Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-01-28

out, ..rhe twelfth an amethystP This pre-
/ cious stone when found in Au:tralia or In
dia or Europe stands in columns and pyra-
mids. For color 1t is violet hloomln5 IN
stone. For its play Of light for its deep
| mysteries Of color, for its unseen Egyptians,
In Etruscan, in Roman arG it has been hon
pred. The Gresks thought this stone 6 pre-
ventive OF drunkenness. the hebrews
thought it q source OF pleasant dreams.
For all lovers of gems it is subject OF ad-
miration and suy yesaveness. Yes, the
word amethyst means a prevention OF
drunkenness. Loas Dsfore the New Tesla
neut made reference to the amethyst In thu
/ rups made out OF amethyst would hinder
any kind Of liquor contained therein from
! becoming Intoxicating. But of all the anne
| thystine cups from which the ancients
drank not one had any such result of pre-.
/ vtnton.
For thousands of years the world has been
/ looking in vain for such a preventive anne
| thystine cup. Staggering Noah could not
find it. Cornwall Ahasuerus driving Vashti
from tho gates could not find it. Nabal
breaking the heart of beautiful Abigail
could not find it. Bslshazzar, the kingly
reveier, on the night that tae Chaideans
TOOK Babylon could not find IT. Not one OF
the millions of ineoriates whose skutis pave
the continents an pave the depths o. the
sea could find it. Thers is no such cup.
Strong drink from followed amethyst irn-
brutes the same as strong drink from pew.
ter mug. 1t is not the style of cup we drink
out Of but that which the cup contains,
which decides the helpful or damning result
of the beverage.
All around the world last night and to-
day, out OF cups costlier than amethyst, men
ami women have been drinking their own
doom and the doom OF their children for this
life and the next. Alb. it is the amethystine
ruos that do the widest and worst slaugh.
teri Toe smash of the filthy goblets of the
rummeries would long ago have taken plaza
by Jaw, but the ametnystine chaiiccs pre-
vent-the chalices out of which legislatures,
congresses drink before and after they make
the laws. AmethYstine chalices have been
tue friends of intoxication instead OF its
foes. Over the fiery lips of the amethy slime
caaices is thrust the tongue OF that which
biteth like serpent and stingeth like an
ider.
Drunkenness is combination OF apoplexy
AMI demshtia. The 1900. 900 victims of
opium come out to meet the Is, 900, COZ vic
Tins of alcohol and the two agents take the
contract for tumbiing the hu nan race into
pardition, but whether they will succeed in
fulfillin the contract depends on the action
of the amethystine cups, the amethystine
detnijohns, the amethystine ale pitchers, the
ame,hystine faSons, the amethyseine wine
Greeksl Oh, Egyptiansi you were wrong
in thinking that a cup of amethyst would
prevent inebriation.
But standing on the top OF this amethys-
tine LAYER of the foundation of the wall o.
heaven bethink myself of the mistake that
many of the ancient Hebrews made when
they thought that the amethyst was pro-
t.ucer OF pleasant dreams. just wear a piece
OF amethyst over your heart or put 1t under
your pillow, aad you would have your dreams
filled " til everything beautiful and entrance
jny No. 10. The style of pillow will not
decide the character OF the dream. The only
recipe ior PHEASANT dreams is to do right an
think rig when you are wide awake. Con-
ditions of physical disease may give COOL
man nightmare, but man physicaily Wen,
if he behave himself arigat, Will no. De
troubled with bad dreams.
Acknowledgement, with eagles down under
his head an / Tyrian purple over II, seru sgiei
with bad dream that ma lie him shrek out
for the soothsayers and astroloyers to coms
and interpret it. Pharaoh. amid thu marble
palaces of Memphis was coafound by
dream in which lean cows ate up the fat
cows and thesmall ears OF corn devourel
the seven large ears, and awful famine Was
pre6gured. Pilates wife, amid ciouis o.
richest upholstery, had a start ing dream,
because of which shs ssnt a message IN hot
haste to a courtroom to keep her husband
from enacting ju iicial outrage. But
Jacob, at Bsthel. with pillow OF mountain
rock, had a blissfui dream Of the ladder
angel poisoning.
