Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-24
GHOSTS AND HAUNTED HOUSES,
Rev. j. A. Gray's Sunday Evening
Lecture.

new. j.. A. Gray'S SUNDAY
Lecture.
We give our readers a synopsis Of
Rev. Mr.. Gray's lecture on Sunday
evening. tits nothing NOR than the
framework on which he hung his
thoughts:
Acts 1910. We are on the bound
aries of the supernatural world.
Scripture history records many in
stances where the vail was broken
and spiritual intelligences were re-
vealed. The most remarkable of these
manifestations were made during
sleep. There seem to be indications
of other senses and capacities in the
phenomena of sleep. 1t was when
Jacob slept that he saw the ladder up
against the sky thronged with ascend
ing and descending angels. II was in a
dream that the angel of the Lord APP
peared to Joseph, saying, "Arise, take
the young child and go down into
Egypt" 1t was a midnight phantom
that stood by the bedside OF Paul.
There are modern instances of these
appearances and revelations that are
quite as remarkable as those recorded
in scripture. Among these is an in
cident abundantly vouched for: A
gentleman by the name of Lount, who
resided in the Napa valley some ear
ago, dreamed that he saw a company
of emigrants n a wild pass among the
mountains; that they were without
food and at the point of starvation, and
were prevented by the snow from find
ing any relief. MIR. Lount had never
crossed the mountains, but the dream
made such an impression or his mind
that he related the particulars so mi
nutoly that a friend recognized the
locality. A company was formed
and on proceeding to the spot
every particular of the vision
were saved. There are none of these
visions and apparitions that have APP
peared in moments of w~aketulness that
are of any importance or that will bear
a scientific scrutiny. There are rea-
sons for a widespread faith in ghosts
aud haunted houses. ASPIRATIONS
have manifested themselves which
were clearly the result of physical dis
organization, as i'll cases of delirium
tremens. The faith in ghosts is large
ly a result of education. Children are
remarkably susceptible OF impressions
by Of supernatural things.
1t is one of the Most fearful exhibitions
of cruelty that We can conceive, to in
culcate false ideas in regard to super
natural manifestations, in the minds of
children. Most of US can remember
some OF the fearful tortures we endured
in childhood occasioned by some wild
story of ghosts and phantoms. Chill
dren wrap themselves in the night
and tremble through the slow hours
at the moaning of the wind or the
slightest unusual sound. Most of us
have impressions which were pro-
duced in this manner to keep US
still" which are felt to-day. OF course
there is nothing in the vague. wild
stories of ghosts and haunted houses
that obtain among the igno. ant and
superstitious; but there are ghosts
and haunted houses, but they are with
in. What phantoms stalk up and
down the long halls of memory; what
forms OF bane or blessing Hit through
the domes of imagination; what ghosts
of the past make the Knight bideousH
as they come and go and will not
"down at u bidding" How many
are haunted with fears and apprehen-
sions ? The future IS peopled with
f~orebodings that vanish into air as we
strike at them. The phantoms stand
all about us, over the cradle threaten
ing the mother with loss of her child;
in the contingencies threatening
panic and loss; over the home
ing fire and flood. There are lives
that are one perpetual unrest, because
OF these dim shadows of foreDoding
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the vision. To overcome these we
need a practical faith in the good
providence OF Almighty God.
What ghosts of suspicion haunt the
souls of men and women. How every
exhibition of mirth is construed into
ridicule; every averted look into en-
nifty; and all the blessed ministries of
life are defeated. How guilt brings in
its phantoms of vengeance. The con-
seriousness of its certain retributions
follows the guilty soul. "The mills OF
the Gods grind slow, but they grind
exceeding small" Justice has leaden
feet, but they are heavy ones when
they fall. Tweed thought he could
defy law and enjoy his i'll gotten gains,
but after in ain trying to find a hid
ing place he is dragged back by the
officers of the law, and, an old broken
man, throws his plumber down with a
piteous wall OF dispair. What appre-
tensions are whipping Oakley Hall
with scorpion lashes in his fugitive
wanderings. What visions of the past,
what ghosts of CORY memories, what
phantoms of wrath and vengeance
must have stalked through the soul of
John ID. Lee as he took his seat upon
his coffin at "Mountain Meadows"
How memories of hopes blighted,
duties disregaTded, opportunities neg
lected, continually haunt us all. The
visions are determined by character.
What a blessed thing it is to have
thoughts of the good and true break
ing in upon is with benedictions in
stead Of memories of the bad with ex-
ecrations. A pure Christian life brings
thoughts of beauty and visions of
blessedness into the soul.
The lecture closed with a reference
to the character of st. Paul's visions.
Library Association.
Members of the Library Association
met at Armory Hall last evening and
adopted a constitution and bylaws,
and provided conditions of member