THE NUMBER SEVEN.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 847, 20 November 1877, Page 2

THE NUMBER SEVEN.

God created the world He rested on ;i.he seventh day. = There are seyen daysin the weeks, 7 letteri

La tho name of Jehovah, 7 syllabi6j in the Mohemmedian formula of MWM^ n dliak ill Allah. Every l&tfejis familiar with the 7 fat and 7 lean kinej; tbe 7 fruitful and seven B|rreh;v ears of cdra, 7 year.n of ||§hby|aud 7 yeara famine. Jacob j§Sryed?7| years for Raohel, and was Mejatejt?.-with Leah, and served anothgr 7 years, and received his -rewart. Seven days he was followed by Laban his father-in-law. When Jacob died, his son Jbseph lamented for him 7 days. Every 7th year the Israe ites permitted their fields to remain iclle and nil* the Sabbatical year. At the siege or Jer. icho 7 priests with-7btumpets, went, roaad .the walls.ofjihe city, and afc the 7th biasbV.th'e "-waifs 1 fell. Seven times ten years'; were the Israelites held captive' in Babylon. Savon times ten Hebrew rchohtrs braiial ib -d the Old Testameut into Greek for the Alexaudrihian Libraiy. There were seven times ten members of the High Goimcil of Jeru-niena, not counting the priests. Wuea Peter asked, ' Lord now uuny times uiasb X.forgive my brother, is ib enough 7 times ? Jesus replied, ' I say unto younob 7 but seventy times 7.'

A just man falleth 7 times and riseth up again.' Prov. xxiv., 16. 1 when •rthijne-}enemy speaketh lair, believe him not, for there are 7 abomiuationsin his heart.' Prox. x >., 25. .There are, 7 attributes of tue Almighty' gifts of tbe Holy tiboab 7 psalms of penance, 7 supplications of the Lords, prayer, 7 words of the oroaa; the Catholic Gharcii has 7 sacraments. There are 7 wounds of Christ on the cro.-js. In .Revelations there'are 7 angels with gjlden chalices, filled with divine wrath; also 7 lamps with 7 flames are iuentioued there. does nob know of bhe ' 7 sleepers/ the 7 youthful Christian martyrs, who escaped in a cavern near Epheseus and tell asleep, and slumbered undisturbed for 200 years. There are 7 wouders of tae world, 7* wise men of Greece. The M ibammedan's paradise contains 7 heavens. Borne has been governed by 7 Kings, like .vise Prussia for the 7<h is 'now ifimpecor Wilheiin. Daring the seven years under Frederick 11., history mention* 7 important: battles. The war in 6pain between the Carlists aud Christians lasted 7 years. The Franco Prussian war lasted 7 months, aud the 7th H-gimcnt was the first to distinguish iiself. On the 28th (4 times 7) of September, 1870, Strasbourg surrendered: and on the 28th of October, Meiz, aud on the 28th of January, 1871, Paris. Rome is built on 7 hills; so is OjuNuremburg, Hamburg, and Lisbou, Ancient Ttiebea, also Athens, Bagdad, and Morocco each had seven gates. Seven cities claimed the honour of being Homer's birth place. There were 7 steps leading to the tomb of Darius, the Persian fkiug; 7 steps to Solomon's throne; 7 arms or branches to the lamp in the Temple of Jerusalem ; 7 wicks in the perpetual lamp (eternal flame >to the rites of the Greek Church. 'I he river JSile has 7 mouths. There are 7 Canary islands, 7 lonian islands, 7 coiors in the rainbow; there are 7 loues in the musical scale, 7 precious metals. Pleiades, one of the most beautiful constellations, numbers 7 stars. There are 7 cardinal virtues; three of these are Faith, Jtlo t ie, and Charity, ' aud the greatest or thtse is Charity.' The Dune-of Wellington had 7 Marshal's staffs. Tne Pope is priest of seven churches. Che human head has seven openings. The eubrauce bo the celebrated dome at Cologne has 7 pillars aec uj>ou 7 pedestals surmounted by 7 statues, and the year in which the Waikato Times passed into the hands of the present proprietor, 1876, is divisible by 7,