Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-27
in the Bible is that He will answer ear


nest and believing prayer. Failing to do
that. He would wreck His own throne. and |
the foundations OF His palace would give
way. and the bank of Heaven would sus-
pend payment, and the dark word ''repudia-
ton" would be written across the sky, and |
the Eternal Government would be diSband- |
ed and God Himself would become an exile.
Keep on with your prayer. and you |
will yet find your child in the temple, either
the temple here or the temple above.
Out on the Western prairies was Il happy
but isolated home. Father. mother and
child. BY the sale OF cattle quite n large
sum OF money was ono night In that cabin
and the father was away. A robber who
had heard OF the money one night looked in
Mt the window, and the wife and mother OF
that home saw him, and she was helpless.
Her child by her side. she knelt down and
prayed among other things for all prodigals
who were wandering up and down tho
world. The robber heard her prayer and
was overwhelmed, and entered tho cabin
and knelt beside her and began to pray. He
had come to rob that house. but the prayer
OF that woman for prodigals reminded him
OF his mother and her prayers before he be-
came II vagaboud. and from that hour no
began a new life. Years after that woman
was in n city In great audience, and tho
orator who came on the platform and plead
gloriously for Righteousness and God was
the man who many years before had looked
into the cabin on the prairie as "A robber.
The speaker and the auditor Immediately
recognized each other. After so long time
II mothers prayers answered.
But we must hurry on, for tho muletcers
and baggage men have been ordered to
pitch our tents for tonight at Bethel. 1t is al
ready getting so dark that 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
hrl, rnrlS rocks up6pr rnrLS Whnrf
whoa! We dismount in this place, memoir
able for many things In Bible history. the
two more prominent, n theological seminary
where OF old they made ministers. and for
Jacobs dream. The students Of this Bethel
Theological Seminary were called ''Sons Of
the Prophets" Here tho young men wcro
fitted for the min 'stry, and those of us who
ever had the advantage OF such institutions
Will evcrlastingly he grateful. and in the
calendar OF saints, which l read with cs-
pecial affection, are the doctors OF divinity
who blessed me with their care. thank
God that from these theological Seminarics
there is now coming forth n magnificent
crop OF young ministers who are taking the
pulpits in all parts ofthc land. hail their
coming and tell these young brothers to
shake off the somnolence OF centuries and
get out from under the dusty shelves OF
theological discussions which have no prac-
tical bearing on this age, which needs to get
rid OF It's sins and have its sorrows comfort
ed. Many OF our pulpits arc dying OF hum
drum People do not go to church because
they cannot endure the technicalities and
profound explanations Of nothing, and SER
mons about the 'etcrnal generation OF the
Son. and the difference between sub lap
sarianism and supra-lapsarianism, and
about who Melchisideck wasn't There
ought to be as much difference between the
modes of presenting truth now and in olden
time, as between n lightning express rail-
train and u canal boat. Years ago went
up to tho door OF a factory in New England.
On the outside door l saw the words,
mo Admittancc." went in and came to
another door over which were the words,
mo Admittance." OF course l went in.
and came to the third door. inscribed
with the words, No Admittance."
Having entered this l found the peo-
| pie inside making pins. beau
| tiful pins. useful pins and nothing but pins
So over the outside door OF many Of tho
churches has been practically written the
words, "No Admittance." Some have en-
tered and have come to the inside door, and
found the words, mo Admittance." But
pcrsistlng, they have come inside. and found
us sounding out our little niceties of belief.
pointing out our little differences of theolo-
! gical misunderstanding pins!
But most distinguished was Bethel for
that famous dream which Jacob had, his
| l-cad on collection of stones. He had no
trouble in this rocky region in finding q
but stone Yet the people Of those lands
have a way OF drawing their outer garment
up over their head and face and such pill
low suppose Jacob had under his head.
The plural was used in the Bible story and
| you find 1t was not q pillow of stone but OF
stones. suppose. so that II 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 built
In Jacobs dream long; splendid ladder,
the feet of 1t on either side of the tired pill
grim's 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.
suppose they had wings. for the Bible
almost always reports them rs having
Wings but this was u ladder on which they
used hands and feet to encourage all those
of US who have no wings to climb, and en-
couraging us to believe that, II we will
use what we have, God will provide a
way and IL 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 not necessary. Let oil the people who
have hard pillows, hard for sickness or
know that a hard pillow IS the landing
place Of angels. They seldom descend to
eillows 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 cherubic, SER
aphic, archangelic. The next most memoir
able and glorious dream was that of John
Bunyan, his pillow the cold stone of the
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celestial city, and SO many entering 1t. he
cried out in his dream: ~ wish myself
among them" The next most wonderful
dream was that OF Washington sleeping or
the ground at Valley Forge. his head on
white pillow case OF snow. where he saw the
vision OF u nation emancipated. Columbus
slept on a weaver's pillow, but rose on the
ladder let down until he could see q new
hemisphere. Demosthenes slept on q cut
; ter's pillow. but on q ladder let down rose
|. to sec the mighty assemblages that were t.
, be swayed by his oratOry. Albright SLEPT
on BARRIERS pillow. but went up tho ladder
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