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

and hbertine Voltaires of the present
as well as the past re-enforced by all
the powers of darkness from highest
demon to lowest imp. What will extir-
pate those monsters of infidelity and
atheism? John Browns shorter cate
chism about ''Who made you?" or
Westminster catechism about What
is the chief end of man." No. Thun-
derbolts! The seven thundersi For
the impurities of the world, empalaced
as we'll as cellared, epauletted as well
as ragged. enthroned as well as ditch
ed: for corrupt legislation which at
times makes our state and national
capitals hemisphere stencil; for su-
perstitions that keep whole nations in
squalor century after century their Jug
gernauts crushing. their knives lacerat-
ing, their waters drowning, their fu-
neral pyres burning the seven thun-
ders.
The Seventh Chrysolite.
Oh, men and women, disheartened at
the bad way things often 90, hear you
not rumbling down the sky of heavy
artillery, coming in on our side, the
seven thunders Of the Almighty; Do
not let us try to Wield them ourselves;
they are too heavy and too fiery for us
to handle; but God can, and God will:
and when all mercy has failed and all
milder means are exhausted, then
Judgment will begin. Thunderbolts!
IennpnI Itlf hot iS
under the flash of the seven candle
sticks will be done by the trampling
of the seven thunders. But | leave
this imperial and multipotent numeral
seven, where the Bible leaves it, i'm
bedded in the finest wall that was ever
built or will be constructed, tue wall
of heaven. 1t is the seven strata OF
precious stones that make up that wall
After naming six Of the precious
stones in that wall the Bible cries out,
"the seventh chrysolite!' The chryso-
lite is an exquisite green, and in that
seventh layer or the heavenly wall
shall be preserved forever the domi-
nant color of the earth we once inhab-
tied. | have sometimes been saddened
at the thought that this world, accord.
ing to science and revelation, is to be
blotted out of existence, for it is such
beautiful world. But here is this
layer of the heavenly wall, where the
numeral seven is to be embedded, this
strata of green is to be photographed
and embalmed and perpetuated, the
color of the grass that covers the earth,
the color of the foliage that fills the
forest, the color Of the deep sea. One
glance at that green chrysolite a mil
lion years after this planet has been
extinguished will bring to mind Just
how it looked in summer and spring
and we will say to those who were
born blind on earth and never saw at
all in this world, after they have OBJ |
tained full eyesignt in heaven, 'If YOU
would know how the earth appeared
in June and August, look at that sew
enth layer Of the heavenly wall. the
green of the chrysolite"
And while we stand there and talk. |
spirit with spirit. that old color of the |
earth which had more sway than all |
the other colors put together, will bring |
back to us our earthly experiences, and |
noticing that this green chrysolite is |
the seventh layer of crystallized mag.
nificence. we may bethink ourselves Of
the domination of that numeral seven |
over all other numerals, and thank
God that in the dark earth we left be.
hind us we so long enjoyed the light of
the seven golden candlesticks and were
all of us permitted 10 shine among the
seven stars of more or less magnitude,
and that all the seven seals of the mys-
terious future have been broken wide
open for us by loving Christ and that
the seven thunders having done their
work have ceased reverberation and
that the numeral seven. which did such
work in the history of ma
tions on earth, has been given such a
high place in that Niagara of colors,
the wall of heaven, "the first founda-
ton of which is jasper; the second,
sapphire; the third, Il chalcedony; the
fourth, emerald; the fifth. sardonyX;
the sixth, sardius: the seventh. chryso-
Iite.'
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates b1hold,
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong.
And streets of shining godf