The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-06-30

at seven different places sealed with
sealing wax. You unroll the scroll until
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 go 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 1t and
broke all the seven seals. he broke the
first seal and unrolled Othe scroll, and
there was a picture of a white horse,
and that meant prosperity and triumph
for the Roman empire, and so 1t really
came to pass that for 80 years virtuous
emperors succeeded each other-Nerva,
Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the
vision broke the second seal and I'M
rolled again, and there was seal of a
red horse, and that meant bloodshed,
and so it really came to pass, and the
next 80 wears were red with assassina-
| tons and wars. Then Christ broke the
third seal and unrolled it, and there
was a picture of a black horse, which
in all literature means famine, oppres
sion and taxation, and so it really came
to pass. Christ went on until He broke
| all the seven seals and opened all the
SCROLL WE'LL the future of all of us is in
a sealed scroll, and l am glad that no
one but Christ can open it. Do not let
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.
n6 not go to some necromancer or
spiritualist or soothsayer or fortune
teller to find out what 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 OF 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 man live 10 years,
his biography is in scroll having at
least seven seals. And let him not dur
ing the first ten years of his life trA
to look into the twenties, nor the tweny
ties into the thirties, nor the thirties
into the forties, nor the forties into the
fifties, nor the ffties into the sixties,
nor the sixties into the seventies. From
the way the years have got the habit of
racing along l guess you will not have
to wait great while before all the
seals of the future are broken. would
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 demol
ished. L would rather give $1,000 not
to know. Suppose some, ore coYA |
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 fer |
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 frienss
would be counting them, and next |
Fourth of July you would rub your
hands together and whine: "One year
from to-day am to 60. Dear me! |
wish no one had told NE so long before,
wish that necromancy had not broken
the seal of the future" And meeting
some undertaken, you would say: 81
hope you will keep yourself free for an
engagement the Fourth of JIuy, 1901.
That day you will be needed at my
house. 10 save time you might as well
take my measure now, feet II
inches" l 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 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
IhNLA' Iout lhCy dlC ~ NOAlASI
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 thundered down and
which will require at least seven vol
leys to PROSTATE them. We are all
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
clam shell digging away at mountain,
or a tack hammer shifting the Gibral-
tar. What is needed is thunderbolts,
and at least seven of them. There is
the long line of fraudulent commercial
establishments, every stone in the
and every brick in the wall,
and every nail in the rafter made out
If dishonesty, skeletons of poorly-paid
sewing girls arms in every beam of
that establishment, human nerves
worked into every figure of that en-
broidery, blood in the deep dye of that
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