REY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subject: “Biblical and Modern Nar- rations of Dreams.” Text: “He took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place o sleep, and he dream- ed.” — Genesis xxviil, 1L Asleep on a pillowcase filled with hens feathers it is not strange one should pleasant dreams, but here is a | illow cf rock, and Jacob with his head on it, and lo! & dream of angels, two processions, those coming down the stairs met by those going up the staire. It is the first dream record. Youmawysay of a dream that it is nocturnal fantasia, or that it is the absurd combination of waking thoughts, and with a slur of intonation you may sav, “It is only a dream,” but God has honored the dream ! by making it the avenue through which again and again He has marched upon the buman soul, decided the fate of Nations and changed the course of the world's tory. God appeared in a dream to Abimelech, warning him against an unlawful marriage; in a dream to Joseph, foretelling His com- ing power under the figure of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his sheaf; to the chief butler, foretelling his dirimprisonment; to the chief baker, an nouncing his decapitation; to FPharaob, showing him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine struck years, un- der the figure of the seven fat cows devour. ing the seven lean cows: to Solomon, giving him the choice between wisdom and riches and honor; to the warrior, under the figure of a barley cake smiting down a tent, en couraging Gideon in his battle against the Amelekites; to N hadpezzar, under the figure of a broken image and a hewn down tree, foretelling his throw of power; t Joseph of the announcing the birth of Christin his own household; to Mary, bidding her fly from Herodic perse- cutions: to Pilate's warn him no tn bee H with 1 overthrow We all and under Bible dis wople through 1s. Does God Hi If through tion everybody morning 1 shail t if 1 believe in « believe in dreams, overt New Testament, ne God ir n & Lhe ensati awake when | an noticed that those who gave their time to sh brains addled, 3 remember what they first night they slept in ¢ f in their dream they corpse, they are going of a garden, it means wz turns out according ‘Well, | fittu than a Sef y say, dreamed it." the night visi go by contraries.” n ye a s to put their their waking the Bible | to be satisfie tion, Sound sleep received Adam slept gical incision which gave wake him, but the traordinary ontiches an Eve m ’ Now o ought rther revela. great honor when extraordinarily ths hie a i wr Ag ary Sat and rail train famine struck eousness sooner or | If there should ¢ your life which the seem to be sufficient y specifi . RY rayer, and you will grt especial directi have more faith 99 times out of 100 in di- rections given you with the Bible in your lap and your thoughts uplifted in prayer to God than in all the information you w get unconscious on your pillow, I can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptians, with no Bible, should put so much stress on dreams and the Chinese, in their holy book, Chow King, should think their emperor gets his directions through dreams from God, and that Homer should think that all dreams came from Jove, and that in ancient times dreams were classified into a science, Bat why do you and | put so much stress upon dreams when we have a supernal book ot in- finite wisdom on all subjects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams? Way should Eddystone an! Barnegat lighthouses question a summer firefly. Remark the Becond--All dreams have an important meaning, They prove that the soul Is comparatively independent of the body, The eyes are closed, the senses are dull, the entire body goes into a lethargy which in all languages is used asa type of death, and then the soul spreads its wing and never sleeps, It led pe the Atlantic Ocean and mingles In scenes 8000 miles away. It travels great reaches of time, flashes back eighty years, and the octogenarian is a boy agam in his father’s bouse* If the soul before it has entirely broken its chains of flesh can do all this, how far can it lemp, what circles can it cut, when it Is fully liberated, Every dream, whether agreeable or har assing, whether sunshiny or tempestuous, means so much that rising from your couch you ought to kneel down and say: “0 G wl, am | immortal? Whence! Whither? Two patures, My soul caged now--what when the door of the cage is opened? If my soul ean fly so far in the few hours in which my body is aslesp in the night, how far can it fly when my body sleeps the long sleep of the grave? On, this power to dream, hbw startling, how ovarvhaiming! It prepared for the after death flight, what an enchant. ment! 1 not prepared for the after death flight, what a crushing agony! Immortal! Remark the Thira—The vast. majority of dreams are merely the result of disturbed physical condition snd are not a supernatural message, Job had carbunoles, and he was scared in the night, He says, “Thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me