Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-01-27

| style OF cup we drink out OF,
but tina. which the cup con-
tains 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 and women ls.ve been drinking
their ow3 doom aud the doom of their
children for this life and the next.
All. it is the amethystine cups that do
the widest and most slaughter. The
smash of the filthy goblets OF the rum
meries would long ago have taken
1 place by law, but the amesthyne
chalices preventive chalices out of
which Legislatures and Congresses
drink before anc after they make
the laws Amethystine chalices irs ge
been the friends of intoxication in
stead of its foes. Over the fiery lips
of the amethy tine chalices is thrust
the tongue of that which biteth like a
serpent and stingeth like an adder.
Drunkenness is a combination OF apo
pleXy and dementia- The four hum
| dred million victims of opium come
| out to meet the one hundred and fifty
million victims of alcohol. and the two
agents take the contract for tumbling
| the human race into perdition, but
whether they will succeed in fulfilling
| the contract depends on the action of
| the amethystine cups. the ametbystine
demijohns, the amethystine ale pitch
ers, the amethystine hagons, the
amethystine wine cellars Oh, Per-
slams oh, Assyriansl Oh, Greeks!
Oh, Egyptiansl you were wrong in
| thinking that cup of amethyst
| " ould prevent inebriation. But stand
| ing on the top of this amethystine
| layer of the foundation of the wall of
heaven. / bethink myself of the mis-
take that many of the ancient Hebrews
made when they thought that the
| amethyst was a producer OF pleasant
| dreams. Just wear piece of amethyst
over your heart, or put il under your
pillow, and you would have your
dreams filed with everything
beautiful 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 physi-
cal disease may give good man a
nightmare, but man physically well,
If he behave himself Alright will not be
| troubled with bad dreams. Nebuchad-
nezzar, with eagles down under his
head and Tyriau purple over it, strug-
gled with bad dream that made him
Shrek out for the soothsayers and as
trologers to come and interpret il.
Pharaoh, amid the marble palaces of
Memphis, was confoundsd by a dream
In which lean cows ate up the fat cows
and the email ears of corn devoured
the seven large ears, and awful famine
was prehgured. Pilates wife, amid
clouds of richest upholstery. had a
startling dream, because of which she
sent message in hot haste to a
courtroom TO keep her husband from
enacting a judicial outrage. But
jacob. at Bethel, with pillow
OF mountain rock, had a blissfui
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 trumpets and saw
Savalrymen on white horses, and n new
heaven and new earth. No amount
of rough pillow can disturb the night
vision of u saint, and no amount OF
amethystine charm can delectate the
dream of a mlscreant
But, some one will say, why have
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top row of tho foundation of the
heavenly wall, if YOU are not able to
accept the theory of the ancient Greeks,
who said that the amethyst was
charm against intoxication, or If you
are not willing to accept the theory OF
the ancient Hebrews that the amethyst
was producer of pleasant dreams2
My answer is. / have brought you co
the tnn thu tvualffh l..uar nf the
foundation of the heavenly wall of if
teen hundred miles of circling
! amethyst, to put you in a position
where you can get 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
grandeurs; TO let you, with enchant-
ment of soul, look far down and look
far up; and to force upon you the con-
clusion that If all our elm Ding has only
shown us the foundation of tho wall,
what must the wall Itself be; and If
this is the outside of heaven, what
must the inside be; and if all this Is
bgurative, what must the reality be?
On. this pfled-up magnlhcehce OF the
heavenly WALL Oh, this eternity OF
decoration! Oh, this opalescent, flor
escenL prsmatic miracle of architect
urei mat enthronement of all colors!
ming ing of the blue of skies, and. the
surf of seas, aud the green OF meadows
and the upholstery of autumnal forests,
and the IRE of August sunsets. All the
spiendo-s 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 Atlantic and Pacific
oceans swung in one billow.
Do you not see that it was impossi-
bic that you understand a hundredth
part of the suggestiveness of that
twenty-frst chapter OF Revelation
without going into some of the parti-
culars of the wall of Heaven, and dip
ping up some of it's dripping
colors, and Running your eve
along some of it's wondrous crystalli-
zations, and examining some of the
frozen light in its turquoise, and feel-
ing with your own finger the hard
ness Of its sapphire, and shielding
your eyes against the shimmering
brilliance in its beryl. and studying
The fifteen hundred miles of emerald
without a flaw? Yet all this only the
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