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\ m ? ? > ? i i? ? - ? ii?'?M THENUMERALSEVEN Dr. Talmnge Discourses on Bible Mathematics. A FAVORITE NUMBER WITH The Divine Mind. Take Care of the Present, Says the Great Divine; God Will Take Care of the Future. Many of the import ant doctrines of the Bible are by Dr. Talmago presented in this sermon in a very unusual way. Ucnosis ii, 3, "God blessed the seventh day." The mathematics of the Bible are nnticcablo;thc geometry and the arithmetic, the square in Ezckiel, the circle spoken of in Isaiah, the curve alluded to in .Job, the rule of fractions mentioned in Daniel, the rule of loss and gain in Mark, whoio Christ asks the 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 that is crowned above all others in the Bible. 1 . II.. l ?1-: i . i - I ? in mv; iiuiuui.ii seven, wuion me Arabians got from India and all following ages have taken from the Arabians. It Btands between the figuro aix and the ligurc eight. In the liiblc all the other numerals bow to it. Over 1100 times it is mentioned in the Scriptures, cither alone or compounded with other words. In Genesis the week is rounded into seven days, and 1 use my text bccauso thero this numeral is for the first time introduced in a journey which halts not until in the close ol the book of Revelation its monument is built into the wall of hcavem in chrysolite, which in the strata of precious stones is the soventh. In the Riblc we find that Jacob had to serve seven years to get Rachel, but she was well worth it, and. f^ctelling the years of prosperity and famine in Pharaoh's time, the seven fat oxen wcro eaten up of the seven lean oxen, and wisdom is said to be built on seven pillars, and the ark was left with the Philistines seven years, and Naaman, for the cure of his leprosy, plunged in the i . i > i KUiunu MJVUU UlUUNj lO U10 IIOUSC lll!U Ezckiel saw iti vision there wo seven steps; the walls of Jericho, before they fell down, wore compassed seven days; Zechcariah describes a stone with seven eyes; to cleanse a leprous houso tho door must be sprinkled with pigeons' blood seven times; in Canaan wore overthrown seven nations; on one occasion Christ cast out seven devils; on a mountain he fed a multitude of people with seven loaves, the fragments left filling seven baskets, and the closing passages of tho Bible are magnificent and overwhelming with the imagery made up of seven churches, seven stars, seven candlesticks, seven seals, seven angels and soven heads and seven crowns and seven horns and seven spirits and soven phials and seven plagues and scvou thunders. Yea, the numeral seven seems a favorite with the divine mind outside as well as inside the Biblo, for aro there not seven prismatic colors? And when God with the lainbow wrote the comforting thought that the world would never have another dolugo ho wrote it on tho scroll of the sky in ink of seven colors. He grouped into the Pleiades seven stars. Home, the capital of tho world, sat on seven hills. When God would make the most intelligent thing on earth, the human countenance, ho fashioned it with seven features ?tho two cars, tho 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, aud so on, for we aro as to our bodies septennial animals. So tho numeral soven ranges through nature and through revelation. It is the number of perfection, and so 1 use it while I speak of the seven candlesticks, the seven stars, the seven seals and the seven thunders. Tho seven golden candlesticks wero and arc the churches. Mark you, the churches never were and never enn be candles. They arc only candlesticks. They arc not the light, but they are to hold the light. A room in the night might have in it 500 candlesticks and yet you could not see your hand before your face. The only use of a caudlcstick, and the only uso of n church is to hold up tho light, You see it is a dark world, the night of ain, tho night of trouble, tho night of superstition, tho night of persecution, the night of poverty, the night of sickness, the night of death; aye, about F>0 nights have interlocked their shadows. The whole raco goes stumbling over prostrated hopes and fallen fortunes and empty flour barrels and desolated cradles and deathbeds. Ilow much we have uso for all the seven candlesticks, with lights blazing from the top of each one of them! Light of pardon for all sin! Light of comfort for all trouble! Light of encouragement for all despondency! Light of eternal riches for all povortyl Light/of rescue for all persecution! Light of reunion for all tho bereft' Light of heaven lor all the dying! And that light is Christ, who is the light that shall yet irradiate the hemispheres. Hut mark you. when L say churches are not candles, but candlesticks, I cast no slur on candlesticks. 