The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-07
The PinkertOn Detective
Employed To Ferret Out
Numerous Crimes.
An Angel of Mercy Carrying
Kindness to the Children
of Men.
Many Dreams Can Easily Be
Accounted FOr---Out in
a Blizzard.

the human soul, decided the fate OF
nations, and changed the cause of
the worlds history. God sometimes
IN our day appears to people in
dreams. All dreams that make you
better are from God.-Talmage.
Lord Brougtcm gave his entire
life to learned and scientific study
of dreams. What his Lordship
devoted so many years to we can
hardly go amiss in devoting our
brief hour to. Moreover, the dream
has in times past been the faithful
sentinel of the Lord of hosts, which
in the silence of the night has
captured rebel souls and taken them
bound to Christ, the captain OF
salvation.
The dream has been the Pinkerton
detective that the Mighty God has
employed to discover and return to
the scenes OF their crimes those who
were fleeing from justice. The
dream has been the physician
which the Heavenly Father has
secured to wait upon to heal broken
hearts The dream has been Gods
angel of mercy which has time and
again carried his loving-kindness to
the children of men. What God has
made so important we dare not make
unimportant. The whole family of
God are agreed that he no longer
uses the first three of these to make
known his purposes and will to the
human family; does he still continue
to speak through dreams? To make
intelligent answer to this question is
our pleasant task tonight.
Men no longer use the bow and
arrow, the javelin, the battering- ram,
on their fields of battle. One
weapon only then used is now used,
the sword. 1t is my firm belief tnat
God has discarded visions,
angels visits, al his weapons
formerly used for making warfare
on souls, save only the dream.
Martin Luther said: II have
covenanted with my Lord that he
should not send me visions, or
dreams, or even angels. / am con-
tent with this one gift of the
scriptures which abundantly teaches
and supplies all that is necessary
both for this life and that which is
to come" Luther therein went
further than God himself would have
gone, for if the Bible had been all
sufficient he never would have used
the dream SO constantly in these
latter ages to warn, convert, comfort,
and save his people. Many of our
dreams are easily accounted for. Our
surroundings have much to do with
them. If you go to bed tonight with
the band of your night-robe fitting
you tightly around the neck you will
probably dream OF being hanged. If
your feet become uncovered these
frosty nights you will probably
dream of being out in blizzard, and
wading in deep snow. Mr.. Stewart
tells us of man who slept with
bottles of hot water at his feet, and
dreamed that he was walking along
the burning crater of Mount Aetna.
What we eat when we eat, has much
to do with the production of wild,
xunt trl rni1ifnpu nf4
after having partaken profusely of
an ill-timed and indigestible supper,
dreamed that his santanic majesty
sat cross-legged on his stomach, with
Bunker Hill monument in his lap.
Do You wonder9 Our lifetime
habits and previous thought, have
much to do with giving shape to our
dreams. CondOvcet, the French
mathematician, in his dreams
found help which worked out
correctly problems. his waking
moments had failed upon. Benjamin
Franklin found some of his best
schemes for forcasting the political
needs of our republican form of
government in his dreams. Coleridge
dreamed his famed poem "Kubla
Khan" into existence and awaking
wrote down some 300 remembered
lines. Tartinia, the yiolinst, COM
posed one of his most wonderful
sonranas in dream. These and
other means account for many of our
dreams. but still a legion is left
unaccounted for. The dream is an
Africa, whose unknown interior has
not been, can not be, explored by
human discoverers.
All good is from God; all love is
from the Lord; all justice is from
Jehovah: all mercy from the Messiah.
God tells US in his word that for
purposes of love, justice, good, mercy,
he did use the pliable, efficient
servant, the dream. If we can
parallel the dreams of to-day with
the dreams Of the worlds yesterday,
then no one can deny that God sends