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WHOLESALE Dealers and Shippers of all kinds of FRESH FISH 70 FULTON FISn MARKET, N. Y. Particular attention paid to Shad Department. We employ no agents andpay D0 commission. If your etencil is noi In ood order let us know. rantefl-An idea TTftn Mn tlktZI Itting to ftpnt' wrttJO 1 1 S XV &X D UK IC liN CO Patent 1U "iht ci tno tuiuLrl tarcnifcu waait. TIIE SACRED NU3IBE1L OR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SEVEN. Important Truths of lte Ulble Illa trated br the l or That Snmeral. Favored br the DUlne SXlnd. ICopjrijtht Louii Kps.h. tSO-l WAsm.xaTO.x, June 25. Many of the most Important doctrines of the Bible are by Dr. Talmase presented In this fcermon In a very unusual way. Genesis lb 3, God blessed the seTeuth day." . The mathematics of the Bible Is no ticeable; the geometry and the arith metic; the square In Ezeklel; the circle spoken of In Isaiah; the curre alluded to In Job; the rule of fractions mention ed In Daniel; the rule of loss and gain In Mark, where Christ asks tlie people to cipher out by that rule what it would "profit a man If he gain the whole world and lose his souL" But there Is one mathematical figure tbat Is crowned above all others In the Bible; ll Is the numeral seven, which the Ara bians got from India, and all following ages have taken from the Arabians. It stands between the figure six and the figure eight. In the Bible all the other numerals bow to It. Over 300 times It Is mentioned In the Scriptures, cither alone or compounded with other words. In Genesis the week Is rounded into seven days, and I use my text because there this numeral Is for the first time Introduced In a Journey xvblcb halts not until .In the close of the book of Revelation Its monument Is built Into the wall of heaven In chrysolite, which. In the strata of precious stones, is the seventh. In the Bible we find that Jacob had to serve seven years to get Rachel, but she was well worth It, and, foretelling the years of prosperity and famine In Pharaoh's time, the seven fat oxen were eaten up of the seven lean oxen, and wisdom Is said to be built on sev a plUars. aai th ark was tfl with the PbUIstlnes eeren years, and Naa man, for the cure of bis leprosy, plung ed In the Jordan seven times; the dead child, when Elisha breathed into its mouth, signaled its arrival back Into consciousness by sneezing seven times; to the bouse that Ezekiel saw In vision there were seven steps; the walls of Jericho, before they fell down, were compassed seven days; Zechariah de scribes a stone with eyes; to cleanse a leprous house the door must be sprin kled with pigeons' blood seven times; In Canaan were overthrown seven na tions; on one occasion Christ cast out soven devils; on a mountain he fed a multitude of people with seven loaves, the fragments left filling seven bas kets, and the closing passages of the Bible are magnificent and overwhelm ing with the Imagery made np of seven churches, seven stars, seven candle sticks, seven seals, seven angels and seven heads and seven crowns and sev en boms and seven spirits and seven vials and seven plagues and seven thunders. u Favored br the Divine Sllnd. Yea, the numeral seven seems a fa vorite with the divine mind outside as well as Inside the Bible, for are there not seven prismatic colors? And when God xvlth the rainbow wrote the com forting thought that the world would never have another deluge he wrote it on the scroll of the sky in Ink of seven colors, ne grouped Into the Pleiades seven stars. Rome, the capital of the world, sat on seven hills. When God would make the most Intelligent thing on earth, the human countenance, he fashioned It with seven features the two ears, the two eyes, the two nostrils and the mouth. Yea, our body lasts only seven years, and we gradually shed It for another body after another seven years, and so on, for we are, as to our bodies, septennial animals. So the numeral seven ranges through na ture and through revelation. It Is the number of perfection, and so I use It while I speak of the seven candle sticks, the seven stars, the seven seals and the seven thunders. The seven go!da candlesticks were and are the churches. Mark you, the churches never were, and never can be, candles. They are only candle sticks. They are not the light, but they are to bold the light A room in the night might have In it COO candle sticks, and yet you could not see your hand before your face. The only use of a candlestick nnd the only use of a church Is to bold up the light. You see It Is a dark world, the night of sin, the night of trouble, the night of supersti tion, the night of persecution, the night of poverty, the night of sickness, the night of deatn. Aye, about 50 nights bars Interlocked their shadows. The waste race goes itumbtlag ever pros trated hopes, and fallen fortunes, and empty flour barrels, and desolated cra dles and deathbeds. How much we haTe use for all