The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-12-13
TAJMAaE' ! SERMON
nsAsn. IN wh!ch Sod Amneared "a
Warp, Convort and Save Mon,

La this Discourse Dr. Talmsgc dis
cusses q much talked Of subj,o and
one in which all are interested. The
text is Joel ii. %, 81 will pour out my
apirit upon ell flesh; your old mon shall
drosm dreams, your young mon shall
see visions"
In this photograph Of the millennium
tho dream is lifted into groat conspi.
Guilty. You may say Of q dream that
II is nocturnal fantasia or that il is the
absurd combination of waking thoug ats,
and with slur Of iptonation YOU may
say. 1t is onlya d,eam.' but God
has honorod tho dream bv making it
the avenue through which again aud
again he has narohed upon the human
eoui, dooidcd the fate Of nations and
changed tho course OF tho worlds his
tory. God appeared in dream to
Abimolcoh, warning him against an
unlawful mslriage; in dream to
Jacob, announcing by the ladder set
against tho sky full of aDglos tho com.
munications between earth and hcavep;
in adream to Joseph, foretolling hio
coming power under tho figure of all
tho ahoavoB of tho harvest bowlug down
to hia Bhoaf; to tho chief butler, fore.
telling his disimprisonmont; to tho
ohiof baker, announcing his deoapita.
taioni to Pharaoh, showing him first
tho seven plenty years and thoa the
savon famine struck years, under tho
| figure OF tho seven lean COWS devouring
tho seven fat COWS; to Solomon. giving
him the choice Detween wisdom and
riches and honor; to o warrior, under
tho figure Of barloy cake smiting down
| tent, encouraging Gideon in his bat
tle against the Midianitoe; to Nebuoh-
adnt zzsr, under the figure of broken
image and hewn down treo, foretell.
ing the overthrow Of his power; to
Joseph of the Now Tostament,. an.
nounoing the birth Of Christ IN his own
household and again bidding him fly
from Herodio prosecutions; to Pilates
wife, warning him not to become com.
plioated with tho judicial overthrow Of
Uhrist.
We oil admit that God in apoient
times and under Bible aispensation ad.
dressed tho pooplo through dreams.
The question now 10, docs God appear
in our day and reveal himsolf through
droams? That is tho question evory-
body asks, and that question will try
to answer. You ask inc if l believe ia
dreams. My answer 10. l do.
The Scriptures are so full Of revels.
tions from God that if we got no com.
munication from him in droam. wo
ought, nevertheless, to bo sntisfiod,
With twenty guidebooks to toll you
how to got TO- New York or Pittsburg
or London OF Glssagow or Manohcs,er
do you want D night vision to toll you
how to mako the journey? We have
iothis Scripture full direction in re.
gard to the Journey of this life and
how to getto tho Gale .tial oity, and with
this grand guidobook, this magnificent
dire ctory, We ought to be satisfied,
have more faith in decision to which
i como when am wide awake than
when | am sound asleep. / have MOTTO
cd that thoae who give q great deal Of
their time to studying droams got their
Ebrainsaddled. They are yary anxious
TO oSremembor what they dreamod about
tho frat night they slept in new
house. lin their dream they take the
hand OF q corpae, they are going to dio.t
iF'f,oy droem OF q gordon, it moans q
..lchcr. II something turns out ac
ding to o night vision, thoy say:
oil. am not surprised. / dream
lit" II it turns out different from
che night vision, they say. Well
dreams, 60 by contraries.' Inysthoir
ctfortst to to put their dreams into rhy.
thm thoy put their waking thoughts in.
70 discord. Now, tho Bible is 40 full
Of revelation that we ought to be aatis.
fed If wo get no further revelation.
Sound sleep received great honor
whom Adam slept 90 extraordinarily
that the surgical inoision which gave
him Evo did not uako him, but thore
Is no buoh need for extraordinary slum.
ber now, and he who catches an Eyo
must needs be wido awake! No need
Of auoh dream as Jacob had, with
ladder against the sky, when ten thous
and timos it has been demonstrated
that earth and heaven are in oommuni.
cation, No suoh dream needed as that
whioh was given to Abimeleoh, warn,
Ing him against an unlawful IN Arriage,
Whom we have tho records Of the oouLtg
clerk's oflise. No need of such droam
as was glven to Phsfaoh about tho
aevon years of famine, for now the sea.
sons march in regular procession and
steamer and rail train Garry broad stuff.
to every famine struck nation NJ
noed of dream like that which on
couraged Gideon, for all through
Ohristondom it is announced and ao.
knowledged and demonstrated that
righteousness, sooner or later, will get
tho victory.
If there should como about crisis
in your life upon which the Bible does
not aoem to be sufficiently specific, 10
to God in prayer and you will get aspo
oaal direction. l have moro faith,
ninety. mine times out Of a hundred, in
directions given you with the Biblo in
your lap and your thoughts uplifted in
prayer to God than in all the. informa
tion ycu will got unconscious on your
pillow.
can very easily understsnd why tho
Babvlonians and the Egyptians, with
no Bible, should put SO much stross on
deeams, ard tho Ohinoso in their holy
book, Chow King, should think their
emperor gets hia directions through
dreams from God, and that Honor
ehoald think that all dreams oame from
.Iovo, and that In anoiont timos dreams
we're classified into a scionoe, but why
do you and ! put so much streBs upon
dreams whom We have supsrnsl book
OF ihfinlte wisdom on oil subjeos? Why