Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-01-23

Sts,h Wales and k0rsa Carolina yield +
exacisiEe specImeaz. It's blue eye Is seen /
II tas valley Of the Rhine. After a /
barissl 81 thousands Il years it has been
hxought 70 sighE II Egyptian monuments !
AMI Assyrizn cylinders.
At Moscow and ST. Petersburg and
Coasgantinorls have seen great Masses
q this sapphire. COMMONLY called lapis
lszuh. The closer you Study rs votns
fhe more enchanting. and | do not won
DIR that the sapphire Is called iato ths
Foundation Of the wall Of heaven II
MAKES a strong stone for the foundation
Tor Il Is the hardest Of al minerals Ak
cert tbs diaracnd.
Sapphire based on jasper. blue SKY
over q hery sunset. st. John points &c
il IN Revelation and says, the second
sapphire" and this suggests 10 me that
though orr earth and all rs furniture OF
mountains ANA seas and armospheres are
to collapse and vanish we will through
out all eternity have IN some way kept
the most beautiful of earthly appear
ances, whether you take this sapphire OF
the second layer as literal or fguratiye
The deep blue OF our skies and the deer
blue Vi our seas must not, VIII not, be
forgotten. II thousand years after the
world has gone to ashes you or want
10 recall how the earthly skies hooked in
q summer noon or the midocean in a
calm, we VIII have only to look at the
second row OF the foundation of the wall
Of heaven.
Oh, am so glad that st. John told us
about i! 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 viii visit us,
and we viii visit them. and some time We
Will be in converse about this earth when
It was vet aioat and aswing, and we
shall want 10 tell them about how il
looked at certain times, and then it viii
be great object lesson for all eternity,
and we VIII say to our visitor from some
other world, as we point toward the wall
OF heaven. 1T looked like that stratum
of foundation next to the lowest"
John, twenty-irst chapter and nine
teenth verse. ''The second. sapphire"
caALcEpoSY AND EMERALD.
\ step higher and you come TO chal
cedoly, another layer in the foundation
of the wall AMI running 500 miles
around the heavenly city. Chalcedony!
Translucent. \ divine mixture of agates
ard opals and comedians. Striped with
white and gray. Dashed of pallcr blush
ing into red and darkening into purple.
Iceland and the Hebrides hold forth
beautiful specimens Of chalcedony.
But now we must make swift ascent
10 the top of tho foundation wall, for we
cannot infinitely examine all the layers,
and SO. putting one foot on the chalce-
dony OF which we have been speaking,
We spring 10 the emerald. and we are
one-third of the way TO the top OF the
foundation, for the fourth row is emer-
aid. That. would judge. is Gods favor
lie among gems. because 1T holds what
seems evident is his favorite color on
earth, the green, since that is the color
. most widely diGused across all the earth's
{ coutinonts-the grass. the foliage, the
everyday dress Of nature. The emerald
+ Kings used it as a seal to stamp prolun-
/ cianentos. The rainbow around the
throne Of God is By st. John compared
to it.
Conquerors have considered it the
greatest prize to capture What ruth
lssaucss when the soldiers of PizarrC
pounded il with their hammersl Elmer.
aids have mad much to do with the des
tiny of Mexico. Five of them were pre-
scented by Cortez to his bride, one o.
them cut into the shape of rose, anOth
er into Tire shape of q trumpet. another
into the shape of bell. with tongue Of
+ pearl. and this presentation aroused ths
/ Jealousy of the throne and caused tn,
consequent downfall of Cortez. But thu
depths Of the sea were decorated viii
those emeralds. for in a shipwreck they
went down OF the coast OF Barbary
NanOlcgn wore an emerald st Austerlitz
Ia tie kresnlin museum at Moscow
there are crowns and sceptcrS and out
spreed miracles Of emerald. Ireland i.
called fle Emerald Isle not because O.
Is vcr,lurn. bat because 1t was presented
10 HEAVY n of England with an emerald
ring. Nero had a magnifying glass o.
emerald through which he looked at tn,
rlAdia a7lal contests at Rome. But here
arc 1859 m.ilcs Of emerald sweepin;
arunnd toe heavenly city in one layer.
sAEuoNYx ASD sAEDlUs
But upward still and YOU put you
foot on q stratum of ssrtonyx. white ant
red, IL seeming cornlninglir.g Of snow an,
IRE. the snow cooling the FIRE. the ilr'
melting the snow.
Another climb ard yen reach the sar
diua. named after the city II Sartiss
Another climb and you reach the chryso
Etc. 4 specimen # this, belongiag t.
Epipanius. IA the Fourth century. wa
said % be SO brilliant that whatever wa
rut over to conceal 81 was shone through
ard the efnpsr0rc If China has a specimen
that is dcribed IS having sach peue
tzatinx ra3ianco that il mskes the nigh
as bright as the aay.
A higher ciinb and you reach ~
horyl Two Thousand years ago th
Greeks used this precious stone for eu
craving proposes. It was accourte,
among tise royal treasures Of Tyre. Tn
hils ei Murat's sword was adorned witl
It. II Slows IN tho imperial crown o
Great Britain. Luther thought the berry
Of the heavenly well wss turquoise
Kahsch Thought it Was cbrysolite. Jose
rf,us thought It a golden colored jewel
The wheels II Esekiel's vision flames
with beryl and were = revolving FIRE.
The beryl appears ia SIX sided Trisus
and is set in seals and intaglios. IN neck
lsces ard cc-onetS Il was the Joy o
ancient iswelry. It ornamented the IF