News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-13

castles of amber a nd gold and pu1
their shining feet on the shining runc.
of the ladder, and they kept coming
down and going up, n procession boil
ways.
l suppose they had wings, for the
Bible almost always eports them as
having wings, but this was ladder on
which they used hands and feet to en-.
courage all those of us who have No
wings to climb, and encouraging us to
believe that if we viii use what we
have God will provide Il way, and if we
will employ the hand and the foot he
will furnish the ladder. Young man.
do not wait for wings Those angels
folded theirs to show you wings are no1
necessary. Let all the people who
have hard pillows, hard for sickness or
hard for poverty or hard for persist
ence, know that Il hard pillow is the
landing place of angels. They seldom
descend to pillows of elder down. They
seldom build dreams in the brain of
the one who sleeps easy.
The greatest dream of all time was
that of St. John, with his head on the
rocks of PatmOs, and in that vision he
heard the seven trumpets sounded, and
saw all the pomp of heaven in process
sion cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
The next most memorable and glorious
dream was that of John Bunyan, his
pillow the cold stone of the floor of
Bedford JAIL from which he saw the
celestial city, and SO many entering 1t
he cried out in his dream, Il wish my
self among them"
THE DREAMS OF GENIUS.
The next most wonderful dream was
that of Washington sleeping on the
ground at Valley Forge, his head on q
white pillowcase of snow, where he
saw the vision of nation emi.nci-
pated. GelEgas..nb Hs- sslle;.--.ssss--ru--s--
pillow, but rose on the ladder lei down
until he could see a new hemisphere.
| Demosthenes slept on q cutters pillow,
but on the ladder let down arose to see
the mighty assemblages that were to
be swayed by his oratory. Arkwright
slept on BARRIERS pillow, but went up
| the ladder till he could see all England
quake with the factories he set going.
| Akenside slept on q butchers pillow,
and took the ladder up till he saw other
generations helped by his scholarship.
John Ashworth slept on Il poor mans
pillow, but took the ladder up until he
could see his prayers and eXertions
bringing thousands Of the destitute In
England to salvation and heaven.
Nearly all those who are today great in
merchandise, in craftsmanship, in law,
in medicine. in art, in literature, were
once at the foot of the ladder, and in
their boyhood had a pillow hard as
Jacobs They who are born at the top
of the ladder are apt to spend their
lives in coming down, while those who
are at the foot, and their head on a
bowlder, if they have the right kind of
dream, are almost sure to rise.
l notice that those angels, either in
coming down or going up on Jacobs
ladder, took it rung by rung. They
did not leap to the bottom nor jump to
the top. So you are to rise. Faith
added to faith, good deed to good
deed, industry to industry, consecra-
ton to conservation, until you reach
the top, rung by rung. Gradual going
up from a block of granite to pillar of
| throne.
That night at Bethel / stood in front
of my tent and looked up, and the
heavens were full of ladders, first a
ladder of clouds, then a ladder of
stars, and all up and down the heavens
were angels of beauty, angels of con
ISOLATION, angels of God, ascending and
descending. Surely God is in this
place." said Jacob, ''and | knew it
not" But tonight God is in this
place and ! know it,