The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-27
ANYTHING In DREAMS?
A REMARKABLY SERMON By TALL
MAGE IN HIS TABERNACLE.

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From Genesis ~ People Addressed
Through Dreams by GOD
BROOKLYN, March GA remarkable
sermon was preached by Rev. DR.. Talmage
in the tabernacle to-day, the subjecE being
Psychological and religious study OF the
phenomena Of the mind during sleep, aud
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 bis pillows, and lay
down in that place to sleep and he dreamad.n
Asleep on a pillow-oase filed with hens
feathers it Is not strange one should have
pleasant dreams. But here is a pillow OF
rock, and Jacob with his head on It, and loi
"A dream of angels, two prooessIons, those
coming down the stairs met by those going
uD the stairs. IL is the first dream of Bible
record. You may say of a dream that it is
nocturnal fantasia or that 1t is the absurd
combination of waking thoughts, and with
a 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 his
tory. God appeared In dream
to Abimeleca, warning him against
an unlawful marriage; In dream
to Joseph, foretelling his COM
ing power under tho figure Of all the sheaves
Of the harvest bowling down to his sheaf to
the chief butler. foretelling bis disimprison-
ment; to the chief baker, announcing his
decapitation; TO Pharaoh, showing him first
the seven plenty years, and then the seven
famtne-struok years, under the figure Of the
seven fat cows devouriug the seven lean
COWS; to Solomon, giving him the choice
between wisdom aud riches and honor TO
the warrior, under the figure OF barley
cake shifting down a tent, encouraging
Gideon in his battle against the Amalekites;
10 Nebuchadnezzar, under the figure of O
broken image and hewn-down tree, flores
telling his overthrow OF power; TO Joseph,
of the New Testament, announcing the
birth of Christ ia his own household; to
Mary, bidding her fly from Herodlo perse-
outions; TO Pilates wife, warming him not
To become complicated with the judicial
overthrow Of Christ.
We all admit that God IN ancient times
aud under Bible dispensation addressed tina
people through dreams. The question now
is, does God appear in our day and reveal
himself through dTeams9 That is the
question everybody asks, and that question
this morning shall try TO answer. You
ask me If believe In dreams. My answer
IL, do believe in dreams, but all have TO
say will be under Ave heads.
Remark the first: the scriptures are so
full OF revelation from God, that II we ge6
no communication from him In dreams, we
ought, nevertheless to bs satisfied.
With twenty guide book to tell you how
TO get to Boston or PtttsburR, or London or
Glasgow, or Manchester. do you want .
night vision to tell you how to make the
journeyi We have In this scripture full
direction In regard to the journey of this
life and how to get TO the celestial city, and
with this grand guide book, this mag
ni1iceut directory, we ought to be satisfied.
/ hAVa mora fnfth in "a Hapiai0n n which /
come when / am wide-awake than when
am sound asleep. | have noticed that
those who give great deal of their time
to studying dreams get their brain added.
They are very anxious to remember what
they dreamed about the first night they
slept IN new house. IL in their dream
they take the hand of corpse, they are
going to die. II they dream OF garden, it
means sepulcher. IL something turns ous
according 20 night vision, they say.
"Well, am MT urprised. Idreamed it, liz
it turns out different from the night vision,
they say, "Well. dreams go by contraries."
In their efforts to put their dreams into
rhythm, they put their waking thoughts
into disoord. Now, the Bible is so full of
revelations that We ought to be satisfied ie
We get no further revelation.
Sound sleep recetvedI great honor when
Adam slept 30 extraordinarily that the
surgical inoision which gave him Eve did
not wake him; but there ts no such need for
extraordinary slumber now, and he who
catches an Eve must needs be wide-a akeI
No need OF such dream as Jacob had with
a ladder against the SKY, when ten thousand
simes it had been demonstrated that earth
and heaven are in communication. No
such dream needed as that which was given
to Abimelech, warning him against an unr
lawful marriage, when we have the records
of the county clerks Office. No need OF
such a dream as was given to Pharaoh
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the seasons march in regular procession,
and steamer and rail traiu carry bread
stuffs TO every famine-struck nation. No
need of dream like that which encouraged
Gideon, for all through christendom 1t 10
announced and acknowledged and demon
strated that righteousness, sooner or later,
will get the victory.
IL there should come about crisis In
your life upon which the Bible does nou
seem to be sufficiently specific, go to God In
prayer and you will get especial direction.
| have more faith, ninety mine times out OF
hundred, In directions given you with the
Bible in your lap and your thoughts up
lifted in prayer to God, than In all the in
formation you will get unconscious on your
pillow. | can very easily understand why
she Babylonians and the Egyptians, with
no Bible, should put 80 much stress on
dreams; and the Chinese, in their holy
book, Chow King should think their em-
peror gets his directions through dreams
from God; and that Homer should think
that all dreams came from Jove, and that in
ancient times dreams were classified into
a science; but why do you and | put 30
much stress upon dreams when we have a
supernal book of infinite wisdom on all SUBJ
jeessi Why should we harry ourselves with
dreamsl Why should Eddystone aud Bar
negat light houses question summer fire.
fly.
Remark the second all dreams have an
important meaning.
They prove that the soul is comparatively
independent Of the body. The eyes are
closed, the senses are dull the entire body
goes into a lethargy which In all languages
Is used as type OF death, and then the soul
spreads It's wing and never sleeps. It leaps
the Atlantic ocean and mingles in scenes
three thousand miles away. lt travels
great reaches OF time, flashes back eighty
years, and the octozenarian is boy again
In his fathers house. II the SOUL before it
has entirely broken its chain Of flesh, can
do all this. how far can it leap, what circles
can it cut when it is fully liberated Every
dream, whether agreeable or harassing.
whether sunshiny or tempestuous, means
so much that rising from your couch you
ought to kneel down and say: 20 God ann
I immortall Whencei Whithers Two
natures. My soul Gagged now-what when
the door Of the cage Is openedl II my soul