the seven candlesticks, with lights blazing from the top of each one of them I Light of pardon for all slnl Light of comfort for all trou ble! Light of encouragement for all despondency I Light of eternal riches for all poverty I Light of rescue for all persecution! Light of reunion for all the bereft! LIg'it of heaven for all the dying! And that light Is Christ, who Is the light that shall yet irradiate the hemispheres. But. mark you. when I say churches are not candles, but candlesticks, I cast no slur on candlesticks. I believe In beautiful candlesticks. The candle sticks that God ordered for the ancient tabernacle were something exquisite. They were a dream of beauty carved cut of loveliness. They were made of hammered gold, stood in a foot of gold and had six branches of gold bloom ing all along In six lilies of gold each and lips of gold, from which the can dles lifted their holy fire. And the best houses In any city ought to be the churches-the best built, the best ven tilated, the best swept, the best win dowed and the best cbandellered- Log cabins may do In neighborhoods where most of the people live in log cabins, but let there be palatial churches for regions where many of the people live In palaces. Do not have a better place for yatirsclf than for your Lord and King. Do not live In a parlor and put your Christ In a kitchen. These seven candlesticks of which I speak were not made of pewter ortron; theywere gold en candlesticks, and gold 'Is fiot only a valuable but a bright mctaL Have everything about your church bright your ushers with smiling faces, your music jubilant, j our handshaking cor dial, your entire service attractive. Many people feci that in church they must look dull, in order to look rever ential, and many whose faces In other kinds of assemblage show all the dif ferent phases of emotion have in church no more expression than the back wheel of a hearse. Brighten up and be responsive. If you feel like weeping weep. 'If you feel like smil ing, smile. If you feel Indignant at some wrong assailed from the pulpit, frown. Do not leave your naturalness and resiliency home because It is Sun day morning. If as ofilcers of a church you- meet people at the church door with a black look, and have the music black, and the minister in black preach a black sermon, and from invocation to benediction have the impression black, few will come, and those who do come will wish they had not come at all. The Seven Candlesticks.' Golden candlesticks! Scour up the six lilies on each branch, and know that the more lovely and bright they are the more fit they are to hold the light. But a Chrlstless light Is a dam age to the world rather than a good. Cromwell stabled his cavalry horses in St. Taul's cathedral, and many now use the church in which to stable vanf ties and worldllness. A worldly church is a candlestick without the candle, and It had Its prototype In St. Sophia. In Constantinople, built to the glory of God by Constantlne, but transformed to base uses by Mohammed the Second Built eut of elartd saarbls; a ssvola wWh 14 windows soarlBg to a aeljVt of ISO feet; the celling one great bewilder ment of mosaic; galleries supported by eight columns of porphyry and G7 col umns of green JaspeV; nine bronze doors with alto-relievo work, fascinat ing to the eye of any artist; -rases and vestments Incrusted with all manner of precious stones. Four walls on fire with Indescribable splendor. Though labor was cheap, the building cost 500,000. Ecclesiastical structure, al most supernatural In pomp and maj esty. But Mohammedanism tore down from the walls of that building all the saintly and Chrlstly Images, and high up In the dome the figure of the cross was rubbed out that the crescent of the barbarous Turk might be substituted. A great church, but no Christ! A gor geous candlestick, but no candle! Ten thousand such churches would not give the world as much light as onehome made tallow candle by which last night some grandmother In the eighties put on her spectacles and read the Tsalms of David In larger type. Up with the churches, by all means! Hundreds of them, thousands of them, and the more the better. But let each one be a blaze of heavenly light, making the world brighter and brighter, till the last shadow has disappeared, and the last of the suffering children of God shall have reached the land where they have no need of candlestick or "of candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God glveth them light, and they shall reign forever and ever." Seven candle sticks the complete number of lights! Let your light shine before men, that they, seeing Jour good works, may glorify your Father which Is In heaven. Turn now In your Bible to the seven stars. We are distinctly told that they are the ministers of religion. Some are large stars, some of them small stars, some of them sweep a wide circuit and some of them a small circuit, but so far as they are genuine they