The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-03-31
REMARKABLE SERMON.
Dreams Have Decided the Fate Of
Nations
And Changed the Course OF In. worlds
History forctelling seven Year. of
FAMINE aud Annou' cling the
Advent of u sayiour-nr.
TaImages Sermon,

ana the slgninchnce Of dreams as cyi.
!" dcnoe Of immortality The text chosen
was Genesis xviii, II. lie took OF
= the stones Of that place and put them
for his pillows, and ay down In that
u place 10 sleep. and in dreamed"
Asleep ON a pillow-case filled with
70 hens feathers IL is not strange that one
g should have pleasant dreams But here
p" Is pillow OF rock, and Jacob En- MS
head ON IL. and lol dream otFsnyelsvp
two processicn~. shoee cp,ar.ng ,ary'
/. the stairs met by those going
q stairs. IL Is the first dream Of - Ne
+, record. You may say OF dream That
: IL In nocturnal fantasia, or that IL Is
n tho absurd combination Of waking
!. thoughts, and with a slur OF intorati
I you may say 1T is only dream, but
/, God has honored the dram by
making II the avenue through
which again aud again he has
, marched upon the human soul, de-
cided the fate Of nations, and changed
, the course Of the worlds history. God
appeared In dream To Abime lcch,
warning against an unlawful marriage;
In dream to Joseph. foretellinR his /
, coming power under the figure Of all /
the sheaves OF the harvest bowling /
down Ia his shesf. In the chief butter, !
fore,elling his disimprisoument 10 the |
chief baker, announcing his dccapita.
tion; 10 Pharoah, showing him irst the
seven plenty years, and then the seven
famine-struck years, under the figure Of
the seven fat COWS dcvouring The seven
lean cows; TO Solomon, giving him the
choice between wisdom and riches aud
honor; To the warrior under The figure
of a barley cake shifting down a tent,
encouraging Gideon in his battle
against the Amalokites; 10 Nchuchad.
nczzar, under the figure Of a broken
image and hcwn.dovn TREE. f1rctcll.
ing his overthrow of power; g. Joseph,
OF the New Testament, announcing the
birth Of Christ In his own household. TO
Mary. forbidding her fly from llcrudic
prosecutions. 20 Pilates wife, warning
him not 10 become complicated with
the judicia! overthrow Of Christ
We all admit that God i1 ancient {
times and under Bible dispersal lon adj
| dressed the people through dreams
The question now is, does Col appear
In our day and reveal himself through ;
dreams? That is the question every :
body asks, and that ques ton this morn.
ing ! shall try 10 answer Yuu ask the q
II believe In dreams My answer is, s,
do believe In dreams ba; o have 20 q
say will be under i've heads u
Remark the first. The SCRIPTURES are
SO full OF revelation from God that IL
we get no communicates. srOn Him In
dreams we ought nevertheless, TO be :
satisfied
D. = IL I
how 90 get to Bosom or Pittsburgh, or
London or Glasgow, or Manchester, do
you want night vision to tell you how ;
10 make the journey We have In this i
scripture full direction In regard TO the u
Journey Of this lie and how TO get 10 the Il
celestial city, and with this grand guide y
book, this magnificent directory, we q
ought 10 be satisfied. ] have moro faith
In decision To which come when u
am wide-awakc than when am sound :,
asleep. have noticed that those who u
give great deal of their time to study a
ing dreams get their brains added. u
They ere very anxious 20 remember
what they dreamed about the first VI
night they slept in a new house. II in
their dream they take the hand Of n =
corpse, they are going to die. II they IL
dream ~ n garden, IL means sepul- 6,
chrc. II something turns out accord ~
Ing 10 night vision, they said: "Well. T"
] am not surprised, ] dreamed it." Be
II II turns out different from OF
the night vision, they say; well, -
dreams 60 by contrarics. lu their efforts w
to put their dreams into rythm they
put their waking thoughts into discord p'
l. O., ~ I
that we ought 10 I've satisfied IL we get
no further recitation 81
Sound sleep received great honor 81
when Adam slept so extraordinarily Ju
hat the surgical incision which gave WI
aim Eve did not wake him, but there is
40 such need for extraordinary slumber DIR
now, and he who catches an I've must OF
needs be wide awalSel No need OF such
! dream as Jacob had. with a ladder DIR
against the sky, when 600 times it Tn
rad been demonstrated that earth and DIR
Heaven are in communication. No such yo
lream needed as that which was given nv
o Abimelech, warning him against an go
Unlawful marriage, when we have rec ga
rds of the county clerks office, No
iced OF such dream as was given 20 an
'haraoh about the seven years OF fam po
ne, for now the seasons maTGA Nu- WI
ar procession, and steamer an IL bel
rain carry breadStuffs 20 every ~ g
truck nation No need OF a, A,sm raj
Ike that which encouraged Gideon, for yo'
II through Christendom IL h announced del
nd acknowledged and demonstrated I
hat Righteousness, sooner or later, will EN-
ct the victory. nig
II there should come about n crisis in das
our life upon which the Bible does Ric
OF seem TO be sufficiently specific, 90 mig
, God In prayer and you will get cspc. HE
al direction have more faith. nine bS'
whine times out of hundred, in direc- ne
ons given you with the Bible in your iro
~ and your thoughts upliftcd in phi
raycr to God, than in all the informa- r
ON you will get unconscious on your his
How can very easily understand DIRE
hy the Babylonians and the Egyptians, thr
18th no Bible, should put SO much stress yioI
J dreams; and the Chinese, in their der
oily Book. Chow King, should think SO
leir emperor gets his directions fern
rough dreams from God; and that "
omer should think that all dreams slice
me from Jovc, and that in ancient his
mes were classified into n sci and
ICE; but why do You and ! put SO much low
ress upon dreams when we have a ovei
pernal book of infinite wisdom on all cello
bjects? Why should we harry our man
Ives with dreamsP Why should Eddy over
one and Barnegat lighthouses ques- TO h
IN summer iire-lly2 you
Remark the second; All dreams have n
important meaning Ii
They prove that the soul is compare gett
ely independent of the body. The iron
es are closed, the senses are dull the dreG
tire body goes into lethargy which sine
all languages is used AS a type of PEN
ath, and then the soul spreads its and
ngs and never sleeps 1t leaps the ity {
lantic ocean and mingles in scenes phys
90 miles away. 1t travels great You