Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-10-11


three men asked us Peter here?''
Peter, while yet wondering what his
dream meant, descends the stairs and
meets these strangers at the gate, and
they tell him that good man by the
name of Cornelius, in the city of Casarea
has also had dream and has sent them
for Peter and to ask him to come and
preach. At that call Peter left Joppa
Tor CAsarea. The dream he had pre-
pared him to preach, for Peter learned
by it to reject no people as unclean, and
whereas he previously thought he must
preach only to the Jews, now he goes to
preach to the Gentiles, who were con-
sidered unclean.
Notice how the two dreams meet
Peters dream on the housetop, Cornelius
dream at CRSarea. So | have noticed
prOvidences meet, distant events meet,
dreams meet. Every dream is hunting
up some other dream, and every event is
searching for some other event. In the
Fifteenth century (1492) the great event
was the discovery of America. The art
of printing, born the same century, goes
out to meet that discovery and make the
New World an intelligent world. The
Declaration of Independence, announc-
mans man for a. that.
The United States was getting tOS
large to be managed by one government,
and telegraphy was invented to compress
within an hour the whole continent.
Armies in the civil war were to be fitted
out with clothing, and the sewing ma
chine invention came out to make it
possible. Immense farming acreage is
in fn
port millions of our native born and
millions of foreigners; but the old style
of pillow and scythe and reaper and
thresher cannot do the work, and there
come steam plows, steam harrows, steam
reapers, steam rakes, steam threshers,
and the work is accomplished. The
forests of the earth fail to afford suffi-
cient fuel, and so the coal mines sur
render a sufficiency. The cotton crops
were luXuriant, but of comparatively
little value, for they could not be man.
aged; and SO, at just the right time,
Hargreaves came with his invention OF
the spinning jenny, and Arkwright with
his roller, and Mckinney with his cotton
gin. The world, after pOttering along
with tallow candles and whale oil, was
crying for better light and more of it,
and the hills of Pennsylvania poured out
rivers OF oil and kerosene illumined the
nations. But the oil wells began to fail,
and then the electric light comes forth
to turn nighttime day.
So all events, are woven together, and
the world is magniicently governed, be.
cause it is divinely governed. We criti-
else things and think the divine machin-
cry is going wrong, and put our fingers
amid the wheels only to get them
crushed, But I say, hands off! Things
are coming out gloriously. Cornelius
may be in Casarea, and Peter in Joppa:
but their dreams meet. 1t is one hand
that is managing the world, and that is
Gods hand; and one mind that is plah-
ing all things for good, and that is Gods
mind; and one heart that is filled with
love and pardon and sympathy, and that
is Gods heart. Have faith in Him. Fret
about nothing. Things are not at loose
ends. There are no accidents. All will
come out right in your history and in
the world. AS you are waking from
one dream up stairs an explanatory
dream will be knocking. at the gate down
stairs. - Z
But standing on this Joppa house-top
/ look off on the Mediterranean, and what
is that strange sight l see? The waters
are black, seemingly for miles. There
seems to be a great multitude OF logs
fastened together Oh, yes il is great
raft of timbers. They are cedars of
Lebanon which King Hiram is furnishing
King Solomon in exchange for 20, 600
measures of wheat, 20, 900 baths of oil
and 10000 baths of wine. These cedars
have been cut down and trimmed in the
mountains of Lebanon by the 10000 ak
men engaged there, and with great
witheS and iron bolts are fastened to-
gether, and they are floating down to
Joppa to be taken across the land for
SolomOn's temple, now building at Jerus-
alem, for we have lost our hold of the
Nineteenth century and are clear back
in the ages.
The RATS of cedar are guided into
what is called the Moon Pool, an old
harbor south of Joppa, now filled with
sand and useless. With long pixies the
timber is pushed this way and that in
the water. then with levers and many
loud, long so, heave!' as the carriers
get their shoulders under the great
weight, the timber is fastened to the
wagons and the lowing oxen are yoked
to the load, and the procession of teams
moves on with crack Of whip and drawled
out words which, translated, / suppose
would correspond with the "Whoa, haW,
geer' of modern teamsters, toward
Jerusalem, which is thirty miles away,
over mountainous distances which for
hundreds of years defied all engineering.
And those rough cedars shall become
carYed pillars, and beautiful affairs, and
rounded bannisters, and traceried panels,
and sublime ceiling, and exquisite harps,
and kingly chariOts.
AS the wagon train moves out from
Tonno oxyor Tho ,,1oip IF Cbonn,,