The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1902-02-04
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dreams. hlghly Splceu salaus at III O'Clock
Mt night, instead of opening the door
heavenward, open the door internal and
diabolcal. You outrage natural law. and
YOU insult the God who made those laws.
II takes from three to five hours to digest
food, and you have no right TO keen your
digestive organs in struggle when the rest
OF your Body is in somnolence. The gem
eral rule IL eat nothing after 6 o'clock at
night. retire at 10. sleep on YOUR right
'iuv. Keep the WINDOW open five inches FOR
ventilation, and other worlds will not dis
turb you much. BY physical maltreatment
YOU take the ladder that Jacob saw in his
dream, and you lower it to the neither
world, allowing the ascent of the demoni-
acal. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia An
unregulated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise and an unreg.
uloted desire for something TO eat keeps it
ruined. The world during 600O years has
tried in vain to digest that first apple
The world will not be evangelical until
we get RID OF q dyspeptic Christianity.
Gus and sleepy thing that some people call
religion. They want a religion that lives
regularly by day and sleeps soundly by
night III through trouble or coming on of
old age or exhaustion of Christian service
you cannot sleep well, then you may ex-
pect from God Songs in the night" but
there are no blessed communications to
those who willingly surrender to indigesti-
hles. Napoleon's army at Leipsic, Ores
den and Borodino came near being de-
stroyed through the disturbed gastric
juices of it's commander That is the way
you have lost some of your battles.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do | know it? Is not
God the source of all good? 1t does not
take a very logical mind to argue that out.
Tertulhan and Martin Luther believed in
dreams. The dreams OF John Huss are inn
mortal. St. Augustine, the Christian
father, gives us the fact that Carthage
mortality OF the soul by an argument
which he heard in a dream. The night be-
fore his assassination the wife of Julius
Caesar dreamed that her husband fell
dead across her lap.
Furthermore. l have to say that there
are people who were converted TO God
through a dream. The Rev John New
ton. the fame of whose piety fills all Chris
tendon. while prohigate sailor on ship
board. in his dream thought that a being
approached him and gave him very beau
tiful ring and nut it upon his finger and
said to him: AS long as you wear that
ring YOU will be prospered. If YOU lose
that ring you will be ruined" In the same
dream another parsonage appeared and
by strange infatuaton persuaded John
Newton to throw overheard that ring, and
IT sank into the sea. Then the mountains
in sight were full of fire, and the air was
was lurid with consuming wrath. While
John Newton was repenting OF his folly in
other parsonage came through the dream
and told John Newton he would plunge
into the sea and bring that ring up If he
desired it. He plunged into the sea and
brought 1T up and said to John Newton,
Here is that gem, but l think ! will keep
it for YOU lest you lose it again" And
John Newton consented. and all the fire
went out from the mountains and all the
signs of lurid wrath disappeared from the
air, and John Newton said that he saw in
tbaf haf Inn wa bfg
soul. and that the being who persuaded
him to throw il overheard was Satan, and
that the one who plunged in and restored
that gem, keeping 1T for him, was Christ.
And that dream makes one OF the most
wonderful chapters in the life of that
most wonderful man.
German was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean, and in his dream he saw man
with a handful of white flowers. and he
was told to follow the man who had that
handful of white flowers. The German,
arriving in New York, wandered into the
Fulton street prayer meeting, and MIR.
Lamphier, the great apostle of prayer
meetings. that day had given to him, a
desk. and at the close of the religious ser
vices he took the tuberoses and started
homeward. and the German followed him
and through an interpreter told Mr.. Lam
phier that on the sen he had dreamed OF
a man with handful of white flowers,
and was told to follow him. Suffice il to
say that through that interview and fol-
lowing interviews he became Christian
and is city missionary, preaching the gos-
pei to his own countrymen. God IN
dream!
John Hardonly. while on shipboard,
dreamed one night that the day OF ludg-
ment had come, and that the roll of the
ships crew was called except his own
name, and that these, people. this crew,
were all banished, and In this dream he
asked the reader why his own name was
omitted, and he was told it was to give
him more opportunity for repentance. He
woke up a different man. He became Illus
triOus for Christian attainment If you
do not believe these things, then YOU must
discard all testimony and refuse to accept
any kind of authoritative witness. God IN
a dreaml
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through a dream of the last judgment,
and many of rs have had some dream OF
that great day of judgment which shall be
the winding up of the worlds history. IL
you have not dreamed of 1t, perhaps to-
night YOU may dream of that day. There
are enough materials to make a dream.
Enough voices. for there shall be the
roaring of the elements and the great
earthquake. Enough light for the dream,
for the world shall blaze. Enough excite
ment, for the mountains shall fall. Enough
water for the ocean shall rear. Enough
astronomical phenomena, for the stars
shall go out. Enough populations Tor all
the races of all the ages viii fall into line
of one of two professions. the one ascend
ing and the other descending, the one led
on by the rider on the white horse of
eternal victory the other led ON by Apol-
lyon on the black charger of eternal defeat.
The dream comes on me now. and / sec
the lightnings from above answering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath, and
7 hear the long revTberating thunders
that shall wake up the dead. and all the
seas lifting up their crystal voices. cry.
Come to Judgment and all the voices Of
the heaven cry, Come TO Judgment" and
crumbing mausoloum and Westminster
abbeys and pyramids of the dead with
marble voices cry, Come TO Judgment"
And the archangel scizes an instrument of
music that was made only for one sound,
and thrusting that mighty instrument
through the clouds and turning it this
way. he shall put it to his lips and blow
the long loud blast that shall make the
solid earth culver, crying, Come TO judg-
mentl"
Then from this earthly grossness quit,
Attircd in stars, we shall forever sit.
tCopyright, 1871 l.. Klopsch.l
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