The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-02-02

only TO look at the second row OF, the
foundation of the wall 15t heaven.
Oh, am so glad that st. John told
us about itl3 "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
us, and we will visit them, and some
time we will be in converse about this
earth when 1t was vet ahoat and aswing,
and we shall want to tell them about
how it looked at certain times, and then
1t will be great object lesson for all
eternity, and we will say to our visitor
from some other world, as we point to.
ward the wall Of heaven, ''It looked
like that stratum of foundation next 20
the lowest" Jhon, twenty.lirst chapter
and nineteenth verse, '"rhe second,
sapphire" -
a step higher and you come TO chalcc-
dony, another layer in the foundation Of
The wall and running 500 miles around
&c heavenly city. Chalccdony! Trans
lucent. a divine mixture of agates and
opals and comedians. Striped with white
and gray. Dashed ofpallor blushlng into
red and darkcninG into purple. Iceland
and the llcdrdcs hold forth beautiful
VI
But now we must make swift ascent
to the top of the foundation wall, for we
cannot u nutcly examine all the LAYERS,
and so, putting one foot on the chaIcc-
dony OF which we have been speaking
we spring 10 the g emerald, and we are
onc-third OF the way TO the to1- IF The
iounda' on, for the fourth row is emerald
That, L would Judge, is Gods favorite
among gems, because IT. holds what
seems evident is his favorite color on
earth, the, green, since that is the color
most widely dInused acsoss all the
Garth 8 contncnts-the grass, the foli-
acc, the every day dress OF nature. The
emerald! Kings used it as a seal to
81 mp prOnunCiRmcntOs. The rainbo w
around the throne Of God is by 81. John
compared to it.
Conqucrors haye considered it The
greatest prize TO capture. What rutr.
| lcssncss when the soldiers of pizmro
pounded it with their hammers! Emer.
aids have had much to do with the dCs-
| tiny OF Mexico. Five OF them were Dr. d.
scntcd by COrtez TO his bride, one O.
them cut int the shape of a rose, an
other into the shape of trumpet, an
other into the shape OF bell, with 4
tongue OF pearl, and this presentation
aroused the jealousy of the tn. one and
caused the consequent downfall of Cor.
tcz. But the depths OF the sea were dec
Grated with those cmcralds, for in a
shipwrcck they went down of the coast
OF Barbary. Napolcan wore an cmcr.
aid al Austerlitz.
In the krcmlin museum at Moscow
there arc crowns aud sceplcrs and out.
spread miracles Of emerald. Ireland ls
called the Emerald Isle not because of
! it's vel dure, but because it was presented
- Henry | of Eng lad with an emerald
I ny. Nero had Il maYnilying glass OF
emerald through which he looked at the
Gtadiatorial contcs.s at Rome. But
here arc 800 miles of emerald a,...u.
ny around the heavenly city ir one Iay-
er.
But upward still and you put vol,
| loot on stratum o! sardOnyH, viii
and red, seeming cOmminwlinw OF
snow and lire, the snow cooling the fire
and the fire melting the snow.
| Another climb and you reach the sar.
dius, named after ths city OF Sardius,
Another climb aud you reach the chry.
solltc A specimen of tha, bclOnuinu
to Eplphanus, in the Fourth century,
was said To be so brilliant that whaLev.
er was puC over to COuccal il was shonc
through, and the emperor Of China has
a specimen that is described as having
such penetrating radicncc that it makes
the night AS bright as day.
a higher climb and You reach The hcryl
Two thousand years ago the Greeks
I>,
purposes. 1t was accounted among the
royal treasures ofTyrc. The hit Of Mu-
| rats sword was adorned with it, Ii
TloWs III the imperial crown of Great
britain. Luther thought the bcryl Of
The heavenly wall was turquoise. Kali.
sch thought it was chrysolite. Joseph.
us thought it a golden colorcd level.
The wheels of Ezekial's vision famed
with berNl and were a revolving fire.
The beryl appears in six sided prislns,
| and is set in seals and inLaglios, in neck
laccs and cOronets. 1t was the low OF
| ancient .l@wclry. 1t ornamcntcd the al
llrcnt with eardrops. Charlcmagno PFC .
scntcd it to his iavortes. beautiful
bcry! EXquisitely shaped bcryl! d.
v'ncly colorcd bcryl! 1t seems ike con-
Sealcd coo 1t looks like frozen li"e.
But stop not here. Climb higher and
you come to topaz, LGWllermenL OF
beauty and named after an island OF the
Red sea.
| Climb higher and you come to chryso.
prasus, OF %rccnish golden hue aud hard
as lint.
Climb higher and you reach the ia
clnlh named after the Ilowcr hyacin tl
and OF reddish blue.
Talc one more step and you reach the
top, not Of tue wall, but the tor, Of the
foundations of the wall, and st. John
cries out, 1.-The twelfth, is an amc-
thyst!" This precious stone, when
found in Australia or India or Europc,
stands in columns and pyramids. For
col " 1t Is a violet blooming in stone,
For its play Of light, Tor is deep mys-
tcrics OF color, or its uses in Eyyptiau.
in Etruscan. in Roman art it has been
honored, The Checks thought this
stone preventive OF drunkenness, The
Hebrews thought it source otplcasaut
dreams. For all lovers of gems il is q
subject OF admiration and suggestive.
ness. Yes, the word amethyst means