Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-01-28

piece OF amethyst over your heart or
put it under your pillow, andyou would
have your dreams filed with every
thing beautiful and enhancing. No,
no. The 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 physical disease
may give good man nightmare, but
man physically well, il he behave
himself Alright, will not be troubled
with bad dreams. St John, ON the bar
renest island of the Egean sea, in his
dream heard trumpets and saw cavalry
men on white horses and new Heaven
and n 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 mis-
creant
But, some one will say, why have you
brought us to this amethyst, the top row
of the foundation of the heavenly wall,
if you are not able to accept the theory
of the ancient Greeks, who said that
the amethyst was n charm against in
toxication, or If you are not willing to
accept the theory of the ancient He
brews that the amethyst was a pro-
Queer Of pleasant dreams? My answer
is, have brought you to the top row,
the twelfth layer OF the foundation of
the heavenly wall of fifteen hundred
miles of circling amethyst, to put you
in position where you can get new
idea OF Heaven; to let you see that after
you have climbed up twelve strata of
glory, you are only ut the base of the
eternal grandeurs; to let you, with en-
chantment of soul, look far down and
look far up, and to force upon you the
conclusion 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 he
figurative, what must the reality be?
Oh! my soul! If my text shows us
only the outside, what must the inside
be? And now ask. If the outside of
Heaven attracts our souls to-day, how
much more will be the uplifting when
we get inside and see the King in all
His beauty and all the princes and
princesses of the palaces of amethyst?
Perhaps the ancient Hebrews were
not, after all, so far out of the way
when they thought that the touch of
the amethyst gave pleasant dreams, for
the touch of it ut this hour gives me
very pleasant dream Standing on this
amethyst dream dream. close my
eyes and l see it all We are there.
This is Heaven! Not the outside, but
the inside of Heaven. With what
warmth of welcome our long-ago de-
parted loved ones have kissed us. Myl
how 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 the King. Not kept mo-
ment outside, we are ushered into the
throne room. Stretching out His SIT
cred hand, He says: II have loved
thee with an everlasting love-" and we
respond: Whom have in Heaven but
Thee?' But, look! Yonder is the play
ground of the children. Children do
not want u throne. a throne would
not fit child There they are on the
playground of Heaven-the children.
Out of the sick cradle of earth. they
came into this romping mirth of the
eternal Fairgrounds. Iclap my hands
to cheer them in the glee. Yonder are
the palaces OF the martyrs, and
before their doorway the flowers
crimson as the bloody martyrdom
through which they waded up into
glory. Yonder is Apostolic Row, and
the highest turret is over the home of
Paul Here is Evangelist Place. Yonder
are the concert halls in which the |
musicians of earth and Heaven are talk
ing part-Handel with organ, and |
David with harp, and Gabriel with
trumpet. and four and twenty elders |
with voices And an angel of God says |
to me: where shall l take you? On |
what street of Heaven would you like
to live? What celestial habitation |
would you like to occupy" And /
answer: Nov that l have got inside
the wall made up of all man
ner of precious stones, i do not care
where you put me. Just show me where
my departed loved ones are. have
seen the Lord, and next want to see
them. But here are those with whom
toiled in the kingdom of God on earth.
They are from my old parishes at Belle
vile, and Syracuse, and Philadelphia,
and Brooklyn, and from many places on
both sides the sea where have been per-
mitted to work with them and for them.
Give them the best places you can find.
l will help steady them rs they mount
the thrones will helpyou FURNISH the
coronets. Take these my old friends to us
good rooms as you can get for them in
the House of Many Mansions, and with
windows looking out upon the Palace
- Al, n-ook K;nn Aa fOY. rnUaolf INV.