Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-10

suppose, so that II one proved to be OF
uneven surface he would turn over IN
the night aud take another stone,
for with such hard bolster he
would often change i'll the night.
Well, that night God built in Jacob
dream long, splendid ladder, the feet
of ii on either side of the tired pilgrim s
pillow, and the top of it morticed in the
sky. And bright lmmortals came out
from the castles of amber aud 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, for the Bible
almost always reports them as having
wings, but this was ladder on which
they used hands ana feet, TO en-
courage all OF US, who have no
wings, to climb, and encour-
aging US TO believe that, il we will
use what We have. God will provide a
way aud if we will employ the hand and
the loot, He will furnish the ladder.
Young mani 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 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, aud III that vision he
heard the seyen trumpets sounded, and
saw all the pomp OF heaven iu PROCESSION
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. The
next most memorable and glo-
rious dream was that OF John
Bunyan, 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 u white pillow-case of snow,
where he saw the vision of nation
emaneipated. Columbus slept on q
weaver's pillow, but rose on the ladder
let down until he could see new hemIs-
phere. Demonsthenes slept on cutters
pillow, but on the ladder let down arose
to see the mighty assem- blages that were
to be- swayed 10y his oratory. Arkwrlght
slept on barber 3 pillow, but went up
the ladder till he could see all England
aquaks with the factories he set going,
Akenside slept on butchers pillow and
took the ladder up until he saw other
generations helped by his sehasar-
ship. John Ashworth sept dn
poor man 3 pillow, but took the laddet
up until he could see his prayers and ex-S
ertions bringing thousands of the desti-I
tute in England to salvation and heaven.
Nearly all those who are to-day great in}
merchandise, in craftsmanship. in law ;
in medicine, in art, in literature, werd
once at the foot of the ladder, and III
their boyhood had pillow hard -
Jacobs. They who are born at the I'd
of the ladder are apt to spend their iivB
in coming down, while those who are
the foot, and their head on boulder, "
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 10 good deed. industry
to industry, conservation to consecra-
ton, until you reach tbs top, rung by
rung. Gradual going up from block of
granite to pillar of throne.
That night ct Bethel 1 stood in front
OF my tent. and looked up aud the
head bs were full of ladders, first lad
der otclouds, 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, "and l knew it not But to-
night God is in this place, and I know
it!'