Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-26

vould prevent inobriatiou. But stand
| ing ON the top of this amethystiue
| layer of the foundation of the wall of
heaven, | be,hinlS myself of the mis-
| take that many of the ancient Hebrews
made when they thought that the
amethyst was II producer Of pleasant
dreams, just wear piece of amethyst
over your heart or put IL under your
pillow, aud You would have your
| dreams filed with everything
beautiful and enhancing No,
no, Tho style OF pillow will
not decide the character of the dream
The only recipe for pleasant dreams Is
To do right and think right when you
are wide awake, Conditions of physi.
cal disease may give u good man n
mig htmare, but man physically WELL
II he behave himself Alright, win not be
troubled with bad dreams, Nchuchad-
nczzar, with eagles down under his
head and lyrian purple over il, strug'
glcd with bad dream that made him
shrek out for the soothsayers and AS
,rologcrs to come and interpret it.
Pharaoh, amid the marble palaces of
Memphis, was COMPOUNDED by II dream
in which lean cows ate up the Fat COWS
and the small ears of corn doyourcd
the seven large ears, andnwful famine
was prefgurcd, Pilates wife, amid
clouds of richest upholstery, had u
startling dream, because of which she
sent II message IN hot haste To u
courtroom 10 keep her husband from
cnncting II judicial outrage Bat
Jacob, at Bethel, with II pillow
of mountain rock, had hlissful
dream of the ladder ungelblossom-
ing. Bunyan, with his head on hard
plank of bedford Jail, saw the gates Of
the celestial city. ST. John, ON the
barrcnest island of the .Egcan Sea, in
his dream, heard trumpcts and saw
cavalrymcu ON white horses, and new
heaven aud new earth No amount
OF rough pillow can disturb the night
vision of saint, aud no amount of
amcthystinc charm can delcctato tho
Cfel.u Of q mlsorcnnt,
hut, homc ono will say, why have
leai! brought us to this amethyst the
top row OF the foundation of the
heavenly wall, IL you are not able to
Gcccpt the theory of the ancient Greeks,
who said that the amethyst was n
charm against INVESTIGATION, or IL you
are not willing To accept the theory OF
tae ancient Hebrews that the amethyst
was 10 producer of pleasant dreams?
My answer is | have brought you TO
the top row, the twelfth layer Of tho
foundation of the heavenly wall ol NJ
teen hundred miles of cirtllng
hmethyst To put You IN position
where You can get u new idea of heaven
To let you see that after You have
climbed mp twelve strata OF glory you
are only at the base of the eternal
grandeurs; To let you, with cnchant
mcnt of soul, look far down and look
TAR up; and to force upon you the con
clusion that II all our climbing has only
shown us the foundation OF the wall,
what must the wall itself be; and II
this Is the outside of heaven, what
must the inside be; and If all this Is
igurntivo, what must the reality bc2
On, this piled-up magniticence of the
heavenly WALL Oh, this eternity OF
decoration! Oh, this opalesccnt, ilor'
cscent, prismatic miracle Of architect
IRE! What cnthroncmcut of all colorsl
A mingingo of the blue of skies, and the
surf of seas, aud the green OF meadows,
and the upholstery OF autumnal forests,
and the fire Of August sunsets All the
splcndors of earth and heaven dashed
into those twelve rows of foundation
wall All that, mark you, only typical
of the spiritual glories that roll over
heaven like the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans swung in ono billow.
DO you not see that IL was impossi.
bic that you understand hundrcdth
part of the suggcstiveness Of that
twenty-iirst chapter OF Revelation
without going into some Of tho parti-
culurs of the wall of Heaven, and dip
ping up some of its dripping
colors, and running your eye
along some of It's wondrOus crystalli-
cations, and examining some of tho
frozen light in its turquoise, and feel"
ing with your own finger the hard
ness of its sapphire. and shielding
your eyes against tire shimmcring
brilliancc In its beryl and studying
the fifteen hundred miles of emerald
without flaw? Yet all this only the
outside of heaven, and the poorest part
of the outside, not the wall itself but
only the foot of the wall, for my text
says: "rhe foundations OF the walls
of the city were garnished with all
manner OF precious stones" Oh, get
down your harp, II You can play one
Get down palm branch, " you can
reach one. Why il makes us all feel
like crying out with james Montgom-
cry:
When shall these eyes thy heaven built
walls
Aud pearly gates behold?
Oh my soul. II my text shows MS
only the outside what must the inside
be? While riding hast summer
through the Emperor's park, near st,
Petersburg, Russia, was captiyated
with the groves transplantcd from all
zones, and the flower beds, miles this
way and miles that way, incarnadincd
with beauty, and the fountains bound
ing in such rcvel with the sunlight as
nowhere else is seen. ! said: This is
beautiful. ! never saw anything like
this before" But when entered the
palace and saw the pictured walls
and the long line of statuary, and
aquariums ailoat with all bright
scales, aud uviaricS n-chant with bird
voices, and the inner doors of the palace
were swung back by tho chamberlain,
and ! saw the Emperor and Empress
and Princes and princesses, and they
greeted me with Il cordiality of old ac-
quaintanceship, forgot all the groves
and floral bcwitchmcnt had seen out
side before entrance. And now ask,
il the outside Of heaven attracts our
souls to-day, how much more
will be the uplifting when we
shall get inside and see the
King in his beauty and all the
Princes and Prlncesses of the palaces
Of amethyst? Are you not glad that
we did not stop in our ascent this
morning until we got to the top round
Of the foundation wall of heaven, the
twelfth row, the amethyst? Perhaps
the ancient Hebrews were not after
all, SO far out of the way when they
thought that the touch CT the anne
thyst gave pleasant dreams, for the
touch of it this hour gives me a very
pleasant dream Stand ng on this anne
thyst, dream dream. close my eyes
and | see it all. We are there. This is
heaven! Not the outside but the in
side Of heaven. With what warmth
of welcome our long-ago-departed
loved ones have kissed us. My! sw
they have changed in looks. They
were so sick when they went away,
and now they are SO well. Look!
Yonder is the palace of our Lord tho
King. Not kept Il moment outside, I'VE
are ushered into the throne room