get their light from the great central sun around which they make revolution. Let each one keep in his own sphere. The solar system would be soon wrecked If the stars. Instead of keeping their own orbits, should go to hunting down other stars. Ministers of religion should never clash. But In all the centuries of the Christian church some of these stars have been hunting an Edward Irving or a Horace Bushnell or an Al bert Barnes. And the stars that were In pursuit of the other stars lost their own orbit, and some of them could never again find it. Alas for the heresy hunters! The best way to destroy error Is to preach the truth. The best way to scatter darkness !s to strike a light. There Is in immensity room enough for all the ministers. The min isters who give up righteousness and ths txutk will 94 pttftiinmsat anowgh anyhow, for they are "the wandering stars for whom is reserved the black ness of darkness forever." I should like, as a minister, when 1 am dying, to be able truthfully to say what a captain of the English army, fallen at the head of his column and dying on the Egyptian battlefield, said to General Wolseley, who came to con dole with him: "I led them straight Didn't I lead them straight general?" God has put us ministers as captains In this battlefleid of truth against error. Great at last will be our chagrin If we fall leading the people the wrong way; but great will be our gladness if. when the battle Is ovr, we can hand our tword back to cur great commander, laying: "Lord Jesus! We led the peo ple straight Didn't we lead them sttalght?" Those ministers who go on at a tan gent and preach some other gospel are not stars, bot comets, and they flash across the heavens a little while and make people stare, and throw down a few meteoric stones, and then go out of sight If not out of existence. Brethren In the ministry, let us remember that God calls us stars, and our business Is to shine and to keep our own sphere, hn whii we tret donel trying to I light np the darkness of this world, we will wheel into uigncr spnercs, nuu u us shall be fulfilled the promise "they that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever. The ministers are not all Pecksniffs and canting hypocrites, as some would have you think! Forgive me. If having at other times glorified the medical pro fession, and the legal profession, and the literary profession I glorify my own. I have seen them In their homes and heard them In their pulpits, and a grander array of men never breathed, and the Bible figure Is not strained when It calls them stars; and whole constellations of glorious ministers have already taken their places on high, where they shine even brighter than they shone on earth; Edward N. Kirk of the Congregational church, Stephen TX Tyng of the Episcopal church, Matthew Simpson of the Meth odist church, John Dowhng of the Baptist church, Samuel K. Talmage of the Presbyterian church, Thomas De Witt of the Reformed church, John Chambers of the Independent church, and there I stop, for It so happens that I have mentioned the seven stars of the seven churches. The Seven Seals. I pass on to another mighty Bible seven and they arc the seven seals. St John In vision saw a scroll with seven seals, and he hoard an angel cry, "Who Is worthy to loose the seals thereof?" Take eight or ten sheets of foolscap pa per, paste them together and roll them Into a scroll, and have the scroll at sev 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 untiryou 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 ma and angal was wsrthy to ofn It; mt & Btkls says Christ It and broke all the seven seals. He broke the first seal and unrolled the scroll, and there was a picture of a white horse, and that meant prosperity and triumph for the Roman empire, and so It really came to pass that for 90 years virtuous emperors succeeded eaeh oth er Nerva, Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the vision broke the second seal and unrolled again, and there was a picture of a red horse, and that meant bloodshed, and so It really came to pass, and the next 90 years were red with assassinations and wars. Then Christ broke the third seal and unroll ed it, and there was a picture of a black horse, which in all literature means famine, oppression and taxa tion; and so it really came to fass. Christ went on until he broke all the seven seals and opened all the scroll Well, the future of all of us Is a sealed scroll, and I 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 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 youl 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 or the black horse of fam ine. 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 a man live 70 years, his biography is In a 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, I guess you will not have to wait a great while before all the seals of the future are broken. 