The Forrest City times., 1890-11-15

tims e between lightning sxprsss raii. train and canal boat. Years AHo went up to the door of factory In New England.
 No Admittancc" l went In and came to another door over which w,re the words. No Admittance." of course 1 went in. and came to tho third door. inscribed
 with the words. No Admltiance." Having entered this found the peo- pie inside making pms. beau tiful pins useful pins and nothing but pins. So over tho outside door of many of the churches has been practically written the words. No AdmIttan~e." Some have en- tered and have come 10 tho inside door. and found the words, No Admlttance." But persistlng, they have come insi le. and found us sounding out our little niccties of belief.
 pointing out our little differences of tbeoio- gical sentiment-piaking p!ns'
 But most distinguished was Bethel for that famous dream which Jacob had, his head on collection of stones. He had no trouble in this rocky region in finding a rocky pillow. Thcre Is hardly anthng else
 but stone. Yet the people of those lands have a way of drawing their outer garment up over their head and face and such pil-
 low suppose Jacob had under his head. The plural was used In the Bible story and
 you find 1t was not pillow of stone. but of
 stones, l suppose, so that 1T one proved to
 he Of uneven surface he would turn over in the night and take another stone. for witl, such a hard bolster he would often change in the n lght. We'll, that night Gol built In Jacobs dream long. SD endid ladder, the feet of it on either side of the tired pill crlm's pIllow and tho top of 1t mortIced in the sky. And bright immortals came out from rho castles of amber and gold and put their shining feet on the sh ming rungs of the ladder, and they kept coming down and going up, a pr ecssiln both ways.
 I suppose they had wings. for tho Bible almost always reports them as having wings, but this was ladder on which they used hands and feet to encourage all those of us who have no wings to climb. and on roura gtug us to believe that, if We will nse what VIC have, God will provide a way and If we will employ tho hand and tho foot, He will furnish tho ladder. Young ,nan, Do not walt for wings. Those angcls folded theirs to show you wings rc not necessary. Let all tho people who have hard pillows, hard for sickness of nard for poverty or hard for persistence,
 snow that hard pillow Is tho landing tlace of angels. They seldom d descend to
 Pillows of elder down. They seldom build
 breams in tho brain of the one who sleeps
 pasy.
 Tho greatest dream of all time was that If st. John with his head on tho rocks oi Patmos. and In that vision he heard the Seven trumpets sounded, aud saw all the pomp of heaven in procession cheruhic. ser- aphic archangelic. The next most memor- able and glorious dream was that of John Bunyan. his pillow tho cold s'onc of the floor of Bedford jail, from which he saw tho celestial city, and so many catering 1t, he cried out In his dream; 'l wish myself among them" The next most wonderful dream was that of Washington sleeping on tho ground Ut Valley Forge, his head cn a white pillow case of snow, where he saw the vision ct a nation cmancipated. Columbus slept on weavcr's pillow, but rose on the ladder let down until he could see new hemisphere. Demosthenes slept on . cut ter's pi low. but on a ladder let down rose to see the mighty assemblages that were to be swayed by hls oratory. Arkwright slept on n barber pillow. tut went up the ladder till he could see all En sland alusSo with tho factories he set going, Akenside slept on a butchers pillow and took the ladder up till he saw other generations helped hy his scholarship John Ashwcrth slept ot q poor mans pillow. but took the lad CT up until he could see his prayers and eser,ioas bringing thousands of the destitute in Eng
 land 10 salvation and heaven. Nearly all those who arc today great ln merchandise. in stntcsmanship, in law, In medicine. in
 art, in literature. were once at the foot of the ladder, and in their boyhcod had !
 pillow hard as Jacobs. They who are born at the top of the ladder are ant to spend ther lives in coming down, while those who are at tho foot. and their head on q boulder. If they have the right kInd of dream, arc almost sure to rise.
 notice that those angels, either In com ing down or going up on Jaeohs ladder. took it tung by rupg. They did not leap tu the bottom, nor Jump to tine top. So you are to risc. Faith ndded 10 falth. good decd to good deed. industry to industry conse.-atior to consecratiun, until you reach the top, rang by rung. Gradual so- ing up from block of granite 10 pillar of throne.
 That night Ut Batncl. stool In front of my tent and looked mp and tho heavens were full of ladders. first ladder of cl0uds then a ladder of stars, aud all up aud down the heavens were angels of beauty. angels of consolation. angels of God ascending and uesceDdlng. seurely tod x in thls place" said Jacob and I knew il not a But tonight God is in thls place. md I know iti