with visions,” Bolo- mon had an overwrought brain, over- wrought with public business, and he suf. fered [rom erratic number, and he writes in Eoclegiastos, “A dream cometh through the wultitude of business,” Dr. Gr y, in ex- perimenting with dreams, found that a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in slumber made him think that be was going up the hot side of Mount Etna, i Another morbid physician, #xparimenting with dreams, iy foot Snooyared theost sleep, thought was ng in Alpine dili- R But a great many dreams are mere. te nituenos of chloral HG Bis upon Die have | of Bible | his. | Immortal ! | a revelation from God, I've learnsl Da Quiney did not ascribe to divine communis eation what be saw in sleep, opium satu- rated; dreams which he afterward described in the following words: “I was worshiped, 1 was saoriflcad, 1flxd from the wrath of Brahma through all the | forests of Asia, Vishnu hated me, Siva laid in wait for me, I come suddenly upon Iss | made the crocodiles tremble, I was buried for a thousand years in stone coffing, with mummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers | I was | | of all kinds of worlily supnly. at the heart of eternal pyramids, kissed with the cancerous Kiss of crocodiles snd lay confounded with unutterable slimy things among wreatby and Nilotic mud.” Do not mistake narcotic disturbances for di. vine revelation. But I have to tell you that the majority | of dreams are merely the penalty of outraged digestive organs, and you have no right to mistake the nightmare for heavenly rovela tion, Late suppers are a warranty deed for | bad dreams, Highly spiced meals at heavenward open the door infernal and din bolical, You outrage natural law, and you insult the God who made these laws, It takes from three to five hours to digest food, | and you have no right to tax your digestive organs in struggle when the rest of your body is in somnolence, | eat nothing after 6 o'clock at night, retires at 10, sleep on your right si le, keep the win dow open flve inches for ventilation, and other worlds will not disturb you much, By physical maltreatment you take the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream and you lower it to the nother world, al arcent of the demoniacal, Dreams are mid night dyspepsia. An unreguiate 1 desire for something to eat ruined the race in para. . and an unregulated desire for som thing to eat it ruined. Toe world luring 6000 years has triod in vain to digest that first apple, The world will be evangelized until we get rid ol a dyspeptic | Christianity | dise keeps not . Healthy iis cadaverous and s eall religion 4 regularly by night, rough trou bie IVES ing oe easy Waking ne th Fg ) a Feri 1 to x appeared tog fromms that make 3 } {or dol source of all good? It gical mind Un argue and Martin Lather believ reams of John Huss are Aug ne. thy Christian father, gives the fact that a Carthaginian physician was parsuaded ol the immortality of the soul by argument which he heard ina dream be nignt before his assawination the wife of Julius Comr dreamed that her husband fell dend across her lap. It is possible to : that Gol does appear reams warn, to convert an i to save My friend, a retired sea captain and a Christian, tells me that one night while on the sea he had dreamed that a ship's crew were in great suffering. Waking up from his dream, he put about the ship, tacked in lifforent direct ye, surprised everybody on the vewel.-they thought he was going Crazy ‘a in another direction hour alter ur, and for many | until he came t the pe ew and rescusd them and prouzht them to New York. Who conduct «l tha The God of the sea In 1005 a vessel went out from Spithead for the W Indies and ran azainst the ladge of rocks called the Caskets, The vessel went down, but the crew lambered up on the Caskets to die of starvation, as they supposed, But there was a ship wound for Southampton that had captain's son on board, This lad twicr in the night freamed that thers was a crew of sailors dying on the Caskets, Hoe tol i his father of bis dream, The vessel came down by the Caskets in time to find and to rescus those poor dying men. Who conducted that | dream? he God of the rocks, the Gol of the wea, I. The Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in his marvelous | book entitled, “Natura and the Superna- tural,” gives toe following fact that be got from Captain Yount in California, . fact confirmed by many families. Captain Yount dreamed twice one night that 150 miles away there was a company of traders fast know that at. ed in dreams immortal, us any ve n met od on ware rishing er t dream? ost the | of preuliar formation, and telling his dream | to un old hunter the hunter sad, “Why, | remember those roxks; thow rocks are in | the Carson Valley pass, 150 miles away.” Captain Yount, impelled by this dream, although laughed at by his nalthbupl | gathered men to or, took mules blankets and started out on the expedition, traveled 15) miles, saw those very roeks which he had described in his dream, and | finding the suffering