1 would not give 2 cents to know how long 1 am going to live, or In what day of what year the world Is going to be demolish ed. I would rather give $1,000 not to know. Suppose some one could breal the next seal in the scroll of your per sonal history and should tell you that on the next 4th of July, 1901, you w.ere to die, the summer after . next how much would you be good for between this and that? It 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 4tb of July you would rub your hands together a4 wlilae: "On yar from today I am t go. Dear a?! I wisb on hai told me so long before. I wish that ne cromancer had not broken the seal of the future." And meeting some under taker, you would say: "I hope you will keep yourself free for an engagement the 4th of July, 190L That day you will be needed at my house. To save time, you might as well take my meas ure now, 5 feet 11 Inches." I am glad that Christ dropped a thick veil over the hour of our demise and of the hour of the world's destruction 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. -a. There Is another mighty seven of the Bible viz, 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 In our world which must be thundered down and which will require at least seven vol leys to prostrate them. We are all do ing nlcfe. delicate, ' soft handed work In churches and reformatory Institu tions against the! evils of the world, and much of It amounts to a teaspoon dipping out the Atlantic ocean, or s tlam shell digging away at a moun tain, or a tack hammer smiting the Gibraltar. What Is needed Is thunder bolts, and at least seven of them. There Is the long line of fraudulent commer cial establishments, every stone In the foundation, and evtry brick In the wall, and every nail In the rafter made out of dishonesty; skeletons of poorly paid sewing girls arms In every beam of that establishment; human nerves worked Into every figure of that em broidery; blood In the deep dye of that refulgent upholstery; billions of dollars of accumulated fraud Intrenched in massive storehouses, and stock compa nies manipulated by unscrupulous men, until the monopoly Is defiant of ail earth and heaven. How shall the evil bo overcome? By treatises on the maxim: "Honesty is the best policy?" Or by soft repetition of the golden rule that we must "do to others as we would have them do to us?"' - No; 16 will not be done that way. What is needed and will come is the seven thunders. There is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightier than In any other busi ness. Intoxicating liquors enough In this country to float a navy. Good grain to the amount of 07,950,000 bush els annually destroyed to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries glnshops, rum palaces, liquor associa tions, our nation spending annually seven hundred and forty millions of dollars for rum, resulting In bankrupt cy, disease, pauperism, filth, assassina tion, death. Illimitable woe. What will stop them?. High license? No, -Prohibition laws? No. Churches? No. Moral suasion? No. Thunderbolts will do ft; nothing else wllL Seven thun ders! Yonder are Intrenched Infidelity and atheism with their magazines of litera ture scofling at our Christianity; their Hoe printing presses busy day and night There are their blaspheming apostles, their drunken Torn Paines and libertine Voltalres of th present as wU as tfc fast, x-si fcy ail ft tws f ra frew UckMt demon to lewest imp. What wlli extir pate those monsters of Infidelity and atheism? John Brown's shorter cate chism about "Who made you?" or Westmlnsetr catechism about "What, Is the chief end tof man?" No. Thun derbolts! The seven thunders! For the Impurities of the world, empalaced as well as cellared, epauletted as well as ragged, enthroned as well as ditch ed; for corrupt legislation which at times makes our 1 state and national capitals a hemispheric stench; for su perstitions that keep xvhole 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 had jway things often go, hear you not a 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; bat God can, and God will; and when all mercy has failed and all milder means are exhausted, then Judgment will begin. Thunderbolts! Depend upon It that what Is not done under the flash of the seven candle sticks will be done by the trampling of the seven thunders. But I leave this imperial and multipotent numeral seven, where the Bible leaves it im bedded in the finest wall that was ever built or will be constructed, the wall of heaven. It is the seven strata of precious stones that make up that walk 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 of the heavenly wall shall be preserved forever the domi nant color of the earth we once Inhab ited. I 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 a 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 ob tained full eyesight in heaves, "If you would know how the earth appeared In Jitne and August look at that sev atfe ljf f tti Maxaaky wall, frcrn of.th