Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-02-01

thyst, men and women have been drink
ing their own doom and the doom OF
their children for this life and the next
All. IL Is the amethystine cups that do
the widest and worst slaughter. But
the smssh of the filthy goblets of the
rummeries would long ago have taken
place by law, but the amethystine chal-
ices prevent-the chalices out of which
Legislatures and congresses drink before
and after they make the laws Anne
thystine chalices have been the friends
OF intoxicatiou instead of it's foes
Over the fiery lips of the nmethys-
tine chalics is thrust the tongue
of that which bitcth like
serpent a,sJ stingeth like an adder.
Drunkenness n combination of apo
pleNy and demensia- The four hundred
million victims OF opium come out 70
meet the one hundred and fifty mil
lion victims of alcohol, and tho two
agents take the contract for tum-
bling the human race into perdi-
titon, but whether they will suc-
coed in fulfilling the contract de-
ponds on tho action of tha amethystine
cups. the amethystine de:nijohns, the
amcthystiue ale pitchers the anne
thystine hagons, the ametliystine wine
cellars oh, Pcrsiansl oh. Assyriansl Oh,
Greelsl oh, Egyptiansl You were
wrong in thinking that n cup OF anne
thyst would prevent incbriation. But
standing on the top OF this amethystinc
layer of the foundation of the wall of
Heaven. bethiuk myself OF the mis-
take that many Of the ancient Hebrews
made when they thought that the ame-
n
dreams just wear piece of amethyut
over your heart or put IL under your
pillow and you would have your dreams
filled with everything beautiful and en-
trancing. No, no
The style Of pillow WIN not decide
the character OF the dream. The only
recipe for pleasant dreams Is 70 do
right and think right when you are
wide awake. Conditions of physical
disease may give good man n night
marc, but man physically well, IL he
behave himself Alright, viii not be
troubled with bad dreams Nebuchad-
neEzar, with eagles down under his
head and Tyrian purple over IL,
struggled with n bad dream that
made him shrek out for the sooth
sayers and astrologers TO come and
interpret IL Pharaoh. amid the marble
palaces of Memphis was COMPOUNDED by
dream in which lean cows ate up the
fat COWS and the small ears of corn de-
voured the seven large ears, and awful
famine was prcfgured. Pilates wife,
AMID clouds of richest upholstery, had
startling dream, because of which
she sent message in hot haste TO n
courtroom TO keep her husband from
enncting judicial outrage. But jacob,
at Bethel, with pillow of mountain
rock, had blissful dream of the ladder
notwithstanding Bunyan. with his
he'd on n hard plank of Bedford tail.
saw the gates OF the celestial city. St,
John, on the barrenest island OF the
Egean sen, ia his dream, heard trump
cts 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 n saint, aud
no amount of amethystine charm can
delectate the dream of a miscreant
But some one will say. why have You
brought us 10 this amethyst, the top
row of the foundation of the heavenly
wall, If you are not able 10 accept the
theory of the ancient Greeks. who said
that the amethyst was n charm against
intoNication, or IL you are not willing
10 accept the theory of the ancient
Hebrews that the amethyst was n
producer of pleasant dreams? NV nm
swer is, have brought you to the top
row, the twelfth layer of the fourfda-
ton of the heavenly wall of 1900
miles OF circling amethyst, to put you
In n position where you can get a
new idea OF Heaven; to let Won see that
after you have climbed up twelve strata
OF glory, you are only at the base of the
eternal grandeurs; TO let you, with en-
chantment Of soul. look far down and
look far mp; and TO force upon you the
conclusion that il all our climbing has
only shown us the foundation OF the
wall, what must the wall itself be; and
IL this is the outside OF Heaven. what
must the inside be; and II all
this is fgurative, what must the
reality be? Oh. this piled-up magnif-
icence OF the Heavenly wall! Oh. this
eternity of decorationl Oh, this opales-
cent forescent prismatic miracle OF
Architectural What enforcement OF
all colors! a mingling of the blue of
skies, and the surf of seas, and the
green OF meadows, and the upholstery
OF autumnal forests, and the fire OF
August sunsets All the splendors of
earth and heaven dashed into these
twelve rows OF foundation wall All
that mark you, only typical of the spir-
itual glories that roll over heaven ike
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans swung
in ono billow.
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