Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-22


pleaded gloriously for righteousness and
God was the man who many years before
nad looked into the cabin on the prairie
as robber. The speaker and the
auditor Immediately recognized each
other After so long time mothers
| prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for the mule
teers and baggage men have been or
| dered to pitch our tents for tonight at
Bethel. 1t is already getting so dark
Ethat we have to give up all idea of
guiding the horses, and leave them to
their own sagacity. We ride down amid
mud cabins and into ravineS, where the
horses leap from depth to depth, rocks
below rocks, rocks under rocks. Whoa!
Whoa! We dismount in this place, mem
orable for many things in Bible history,
the two more prominent, theological
seminary, where of old they made minis
tiers, and for Jacobs dream. The stu
dents of this Bethel Theological Semin4
airy were called ''sons of the prophets"
Here the young men were fitted for the
ministry, and those of as who ever had
| the advantage of such institutions will
svsrlastiagly be grateful, and in the cal
sndar Of saints, which / read with espe-
sial affection, are the doctors of divinity
| " AO bxDBwE0 hG WIgu b4eI G&iC.
| Years ago [ went up to the door of =
factory in New England. On the out
side door saw the words: mo Admit
| lance | went in and came to another
AsOr over which were the words: mo
Admittance." Of course / went in, and
came to = third door inscribed with the
words: mo Admittance." Having en-
tered this found the people inside max
| ing pins, beautiful pins, useful pins, and
aothing bat pins. So over the outside
| aoor Of many of the churches has been
practically written the words: mo Ad-
mittance." Some have entered and have
come to the inside door, and found the
words: ''No Admittapee." But, per-
sisting, they have come inside, and found
rs sounding our little niceties Of belief,
pointing out our little differences Of
theological misunderstanding pins!
| But the most distinguished was Bethel
! for that famous dream which Jacob had,
his head on a collection of stones. He
had NO trouble in this rocky region in
| finding rocky pillow. There is hardly
anything else but stone. Yet the people
Of those lands have way Of drawing
| their outer garment up over their head
I and face, and such pillow / suppose
Jacob had under his head. The plural
J
it was not pillow ofstone, but of stones,
| 1 suppose, SO that if one proved to be Of
uneven surface he would turn over in
| the night and take another stone, for,
| with such hard bolster he would often
| change In the night. Well, that night
| God bailt in Jacobs dream long splen-
| did ladder, the feet Of it ON either side
Of the tired pilgrims pillow, and the top
Of it morticed in the sky. And bright
immortals came out from the castles OF
amber and gold and put their shining
feet On the shining rungs of the ladder,
and they kept coming down and going
up, procession both ways
l suppose they had wings, for the 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 encouraging as to believe that
| if we use what we have God will provide
a way, and if we will employ the hand
and foot He will furnish the ladder.
Young man, do not wait for wings. Those
angels folded theirs to show you wings
are not necessary. Let all the people
who have hard pillows, hard for sickness
or hard for poverty or hard for persist
ence, know that 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 OH 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, archangel1c.
| The next most memorable and glorious
dream was that of John Bunyan, his
pillow the cold stone of the floor OF Bed
fory Jail, from which he saw the celestial
city, and so many entering 1t he cried
out in his dream: II wish myself
among them"
The next most wonderful dream was
that of Washington sleeping on the
ground at Valley Forge, his head on
white pillowcase of snow, where he saw
the vision of a nation emancipated. Co
lumbus slept on a weaver's pillow, bnt
rose on the ladder let down until he could
see a new hemisphere. Demosthenes
| slept on cutters pillow, but on the
| ladder letdown arose to see the mighty
| assemblages that were to be swayed by
| his oratory. Arkwright slept on bar
| ber's pillow, but went up the ladder till
he could see all England quake with. the
factories he set going. AkeDslde slept
on a butchers pillow, and took the lad
der up till he saw other generations
helped by his scholarship.
| John Ashworth slept on 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 to-day great in
| ohon in craftsmanship