okrjssIIU." AiU while we stand there aad talk, sph lf with spirit, that old color of the earth which had more sway than all the other colors put together, will bring bac k 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 tbat 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 ns permitted to 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 a loving Christ and that the seven thunders having done their work have ceased reverberation and that the numeral seven, which did such tremendous work In the history of na tions on earth, has been given 'such a high place In that Niagara of colors, the wall of heaven, "the "first founda tion of which Is jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardlus; the seventh, chryso lite.' When than these eye thy bearen built walls And pearly gU behold. Thy bulwark with aalvation strong, , And atrceta of ahioing roldt THE HEADSMAN. Be Tsed the Sword aad Sot the a Trior to 14HX I am inclined to think that prkr to 14S3 the sword and net the ax was asually employed as the weapon for Judicial decapitation and that a block naa a v ov. va v a tM vivas ivvvn lag their doom "meekly kneeling upon their knees," and in this opinion I am fortified by the concurrence of an' emi nent clerical historian. This learned writer agreed with me that th ax did not become the "regulation" lethal im plement until after the rouh and ready "heading" of Lord Hastings on the Tower green, when he was summarily dispatched by order of the protector. Gloucester. In this instance, according to th chroniclers, the victim's neck was stretched upon a piece of timber then In use for the repair of the adjacent church of St. Peter ad Vincnla, prob ably a "putlog." part of the scaffold ing which, we read, "conveniently lay in the way." Contemporary accounts seem to indicate that the executioner straddled over the prone body, nnd from this position 1 infer that the decrpita? tion was effected by tho tool known as an aaz, tne cnuing euge oi wmca i at a right angle to and not in a j-lnno with the haft. I may odd thr.t the only contempo rary reference I have come across cf the use, or proposed nse, nf an ax and block for inflicting capital - pnnU'hment prior to this tragedy, is in one of the Pa.ston Herie of h-iters describing the peril of an nnfortunate captive of Jack Cade's rebels (A. D. 1450). a gtucration before Lord! Hatding was k clumsily hacked U death. Notes and Q act ies. tKtrrlrnn Sperch. , The faults ct American t-peeth, as cording to nn authority on the subject, originate in tha primary fch.ol. Tb ehild U not taught the u.elcdic value of kwi firWaa . If Wi aIWw4 to tktcs iMsA of rtte terras, aitf f flvjw-of fpfveh bem:i. therefore. HHr iug and jnittnral "IMacnle your ;.ipU ilei r.nd yu will find yonr laumiae' a mellow tin any lea the fiainily of Lutinm." i the advice given "Y-:ir i'n n" throaty, yonr m's ar too lui.i.ii. yovj ari too hissing, your c's un; not ui't f Uvjugl). When you can train your scholars to emit these and the other coiwuntH within tho pitch, using tho tongue h. t- ad of the throat for their emission, then you will see that for rhythm v.iul sonority yonr. English language u:ay l.o compared with tha Tuscan, tin.' liomaii. thi BpanLb and the Provencal." t V '' The Oorjfxine llutttt. . A well kiH-wrij cheiniat elates that a surprising iinmber cf well to do young ladies have t::lr n to buying tho various forftis'of doctertd np coca extracts (co caine) in large quantities f.l.-o pbe nacetiue and various bromides, because "they make clq feel fo nico and hap py. " It is nredk'fs to my that each practices are exceedingly riky. Per haps, however, they are preferable to .another ' extrcuuiy foolish trick that of enifling chloroform dropped on 8 handkerchief, with .Hie object of yro dncing a ' pleasant, dreamy lauguor. New York Telegram... One Ear Iletter Thitu Two. A well known professor asncrtH thai the smallest intervals of sonnd can be better distinguished with one ear than with both. TThr let your neighbors know it? Ani why give them; a chsnce to guess you are even five or ten years more? A Better give incm jwu rMinne for euessinz tae Athr v9v.' It is verv easy: for nothing tells of sge so quickly as gray nair. 3 ) I mm is a youth-reneirer. It hides the sge under a luxuriant erowth of hair the color of youth. it never ian ia rcwie color to gray hair. It will stop the hair from coming out also. t It feeds the hsir bulbs. Thin hair becomes thick hsir, and short hsir becomes long hair. It cleanses the scalp; re moves all dandruff, and prevents its formation. I J I have a book on the J Hair which we will gladly V.J It you. do notoMalnnthbwe- fits yoa exr lrVm.lur u V, I Vtcor. write the doctnr abn WEAK ' 1111 fin " i rrobswy were mvmm i with Tour reneral lyitem whlcJ I
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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June 30, 1899, edition 1
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