Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-01-23

for Il is the hardest of all minerals ex.
ccpt the diamond
Sapphire based on jasper, blue sky
over q fiery sunset. 81. John points 70
Il IN Revelation and says, The second,
sapphire = and this suggests 10 me that
though our earth and all its furniture OF
monntains and seas and afmospberes nre
70 collapse and vanish we win through,
out ail eternity have IN some way kept
the most beautiful Of earthly appear.
ancca. whether you take this sapphire OF
the secoDd layer as literal or ngurative.
The deep blue Of our skies and the deep
blue OF our seas must not, will not, be
forgotten. II thousand years after the
world has gone TO ashes you or want
to recall how tho earthly skies, looked IN
summer noon or tho midocean in a
calm, we will have only 20 look nj the
second row Of the foundation Of the wall
~ heaven.
Oh. am 50 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 us,
and we will visit them. and some time we
viii be in converse about this earth when
IL was yet afioat and aswing, and we
3hall want 10 tell them about how 1t
looked at certain times, and then 1t viii
be great object lesson for all eternity,
and we will say to our visitor from some
other world, as we point toward the wall
of heaven, "It looked like that stratum
Of foundation next to the lowest. '
John, twenty first chapter and nine
teenth verse, 'srbe second, sapphire"
cHALcEDoSy AND EMERALD.
A step higher and you come to chal-
cedony, another layer in the foundation
Of the wall and running 1900 miles
around the heavenly city. Chalcedonyl
Translucent. Adivine mixture of agates
end opals and comedians. Striped with
white and gray. Dashed Of pallor blush
Ing into red and darkening into purple.
Iceland and the Hcbrides hold forth
beautiful specimens Of chalcedony.
But now we must mako swift ascent
to the top Of the foundation wall, for we
cannot minutely examine all the layers,
and so, putting one foot on the chalce-
dony Of which we have been speaking,
we spring to the emerald, and we are
one-third of the way TO tho top of the
foundation, for the fourth row Is emer-
aid. That. would judge, is Gods favor
Ito among gems, because it holds what
seems evident is his favorite color ON
earth, the green, since that Is the color
most widely diifused across all the earth's
continents--the grass. the foliage, the
everyday dress Of nature. The emerald!
Kings used II as seal TO stamp pronun-
ciamentos. The rainbow around the
throne Of God is by ST. John compared
to II.
Conquerors have considered II the
greatest prize TO capture. What ruth
lessness when the soldiers OF Pizarro
pounded il with their hammersl Emer-
aids have had much to do with the des-
tiny Of Mexico. Five Of them were pre-
sentod by Cortez to his bride, one of
them cut into the shape Of a rose. anoth-
or into tho shape OF a trumpet, another
into the shape Of bell, with tongue OF
pearl. and this presentation aroused the
jealousy OF the throne and caused the
downfall OF Cortez. But the
depths Of tho sea were decorated with
those emeralds. for In shipwreck they
went down of the coast of Barbary.
Napoleon wore an emerald mt Austerlitz.
In tho Kremlin museum at Moscow
there are crowns aud scepters and out
spread miracles of emerald Ireland'is
called tho Emerald Isle not because of
its verdure. but because 1t was presented
to Henry ii of England with an emerald
ring Nero had a magnifying glass OF
emerald through which he looked ut the
gladintorial contests ut Rome. But here
are | 900 miles Of emerald sweeping
around the heavenly city In ono layer.
sARDoNyx AND sARDIUs.
But upward still and you put your
foot ON Il stratum Of sardonyx, white and
red, q seeming commingling of snow and
lire, the snow cooling the fire. the fire
melting the snow.
Another climb and you reach tho sar-
Illus, named after the city of Sardius.
Another climb and you reach the chryso-
lite, A specimen OF this. belonging 10
Epiphnnus. In the Fourth century, was
'aid TO bo SO brilliant that whatever was
put over TO conceal il was shone through,
md tho emperor OF China has q specimen
hat Is described as having such pene-
rating radiance that II makes the night
"a bright as the day.
A higher climb aud you reach the
,eryl. Two thousand years ago the
Greeks used this precious stone for en- |
craving purposes. II was accounted |
Imong the royal treasures Of Tyre. The |
iilt OF Murats sword was adorned with |
b. Il glows in the imperial crown of
ireat Britain, Luther Thought the beryl |
4 the heavenly wall was turquoise. |
kalisch thought II was chrysolite. jose
'hus thought IL a golden colorcd jewel. !
The wheels OF Ezekiels vision famed |
With beryl and were a revolving fire.
The beryi appears in six sided prisms,
nd Is set IN seals and intaghos, In neck.
aces and coronets II was the 10y Of
ncicnt jewelry. Il ornamented the af-
uent with eardrops, Charlemagne pre-
entod Il TO his favoritca BEAUTIFUL
sryll Exqnisitely shaped beryi, Di-
inely oolorcd heryll II soems like con-
ealed color, II looks like frozen liro.
But stop not here. Climb higher and
on como 20 topas, bewilderment of
eanty and named after an island OF the
led sea.
Climb higher aud you como 10 chrysop-
asus. OF greenish golden hue and hard
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