The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-02-03

out of which legislatures and congresses
drink before and after they make the
laws Amethystine chalices have been
the friends of intoxication instead of
its foes Over the fiery lips of the
anethystine ehalices ID thrust the
tongue of that which biteth like a ser.
pent and stingeth like an adder.
Drunkenness is combination of appo-
plexy and dementia. The four hum
dred millions 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 atnethystine cups, the amethystine
demiiohs, the amethystine ale pitchers,
the amethystine fiagons, the amethys-
tine wine cellars Oh, Persians! Oh,
| Assyriansl Oh, Greeks! Oh, Egyp-
tiansl you were wrong in thinking
that cup of amethyst would prevent
| inebria tionl But standing on the top
of this amethystine layer of the founda-
| ton of the wall of Heaven, / bethink
myself of the mistake that many OF the
ancient Hebrews made when they
thought that the amethyst was pro-
Queer of pleasant dreams. just wear
piece of amethyst over your heart, or
| put 1t 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.
H. - IL. a. An
Is to do right and think right
when you are wide awake. Con-
ditions of physical disease may give
good man a nightmare, but man
physically well, if he behave himself
Alright, with not be troubled with bad
dreams. Nebuchadnezzer, with eagles
down under his head and Tyrian pur-
pie over it, struggled with a bad dream
| that made him shrek out for the
soothsayers and astro1ogern to come and
| interpret it. 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
devoured the several large ones,
and awful famine was pre6gured.
Pilates wife, amid c1ouds Of
richest upholstery, had a start
ling dream, because of which
she sent a message in not
haste to court room to keep her hus-
band from enacting judicial outrage.
| But Jacob, at Bethel, with pillow Of
mountain rock, had blissful dream OF
the ladder angel Bunyan.
with his head on a hard plank of Bed
ford 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 cavalrymen on white
horses and a new Heaven and new
earth. Noamount of rough pillow can
disturb the night vision of 8 saint, and
10 amount of amethystine charm cah
delectate the dream of a miscreant.
But, some will say, why have you
brought us to this amethyst, the top
row of the 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 He
! brews that the amethyst was pro-
Queer of pleasant dreams? My answer
| is have brought you TO the top row,
the twelfth layer of the foundation OF
the Heavenly wall of one thousand five
hundred miles of circling amethyst, to
| put you in 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 enchantment of soul, look
| far down and look far up, and to force
upon you the conclusion that If our
climbing has only shown us the foundac
| ton of the wall, what must the wall
itself be; and if this is the outside of
Heaven, what must the inside be; and
| if all this be fgurative, what must the
reality be? Oh, this piled-up magnifi-
cence of the heavenly WALL Oh, this
eternity of decorationi Oh, this opales-
cent, foresceflt, prist1a tic miracle of
architecture! What enforcement OF
all colorsl A mingling of blue skies,
and the surf of seas, and the green OF
meadows, and the upholstery of au-
tumnal forests, and the fire of August
sunsets. All the splendors 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 WINS impossi
BILE that you understand hundredtb
part of the suggestiveness of that
twenty-first chapter of Revelation with
out going into some of the particC lars
of the wall of Heaven, and dipping up
some of its dripping colors, and rum
ming you eye along some its won
drous crystallizations, and exam
ming some of the frozen light in its
turduois, and feeling with your own
finger the hardness of its sapphire, ann
shielding your eyes against the SHIN
mering brilliance of its beTyl, and
studying the one thousand FIVE hun
bred miles of emerald without flaw?
Yet all this only the outside of Heaven,
and the poorest part of the outside; not
the wall itself, but only foot OF the
wall. for my text says: THE founda-
tious 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 ndown palm
branch, if you can reach one. Why,
it makes us feel like crying out with
James Montgomery:
When shall these eyes Thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behoidH
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