oxen were eaten up OF
the seven lean oxen, and wisdom is said to
pC buiIl OH plIlhIS, anu luo uIk Was
left with the Philistines seven years, and
Naaman, for the cure Of his leprosy,
plunged in the Jordan seven times; the
dead child, when Elisha breathed into its
mouth, sicnaled its arrival back into con-
seriousness by sneeZing seven times; to the
house that Ezekiel saw in vision there
were seven steps; the walls Of Jericho, be-
fore they fell down, were comprised seven
days: Zechariuh describes a stone with
eyes: TO cleanse q leprOus house the door
must be sprinkled with pigeons blood
seven times; in Canaan were overthrowr
seven nations; on one occasion Christ cast
out seven devils; on q mountain He fed Il
multitude Of people with seven %loaves, the
fragments left filling seven baskets, and
the closing passages Of the Bible are mag
ni1icent and overwhelming with the i'm
agery made up OF seven churches, seven
stars, seven candiesticks, seven seals, seven
angels and seven heads and seven crowns
and seven horns and seven spirits and
seven vials and seven plaques and seven
thunders.
Yea. the mineral seven seems a f~avorite
with the divine mind outside as we'll as in
side the Bible. for are there not seven pris-
matte colors? And when God with the
rainbow wrote the comforting thought
that the world would never have another
deluge He wrotei it on the scroll Of the sky
in ink OF seven cOlors. He grouped into
the PleiHdeS seven stars. Rome. the capt.
tai Of the world, sat on seven hills. When
God would make the most intelligent thing
on earth, the human countenance, He
fashioned II with seven features-the two
ears. the two eyes. the two nOstrils and tho
mouth. Yea, our body hsts only seven
years, and we gradually shed 1t for another
body after another seven years, and SO on.
TOR we are, as 20 our bodies, s~eptennial an
finals. 50 the numeral seven ranges through
nature and though revelation. 1t is tho
number of nprFpPtlan and so uCn If yChiIa
speak Of the seven candhasticks, the seven
stars, the seven seals and the seven thun-
ders.
The seven golden candlcsticks were and
are the churches. Mark y0u. the churches
never Were, and never can be, candies.
They are only candlesticks. They are not
the light but they are TO hold the light. A
room in the night might have in it 500 can
diesticks. and yet you could not see YOUR
hand before your face. The only use OF II
candlestick and the only use of "A church is
to hold UP the light. You Sc. it is a dark
world, the night Of sin. the night Of trouble.
the night Of su persti.ion. the night OF per
secution. the night OF poverty. the night
OF sickness. the night OF death. Aye, about
nifty nights have interlocked their shad-
Ows. The whole race goes stumbling over
Frustrated hopes. and fallen fortunes. and
empty flour barrels. and desolated cradles
and deathbeds. How much we have use
for all the seven candlesticks. with lights
blazing from the top Of each one OF them.
Light of pardon for all sin, Light OF COM
fort for all rouble Light OF encourage
ment for Nil dependency. Light Of eter-
nal riches FOR all poverty, Light OF
rescue for all persecution, Light OF re-
union fer al the berett, Light OF heaven
for al. the dying, AMI that light is Christ.
wao i the lich: THAI shall We, irradia.o the
hemlsVaerVs.
But. mark YOU. when | saw churches nr,