The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1893-04-07

was torn to pieces by demons from the
pit. The scholars dream is philo.
sophie echo The poets dream is
rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed
his "Kubia Khan" asleep in narcotic
dream, and, waking up, wrote down
three hundred lines of it. Tartini, the
violin player, composed his most won.
derful sonata while asleep in a dream
so vivid that, waking, he easily trans
ferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts If man spends his
life in trying to make others happy,
and is heavenly-minded, around his pill.
low he will see cripples who have got
over their crutch, and professions OF
celestial imperials, and hear the grand
march roll down from drums of Heaven
over jasper parapets. You are very apt
to hear in dreams what you hear when
you are wide awake.
Now. having shown you that havina
Bible we ought to be satisfied not
getting any further communication
from God, and having shown you that
all dreams have an important mission,
since they show the comparative indie
pendence of the soul from the body,
and having shown you that the ma
jority of dreams are a result of dis,
turbed physical condition, and having
shown you that our sleeping thoughts
are apt to be an echo of our waking
thoughts, / come now to my fifth and
most important remark, and that is to
say, that it is capable of proof that God
does sometimes in our day. and has
often since the close of the Bible dis.
pensation, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better arc
from God. How do / know it? Is not
God the source of all good? It does
not take a very logical mind to argue
that out Tertullian and Martin
Luther believed in dreams. The
dreams of John Huss are immortal
st. Augustine, the Christian father,
gives us the fact that a Carthaginian
physician was pursuaded of the inn
mortality of the soul by an argument
which he heard in a dream. The
night before his assassination
the wife of Julius Caesar dreamed
that her husband fell dead
across her lap. 1t is possible to prove
that God does appear in dreams to warn.
to convert and to save men. My friend,
a retired sea captain and Christian,
tells me that one night while on the
sea he dreamed that ships crew were
in great suffering. Waking up from
the dream he put a bout the ship, tackled
in different directions. surprised every
body on the vessel-they thought he
was going crazy-sailed on in another
direction hour after hour, and for many
hours, until he came to the perishing
crew and rescued them, and brought
them to New York Who conducted
that dream? The God of the sea.
In 1885 vessel went out from Spit,
head for West India and ran against
the ledge of rocks called the Caskets
The vessels went down, but the crew
clambered up on the Caskets, to die Of
thirst or starvation, as they supposed
But there was ship bound for South
ampton that had the captains son on
board. This lad twice in one night
dreamed that there was crew of sail.
ors dying on the Caskets. He told hi4
father of his dream. The vessel came
down by the Caskets in time to find and
to rescue those poor dying men. Who
conducted that dream? The God of the
rocks, the God of the sea.
John Hardock, while on shipboard,
dreamed one night that the day of judg-
ment had come, and that the roll of the
ships crew was called, except his own
name, and that these people, this crew,
were all banished; and in his dream he
asked the reader why his own name
was omitted, and he was told it was to
give him more opportunity for repent,
ance. He woke up different man. He
became illustrious for Christian attain
ment. If you do not believe these
things, then you must discard all testi.
mony, and refuse to accept any kind Of
authoritative witness. God in a dream!
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted
to God through a dream of the last
judgment, and doubtif there is a man
or woman in this house to-day that has
not had some dream of that great day
of judgment which shall be the wind
ing up of the worlds history. If you
have not drea med of it, perhaps to-
night you may dream of that day.
There are enough materials to make a
dream. Enough voices, for there shall
be the roaring of the elements, and the
great earthquake. Enough light for
the dream, for the world shall blaze.
Enough excitement, for the mountains
shall fall Enough water, for the
ocean shall roar. Enough astronom-
ical phenomena, for the stars shall
go out. Enough populations, for
all the races of all the ages will fall
into line of one of two professions, the
one ascending and the other descending,
the one led on by the Rider on the
white horse of eternal victory. the 9TH
er led on by Apollyon on the black
charger of eternal defeat, The dream
comes on me now, and see the light
nings from above answering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath,
and / hear the long-reverberat-
ing thunders that shall Ewake up
the dead, and on one side I sec
the opening of gate into scenes golden
and amethystine, and on the other side
hear the changing back of gate into
bastiles of eternal bondage, and all the
seas, lifting up their crystal voices, cry:
Come to judgment!' and crumbling
mausoleums, and Westminster abbeys,
and pyramids of the dead, with mar.
bic voices, cry: Come to judgme ntI''
And the archangel seizes an instru-
ment of music which has never
yet been sounded, an instru.
mert of music that was made only for
one sound, and thrusting that mighty |
trumpet through the clouds, and turn.
ing it this way, he shall put it to his
lips and blew the long, loud blast that |
shall make the solid earth quiver, cry
ing: "Come to iudgmentr
Then from this earthly yossness quit,