The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-01-25


throughout all eternity have in some
way kept the most beaNtiful Of earthly
appearances, whether you take this
sapphire OF the second layer as literal
or fgurative. The deep blue OF our
skies and the deep blue of our seas must
not, will not, be forgotten. II thou
sand years after the world has gone to
ashes, you or l want to recall how the
earthly skies looked in summer noon
or the midocean in calm, we will have
only to look at the second row OF the
foundation of the wall of Heaven. 0,
am,so glad that St John told us aboutitl
''The second sapphire" While we are
living in sight Of that wall, spirits who
have come from other worlds, and who
never saw our earth, will visit u.s. and
we will visit them, and some time we
will be in converse about this earth
when 1t was yet a-hoat and a-swing,
and we shall want to tell them about
how it looked at certain times, and
then, it will be a great object lesson
for all eternity, and we will say to our
visitors from some other world, as we
point toward the wall of He aven: Ut
looked Ike that stratum of foundation
next to the lowest" John twenty first
chapter and nineteenth verse: 1.-THE
second, sapphire"
A step higher and you come to chal'
cedony, another layer in the foundation
Of the wall and running fifteen hundred
miles around the heavenly city. Chai
cedonyl Translucent A divine mix
ture of agates and opals and comedians
Striped with white and gray. Dashes
of pallor blushing into red and darken'
ing into purple. Iceland and the
Hebrides hold forth beautiful specimens
of chalcedony
But now we must make swift as
cent to the top of the foundation wall,
for we can not minutely examine all the
layers, and so putting one foot on the
chalcedony, of which we have been
speaking, we spring to the emerald, and
we are one-third of the way to the top
of the foundation, for the fourth row is
emerald. That, would judge, is Gods
favorite gem, because it holds what
seems evident is His favorite color on
earth, the green, since that is the color
most widely diffused across all the
earth's continents-the grass, the foli-
age, the everyday dress of nature. The
emerald! Kings used 1t as seal to
stamp pronunciamentos. The rainbow
around the throne of God is by st John
compared to 1t Conquerors have con-
sidered it the greatest prize to cap
ture. What ruthlessness when the
soldiers of Pizarro pounded it with
their hammersl Emeralds have
had much to do with the
destiny of Mexico. Five Of them were
presented by Cortez to his bride, one o.
them cut into the shape Of a rose, an
other into the shape Of a trumpet an
other into the shape of a bell, will
tongue OF pearl, and this presentation
aroused the jealousy of the throne an'
caused the consequent downfall Of Cor
; tez BIT the depths of the sea wer
decorated with those emeralds, for iu
shipwrecl they wentdown off the coas
of Barbary. Napoleon wore an emer
aid at Austerlitz. In the Kremlin mu
scum at Moscow there are crowns an
scepters and outspread miracles Of em
: erald. Ireland is called the Emeral
Isle, not because Of its verdure, but be
cause it was presented to Henry Secon
Of England with an emerald ring. Ner
, had magnifying glass OF emeral
through which he looked at the gladia
q torial contests at Rome But here ar
fifteen hundred miles Of emerald sweeI
6 ing around the heavenly city in on
! layer.
= But upward still, and you put You
foot on stratum Of sardonyx, whit
!, and red, a seeming commingling {
snow and fire; the snow cooling the fir'
!, the fire melting the snow.
4 Another climb, and you reach the sa,
A dius, named aftRr the city Of Sardiui
Another climb, and you reach th
: chrysolite. A specimen of this, belong
1 ing TO Epiphanus, in the fourth cer
y tury, was said TO be so brilliant tha
n whatever was put over to conceal it wa
!. shone through, and the emperor {
h China had specimen that is describe
IS as having such pene rating radianC
n that II makes the night as bright as I'll
d day.
a A higher climb and you reach th
n beryl Two thousand years ago th
n Greeks used this precious stone for Ell
U craving purposes, II was accounte
:. among the royal treasures Of Tyre. I'll
, hilt of Murat's sword was adorned wit
Il It II glows in the imperial crown I
Great Britain. Luther thought II
, beryl of the heavenly wall was tu
J. quoise. Kalish thought it was chrys
II lite. Josephus thought 1t golden-co
a ored Jewell The wheels OF Ezekiel
vision famed with beryl, and were
revolving fire The beryl app 'ars.
!, six-sided prisms, and is set in seals ar
. !. intaglios, In necklaces and coronets.
!. = was the Joy OF ancient jewelry. II o
= namented the affiuent with ear-drop
:, Charlemagne presented 1t to his fayo
ties. Beautiful beryll Exquisite
!, shaped beryll Divinely colored berry
!, = II seems like congealed color. II lool
= like frozen FIRE.
Il But stop not here. Climb higher al
!. you come to topaz, a bewilderment
!, beauty and named after an island OF q
- Red Sea. ri
m Climb higher and you come tochrys
4 prasus, q greenish-golden hue and ha
n as flint fH
r. Climb higher and you reach the
" cinth, named after the flower hyacin
IA and ~ reddiah.bl