Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-30

per, paste them together and roll them
into a scroll. and have the scroll at sew
en- different places sealed with sealing
wax. You unroll the scroll till you
come to one Of these 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
no farther until You break that seal;
then you go on until all the seven seals
are broken. and the contents of the en-
tire scroll revealed. Now, that scroll
with seven seals held by the angel was
the prophecy of what was to come on
the earth: it 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 it
and broke all the seven seals. He broke
the first seal and unrolled the scroll,
and there waS Il picture of white
horse. and that meant prosperity and
triumph for the Roman empire, and so
II really came to pass that for 80 years
virtuous emperors succeeded each 9TH
er-Nerva. Trajan and Antoninus
Christ in the vision broke the second
seal and unrolled again, and there was
Il picture of n red horse, and that
meant bloodshed. and so 1t really came
to pass, and the next 90 years were red
with assassinations and wars. Then
Christ broke the third seal and unroll-
ed 1t, and there was a picture Of a
black horse, which In all literature
means famine, oppression and taxa
ton; 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 sealed
scroll, and / 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.
Do not 80 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 1t 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 man live 20 years, his
biography is In q scroll having at least
seven seals, and let him not during the
first ten years Of his life try to look in
to the twenties, nor the twenties into
the thirties, nor the thirtieS into the
forties. nor the forties into the fifties
nor the fifties 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 2 cents to know how long ]
am going to live, or In what day of what
year the world is going to be demolish-
ed. | would rather give $1,000 not to
know. Suppose some one could breaF
the next seal in the scroll of your per-
sonal history 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 a prolonged funeral You would
be counting the months and the days,
and your family and friends would be
them, and next 4th of July
you would rub your hands together
md whine: "One year from today am
to go. Dear me! | wish no one had
told me so long before. wish that ne |
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 |
Tine, you might as well take my meas
nre now. ) feet II inches" | am glad |
hat Christ dropped thick veil over
he hour of our demise and Of the hour
# the worlds destruction when he
said, "Of that day and hour knoweth
10 man; no, not the angels. but my |
Father only" Keep your hands of
he seven seals.
There is another mighty seven of the
2ible-viz, the seven thunders. What
Ind there has been much guessing
bout them; but they are TO come. we
ire told, before the end Of all things
md the world cannot get along with
'ut them. Thunder is the speech of
lightning. There are evils in our world
ehich must be thundered down and
which will require at least seven vol
ays to PROSTATE them. we are all do
ne uice. delicate. soft handed work
n churches and reformatory institu-
ions against the evils of the world,
nd much of it amounts to teaspoon
tipping out the Atlantic ocean. or a
lam shell digging away at a moun-
ain, or q tack hammer shifting the
iibraltar. What is needed is thunder
otis, and at least seven of them. There
) the long line of fraudulent CONNER
ial establishments, every stone in the
and every brick in the wall,
nd every nail in the rafter made out
+ dishonesty; skeletons of poorly paid
ewing girls arms in every beam of
hat establishment; human nerves
Torked into every figure of that en-
robbery; blood in the deep dye Of that
afulgent upholstery; billions of dollars
+ accumulated fraud intrenched in
lassive storehouses, and stock compa-
les manipulated by INSCRIPTIONS men,
ntil the monopoly is defiant of all
arth and heaven. How shall the evil |.
@ overcome? BY treatises ON the ,
laxim: Honesty is the best policy?"
r by soft repetition of the golden rule
-af ua must Hdo to nfhars aS we