Bunyau, with bis head On hard plank OF
Bsiford's Jail, saw the gates of the Celes-
tial city. St. John. on the barreuest island
of the e ,ean Sss, in his dream heard tru n
pets ami saw cavalry men on white horses
and a new heaven and new earth. No
amount of rough pi low can disturb the
night vision of saint, an no amount o.
anlsthvstine charm can delectate the dream
of a mi 'creant.
But. some one will say, why have you
brought us to this amethyst, the top row O.
the foundation of the heavenly wall. II you
are not able to accept the theory OF the an
Gent Greeks VINO said that the amethyst
was a charm against intox cation, or II You
are not willing to accept the theory OF the
ancient Hebrews that the amethyst was q
producer of pleasant Greamss My answer is,
/ have brought you to the top row, the
twelfth LAYER of the foundation of the heav-
euly wall of 1890 miles of circiing amethyst,
to put YOU in a position where you can get a
new idea of heaven; to let you See that
after you have climoed up twelve strata
OF glory you are only at the base oil 6ne
eternal grandeur; to let you, with encoane-
ment OF SOU look far down and look far
up and to force upon you the conclusion
that il all our climbing has only shown us
the foundations of this wall, what must the
wall itself be; and if this is the outside Of
heaven, what must the inside be; and II all
this is figurative, whit must the reality be;
Oh. this piled up magnficence of the heav-
enly wall Oh, this eternity of decora'
toni Oh, this opalescent, horescent,
prstnatic MIRAGE of architectural What
enforcement of all colorsl miugling OF
the blue OF skies, and the surf of seas ani
the green of meadows, AMI the upholstery of
autumnai forests, and the fire of August
sunsets All the splendors of earth and
heaven dashed into those twelve rows OF
founda ton wall All that, mark you, only
typical of the spiritual glories that roll over
heaven like the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
swing in one billow.
Do ycu not see that it was impossible
that YOU understand huudredth part of the
stiggestiveness OF that twenty-irst chapter
of Revelation without going into some OF
the particulars of the wall of heaven and
dipping up some Of its dripping colors and
running your eye along some OF its won
drous crystaliizations aud examining som
OF the frozen light in its turquoise, and
feeling with your own finger the hardness
of its sapphire and shielding your eyes
against the shiprneriny hriliiaucs in its
beryl, and STUDYING the 1909 miles of emer'
aid without flaw, Yet all this only the
outside OF heaven, and the poorest part OF
| foot of the wall for my text says, THE
foundations OF the wall OF the city were gar
nished with all manner of precious stones.
Oh, get down your harp if you can play
one Get down a pam branch If you cal
reach ouel Why, it makes US all feel liz
crying out with Jane; Montgomery;
When sbal these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pesriy gates behold"
/ Oh. my soui Ii my text shows Us only
I theoutsde, what must the inside b. w bile
. riding last summer through the emperor
/ park near St Petersburg, | was caotivatei
! with graves, transplantei from all zones.
| aud the flower heds-miIes this way and
/ miles that way-incarnadined with beauty,
and the fountains bounding in such reve
with the sunlight as nowhere else is seem
said: This is beautiful never saw any
! thing like this before."
But when ] entered the palaces AMI saw
the pictured walls aud the lon 2 line OF stat
usry, and aquariums afoat with all brigh
scales AMI aviaries a-ch ant with bird voices
| AMI the inuer doors of the palaces wer'
swung back by the cham oerI4in, AMI i saw
tde emperor and empress and princes an
| princesses and they greeted me with cor
! diality OF ODD acouaintauceship, | forget al
the groves and floral bewitchment / haC
seen outside before entrance. Aud now
ask, il the outside OF heaven attracts ou
souls to-day. how much more will be thu no
lifting when we get inside and see the Kin,
in His beauty and all the princes aaC
I princesseS OF the palaces of amethyst
Are you not glad that we did not stop In
our ascent this morning until we got to tat
top round of the foundation wad of heaven.
the twelfth row, the amethyst Perhs os the
ancient Hebrews were not, after all, 50 far
80 al