Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13

l suppose, so that if one proved to be of
uneven surface he would turn over in
the night and take another stone,
Tor with such hard bolster he
would often change in the night.
Well, that night God built in Jacobs
dream a long, splendid ladder, the feet
of 1t on either side of the tired pilgrim 5
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 COM
ing down and going up, q procession both
ways.
suppose they had wings, Cor the Bible
almost always reports them as having
wings, but this was ladder on which
they used hands and feet, to en-
courage all OF us, who have no
wings, to climb, and encour-
aging us to believe that, if we will
use what we have. God will provide
way and if we will employ the hand and
the loot, 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
persistence, 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 procession
n ar pnlin h,a
next most memorable and gio-
rious dream was that of John
Bunyau, his pillow the coldstone of
the floor OF Bedford Jail, from which
he saw the celestial city, and SO
many entering it, he cried out in
his dream: 81 wish myself among
them. The next most wonderful
dream was that of Washington
sleeping on the ground at valley Forge,
his head on "A white piilow-case OF snow,
where he saw the vision of Il nation
emancipated. Columbus slept on a
weaver's pillow, but rose on the ladder
lei down until he could seq new hemIs-
phere. DemOnsthenes slept on g cutters
pillow, but on the ladder let down arose
TO see the mighty assemblageS that were
to be swayed by his oratory. ArkwrlEht
slept on Il BARRIERS pillow but went up
the ladder till he could see all England
aquuke with the factories he set going,
Akenside slept on n butchers pillow and
took the ladder up until he saw other
generations helped by his scholar
ship. John Ashworth slept on
n poor man 5 pillow, but took the ladder
up until he could see his prayers aud ex-
ertiOns bringing thousands of the iesti-
tute in England 10 salvation and heaven.
Nearly all those who are to-day great i'll
merchandise, in craftsmanship. in law, =
IN medicine, i'll ART, i'll literature, were
once at the foot of the ladder, and in
their boyhood had n 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 boulder, 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 Gu Jacobs
ladder, took it rung by rung. They did
not leap TO the bottom, nor jump to the
top. 80 you are to rise. Faith added TO
faith, good deed to good deed. industry
to industry. conservation to consecra-
ton, until you reach the top, rung By
rung. Gradual going up from block of
granite to pillar of throne.
That night at Bethel l stood in front
of my tent and looked up and the !
heavens were full of ladders, first a lad |
der of clouds, then ladder of stars, and |
all up and down the heavens were angels |
of beauty, angels of consolation, angels !
of God ascending and descending. |
''Surely God is in this place. said |
Jacob, land l knew it not. - But to- |
night God is in this place, and l know
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