Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-01
DREAMS.
Remarkable Sermon By Rev. T. De
Witt Talmage.
Tho Significance OF Dreams rs Evidences
of Tmnortality-Go God Does Sometimes
Appear In Dreams In This Day
Some Instances.

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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, i2: 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" The preacher said:
Asleep on pillow-case filed with
hens feathers it is not strange one
should have pleasant dreams. But
here is n pillow of rock, and Jacob with
his head on it, and 10! dream Of
angels, two professions, those coming
down the stairs met by those going up
the stairs 1t is the first dream of Bible
record. You may say OF dream that
it is nocturnal fantasia, or that 1t is the
absurd combination of waking thoughts
and with slur of intonation you may
say: 1T 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 a dream to Abimelech,
warning him against an unlawful mar
riage: in dream TO Joseph, foretelling
his coming power under the figure OF
all the sheaves of the harvest bowling
down to his shcaf: to the chief butler,
foretelling his disimprisonment; to the
chief baker, announcing his decapita-
ton; to Pharaoh, showing first the sew
.en plenty years. and then the seven
faminc-struck years, under the figure
of the seven fat cows devouring the
seven lean cows; to Solomon, Civ
ing him the choice between wisdom
and riches and honor; to the war
rior, under the figure of barley
cake shifting down tent, encouraging
Gideon in his battle against the Amale-
kites; TO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, under the
figure of broken image and hewn-
down tree. foretelling his overthrow OF
power; TO Joseph OF the New Tesla.
ment announcing the birth of Christ in
his own household; to Mary, bidding
her fly from Herodic prosecutions: TO
Pilates wife, warning him not to be-
come complicated with the judicial
overthrow of Christ.
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
dreams? This is the question every
body asks. and that question this morn
ing ! 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 under five heads
Remark the first: The Scriptures are
so full of revelation from God, that II
we got no communication from him in
dreams, we ought, nevertheless, to be
satisfied.
With twenty. guide-books to tell you
how to get to Boston, or Pittsburgh, Oh
London, or Glasgow, or Manchester, dc
YOU want night vision to tell you how
to make the journey? We have in this
Scripture full direction in regard to the
tourney of this life, and how to get to
the Celestial city, and with this grand
guide-booli, this magnificent directory
we ought to be satisfied. have more
faith in a decision to which / come
when l am wide.awake thar
when I am sound asleep. l have
noticed that those who give a grea'
deal of their time to studying dream!
get their brain added. They are very
anxious to remember what they
dreamed about the first night they
slept in n new house. If in their dream
they take the hand Of corpse, they
are going to die. If they dream of 1
garden. it means q sepulcher. If some
thing turns out according to u nigh
vision, they say: well, / am not sur
prised. / dreamed it." If it turns on
different from the night vision, the!
say: "Well, dreams go by contraries
In their efforts to put their dreams int
rhythm, they put their waking thought
into discord. Now, the Bible is so full
of revelation that we ought to be salts
fed if we get no further revelation.
If there should come about crisis II
your life upon which the Bible does no
seem to be sufficiently specific, go +
God in prayer and you will get especia
direction, / have more faith, ninety
nine times out of q hundred, in direc
tions given you with the Bible in you
lap and. your thoughts aplifted i
praver to God, than in all the informa
ton Won will get unconscious on you
inflow. 1 can very easily uEderstan
why the Babylonians and the Egyp'
i.rs with no Bible. should put so muc
stress on dreams; and the Chinese, !
their holy book, Chow King, shout
think their emperor gets his direction
through dreams from God; and this
Homer should think that all dream
came from Jove, and that in ancier
times dreams were classified into
science; but why do you and ! put
much stress upon dreams when we ha'
a supernal book of infinite wisdom