on the one side toward the palm, and the face
of a man on the other side toward the palm." The vine and the
pomegranite were there. In spite of the most profuse detail all was
rendered with a perfection of minuteness, while throughout the whole of
the interior the harmony of colour was beyond praise--and beyond
description.

For the technical skill exhibited in each separate item of colour,
carving, and "cunning" workmanship, had, with truest artistic sense,
been subordinated to that wondrous balance of the whole appearance that
went to make up the amazing harmony that was as a veritable atmosphere
in the place. To combine in a chromatic scheme so much brilliance and
colour without even a suspicion of gaudiness, or the _bizarre_, was a
triumph of art.

The light in the place was a true adjunct to the effects produced by
the wondrous composition of the blended glory and colour. There was no
window anywhere, but "Radiance," the newest light of the day, tempered
by rose-pink and palest electric blue prisms, filled the place with a
wondrous radiance, while at the same time the eye could not detect the
various spots where the separate lights were located.

The company gathered was in harmony with the place, since the many
otherwise gaudy tints of costume and uniform were softened, blended,
and harmonized by the power of colour-tone of the prisms through which
the otherwise fierce, flashing "Radiance" was shed.

The _outer temple_ interior--the place where the brilliant throng was
gathered--would hold a thousand persons comfortably. (There was no
seat in Solomon's temple, as there was no seat in the Tabernacle, which
was a symbol of the ever unfinished work of the earthly priesthood.)
And there was no seat here, save a throne-chair of gold, ivory,
mother-of-pearl, and precious stones, that occupied the centre of a
magnificent dais just in front of the entrance into the very small
"Holy of Holies." A wonderful curtain of purple velvet--not the fine
twined linen as of old--screened off this narrow strip of the interior,
from the larger outer section. The curtain was worked with marvellous
needlework in gold and pearls of almost priceless value, the pattern
being a wonderful blending of cherubim, palm, and pomegranate.

On entering the building The Emperor Apleon, seated himself on the
Throne, when each person present made a deep bow of obeisance. One man
only remained upright--George Bullen. Taking advantage of h