1 believe in beautiful candlesticks. The candlesticks that Cod ordered for the ancient tabernacle were something exquisite. They wore a dreain of beauty carved out of loveliness. They wore made of ham mered gold, stood in a foot of gold and had six branches of geld blooming all along in six lilies of gold each, and lips of gold, from which the candles lifted their holy fire. And the best houses in any city ought to be the churches? the best built, the best ventilated, the best swept, tlu? best windowed, and the best chandeliercd. 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 pooplo live in palaces. Do not have a better place for yourself than for your Lord and King. l)o not live in a parlor and put your Christ in a kitchen. Theso seven candlesticks of which 1 speak were not made of powtcr or iron. They were golden candlesticks, and gold is not only a valuable, but a bright metal. Have everything about your church bright?your ushers with snailI; it mmmmmmu, .. iog faces, your musit! jubilant, your handshaking cordial, your entire service attractive. Many people feel that in church they must look dull, in order to be reverential, and many whoso faces in other kinds of assemblage show all the different phases of emotion have in ohurch no more expression than tho baok wheel of a hearse. Brighten up and bo responsive. If you feel like weeping, weep. If you feel liko smiling, smile. If you feel indignant at some wrong assailed from the pulpit, frown. Do not lcavo your naturalness and resiliency homo beoauso it is Sunday morning. If as officers of a church you meet people at tho church door with n black look, and havo tho music black nud the minister in black preach a black sermon, and from invocation to benediction have the impression black, few will come, and thoso who do come will wish that they bad not come at all. (J old on candlesticks! Scour up the six lilies on each branch and know that tho moro lovoly and bright they arc the more fit they are to hold tho light. But a Christlcss light is a damago to tho world rather than a good. Cromwell stabled tiis cavalry horses in St. Paul's , cathedral, and many now use the , nlinroli ir? tuliiiilt f a o? oKIa ?...1 vttu.vit 111 nun 11 u? nmuiu VUlliliUO UUU worldincss. A worldly church is a can- | dlcHtick without the candle, and it had | its prototype in St Sophia, in Constan- ' tinople, built to the glory of God by i Constantino, but transformed to base , uses by Mohammed the second. Guilt , out of colored marble, a cupola with 24 , windows soaring to a height of ISO feet, | tho coiling one great bewilderment of | mosaic, galleries supported by eight | columns of porphyry and 07 columns of i green jasper, nine bronzo doors with , alto relievo work, fascinating to the eye . of any artist, vases and vestments in- ] crusted with ah manner of precious stones. Four walls on lire with indc- . scribablo splendor. i Though labor was cheap, the build- , ing cost $1,500,000. Kcclcsiastiral i structure, almost supernatural in pomp and majesty. Gut Mohammedanism tore down from the walls of that build- j ing all the saintly and Christly images, and high up in the dome tho figure of | the cross was rubbed out that the ores- ] cent of the barbarous Turk might bo i substituted. A great church, but no ) Christ! A gorgeous candlestick, but no j candle! Ton thousand such churches ] would not give the world as much light i as ono homcniado tallow candle by < which last night some grandmother in ] the eighties put on her spectacles read the Psalms of David in large . p Up with the churches by all m ti.s! j i Hundreds of them, thousands of them, I , and the luoro the hotter. But let euoh ] one he a bla/.o of heavenly light, in: king ] the world brighter and brighter, ti!l the ( last shadow has disappeared aiyl (he i last of the suffering children ot Hod i shall have reached the land where they i have no need of candlestick or "of can- | die, neither light of tho sun, for tho i Lord Cod givcth them light, and they i shall reign forever and ever." Seven i candlesticks the complote number of i lights! Let your light shine before i men, that they, seeing your good works j may glorify your Father which is in j heaven. i Turn now in your Bible to the seven stars. We arc distinctly told that they ! are the ministers of religion. Some are i large stars, some of them small stars, i some of them sweep a wide circuit and i somo of them a small circuit, but so fa: i as they are genuine they get their light < from the great central sun around whom i they make revolution. Let each one 1 keep in his sphere. The solar system i would bo soon wrecked if the stars, instoad of keeping their own orbits should i go to hunting down other stars. Minis- 1 ters of religion should never clash. But < in all the centuries of tho Christian | church some of theso stars have been i hunting an Edward Irving or a Horace ( Bushnell or an Albert Barnes, said the i stars that were in pursuit of the other i stars lost their own orbit, and some of them could nevoi; again tind it. Alas i for the heresy hunters! The best way to destroy error is to preach tho truth. The best way to scatter darkness is to Hlritd A lil/lll Tlinrn ia in immnnnil.. -...-w ? 