Excerpt from Clear as Crystal: A Series of Talks to Children on the Crystal, Given in the West Denver Congregational Church in Denver, Colorado, During 1886 and 1887 John had a vision of heaven and he was told to write it in a book, so that God's people in this world might get some idea of the beauty and glory of the home to which they were journeying. In order to do this he had to compare it with the beautiful things Of this world, and in his description he made more use of crystals and precious stones than of any other beautiful things. In describing the holy city he says that it is made of pure gold each of the twelve gates is one great pearl, and each of the twelve foundations of the wall is made of precious stone, jasper, sapphire, chalcedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite, beryl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth, and amethyst. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.