The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-01-17
DR.TALnA0E's sERnON
The Eminent Dlvlne's Sunday
Discourse.
Subjects Dreams 80 They Are tho Avenue
Through which God Has Again and
Again Marched Upon tho Human Soul
Proofof Immortality - Warned By God


ProofofImmortaiity - Warned by God
WASHINGTON, D. Gin this discourse
DR.. Ialmage discusses a much talked OF
subject, and one m which all are inter-
ested. The text is Joel H. %: Il 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 millennium
the dream Is lifted into great couspicuity.
You may say of q dream that il Is a noe.
turnal fantasia, or that it Is the absurd
combination Of waking thoughts, and with
slur OF lntonaton you may say, ut is
only dream" but God has honortd 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 history. God appeared in dream
TO Abimelech, warning him against an un.
lawful MARRIAGE IN a dream to Jacob, an.
nOuncing by the ladder set against the
sky full Of angels, the communication be-
tween earth and heaven; in a dream to
Joseph, foretelling his comingpower under
the figure Of all the sheaves OF the harvest
bowling down to his sheaf; to the chief
butler, fOretelling his disimprisonment: to
the chief baker, announcing his decapita.
ton; to Pharaoh, showing him first the
seven famine struck years, under the
figure Of the seven lean COWS devouring
the seven fat COWS; to Solomon, giving
him the choice between wisdom and
riches and honor; to a warrior, under the
figure Of barley cake shifting down a
tent encouraging Gideon in his battle
against the Midianites; to Nebuchadnez-
Ear, under the figure Of a broken image
and hewn, down tree, foretelling the over
throw OF his power; to Joseph of the
New Testament, announcing the birth of
Christ in his own household, and again
bidding him fly from Herodic prosecutions;
to Pilates wife, warning him not to be-
come complicated with the judicial over
throw of Christ.
We all admit that God in ancient times
and under Bible dispensation addressed
the people through dreams. The question
now is, does God appear in our day and
reveal Himself through dreams? That is
the question everybody asks, and that
question / will try to answer. You ask me
if believe in dreams. Ny answer is, ]
do, but all have to say will be under Eve
heads.
Remark the First-The Scriptures are
80 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
to get to New York or Pittsburg or Lon
Jun VI NtdbRUW Ut manchester no 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
celestial city, and with this grand guide
book, this magnificent directory, we
ought to be satisfied. I have more faith
in a decision to which I come when / am
wide awake than when | am sound asleep.
have noticed that those who give a great
deal Of their time to studying dreams get
their brains added. They are very anx-
ious to remember what they dreamed
about the first night they slept in a new
house If in their dream they take the
hand OF corpse they are going to die.
If they dream of a garden it means a sep
ulcher. If something turns out according
to night vision, they say: "Well / am
not surprised; l dreamed it." If it turns
out different from the night vision, they
say, "Well, dreams 60 by contraries." In
their efforts to put their dreams into
into discord. Now, the Bible is so full of
revelation that we ought to be satisfied
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 no such need
for extraordinary slumber now, and he
who catches an Eve must needs be wide
awakel No need of such dream as
Jacob had, with a ladder against the sky,
when ten thousand times it has been dem
| onstrated that earth and heaven are in
| communication No such dream needed as
| that which was given to Abimelech, warn
ing him against an unlawful marriage,
when we have the records of the county
| clerks office No need of such dream as
was given to Pharoah 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 a dream
Ike that which encouraged Gideon for all
| through Christendom it is announced and
acknowledged and demonstrated 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 go to God
in prayer, and you will get especial direc
| ton. I have more faith ninety-nine
| times out of hundred in directions given
you with the Bible in your lap and your
thoughts uplifted in prayer to God than ii
all the information you will get uncon
scious on your pillow.
/ can very easily understand why tina
! Babylonians and the Egyptians, with nj
| Bible, should put SO much stress on dreams
and the Chinese in their holy book, Chow
King. should think their emperor gets hi
directions through dreams from God, anC
that Homer should think that all dreams
came from Jove and that in ancient times
dreams were classified into science, bu
why do you and pat so much stress upor
dreams when we have a supernal book o
infinite wisdom on all subjects? WIN!
should we harry ourselves with dreams
Why should Eddystone and Barnega
| lighthouses question a summer FREELY?
Remark the Second-All dreams have al
important meaning. They prove that tn
soul is comparatively Independent of tn
body. The eyes are closed, the senses ar
dull, the entire body goes into letharg,
which in all languages is used as a type 0
death, and then the soul spreads its win
and never sleeps. It leaps the Atlanti
Ocean and mingles in scenes 5000 mile
AWAY IL travels great reaches of time