Connecticut western news., 1893-03-30
AT THE TABERNACLE.
.pR. TALMAGE ON BIBLICAL AND MOD- ERIN VARIATIONS OF DREAMS.

pR. TALMAGE ON BIBLICAL AND MOD- ERIN VARIATIONS OF DREAMS. ,EAs Canon of Revelation Being Sufficient For Common Life, God Very Rarely
 Speaks to Man Today-Nevertheless on Occasion the Dream Is Employed. BROOKLYN. March 26.-A remarkable sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Tal- mage in the Tabernacle today, the sub 3ect being psychological and religious study of the phenomena of the mind during sleep and the significance of dreams as evidence of immortality. The text chosen was Genesis xviii, Il, "He took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep, and he dreamed"
 Asleep on pillowcase filled with hens feathers it is not strange one should have pleasant dreams, but here is a pill low of rock, and Jacob with his head on it, and. lol dream of angels, two pro- cesdons, those coming down the stairs met by those going up the stairs It is the first dream of Bible record. You may say of dream that it is nocturnal fantasia, or that it is the absurd combina- ton of waking thoughts, and with slur of intonation you may say, Tt is only . dream" but God has honored the dream by making it the avenue through which again and again he has marched upon the human soul, decided the fate of nations and changed the course of the worlds history.
 God appeared in dream to Abime- lsch, warning him against an unlawful marriage; in dream to Joseph, foretell- ing his coming power under the figure of all tho sheaves of the harvest lowing down to his sheaf; to the chief butler, foretelling his disimprisonment; to the chief baker, announcing his decapitation; to Pharaoh, showing him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine struck years, under the figure of the ssven fat COWS devouring the seven lean COWS: to Solomon, giving him the choice between wisdom and riches and honor: to the warrior. under the figure of bar l1y cake smiting down tent, encourag- ing Gideon in his battle against the Amelekites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under the figure of broken image and hewn down tree, foretelling his overthrow of power; to Joseph of the New Testament, announcing the birth of Christ in his own household; to Mary bidding her fly from Herodic prosecutions; to Pilates wife, warming him not to become complicated with the judicial overthrow of Christ.
 SUFFICIENT IS GIVEN TO ALL We all admit that God in ancient times and under Bible dispensation ad- dressed the people through dreams. The question now is, Does God appear in our day and reveal himself through dreamsP That is the question everybody asks, and that question this morning shall try to answer You ask me if l believe in dreams. My answer is, do believe in dreams, but all have to say will be un- dsr five heads.
 Remark the First-The Scriptures are 70 full of revelation from God that if we get no communication from him in dreams we ought nevertheless to be sat is6ed.
 With 20 guidebooks to tell you how
 
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 If in their dream they take the hand q . corpse. they are going to die If they dream of 8 garden, 1t means sep ulcher If something turns out accord ing to . night vision, they say: Well, am not surprised dreamed it." If it turns out different from the night vi- sion. they say, Well, dreams go by contraries. In their efforts to put their dreams into rhythm they put their waking thoughts into discord No :, the Bible is so full of revelation that we ought to be satisfied if we get no fur ther revelation.
 THE DEEP SLEEP OF ADAM.
 Sound sleep received great honor when Adam slept so extraordinarily that the surgical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him. but there is no such need for extraordinary slumber now, and c< ole I>< wide awakei No need of such a dream as Jacob had with ladder against the sky. when 10000 times it had been dem onstrated that earth and heaven are in communication. No such dream needed e that which was given to Abimelech. warning him against an unlawful mar riage. when we have the records of the 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 breadstuffs to every famine struck nation. No need of a dream like that which encouraged Gideon, for all through Christendom it isannounced and acknowledged and dem- onstrated that righteousness sooner or later will get the victory.
 If there should come about crisis in your life upon which the Bible does not seem to be uficiently specific, go to God in prayer, and you will get especial direc- tion have more faith 99 times out of 100 in directions given you with the Bible in your lap and your thoughts up lifted in prayer to God than in all the
 
 your pillow
 can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptians, with nc Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese, ip their holy book. Chow King. should think thei1 emperor gets his directions through dreams from God, and that Homer should think that all dreams came from love. and that in ancient times dreams