The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-01-25


der any kind of liquor contained therein
from becoming Intoxicating. But OF
all the amethystine cups, from which
the ancients drank, not one had any
such result OF prevention For thou
sands Of years the world has been look
ing in vain for such preventive anne
thystine cup, Staggering Noah could
not find it Convivial Ahasuerus driv-
ing Vashti from the gates could not
find it Nabal breaking the heart Of
beautiful Abigail could not find 1T Bel
shazzar, the kingly reveller, on the
night that the Chaldeans took Babylon,
could not find IL. Not one Of the mil
lions of inebriates' whose skulls pave
the continents and pave the depths OF
the sea could find it. There is no such
cup. Strong drink from followed ame- I
thyst imbrutes the same as strong
drink from pewter mug. It 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 costiier
than amethyst, men and womsn have
been drinking their own doom and the
doom OF their children for this life ana
the next All, it is the amethystine cups
that do the widest and worst slaugh-
ter. The smash OF the filthy goblets OF
the rummeries would long ago have
taken place by law, but the amethystine
chalices prevent-the chalices out OF
which legislatures and congresses drink
before and after they make the laws
Amethystine chalices have been the
friends of intoxication instead OF It's
foes. Over the fiery lips of the anne
thystine chalices is thrust the tongue
of that which biteth like serpent and
stingeth like an adder. Drunkenness
is a combination Of apoplexy and de-
mentia. The four hundred million vic
tins 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 amethystine
demijohns, the amethystine ale
pitchers, the amethystine fagons, the
amethystine wine cellars. o, Persiansl
o, Assyrians! o, Greeksl o. Egyptians!
you were wrong in thinking that cup
Of amethyst would prevent inebriation.
But standing on the top OF this anne
thystine layer of the foundation OF the
wall of heaven, bethink myself OF the
mistake that many Of the ancient He
brews made when they thought that
the amethyst was n producer OF pleas
ant dreams Just wear piece Of ame
thyst over your heart, or put 1t under
your pillow, and you would have YOU
dreams filed with everything beautiful
and enhancing. No, no. The style o.
pillow will not decide the character O
the dream. The only recipe for pleas
ant dreams is to do right and thinl
when you are wide awake Conditions
, Of physical disease may give
good man a nightmare, but
man physically we'll, II he behave him
. self Alright, will not be troubled wit
bad dreams Nebuchadnezzar, wit
eagles down under his head and Ty
rian purple over II, struggled with
I bad dream that made him shrek ou
; for the soothsayers and astrologers I
! come out and interpret it. Pharoat
0 amid the marble palaces OF Memphis
1 was confounded by a dream in whic
lean COWS ate up the fat cows and th
Q small ears Of corn devoured the seve
; large ears, and awful famine was pr'
a figured. Pilates wife, amid clouds {
richest upholstery, had a startlin
dream, because Of which she sent
message in hot haste TO court rool
= TO keep her husband from enacting
= judicial outrage. But Jacob, at Bethe
> with pillow of mountain rock, had
blissful dream Of the ladder ange
: blossoming. Bunyan, with his head @
: hard plank Of Bedford jail, saw Il
gates Of the celestial city. St John, G
: the barrenest island Of the Egean Sc
: in his dream, heard trumpets and sa
= cavalrymen on white horses and ne
? Heaven and new earth. No amour
!, OF rough pillows can disturb the nigl
vision Of saint, and no amount
amethystine charm can delectate Il
q dream of a miscreant.
But some one will say, why have yC
brought us to this amethyst the 4
. row OF the foundation Of the herven
}, wall, II you are not able to accept Il
q theory Of the ancient Greeks, who sa
: that the amethyst was charm again
u intoxication, or II you are not willir
y TO accept the theory OF the an cient II
. brews that the amethyst was pr
: ducer Of pleasant dreams2 My answ
is, have brought you TO the top ro'
: the twelfth layer Of the foundation
the heavenly wall OF fifteen hundr
. miles OF eircling amethyst to put "
u in a position where you can get ne
y idea OF Heaven, TO let you see that aft
y YOU have climbed up twelve strata
glory, you are only at the base Of \
: eternal grandeurs; TO let you, wi
: enchantment Of soul, look
Y down and look far up; and
~ force upon you the conclusi
I" that II all our climbing has on
shown3us the foundation Of the wa
d what must the wall itself be; and
Of this Is the outside Of Heaven, VIII
ie must the inside be; and II all this
flQurative, what must the reality b
o o, this piled-up magniAcence Of I
I'd Heavenly WALL o, this eternity Of d.
orationl o, this opalescent, forescel
a prismatic miracle Of architectural WI
th enthronement Of all colora A mingli
- 4ho IIua NJ altiea and the eurf