1U ill lUIIUUllvllt^ room enough for nil the starH and in the church room enough for all the ministers. The ministers who give up righteousness and tho truth will get punishment enough anyhow, for they arc "'the wandering stars for whom is reserved the blacknoss of darkness forever." I should liko, as a minister, when I am dying to bo able truthfully to say what a captain of the English army, fallon at the head of his column and dying on the Egyptian battlefield, said to General Wolseley, who came to condole with him: "1 led them straight. Didn't 1 lead them straight, general?" God lias put us ministers as captains in this battlefield of truth against error. Great at last will bo our chagrin if we fall leading tho people the wrong way, but great will bo our gladness if when the battle is over wo can hand our sword back to our great commander, saying: "Lord .Jesus! Wo led tho people straight. Didn't we lead them straight? Those ministers who go off at a tangent and preach some other gospel arc not stars, but coinots, and they flash across tho heavens a littlo 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 romcmber that God calls us stars, and our business is to shino and to keep our own sphere, and then whop we get done trying to light up tho darkness of this world we will wheel into higher spheres, and in us shall be fulfilled the promise. "They tfiat turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and over." Tho ministers are not all I'ceksniffs and canting hypocrites, as some would have you think! Forgive me if, having at other times glorified the medical profession and tho legal profession and the literary profession, 1 glorify my own. 1 havo seen them in their homes and heard them in their pulpits, and a grandei array of men never i,mo?i.r.<i and the Biblo 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 shono on earth. Kdward N. Kirk of the Congregational church, Stophon H. Tying of the Kpiscopal church, Matthew Simpson of the Methodist church, John Rowling of tho Baptist chuch. Samuel K. Talmage of the Presbyterian church, Thomas DeWitt of the Reformed church, John Chambers of fVlA a no *%/!/??>* - 1 '1 i uuuroii, ana tnero l | ? " * t h*f. itop, for it so happens that 1 have mentioned the seven stars of the seven shurchcs. I pass on to anothor mighty Bible icven, and thoy aro the seven seals. St. John in vision saw a scroll withscvjn seals, and ho heard an angel cry: "Who is worthy to looso the soals thorc>f?" Tako eight or ten sheots of foolicap paper, paste them together and roll them into a scroll and have the icroll at sovon different places sealed with scaling wax. You unroll tho icroll till you ootno to one of theso icals and then you can go no farther until you broak that seal. Thon unroll again until you como to another teal, and you can go no farther until pou break that seal. Then you go on intil all tho seven seals arc broken and he contents of tho entire scroll are repealed. Now. that scroll with seven icals held by the angel was the prophjcy of what was to come on the earth. It meant that the knowledge of the fu lure was with (lod, and no man and no uigel was worthy to opon it, but the Diblo says Christ opened it and broke ill the sovcn seals. 11o broke tho first seal and unrolled tho scroll, and tbcrc was a picture of a white horse, and that meant prosperity and triumph for the [Ionian empire, and so it really came to Lo pass that for 0(1 years virtuous emperors succeeded each other Norvn Trajan and Antoninus. Christ in the vision broke tho second seal and unrolled again, and there was a picture of a red horse, and that meant bloodshed, ind so it really came to pass, and the next 00 years were red with assassinations and wars. 'Then Christ broke the third seal aud unrolled it, and there was a picture of a black horse, which in ill literature means famine, oppression ind taxation, and so it really eame to pass. Christ went on until he broke ill the seven seals and opened all the scroll. Well, the future of all of us is i scaled scroll, and I am glad that no mo but Christ can open it. Do not let as join thatclass of Chritians in our day who arc trying to break tho seven seals of the future. They arc trying to peep into things they have no business with. Do not go to some necromancer or spiritualist or soothsayer or fortuno teller to (ind out what is going to happen 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 lL. i:r? ?P ,1 1.1 !_ ! ? . . - I .1 liiu 111 u ui ilie wunu 11 1M going 10 DO lI1C white horse of prosperity or the red horse of war or the black horse of fain inc. Yon 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 TO years, his biography is in a scroll having at least seven seals. And let him not luring the first ten years of his life try to look into the twenties, nor the twenties intothe thirties, nor the thirties into the forties, nor the forties into the fifties, nor the fifties into the sixties, nor the sixties intothe soventies. From the way the years havo got the habit of racing along I guess you will not have to wait a great while before all the seals of the future arc broken. 