ones at the foot of | those rocks brought them back to confiri the story of Captain Yount. Who oon. ducted that dream? The God of the snow, the God of the Sierra Nevadas, God has often appeared in dreams to res cue and comfort, Cou have known people weporbaps it is something 1 state in your own experience you have seen people go to with bereavements inconsolable, and fect resignation be. men in slumber, 1 | i o'clock at night instead of opening the door | lowing the | or brandv or “hashessh” or landanum is not | | rheumatic, sick, poor to the last destitution, Soe was waited on for by another poor woman, her tendant, Word came to her one day that this poor woman had died, and the invalid of whom I am speaking lay helpless upon the couch i what would become of her. In that mood she fell asleep In her dreams point of and eared only ate , | she said the angel of the Lord appeared and { and Osiris, 1 had done a deed, they said, that | i took her into the open air and pointed in one direction, and there were mountaing of | bread, and pointed in another direction, and there were mountains of butter, and other direction, and there were in ane mountains The angel { of the Lord sald to her, “Woman, all those | you think that He will I'he general rule ix | mountains belong to vour lot Father, and do vou, His child, hunger and die? Dr, Crannage thld me by some divine im= | puise he wont into that destitats home, saw the suffering there and it, caring for her all the you t administerad unto way through, Do ell me that that dream was woven out of earthly anodynes? Was that the phane tasmagoria of a diseased brain? No, It was an all sympathetic God addressing a poor woman through a dreag. ‘urthermore, | have to say that there are in this house who were converted to through a dream. The Rev, John the fame of whose piety fills all endom, while a profligate sallor on Bard, in his dream, thought that a be ing appreached him and gave him a very beautiful ring sad put it upon his fin rer and sald to him, “As long as you wear that ring you will be prospered; if ¥ you will be ruined.” In the samo dream another personage ap peared, and by a strange infatustion suadel Jobn Newton to throw t overboard, and it sank into the sea. the mountains in sight y full of fire, and the alr was Jurid with nsuming wrath, While John Newton was repenting of his folly in having thrown overboard the treasure, another personage came through tt m and told John N ton he would 1g up if u jose that riag, pers ring Then nat wer 1. “Here IH keep it | and John Newton ire went out ire shoeys and pyramids of the dead with bis " joes or And the archangs which has never vet been w pstrument of music that and thrusting 12 BLE me to julgme ges AD InDsUrun wanded, an wmly guty |» musi made nna arm vad was ne sound, that © throu 3 | » shal t his lip Twins of Mixed Breed, to Mr stockman of tly gave to a pair singular nals, They resemble colts more than calves, although both possess rudimen- cattle, but Weatherby, » Manhattan, re. of A cow belonging ad 5 birth Al tary horns and the hoofs of in all other respects they seen to be young having long, flowing manes and the tails of colts, only these latter are unusually long and bushy. One is a male and the other is a female, and both are well-developed, well shaped an- imals, The mother, however, seems to know that there is something abuormal horses, | about them, and has declived to allow | in the snow, He also saw in the dream rocks | them natural nourishment, so they are | to be brought up by band. —Philadelphia Times. es Bald Facts About a Blush. The capillaries, or small blood vessels, which connect the arteries and veins in the body, form, particularly over the | chooks, a network so fine that it is neo- essary to employ a microscope to dis. | tinguish them. Ordinarily the blood | passes through these vessels In normal volumes, leaving only the natural come | plexion. But when some sudden emo- tion takes possession of the heart its action increases and an electric thrill in. stantly leaps to the cheeks, This thrill is nothing more than the rush ot blood through the invisible capillaries; the color is nothing more than the blood just beneath the delicate surface of the skin, «New York World, Boiliug Water in an Envelope. “My wife and L” says a traveling man, ‘were ouce in a hotel where we couldn't get any boiling water, we had discussed the situation my asked me if 1 had an envelope in my satchel, I got one out, when she told me to fill it with water sad hold it over the gas jet, 1 hesitated, but finally did it, and expected to see blaze up every moment, But it didu't blaze, The envelope took on a little fot but that was all, The water boiled i time, and the envelope was as good us ever when the experiment was at an epd, I don’t know the chemistry wile the cnvelope of the pro After | cess, but try it yourself and see if it will not work,” Chicago Herald, ——————————————————— *The best ‘Ying yet!” That | young man put it who made arrangements work for BF. 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