Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-04-01
REV. DR.. 1ALdAGb
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun.
day Sermon.



81 Drsams."
TEXT: HE took of the stones Of tn
place and put them for his piliotcs and Ia
do.Dn IN that place to sleep, and he dream
ed"-Genesis xviii, IL.
Asleep on q pfllowcase filed with hans
feathers 1t Is not strange one should hav
Pheasant dreams but here is a pillow c
rock, and Jacob with his bead on il, and 10
Cream of angels, two PROFESSIONS, thos
coming down the stairs met by those goiu
up the stairs. 1t is the first dream of Bibl
record. Icumay say OF dream that it
nocturnal fantasia or that It is the absur,
combination OF waking thoughts, aud witt
SUR OF intonation You may say, ut is oniy
tdfeam." but God has honorei the dream
by making it the avenue throurh which
ngain and again He has marched upon tn,
human soul decided the fate of Nation
and changed the course OF tnc wo ria,s hi
terry.
God appeared in dream to Abimsleci.
warning him against anuniawful M srriaye;
IN dream to Josep,, foretelIing His cor
Ing power Ter the figure Of all the
sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his
sheaf, to the cniai butler, foretelliny his
disimprisonment; TO the chief baker, an
:ouncing his decanitation; TO Pharaoh,
showing him first the seven plenty years
and then the seven famine struck years, un-
,ier the figure of the seven fat cows devour.
ing the seven lean COWS; to Solomon, giving
him the choice between wisdom AMI riches
md honor. to the warrior, TN Ter the figure
Of bar,ev cake shifting down a tent, en-.
couraging Gideon in his battie AGAINST the
Amelekltes, to Nebuchadneszar, unier the
figure CT a broken image and a hewn down
tree. foretelling his overthrow Of power; to
Joseph of the New Testament, annodnc. ng
the birth Of Christ in his own household; to
Mary, bidding her fly from Herodic tetse-
cutions; to Pilates wife warning bin, not
to become complicated With the judicial
overthrow OF Christ
We all admit that God III ancient times
and under Bible dispensatiot addressed the
people through dreams The question bow
Is, Does Col appear id our day and reveal
himself through dreamss That is the ques--
ton everybody asks, and that question this
morning shall try to answer. You ask me
If believe in dreams. Nv answer Is do
believe IN dreams but all hare to say will
be under five heads.
Remark tine FIrst-The Scriptures are so
full OF revelation from God that il we get
no communication from Him in dreams W.
ought nevertheless to DO satisfied.
With 20 guidebooks TO tell you how to ges
to Boston or Pittsburg or london or Glas.
gov or Manchester, do you want night
vision to tell you how to make the journey
We have in this Scripture fill direction id
regard to the Journey of this lite an how to
get to the celestial city, and with this gran
eeidebook, this magnificent directory, we
ou hit to he satisfied. | have more faith in
q decision to which come when | am wide
awake than when am sound asleep. have
noticed that those who gave a great deal OF
Their time to studying dreams get their
brains added. They are very anxious to
remember what they dreamed about the
first night they slept in new hous,.
II in their dream they taks the hand OF
corpse, they are going to die. If they dream
OF q garden, It means a seIulcher, If Bome-
thing turns out aceor ling TO d hight vision,
they say, We'll, am not SURPRISED. I
dreameI in If it turns out different from
the night vision! they say, 'Weif dreams
90 BY contraries." In their efforts to put
their dreams into rhythm they put their
waking thoughts into discord. Now the
Bible Is so fu!l of revelation that we ought
10 be satisfied if we get no further reveal.
ton.
