The following are all the voice of John in Revelations, whether inveighing against the evil of this world or looking towards the glory of the life to come ; So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple, and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hands full of abominations. " 1-~ - The Fall of Babylon he clearly forsees, in all its demoralization and sorrow : And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more : The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls. A direct mention of jacinth, or hyacinth, the lyncurium of Theophrastus, the ligure of the High Priest's Breastplate, the zircon of to-day is in another chapter of Revelations: I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone. John's vision of the Throne of^God rllns along the same lines, the most valued of material things seeming all too inadequate to keep of his dream : And he that sat was to look upon like a n JntHgr-ftTH sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. pace with the splendor Concerning the Heavenly Jerusalem, he who was first in Jesus' affections, to whom lovely things evidently appealed despite his fierce zeal for The Cause, lets his imagination run riot; even if, as with some of the older prophets, the list of wonders at last becomes a bit : categorical And the building of the wall of it was of jasper : and the city was of pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation wjj_jasj)er ; the second * .sapphire: the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald. fifth, sardon3?X, lliL sixth, sardius ; the seventh, chrysolite ; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprase; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. ITTKe And the twelve gates were twelve pearls ; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was of pure gold, as it were transparent glass. One draws a long breath. Luxury can go no farther. This is surely the apotheosis of gems. Strange, how gold and opaque jasper in his ecstatic moods seem like the clearest of crystal to St. John the Divine he who was to live to a ; great age, when the sky would be gray and the air chill, and all that burning enthusiasm, clashing with the hostility of unconquerable materialism, the eternal struggle for precedence here and now, must necessarily become a very different thing from the bright weapon of the youth who could not conceive failure whose heart ached to vindicate his Master and save the World. ao
Before such radiant vision, such sublime faith, the modern is without words; words to express his wonder and his awe. How near, how very near, was each one of these chosen men, whether of the Old or the New Testament, to his God. Will this mental state ever come again? In the distracted world of to-day, the quick answer may be "No." Yet what once was, can be ; and in reaction from barren complexity, from doubt and fear, from greed, falsehood and shame, it does seem at times that the "open" if not the "simple" mind will come again and Truth prevail. 21
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HYACINTH. Three various kinds the s
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for January, but it is not without
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SPODUMENE. Spodumene or triphane, b
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JADE. The word jade is magical in i
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LAPIS LAZULI. Lapis lazuli is a mag
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PEARL, CORAL, AMBER, JET. The above
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AMBER. Amber, prized less as an orn
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jeweler and traveler Tavernier, in
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of the most exquisite ornaments in
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atmosphere. Always in storage a dam
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ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION. The diamon
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Burmese gem, though the price of th
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Pole, while Polaris is practically
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