The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-31
AT THE TABERNACLE,
Or, TALMAGE ON BIBLICAL AND MOD.
ERIN VARIATIONS OF DREAMS.

BROOKLYN, March 26,-A remarkable
sermon was preached by Rev. DIR. Tai
mage in the Tabernacle today, the sub
jsct 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, II, "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 hers IS pill
low of rock, and Jacob with his head on
it, and, 10! dream Of angels, two pro-
cessions, those coming down the stairs
net by those going up the stairs. 1t is
the first dream of Bible record. You
may say of dream that il is nocturnal
fantasia, or that it il the absurd combina-
ton of waking thoughts, and with a
slur of information you may say, 1T is
only dream" but God has honored the
dream by making it the avenue through
which again and again be has marchcl
upon the human soul, decided the fate Of
nations and changed the course of tn
worlds history
God appeared in dream to Abme-
| lcch, warning him against an unl wful
marriage; in dream to Joseph. foratell-
ing his coming power under the figure
| of all the sheaves of the harvest bowling
down to his shoaf; to the chief butler,
foretelling his disimprisonnent; to Tao
chief baker, announcing his dec&pitation;
to Pharaoh, showing him first the seven
| plenty years and then the seven famine
struck years, under the figure of the
seven fat cows devouriug the seven lean
COWS; to Solomon, giving him the choice
between wisdom and riches aad honor;
| ia the warrior, nader the figure of bar
ley cake smith down tent encoprag.
ing Gideon in his battle against the
Amelekites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under
the figure of broken image and hewn
Down tree, forctelling his overthrow Of
power; to joseph Of TIE New Testament,
announcing the birth Of Christ in h own
household; to Mary, bidding her fly from
Herodic persccutions to Pilates wife,
warning him not to become complicated
with the judicial overthrow of Christ.
SUFFICIENT is GIVEN TO ALI.
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 dreansi
That is the question everybody asks, and
that question this morning shall try to
answer. You ask me if | believe in
dreams. My answer is, do believe in
dreams, but all have to say will be I'M
der five heads.
Remark the First-The Scriptures are
SO full of revelation from God that if
we get 10 communication from him in
dreams we ought nevertheless to be sat
isfed.
| With 20 guidebooks to tell you how
to get to Boston or Pittsburg or London
or Glasgow or Manchester, do you want
a night vision to tell you how to make
the journey? We have in this Scripture
full direction in regard to the journey of
this life and how to get to the celes ial
city, and with this grand guilebook,
this magnificent directory we ought to
be satisfied. have more faith in de-
cision to 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 brains added. They are very
anxious to remember what they dreame
about the first night they slept in new
house.
I If in their dream they take the hand
of corpse. they are going to die. If
they dream of a garden, it means q sep
ulcher If something turns out accord
| ing to a night vision, they say: "Well,
| am not surprised. l, dreamed it," If
it turns out different from the night vi
sion, they say, well, dreams &C by
contraries. In their efforts to put
their dreams into rhythm they put their
waking thoughts into discord. Now
the Bible is so full of revelation that we
ought to be satisfied if we get no fur
Their 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
he who catches an Eve must needs be
wide awake! No need of such 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
as that which was given to Abimelech,
warning him against an unlawful mar
rage 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 dream like that which encouraged
Gideon, for all through Christendom it
is announced 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 sufficiently specific, goto God
in prayer, and you will get especial direc-
ton have more faith 90 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
information You will get unconscious on
your pillow.
can very easily understand why the
Babylonians and the Egyptians, with no
Bible. should put so much stress on
dreams, and the Chinese, in their holy
book. Chow King, should think their
emperor gets his directions through
dreams from Sod, and that Homer
should think that all dreams came from
ove, and that in ancient times dream
were classified into science. But VIII!
do you and / put SO much stress upo1
dreams when we have supernal bool
of infinite wisdom on all subjects? VIII,
should we harry ourselves with dreams
Why should Eddystone and Barnega
! lighthouses question summer FREELY.
PROOF OF IMMORTALITY.
Remark the Second-All dreams hav,
an important meaning.