The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-12-13
TALMAGE's . SERMON !
Drssms can, in Whioh uod appearsdi, 70 TO
Warp, Convert and Save Mon,

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La this Discourse Dr.. ralmsge dis
cussos . much talked Of subjsct, and
ono in which all ore interested. Tho
text is Jool ii. 28, "I will pour out my
spirit upon ell flesh; your old mon shall
droam dreams, your young mon sball
see visions.n
In this photograph Of the millennium
the dream is liftod into groat conspi.
ocu!.y. You may say Of dream that
II Is nocturnal fantasia or that il is the
absurd combination Of waking thong hts,
and with elur Of intonation you M AZ
say. 1T is only 8 dfesn." but God
has hoDored tho droam bv making it
the avenue through which again aud
again he has marched upon the human
eoul, docided tho fate Of nations and
changed tho course OF the worlds his
tory. God appeared in droam to
A6imolech, warning him against an
unlawful mMriage; in dream to
Jacob, announcing by tho ladder set
against tho sky full Of angles tho COM
munications between earth and hoayop !:
in a dream to Joseph, foratelling his
coming power under the figure Of all
tho shoavcs Of tho harvest bowIng down
to hia Bhoaf; to tho chief butler, toro.
telling his disimprisonment; to tho
chief baker, announcing his de capita
talon, to Pharaoh, showing him first
tho seven plonty years and thoa tho
savon famine struck years, under tho
figure Of the seven lean COWS doyouring
tho seven fat COWS; to Solomon. giving
him the choice netween Weldon and
riches and honor; to warrior, undor
the figure Of barloy oako shifting down
tont, encouraging Gideon in his bat
tlo against tho Midianitce; to Nebuoh-
adnt zzar, under the figure Of broken
image and q hewn down tree, forotoll
ing the overthrow of his power; to
Joseph Of tho Now Tostament,. an
nounoing the birth Of Christ IN his own
household end again bidding him fy
from Herodio pornecutions; to Pilato's 9
vito, warning him not to become oom.
''lioated with tho judicial overthrow Of
Christ.
We oil admit that God ia auoient
timos and under Bible dispensation ad.
drcssed the people through dreams.
Tho question now is, doos God appear
in our day and reveal himself through
droams2 That is tho question every
body asks, and that question I will try
to answer. You ask lno if 1 believe ia
dreams. My answer 10. do.
The Scriptures sro 80 full Of reyels.
tions from God that if we get no COM
munication from him in dreams wo
ought, nevertheless, to bo satisfi ed,
With twenty guidebooks to toll YOU
| how ~ oot ~ ,Nosv V,.L - I):x..L. .
or London or Glaaagow or Manchester
do you want . night vision to tell you
how to mako the journey2 We have
In this Scripture full direction in re-.
/ gard 70 tho journey off this Ifs and
how to gotto tho oslo .tial oity, end With
this grand guidebook, this magnificent
dire otory, we ought to be satisfied,
have moro faith in decision to which
como when am wide awake than
when am sound asleep. I have MOTTO
Cd that those who give great deal Of
their timo to studying dreams got their
brains added. They are ysry anxious
toSremembor what they droamad about
tho frat night they slept in new
house. Ii In their dream they tako the
hand OF q corpse, they arc going to die:
'>5oy dreeMSof gordon, it meane q
Tlohor. If something turns out ao 1
ling to night vision, thoy say !:
oil. ! am not surprised. / dream.
sit" If it turns out different from
/ tho night vision, they say. .FtWelI.
dreams, 60 by contraries.' In thoirr
efforts. TO to put their dreams into rhy-
thin they. put their waking thoughts in.
70 discord. Now, tho Bible is 80 full
Of revelation that We ought to be sstis,
fled Il we got no further rev slation.
Sound sleep received great honor
whom Adam slept 90 extraordinarily
that the surgical inoision which gave
him Evo did not wake him, but there
is no buoh need for extraordinary slum.
ber now, and he who catches sn Eyo
must needs bo wide awakel No need
Of such dream as Jacob had, with a
ladder against tho sky, when ten thous
and times it has been demonstrated
that oarth and heaven are in oommuni.
cation. No suoh dream needed as that
whioh was given to Abimeleoh, warn
Ing him against an unlawful IN arriags,
when We have tho records Of the county
olork's offise. No need of such droam
as was givon to Phaiaoh about the
pVSOu yooAc VI iaMluoS lOT NOW Cu0 sea-
sons march in regular procession and
steamer and rail train oarry broad stuff,
to every famine struck nation No
need of dream like that which on
couraged Gideon, for all throdgh
Christendom it is announced and ac. I.
knowledged and demonstrated that
righteousness, sooner or later, will get
tho victory.
If thore should como about crisis
in your life upon which tho Bible does
not seem to be sufficiently specific, 10
to God in prayer and you will got aspe
oaai direction. / have moro fnith,
ninety -nine times out of hundred, ia
directions givon you with tho Bible ia
your lap and your thoughts uplifted in
prayer to God than in all the. informa
tion ycu will got unconscious on your
pillow. . Z
! oan very easily understand why tho
Bsbvlonians and the Egyptians, with
no Bible, should put 80 much stross on
dteams, aid the Chinese in their holy
book, Chow King, should think their
emperor gets his directions through
dreams from God, and that Honor
should think that ell dreams came from
Jovo, and that IN ancient timoB dreams
wero classified into o soienea, but why
DO you and put 80 much stross upon
dreams whom We havo a supornsl book
OF infinite wisdom on ell aubjeos? Why
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