Sound sleep received great honor when
Adam slept so extraordinarily that the sur
gical incision which gave him Eve did not
wake him, but there is no such nee l for ex
traordinary slimber now, and he who
catches an Eve must needs be wide awakel
Nonee1 of such dream as Jacob ha with
lduuoL HSdlli5t Tue Skyj WHeu lU,UW tuuSS
II had been demonstrated that eatth and
heaven are in standardization. No such
dream needed as that which was given to
Abimelech, warning him against an unlawful
marriage, when we have the records Of this
county clerks office. No need OF such a
dream as was given to Pharaoh about the
seven years of famine, for now the seasons
march in regular procession, and steamer
and rail- train carry breeistuffs to every
famine struck Nation. No need Of dream
like that which encouraged Gideon, for all
through Christendom it is announced and
acknowledged and demonstrated that fight
eousness sooner or later will get the victory
Ii there should tonne about a crisis id
sour life upon which the. Bible does nos
seem to be sufficient j specifc, go to Col id
prayer, and you will get especial direction
have more faith 80 tines out of 100 III di;
.ections gwen you with the Bib . III your
ap and your thoughts tpifteI id prayer 10
Bod than IN all the information you will
Eet tine )Dscions on your pillow.
! eau very easily understand why ths
6abylon:ans AMI the Egyptians, with no
Bible, should put SO much stress on dreams,
Ind the Chinese, in their holy book, CloH
King, should think their enper or gets his
directions through dreams from CO., AMI
that Homer should thinl that all dreamI
.ariie from dove, and that in ancient tim 4
atearns were Classified lnto science. Bli
Fhy do you AMI put so mtcl stress up,n
dreams when we have sup,rnal BOOK of in-
mite wisdom on all suojec6sf Why shout
ne h3fry ourselves with dreansS Why
thoutd tdystone an Barnegat Ii ,hthous,s
QUESTION summer tirehy.
Remark the Second-All dreams have an
important meaning
They prove that the soul Is comparatively
Independent OF the body. The eyes ara
closed, tho senses are duU, the entire body
goes into q lethargy which in all languages
Is used as q type of death, and then the soul
spreads its wing and never sleeps, 1t ieapi
the Atlantic Ocean AMI rlingles In scenes
SQ00 miles away. 1t travels great reaches OF
time. flashes back eighty years, AMI the
octogenarian Is boy again id his ia: her
house Ii the soul before it Has entirely
broken its chains Of flesh can do all this, how
far can it leap, what circles can it cut, when
u is iuly liberated.
Every dream. whether agreeable or har-
assinr, whether sunshiny or tenpestuous,
means so much that rising from your couch
you ought to kneel down and say: - God,
am immortai' Whence? Whthers Two
, natures. My soul Gagged now-wnat when
the door of the eng, is opened? Ii my soul
cen lily so far in the few hours in which my
body is asleep in the night, how far can it
by when my body sleeps the long sleep OF
the eraveF7 Oh, this power to dream, how
startling, how overwhelming If prepare
for the after death flight, what an eucnaut.
,nenti Ii not prepared for the after death
flight, what a crushing agoayl Immortali
immortal
Remark the Third--The vast majority
OF dreams are merely the result of disturbed
physical condition AMI are not supernatural
message;
Job ha carbuucles, and he was scared in
the night. He says Thou scarest me with
dreams and terrifiest me with visions.n Solo
mon had an overwrought brain. over
wrought with public business, and he suf-
fered from cratic lumber; AMI he writes in
Ecciesiastes, "a dream cometh through the
multitude of business DR.. Gregory in e.
perimentng with dreams, found that bottle
Of hot water put to his feet while in slumber
made him think that he was going ~ the
hot side of Mount Etna.
Another morbid physician, experimenting
with dreams his feet uncovered through
sleep, thought he was riding in Alpine dill
gence. But great many dreams are mere
: ly narcarcotic disturbance. Anything that
you see while under the influence OF chloral
or brandy or "hasheesh" or laudanum is no
a revelation from God. The learned d
lQuincy did not ascribe to divine communi
cation what he saw in sleep, opium satu
rated, dreams which he afterward describe
in the following words:
II was worshiped. / was sacrificed. Ifa
from tire wrath of Rrahma through all III
| forests OF Asia. Vishpu hatei me. silva iaic
in wait for me. | come suddenly upou Is,
and Osiris. had done deed, they said, tina
made the crocodiles tremble was burie
Aur thousand years Ia stone collins. wit,
mummies and sphiuxes ia narrow chamber
a. the heart of eternal pyramiis. wa
kisse with the calcerous kiss OF crSco Lille
and lay confounded with unuttara Sic 3 INN