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Show WONDERS OF CRYSTAL WORLD TOLD IN A SERMON The music last night in the First Presbj terlan church was exception ally pood, Mr. Sander and Misses Lou tee Pierce and Ida Anderson furnish ing special numbers. Rev. Carver said In part W'h'-n Paul wrote to the Romans he told them that nil men were v. Itll out excuse for not believing In God for the Invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and Godhead, so that tliey are with out excuse it is always a long story through nature to nature's God The Bib'.p is the only clear revelation The reason Is that most eerybody accepts ac-cepts the superficial and are content with that, and a superficial knowledge of even the Bible can only result in a light and shallov. character It is a long story that history tells regarding the discovery of the real wonderful part of t he world's gems Y view them with admiration today as they adorn jewelry but In so doing we, like others, see only a very small part of their charm in their beauty. The crystals which have been cho sen by opinion to be called precious jewels have served many uses and it is hard to Ml which is the oldest conception of them. Very early they were valued as essentials in religious ceremonies, It was no accident or e epMon that led to the high priest of the Jewish church wearing a breastplate that was composed of pre clous stones. Egypt and the ags before that shadowy past had used gems in worship. Their use Is founn in this regard in both Tolmud ana Koran India ever associated high religious personages with rare Jewels Jew-els The most ancient Book of the Dead tells how almost a reverence was felt for precious stones. Shrine have in all ages been rlchh adorned with them and high pontiffs have worn them A ttumr ltie use was quite as an ciently and generally made of gems Plutarch tells how Perlelec was treat ed with them In his last sickness Svan. the Terrible, the great czar of Russia, in 15S4 was one of the last to believe in their medicinal prop ertles Green stones cured eye dis eases. Diamonds were antidotes for poisons Emeralds cured fever and epilepsy. Bloodstones were a cure for consumption and stopped hemor rhages The amethyst in the crown of England was taken from the signet ring of Edward the Confessor and was thought to have power to avert contagion. Gems were also valued as talismen. So prevalent was the thought that stone? of value were lucky in the early church that the council of Lao dicca, in 3S3, forbade amulets and stones used as charms. The ruby brought Invulnerability; the sapphire was a guard against poison: the ame thyst was the soldier's 6tone, and warded off attacks in battle Ame thysts were worn by crusaders to shield from harm. Cleopatra believ ed in it and had one for her signet ring. It was not until 1740 that the world hfgan to realize that in the crystal llzatlon of the stone lay its value beauty and fire. With the years from thorn to now men have given their lives to the study of crystals and still much is unknown. We do know, however, that the wonderful exactness ex-actness and process of almost choice on part of the minute atoms forming the regular crystal is a wonder great er than Its color or fire. Science-stands Science-stands amazed to find the most exact order plan and arrangement in the dust at our feet With amazement the world learned that crystallization by nature could not only form dlam ods of soot and coal, sapphires of common clay, and the finest opals of sand, but. that as no clock made by man's best art can rival the solar world so no regularity of the best machine man can make can rival the exactness of the crystal in Its slm plicity of mathematical ratios. Geormj try was considered a science for fields, continents and worlds There has been found this wonder of won ders; everj minute crystal Is a rleni onstration of solid geometry and solid geometry' IB the simplest BOlence that can comprehend it If you wont read of God In your Bibles. 1 ask you to see his power and plan in the stone of the street, the Jewels you wear, the sand you tread upon If you doubt God tell me how vou explain the world of nature that lies in perfect order about you. Ignorance is no excuse., and he who knows the world be9t will be most ready to read in God's world the story of its Creator's handiwork. Ir the undevout astronomer is mad, the doubting crystallographer is doublv so We see the red. vellow and tlaming. brilliant colors on the nu tumn leaves. This color was once dust, but sun and soil and water have done a great chemical work So another chemistry has clinnged by an other orocess the dust and coal and sand Into wondrous beauty. |