The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-01-31


In this discourse DR.. Talmage dis
cusses much talked of subject, aud
one in which all are interested. The
text is Joel 2, Is: 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 millen-
mum the dream is lifted into great
conspicuity. J on may say OF dream
that it is nocturnal fantasia or that
it is the absurd combination of wax
ing thoughts, and with a slur OF in
tonation you may say: 1T is only
dream" but God has honored the
dream by making it the avenue
through which again and again Tie
has marched upon the human soul,
decided the fate of nations and
changed the course of the worlds his
tory. 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 angels the
communication between earth and
heaven; in a dream to Joseph, fore
telling his coming power under the
figure of all the sheayes of the
harvest bowing down to his sheaf;
TO the chief butcher, foretcling his
disimprisonmont; TO the chief baker,
announcing his decapitation; to
Pharaoh, showing him first the seven
plenty years aud then 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 a barley cake shifting
down tent. encouraging Gideon in
his battle against the Midianites; TO
Nebuchadnezzar. under the figure of
broken image and a hewn-down
tree, foretelling the overthrow Of His
power; to Joseph Of the New Testa-
meDt, announcing the birth of Christ /
in his own household, and again bid |
ding him fly from Herodic persecu- /
tions; to Pilates wife, warning him .
not to become complicated with the /
judicial overthrow of Christ.
We all admit that God in ancient
times ard 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 every
body asks, and that question I viii
try TO answer. You ask me il be-
lieve III dreams. My answer is, l do,
but all have to say viii be under
five heads.
Remark the First.-The Scriptures
are so full OF revelations from God
that if we get no communication
from Him in dreams we ought, never
theless, TO be satisfied.
With 20 gudebool,s to tell you how
to get to New York or Pittsburg or
London or Glasgow or Manchester do
you want night vision to tell you
how to make the journey? We have
n this Scripture full direction in re- ]
gard to the journey of this life and
now 20 get to the celestial city, and
With this grand guidebook, this mag J
lificent directory, we ought TO be sat ]
SIZED. have more faith in a decision a
10 which ! come when l am wide
wake than when l am sound asleep. !
have noticed that those who give "a "
,reat deal of their time to studying o.
Ireams get their brains added. They $
ire very anxious to remember what 81
hey dreamed about the first night E
hey slept in a new house. il IN their s.
ream they take the hand Of corpse, $
hey are going to die. If they dream q
# garden, il means a sepulcher p
+ something turns out according to s.
night vision, they say; "Well. / am d
ot surprised. dreamed IT," If il o
urns out different from the night u
ision, they say: "Wen. dreams 90 q
" cOntraries." In their efforts TO d
ut their dreams into rhythm they o
mt their waking thoughts into dis al
ord. Now. the Bible is so full OF ID
eyelation that we ought to be satis-
ed il we get no further revelation. q
If there should come about a crisis n
] your life upon which the Bible does d
OF seem to be sufficiently specific, n
o TO God in prayer and you viii get ii
special direction. ] have more faith, d
times out Of 100, in directions given s.
on with the Bible in your lap and o
our thoughts uplfted in prayer TO nj
cd than in an the Information YOU N
ill get unconscious on your pillow. ",
Remark the Second.-All dreams D.,
ave an important meaning. They j
rove that the soul is comparatively b
of the body. The eyes
re- closed. the senses are dull, the al
ltire body goes into a lethargy an
hich in all languages is used as a ST.
.pe of death. and then the soul Oh
,reads its wing and never sleeps. IL dI
APPS the Atlantic ocean and mingles gr
scenes 5000 miles away. 1t travels dr
eat reaches Of time, flashes back SO in
.ars, and the octogenarian is "A boy ev
.ain in his fathers house. If the he
ul, before IT has entirely broken its OF
ain Of flesh. can DO all This. how far fo
u it leap. what circles can it cut, pc
hen It is fully liberated? Every br
cam. whether agreeable or harass- ola
e, whether sunshiny or tempcstu- SCI
is. means so much that, rising from
ur couch. YOU ought to kneel down no
~ say: go God. am 1 immortal ma
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