The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-01

7on and Taxdu0n. nnuSou Teame
20 mass. Christ went on until he broke
all the seven seals and opened all the
scroll Well. 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 ioin that class Of Christians in our
day who are trying TO break the seven
seals Of the future. They are trying 10
peep into things they have no business
with.
Do not 90 to some necromancer OF
spirimalist or soothSayer or fortune
teller 10 find out what is going to hap
pen to yourself or your family or your
friends Wait Till Christ breaks the
seal to ind out whether in your own
personal life or the life Of the nation
or the life Of the world il is going 20 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. II a man live 20 years
his biography is in a scroll having al
least seven seals And let him not dur.
ing the first ten years Of his life try
10 look into the twentieS, nor the ,wen-
ties into the ihirties. nor the thirties
into the ~forties, nor the forties into the
tifties, 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 a great while before all the
seals Of the future are broken. Iwould
not give vi cents to know how long ]
am going to live or in what day or what
year the world is going TO be demol.
ished. would rather give $1,000 no,
to know. Suppose some n could
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 10 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 counting them, and next
Fourth of July you would rub your
hands together and whine: "One year
from to-day | am 10 go. Dear mel
wish no one had told me so long before,
! wish that necromancy had not broken
the seal Of the future" And meeting
some undertaken, you would say: Il
hope you will keep yourself tree for an
engagement the Fourth of Jluy, 1901.
That day you will be needed at my
house. To save time you might as well
take my measure now, S feet II
inches" am glad that Christ dropped
a 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 Ny Father only" KeeI
your hands of 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 with.
out them. Thunder is the speech OF
lightning. There are evils ia our world
which must be Numbered 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 r~eformatory institu.
tons. against the evils Of the world,
and much Of 1t amounts to a teaspoon
dipped out OF the Atlantic ocean. or a
clam shell digging away at a 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
foundation 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-
b%roidery, blood in the deep dye of that
refulgent upholstery, billions of dol
lars Of accumulated fraud ~intrenched
in massive storehouses and stock CON-
Panies manipulated by INSCRIPTIONS
men, until the monopoly is defiant OF
all earth and heaven. How shall the
evil be overcome? BY treatises on the
maxim: Honesty is the best policy?''
Or by soft repetition of the Golden Rule
that we u do UNTO others as We
would have them do to us?" No, il
will not be done that way. What is
needed and will come is the seven thun-
iers.