Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-02-02

amid the marble palaces OF Memphis, was
confounded by dream in which lean cows
ate up the fat cows, and the small ears Of
corn devoured the seven hrge ears, and
awful famine was prehgured. Pilates
wife, amid clouds Of richest upholstery,
had a startling dream. because Of which
she sent message in hot haste to Il court
room to keep her husband from enacting
judicial outrage. But Jacob, at Bethel,
, win q pillow OF mountain rock, had
blissful dream Of the ladder angel blossom !
ing.
Bunynn, with his hegd on hard plank of /
Bedford Jail, saw the gates OF the celestial
city. St John, on the barrenest island Of
the Egean sea, in his dream heard trum-
pets and saw cavalrymen on white horses
snd a new heaven and new earth. No
amount of rough pillow can disturb the
night vision of saint, and no amount Of
amethystine charm can delectate the dream
of miscreant.
ONLY THE BEGINNING.
But, some one will say, why have you
brought us to this amethyst, the top row Of
the foundation Of the heavenly wall, IL you
are not able to accept the theory of the an
cient Greeks, who said that the amethyst
was charm against intoxication, or If you
are not willing to accept the theory Of the
ancient Hebrews that the amethyst was
producer of pleasant dreamss My answer
| is, have brought you to the top row, the
| twelfth layer Of the foundation of the heay-
enly wall Of 1,500 miles of eircling amethyst,
to put you in a position where you can get
q new idea Of. heaven; to let you see
that after you have climbed up twelve
strata of glory you are only at the base
of the eternal grandeurs; to let you, with
enchantment Of soul, look far down and
look far up; and to force upon YOU the con-
clusion that if all our climbing has only
shown us the foundation Of the wall, what
must the wall itself be; and if this is the
outside of heaven, what must the inside
be; and if all this is figurative, what must
the reality bea Oh, this piled up mag
nificenee of the heavenly wall! Oh, this
eternity of decorationl Oh, this s'opalescent,
Il dorescent, prismatic miracle of archltec-
turel What enthronement of all colors!
A mingling Of the blue of skies, and the
surf of seas, and the green of meadows, and
the upholstery of autumnal forests, and
the fire of August sunsets All the splen-
dors 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 At
lantic and Pacific oceans swung in one bill
low.
Do you not see that it was impossible that
you understand hundredth part of the
suggestiveness of that twenty-first chapter
of Revelation without going into some of
the particulars of the wall Of heaven, and
dipping up some OF it's dripping colors, and
| running your eye along some of its won
: drous crystallizations, and examining some
of the frozen light in its turquoise, and feel
ing with your own finger the hardness OF
its sapphire, and shielding your eyes against
the shimmering brilliance in its beryl, and
studying the / 500 miles of emerald without
J a flaw? Yet all this only the outside OF
heaven and the poorest part of the outside
y not the wall itself, but only the foot Of
: the wall, for my text says, ''The founda
! tions of the wall of the city were garnished
y with all manner of precious stones" Oh
get down your harp, if you can play one
+ Get down palm branch, if you can reacf
Il one. Why, it makes us all feel like crying
e out with James Montgomery:
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold?
y THE HEAVENLY PALACE.
oh, my soul! If my text shows us onl.
UQ6 uutSluc, Wndu AAuou uhO lhoANAO pC
's While riding last summer through tn
emperor's park, near St. Petersburg,
was captivated with the groves, trans
!, planted from all zones, and the fowe
u beds. miles this way and miles that way
incarnadined with beauty, and the foun
le tains bounding in such revel with the sun
le light as nowhere else is seen. said: 'Thi
!: is beautiful never saw anything lik
=, ~ this before"
4 But when I entered the palace and say
n. the pictured walls, and the long line 9
l. statuary, and aquariums afioat with al
n. bright scales, and ayiaries a-chant wit
n N bird voices, and the inner doors of the pa
. ace were swung back by the chamberlain
nc and I saw the emperor and empress an
Az princes and princesses and they greeted m
%. with cordiality of old acquaintanceshiI
nj I forgot all the groves and floral bewitcf
n, ment had seen outside before entrance
And now ask, if the outside Of heave
de attracts our souls today, how much MOI
of will be the uplifting when we get insid
ns and see the King III his beauty and all til
nv princes and princesses of the palaces {
M. amethysts Are you not glad that we di
ps. not stop in our ascent this morning unit
nk we got to the top round Of the foundatio
IN. wall Of heaven, the twelfth row, the an
en- ethysta Perhaps the ancient Hebrews wel
10. not after all SO far out of the way whe
,ot they thought that the touch Of the amethy
hi gave pleasant dreams, for the touch of
BAL this hour gives me very pleasant dream.
aii Standing on this amethyst 1 dream
rly dream. close my eyes and | see it a.
ms we are enere. Anis 10 ne1 A'og ~, =,
OUTSIDE, puo 1ne liisiee VI neaNeh' w
~ - narted loved ones have Kissed us. M
NY IVY How tbey have CHANGED in looks. TIL,
n y. were 90 sick when they went away, al