Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-02

are interested. The text is Joel ii. IS:
II will pour out my spirit upon all
flesh. Your old men shall dream
dreams. your young men shall see
visions"
In this photograph of the millenni-
UNI the dream is lifted into great con-
spicuity. You may say of a dream
that IL is nocturnal fantasia. or that
10 Is the absurd combination of waking
thoughts. and with a slur Of intona-
ton you maj say. 1T is only a
DREAM" but God has hOnored the
dream by making il the avenue through
which again and again be 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 marriage; in a
dream TO Jacob. announcing. by the
ladder set against the sky full of an
gels. the communication between earth
and heaven; in a dream TO Joseph,
foretelIing his coming power under
the figure of all the sheaves of the
harvest bowling down to his sheaf; to
the chief butler. foretelling his disim-
prisonment: TO the chief baker. an
n%ouncing his decapitatiOn; to Pharaoh,
showing him first the seven plenty
years and then the seven anime
struck years. under the figure of the
seven lean rows ~devouring the seven
fat cows: TO Solomon. giving him the
choice between wisdom and riches and
honor: 10 a warrior. under the figure
&c IN harlar ra la Cnnifinn down a toni
encouraging Gideon in his battle
against the M%idianites; TO Nebuchad-
neZZar. under the figure of n broken
image and a hewn down tree. f~Oretell-
ing the overthrow of his power; to
Joseph. of the New Testament. IN
nouncing the birth of Christ in his
Owl household. and again bidding him
fly from Herodic prosecutions; to Pi-
late's wife. warning him not to become
complicated with the judicial over
throw 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: That is the question every
OObs AN mat HdOSl4Oh NIA
try to answer. You ask me if | be-
lieve in dreams. My answer is, | do.
but all | have TO say will be under
five heads
Bible n Sufficient Guide.
Remark the First.-The Scriptures are
SO full of revelation from God that if
we get no communication from him in
dreams we ought. nevertheless. TO be
satisfied.
With twenty guidebOOks to tell you
how 10 get t3 New FORK 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 re-
gard to the Journey of this life and
how to get TO the celestial city. and
with this grand g%uidebOOk, this mag
niticPnt directory. we ought to be salts
fed. | have more faith in a decision
TO which | come when | am wide
awake han when | am sound asleep.
] have noticed that those who give a
great dPal of their time to studying
dreams get their brains added. They
are very anxious 10 remember what
they dreamed about the first night they
slept in a new house. If in their dream
they take the hand of u corpse, they
are going &c die If they dream of a
garden. it means Il Sepulcher. If some
thing turns out according to a night
vision. they say. We'll. | am not sur
priSed: | dreamed it" If il 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 discord. Now. the Bible is so full
of revelation that we ought to be salts
fed if we get no further revelation.
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
nc such need for extraordinary slum-
Der now. and he who catches an Eve
must needs be wide awake! No need
of such n dream as Jacob had. with a
ladder against the sky. when ten thou
sane times it has been demonstrated
that earth and heaven are in conmuni-
cation. No such dream needed as that
which was gwen to Abimelech. warn
ing him against an unlawful marriage.
when we have the records of the cOun-
ty clerks office. No need of such Il
dream as AS given 10 Pharaoh about
the seven years of famine for now the
seasons march in regular procession
and steamer and rail train carry bread
stuffS TO every famine struck nation.
No need of q dream like that which
encouraged Gideon. for all through
C~hriStendom il is announced and ac-
knowledged and demonstrated that
righteousness sooner or later will gel
the victory
If there should come about a crisis in
your life upon which the Bible does
not seem TO be sufficiently specific. 20