The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-01
BIBLE MATHEMATICS.
Dr.. Talmage Discusses on the Num-
eral Seven.
a Favorite Number with the Divine
hiRd-Take Care of the Pres-
sntg God VIII Take Care
of the Future.
Copyright 1874, BY Louis Klopsch.l

Copyright. 1874, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington June x
Many of the important doctrines Of
the Bible are by DR.. Talmage presented
In this sermon in a very unusual way.
Genesis ii, 2; God blessed the seventh
day
The mathematics Of the Bible is no.
bceabls; the geometry and the arith.
metic, the square in Ezekiel, the cir
Gle spoken OF in Isaiah, the curve al
luded 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
1t would profit a man II he gain the
whole world and lose his soul" But
there Ia one mathematical figure that
10 crowned above all others in the
Bible. II is the mineral seven, which
the Arabians got from India and all
following ages have taken from the
Arabians. II stands between the fig
ure ak and the figure eight In the
Bible all the other numerals bow TO it.
Over 800 times It is mentioned in the
Scriptures, either alone or compound
ed with other words. In Genesis the
week Is rounded into seven days, and
use my text because there this nu-
neral il for the first time introduced in
q journey which halts not until in the
close Of the book Of Revelation its mon.
ument ia built into the wall Of HEAVIER
In c~hrysolite, which in the strata Of
precious stones is the seventh.
In the Bible We find that Jacob had
10 serve seven years to get Rachel, but
abe was well worth it, and, foretelling
the years Of prosperity and famine in
l PhAroah's time, the seven tat oxen were
eaten up of the seven lean oxen, and
wisdom is said to be built on seven
pillars, and the ark wal left with the
Philistines seven years, and Naaman
for the cure Of his lsprosy, plunged In
the Jordan seven times; to the hous,
that Ezekiel saw In vision there wer,
seven steps; the walls of Jericho, be
fore they fell down, were comprised
seven days; Zechariah describes 1
stone with seven eyes; 10 cleanse
leprous house the door must b
sprinkled with pigeons blood sever
times; in Canaan we're overthrow
seven nations; on one occasion Chris
cast out seven devils; on a mountain h.
fed a muntitude Of people with seyel
lOayes, the fragments left filing sevel
baskets, and the closing passages 0
the Bible are magnificent and over
whelming with the imagery made u
of seven churches, seven stars, seyel
candlesticks. seven seals, seven angel
and seven heads and seven crowns an'
} seven horns and seven spirits and seyel
pitfalls and seven plaques and ssvei
thunders.
Yea, the numeral seven seems q ia
yorite with the Divine mind outside a
we'll as inside the Bible, for are Their
mol seven prismatic colors? And whe
God with the rainbow wrote the con
fortiDg thought that the world woul
never have another deluge He wrot
il on the scroll Of the sky in ink ofseye
colors. He grouped into the Pleiade
seven stars. Rome, the capital OF III
world, sat on seven hills. When Go
would make the most intelligent thin
On earth, the human c-ountenance, II
fashioned il with seven features-th
two ears. the two eyes, the two not
trils and the mouth. Yea, u bod
1asts only seven years, and we grht
. ually shed II for another body after al
other seven years, and 30 on, for "
are as 20 our bodies septennia animal
4 50 the numeral seven ranges throug
nature and through revelation. 1t
the number Of perfection, and so us
) it while j speak Of the seven candle
sticks. the seven stars, the seven sea
and the seven tbUnders.
The seven golden csndlesticks wei
ana are the churches. Mark you, Ii
churches never we're and never can |
candles. They are only candlestiek
They are not the light, but they al
10 hold the light. A room in the nigl
might have in 1t 500 candlesticks an
yet you could not see your hand b
fore your face. The only use Of a car
dlestick, and the only use Of d churcl
is 10 hold up the light. You see II
a dark world, the night of sin, the nigl
Of trouble, the night Of superstition
the night OF persecution, the night
poverty. the night Of sickness, Il
night OF death; aye, about 90 might
have interlocked their shadows. II
whole race goes stumbling over pro
trated hopes and fallen fortunes an
s empty flour barrels and desolate cri
dies and deathbeds. How much "
have use for all the seven caDdlestck
with lights blazing from the top
each one Of theml Light Of pardo
for all SIM Light of comfort for a
troubled Light Of encouragement fc
70 all despondencyi Light Of eterni
riches for all poverty Light Of re
cue for all persecution! Light OF n
4 union for all the bereftl Light s
" Heaven for all the dyingl And thG
" light is Christ, who is the light thl
h shall yet Sradiate the h%emispheres.
But mark you, when say church'
y are not candles, but oRndlesticks, ! cal
= no slur on ~cnndlesticlds. ] believe I
beautiful candleSicks. The candli
sticks that God ordered for the sncieI
tabernacle were something exquisit
!. They were a dream of beauty carve
out Of loveliness. They were made
| hammered gold, stood in a foot Of go
and had six branches Of gold bloomin
all along in six lilies Of gold each, an
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