1 would not zivo 2 cents to know how long I am going to live or in what day of what year the world is going to be demolished. I would rather give $1,000 not to know. Suppose some one eould break the next seal in the scroll of your personal history and should tell you that on the next 4th of .July, 1001, you were 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 friendswould no counting them, and next 4th of .July you would rub your hands together and whine: "One year from today I am to go, Dear me! I wish no one had told mo so long before. I wish tli .it necromancer had not broken the seal of Lhc future." And meeting some undertaker, you would say: "I hope you will keep yourself free for an engagement the 4th of July, 1901. That day you will he needed at my house. To save time yen might as well take my measure now, f> 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 knowcth no man; no, not the angels, but my Father only." Keep your hands oil the seven seals. There is another mighty seven of the llible?namely, the seven thunders. What those thunders meant we are not told, and there has been much guessing about them. Hut they are to come, we are told, before the end of all things, and the world cannot get along without them. Thunder is the speech of lightning. There arc evils in our world which must be thundered down and which will require at least seven volleys to prostrate them. We are all doing nice, delicate, soft handed work in churches and reformatory institutions, against the evils of the world, and much of it amounts to a teaspoon dipping out tho Atlantic ocean, or a clam shell digging away at a mountain, or a tank hammer smiting the Gibraltar. 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 tho 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 embroidery, blood in the deep dye of that rcfulgont upholstory, billions of dollrrs of accumulated fraud intrenched in massive storehouses and stock companies manipulated by unscrupulous men, until the monopoly is defiant of all earth and heaven. How shall tho evil be overcome? By treatises on the maxim, "Honesty is the best policy?" Or by soft repetition of tho golden rulo that we must "Do unto others as wo would havo them do to us?" No, it will not KA rlAnn f l?nf ????? ~ ^ wv> uiraiis V1IAV VTrtj . TV illlV in UCl'UCU uuu will come is the scvon thunders. Thoro is drunkenness backed up by a capital mightior tlian in any other business. Intoxicating liquors enough in this country to float a navy. Good grain to the amount of 07,050,000 bushels annually destroyed to make the deadly liquid. Breweries, distilleries, gin shops, rum palaces, liquor associations, our nation spending Annually $740,000,000 for rum, resulting in bankruptcy, disease, pauperism, filth, assassination, death, illimitable woe. What will stop thom? High lioonso? No. Prohibition laws? No. Churehos? No. Moral suasion? No. Thunder bolts will do it; nothing else will. Seven thunders! Yonder arc intrenched infidelity and atheism, with their magazines of literature seofling at our Christianity, their Hoe printing presses busy day and night. There are their blaspheming apostlos, their drunken Tom I'aincs and libcrtime Yoltaircs of the present as well as the past, re cnforcod *by all the powers of darkness, from highest doinon to lowest imp. What will extirpate thoso monsters of infidelity and atheism? John Brown's shorter catechism about "Who made you" or Westminster catechism about "Whatis the chief end of man?" No. Thunderbolts! The seven thunders! For the itupurotics of the world, ompalaecd as well as cellared, opauleted as well as ragged, enthroned as well as ditched; for corrupt legislation which at times makes our state and national capitals a hemispheric stench; for superstitions that keep whole nations in squalor century after century, their juggernauts crush ing, their knives lacerating, their waters drowning, their funeral pyres burning, the seven thcunders! Oh, men and women, disheartened at tho had way 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 arc too heavy and too tiery for us to handle, but God can and God will, and when all mercy has failed and all milder means arc exhausted, then judgement will begin. Thunderbolts! Depend upon it, that what is not dono under the flash of the seven candlesticks will be lone by the trampling of tho seven thunders. Hut I leavo this imperial and muliipotcnt numeral seven, where the Hiblc leaves it, imbedded 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 wall. After naming six of the precious stones in that wall tho Hiblc cries out, "The seventh chrysolito is an exquisite green, and in that seventh layer of the hoavenly wall shall be preserved forever the dominant color of the earth we onco inhabited. I have sometimes been saddened at the thought that this world, according to science and revelation, is to be blotted out of existence, for it is such a beautiful world. Hut here in this 1 ?f lL. 1 |_ II .1 iujui ? i me nuiivuiiiy