The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-03-13

similar occurrences You had a divine vision in your own life when the under taker rudely broke into your home. When the doctor said she was dead, at first you were almost broken hearted You were like madman. You paced up and down the room saying: "Oh, God how can I get along without her? Oh, my God, my God. What shall I do? Hardly had you uttered that agonizing prayer when strange peace came into your soul. She seemed to come back to you She seemed to put her arms about your neck and to say with her old terms of endearment: "Husband, papa, sweetheart, son, I am all right. Christ has merely taken me away for a little while. I cannot come to you, but you shall come to me-" Was it dream? Was that message merely Satanic mockery, or was It a divine vision coming to you as one came to Peter on Simon's house top? When you saw her joy and happiness was it not the same kind of a divine vision as that which came to St. John when he cried out, in Apocalypse: "Who are these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence came they? These are they which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.'
 Christ's Message.
 The divine telepathy often comes as direct command for practical gospel work. As Peter on Simons house top by his vision knew that Christ was sending him forth to carry the gospel to all the world, whether Jew or gentle so by divine vision we may know that God wants us to go forth to save this or that man and do this or that work We know it just the same as we know what our earthly employer wants us to do when he gives us a bundle of checks and tells us to go and deposit them in the bank. By di- vine telepathy we know what God wants us to do in a spiritual way the same as Captain Yount, an old California trapper, knew God wanted him to do something in physical way. Rev. Dr. Bushnell tells this incident in one of his sermons, as it once was told to him by the hardy westerner: One night Captain Yount had visition. It was midwinter and he saw a company of bestormed emigrants perish ing in the mountains from coald and hun ger. "He noted, said Bushnell, the very cast of the scenery, marked by long perpendicular front of white rock cliff He saw the men cutting off what appeared tree tops, rising out of a deep gult of snowdrift and he noted the very features of the persons and the look of their par ticular dress Well, to shorten a long story, Captain Yount the following day toiO oic ol HIS lIltHuS dDOuI tfllS dream, and he described the scenery of the place where the emigrants were imprisoned in the snow. The friend said: "Yount, I know where that place Is you described It is the Carson Valley pass of the Sier- ras. I have seen in that valley the scenery just as you have described it" What did Captain Yount do? He realized that this was vision sent by God It was a summons to rescue. Although his friends laughed at his superstition he collected party of men and went long journey of 150 miles in midwinter to Car son Valley pass. and there they found a company of perishing emigrants in exact ly the position the vision had pictured them. As he did with Peter, and as he did with Captain Yount, God is bidding you to go forth to spiritually save this man and that man. to do this gospel work and that gospel work. Within you today you may hear the call. With your wide open eyes in broad daylight you may see the divine vision.
 Call For Practical Work.
 This gospel call for practical work is the more impressive and imminent because Gods visions are never haphazard; they are never purposeless or meaningless dreams. They always have a very prac- tical interpretation. When Peter looked off from Simon's house top he saw great sheet let down from the heavens filled with "all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth. and wild beasts, and creep