Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-01-26

for tumbling the human race into perdi-
ton, but whether they will succeed in full
Giling the contract depends on the action
of the amethystine cups, the aplthystine
demijohns, the amethystine ale Pitchers,
the amethystine fiagOns, the Hmethystine
wine cellars. Oh Persians. oh. Assyrians,
Oh. Greeks. Oh, Egyptiansl you were
wrong in thinking that n cup of amethyst
would prevent inc briation.
But stai.cing on the top of this amethys-
tine layer of the foundation OF the wall Of
heaven | bethink myself of the mistake
that many of the ancient Hebrews made
when they thought that the amethyst was
producer Of pleasant dreams. just wear
apiece of amethyst over your heart or put
it under your pillow, and you would have
your dreams filled with everything beauti
full 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 a
man physically well, if he behave himself
Alright, will not be troubled with bad
dreams.
Nebuchadnezzar, with eagles down un-
der his head and Tyrian purple over Il,
struggled with bad dream that made him
Shrek out for the soothsayers and astrolo-
gers TO come and interpret ii. Pharaoh,
amid the marble palaces of Memphis, WAS
confounded by dream in which lean cows
ate up he fat cows and the small ears Of
corn devoured the seven large ears, and
awful famine was preflgured. Pilates
wife. amid clouds of richest upholstery,
had startling dream, because of which
she sent "a message in hot haste to a court
room TO keep her husband from enacting
judicial outrage But Jacob, at Bethel,
with pillow Of mountain rock. had a
blissful dream Of the ladder angel blossom
ing.
Bunyan, with his head on a 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 cayalrymen on white horses
and new heaven and a new earth. No
amount of rough pillow can disturb the
night vision Of a saint, and no amount Of
Rmethystine charm can delectate the dream
Of miscreant.
ONLY THE BEGINNING.
But, some one will say, why have you
brought US 10 this amethyst. the top row Of
tllf AANluHAlOit VI INC Mulis II Nbu j
are not able 10 accept the theory of the an
cient Greeks who said that the amethyst |
was n charm against intoxicaton, or If you
are not willing to accept the theory of the /
ancient Hebrews that the amethyst was "a
producer of pleasant dreamsg Ny answer I
Is, have brought you to the top row, the /
twelfth layer of the foundation Of the heav-
emily wall Of 800 miles of circling amethyst, /
TO put you in a position where you can get |
a 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 giandeurs; TO lct You, with 1
OF soul, look far down and 1
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 4
must the wall itself be; and If this is the
outside of heaven, what must the inside
be: aud II all this is fguratiye, what must
the reality be- Oh, this piled up mag
nificence Of the heavenly WALL Oh, this
eternity Of decoration Oh, this opalcsccnt,
horeseent, prismatic miracle of architec-
ture What enforcement Of all colors! I
A mingling of the blue of skies, and the
surf Of seas, and the green of meadows, and
the upholstery of autumnal forests, and
he fire Of August sunsetsl All the SPLEEN
doIs 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
Ifntica and Pacific oceans swung in one bill
low.
Do You not see that il was impossible that
you understand hundredth part of the
OF that twenty-frst chapter
If Revelation without going into some OF
The particulars of the wall of heaven, and
Tipping up some of its dripping colors, and
running your eye along some of its won
lrous erystalizations and examining some
Of the frozen light in its turquoise, and feel
ng with your own finger the hardness of
is sapphire, and shielding your eyes against
he shimmering brilliance in is beryl, and
studying the 800 miles of emerald without
1 flawi Yet all this only the outside of
heaven and the poorest part Of the outside
not the wall itself, but only the foot of
he wall, for my text says, The founda-
ions OF the wall of the city were garnished
With all manner of precious stones" Oh,
get down your harp, il you can play onel
Get down palm branch, if you can reach
lne. Why, it makes rs all feel like crying
,ut with james Montgomery;
When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates beholdy
THE HEAVENLY PALACE.
Oh. my soul II my text shows MS only
he outside, what must the inside be-
While riding last summer through the
park, near st. Petersburg, |
VAS captivated with the groves, trans
planted from all zones. and the flower
beds. miles this way and miles that way.
with beauty, and the foun-
aims bounding in such r,vel with the sun
light as nowhere else is seen. / said: This
: beautiful | never saw anything like
his before"
But when | entered the palace and saw
he pictured walls, and the long line of
latuary and aquariums afluat with all
bright scales. and aviaries a-chant with
bird voices. and the inner doors of the pal
ice were swung back by the chamberlain,
md | saw the emperor and empress and
princes and princesses, and they grceted me
with corliality of old acquaintanceship.
forgot all the groves and floral bpwitch- [