'This cubic city is fifteen hundred miles in length, and fifteen

hundred miles in breadth, and fifteen hundred miles in height.  (It is the

probable enormousness of the earth which reduces to its true relative

proportions the immensity of its metropolis).  This one city would cover all

the land from Maine to Florida, and from the Atlantic to Colorado.  It would

cover all the countries of Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany,

Austria, Prussia, European Turkey, and half of European Russia.  Suspended

with its centre over Jerusalem, its boundaries would reach to the shore of

the Euxine northward, to Nubia and the middle of Arabia southward, to the

Caspian and Persian gulf eastward, and to Greece and Sahara westward'. -- A.

'The New Jerusalem, like the old, is a mountain -city.  "Jerusalem,

which is now", is some two thousand five hundred feet above the sea.  In

millennial days, "the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in

the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all

nations shall flow unto it" (Isa. 2:2).  The eternal city of God, then, is

set upon a mountain: the mountain is composed of the twelve foundations of

precious stones.  It was on the ledge of the topmost foundation that John was

set by the angel (Rev. 21:10).  What proportion the height of the foundation

bears to the height of the city is not given us.  It is the absence of this

which has caused the difficulty'. -- Govett.

'You may spiritualize that, but I do not.  An amethyst is an amethyst.

I have seen the crown jewels of England, and I admire precious stones.  When

I go to the office of a merchant in precious stones, he will say to me,

"Doctor, would you like to look at the stones?"  Then he spreads out a great,

dark, purple velvet cushion.  Locking the door, he goes to his enormous safe,

and takes out his diamonds and rubies and emeralds and amethysts, and throws

them down, and there before my eyes is, oh such beauty, such glory.  I feast

my eyes upon them, and say, "how beautiful".  Then I remember the Devil would

tempt me to covet them, and I say to him, "Buhler, these are only chips of

the great foundations of the City of God"' -- Buhler.

'No man has seen the sard, the topaz, the beryl, and the emerald blaze

as the great stones of the Holy City in the vision of the Apocalypse.  We

have only known the little dust of the vast treasures of the earth, and we

prize these tiny shreds and splinters of the hidden wonders.  Does it not

show that what we can have now is nothing as compared with the unmeasured

treasures which the God Who made the glittering dust can grant to those to

whom His honour is all in all?' -- Duke of Argyll.

In a police court some years ago, thirty men, red -eyed and

dishevelled, were brought up as drunk and disorderly.  Some were old and

hardened; others hung their heads in shame.  During the momentary confusion

of the entry, a strong, clear voice from below began singing:

Last night I lay a -sleeping,

There came a dream so fair.