The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-17
CArrrsH PorNT, Oct. II, IA.
TO WILLIAM THE INTERPRETER OF
DREAMS.

DREAMS.
T5s rord Of Wisdom, as they came to Gid
con the son Of james, in a dream.
P. s. q. .. preliminary statement) This
is the FIRST perpendicular DIRE am | ever had,
and therefore should feel less confident that
il shadoweth forth truly what has been or
viii be; if it warnt that it's so natural and
and proves one Of my doctrines, that there's
lccofocos by nature that can't help being so,
men that are so made that they'll look at a
thing and not see it--or see it and not I'M
derstand it--or understand it and know it,
and yet from their natural disposition 10 go
wreng, deny its existence.
It came about in this wise.--I went 10 town
last Sunday to hear that ermon on the sew
enth Commandment, because | never heard
such a thing before. And | heard it and !
Was edited more than | expected to be. |
learnt things that shoulden't of knowed if
had staid on this Point forty years more.
Well asI went home I stopped and sci
down aein a tree, fernent that big spring that
comes out under the river bank, on the land
Of Pope John, and I went to sleep setting up
and got 10 dreaming.
The words of wisdom, as they came to
Gideon the son of James in a dream:
dreamed a dream, and behold in my
dream, | saw two men on horses. One of
them was an aged man and had sundry
daughters, but he had no son. And the 9TH
eF was a young man not yet married. And
as they rode along the aged mans horse got
sick and they stopped at a house oget some
thing to give the horse. And the young
man said turpentine will do him good, and
he went into the house and got soma and
handed il to the aged man. And the aged
man was about TO pour it down the horses
throat. And the young man said stop, you'll
killiyour horse. Rub il on his heels and hi.
legs aud bis tail. And the aged man said,
be is not sick in his heels nor in bis legs nor
in bis tail. And the young man said he is
not, but that is the way to cure him, and so
the aged man did as the young man said.
And they went their way leading their
horses until they came 10 another house and
stopped, and the young man said to the
aged man, smell your horses nose. And he
did so-and the young man said, what smell
leth it Ike untoi And the aged man said,
turpentine. How came it there? And the
young man said, knowest thou not? Behold
is not a horse an entire animal7 Will not
that which viii be good for a member of the
bedg do good TO the whole body? And is
not that which destroyeth a member iDjuFi-
Gus to the body? And they went into the
house and sat down, and a woman was there
who had q small infant in her arms which she
had carried several miles on horseback, and
its feet had got cold, and its nose had got
stopped up, and it had the %snufles so bad
that it had to let go every mouthful il sucked
to get breath. And she moved close to the
fire, and she stripped the childs feet andheld
them slose TO the fire, and then she took. a
piece ola tallow candle and she rubbed il
gnce lightly down the childs nose, and then
she creased its feet thoroughly and basted
the grease in by the FIRE. And when she
did this the young man said to the aged
man. Behold! seest thou what the woman
doethi And the aged man said, yea, verify
but / cannot comprehend why does she so
And the young man said, wait and thou shall
sse- And they sat for the space OF about
i've minutes, and while they sat the child
quit snufRing and took hold and sucked it
FL and let go voluntarily and began to play
and laugh an cut the antickest kind of higt
didoes.
And the young man said, seest thou the
clildf And the aged man said, | see it. Anc
they arose and went out, and behold the horse
also was we'll.
And the young man said, what thinkes
thou cured the horse, and what thinkest thou
cured the child? And the aged man said,
know not. 1t could not have been the tuf
p~eniine nor the tallow for neither the horse
nor the child was sick in the feet. And the
young man said, thou numbscull, thou art /;
l~ocofoco by nature, who will look upon
thing and not see ii, for thy good lady ha.
cured thine own children ofthe snufles
hundred times before thy face by greasin!
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