wan, wnure mc numeral seven is to be imbedded, this stratum of green is to bo photographed and embalmed and perpetuated, the color of the grass that covers the earth, tho color of the foliage that fills the forost, the color of the deep sea. One glance at that green chrysolite, 1,01)0,000 years after this planet has been ex tinguished, will bring to mind just how it looked in summer and spring, and we will say to those who were born bliijd on earth and never saw at all in this world after this they have obtained full eyesight in heaven, "If you would know bow the earth appeared in dune and August, look at the seventh layer of tho 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 magnificence, 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 behind us we so long enjoyed the light of tho scvon golden candlesticks and were all of us permitted to shine among tho seven stars of more or less magnitude, and that all the seven seals of the mysterious future have been broken wido open for us by a loving Christ, and that the seven thunders, having done their work, havo ceased reverberation, and that the numeral seven, which did such tremendous work in the history of nations on earth, has been given such a high place in that Niagara of colors, the wall of heaven, "the lisrt foundation of which is .Jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; tho fourth, emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; tho sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite." 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All We Ask of e^YOU SI'S ANYTHING " Machinery or Mill Supply Line Is that you givo us an opportunity to submit our prices and make comparisons. We ask this because we believe we can make it to VOI R advantage. TRY US. Wc make a specialty of equipping . IMPRuVEI) MODERN GINNERIES OP ANY CAPACITY WITH THE SIMPLEST AND MOST EFFICIENT COTTON HANDLING APPARATUS IN EXISTENCE THE MURRAY SYSTEM. Correspondence with intending purchasers solicited. W. H. Gibbes & Co.. COLUMBIA. S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA AdKNOV Liddell Co., Charlotte, X. C. A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, i\i. I. /Uti /i:~ A. rjugiu v-iiuoii v?in v>u., ormgewaier, Mass. Straub Maohincry Co., Cincinnati, O. L.L&K NOTHING LIKE IT FOIt Constipation, Indigestion, t"i Regulator ,t Kidneys. Wholesale by? THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. I)r. II. BAER, Charleston, S. C. ?LIFE? A vegetable for Mild, :ure tor Uiv- the Pleasant, :r, Kidney & LIVER Sure, itomaoh troubles, and 25, 50, $1. -KIDNEYSSold wholesale by? Tho Murray Drug Co., Columbia. Dr. II. Baer, Charleston, S C T?K,aB rCT O A mtua Li LLjsf? i?' ' A li [j Machine g re*r?, fitted with 4f ? (60.00 Machines ^ fM A what y<m vast. iuraT litnre, Slaves, Ids Kackiict, The Padgett Fur oad Street, ^ ~ ? . :r- --!.. Ginning Machinery. The Smith Pneumatic Suction Elevating, Ginning and Packing feysteai Is the simplest and most efficient on the market. Forty-eight comploto outfits in South Carolina; each )/ one giving absolute /' m satif/f'tction. V s/ Boilers and Engines; Slide Valve, Automatic and Corliss. My Light and Heavy Log Benin Saw Mills cannot bo equalled in doaign, efficiency or price by any doalor or manufacturer in tho South. Write for prices and catalogues. V. C. Badham & Co., 1326 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. * I '< i ? o ,Jtt chu e> }54| J| / , ? * 11 C* "0)Cu 1 e> ? 98 % i: f g no 2 fr ti . ,' ' . . to Hint ? 1 ilfcttmo *?J' X . ? mul KI v 0 'rtji ? I endless en- gg ^ . ' ] j-yment. ^ < -/.A.'vjrf iLi A Poor plan? ira ti) '* ? - -j wjlllastafew e> y bcum? rtij I be" veeatidyu iathushek I ^ in always dooil, always Itellabl?, Pf always Satisfactory, ulways LOfit- ttQ tut;. You take 110 ehnuces is bCLv* 1?I gjj tnjr it. Hf? It costs somewhat ^ .ore than a ?F> jvs enciip, poor jnono, but is tuucn tne Mfl 'PC" theapeiA in the end. A( Knottier HiiriiOvndePiatJ0 8old?p ml *>? reasonable. Fuotory prices to retalj WW buyers. Easy payinonts? Writ*?ut gW S3 ^ LUODEN & &ATES. fSi Address: I), A. FftFM&LflY, Agant, COLUMBIA. S. C. Macfeafs __ Sohool of shorthand . ' ANI) ' * typewriting COLUMBIA, S. C. This School has lite reputation of being the bed business institution in the State. Graduates aro holding ro nnneratlvc positions in mercantile house", banking, insurance, real estate, railroad otfioes, <Sto., in this and ether otatcs. Write to W. II. Maafiat, Court ngraphcr.(Jomulbi'i, H G forterinj, eto To get strong and healthy use one bottle Murray's Iron Mixture. Price 50c THE MURRAY DRUG CO., r1 ^ r.tr vf i r \ rt W V I.J J U 'J I. v v# rycaiMBMBMWfc aAlNS! I Tl! 18 KfiEGA NT No. 8 COOKING STOVE I Only $10.00. Usui 17x17 inch oven, four 8 inch pot holes; large flues and gonran- 3 "r v teed a pood baker. We fit this Stove up vrith forty piece* of ware including the latest stove war*. To advertise our business we will sell tliis No 8 Cooking Stove, 8 fitted with 40 pieces of waro for #10.00 'cash. niture Co. Ttngasta, Ga. ?I