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Cod Spcnks In a Rational Wny

God speaks In Rational Why.
| speak very emphatically on this
subject As Charles Dickens had his
"Bleak House." with it's Ghosts walk,
and Nathaniel Hawthorne his House
of the Seven Gables" pcoplcd with
tho evil spirits of past generations,
unlC - we beware we may have the
| temples OF our minds filed with the
wgirdest fantasies. created entirely by
our own unregulated imagination or
| by evil associations and not by the
vision OF God. What right has any
man to apply to himself the Ninety
first Psalm Of David, as did n man
some time ago i'll one of our eastern
cities? He pondcred over these verses
! day in and day out: For nc shall give
his angels charge over thee to keep
thee in all thy ways. They shall bear
thee UP in their hands lest thou dash
thy foot against Il stone" Then. in
order to demonstrate his belief in his
saying that man jumped from the top
of n four story building and broke
nearly every bone in his body. Do
you suppose vision like that came
from God or from the devil? What
right has man to imagine that he
can get a vision from God by using
the Bible as fetish or an amulet,
opening II at random and expecting
the first verse his eye falls upon to be
Gods judgment in reference to some
undecided matter, as l have known in
my own experience Of two or three
people being in the habit of doing
What right has n man when in doubt
about any matter to go to a fortune
teller or TO Sorcerer or professor OF
divination and to regard the voice OF a
professional charlatan as the voice Of
God? oh. no. my friends. Gods voice
is not heard in the dark pancled rooms
of sin. 1t is not heard from the lips
of those who are leading dishonest
| lives. It is not heard amid fanatic
vaporings. When God speaks to man
he speaks as he did To Peter in ,IOppa--
on the house top at mdnoon. In broad
daylight. He speaks to man in a ra-
tional way and at rational time
The TeIepathy of satan.
There is a vision sent by God. There
is also a Satanic telepathy. Christ,
bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh
was tempted by the visions OF sin as
well rs we. In the fourth chapter of
Luke we read that Satan took Jesus
up TO high mountain and in vision
showed unto him all the K ngdoms OF
the world and said: "All this power
will I give thee and the glory of them
for that is delivered unto me. and to
whomsoever | WILL will give it. If
thou. therefore. will worship me all
shall be thine" Then Satan took
Jesus to the pinnacle of the temple and
asked him to cast himself down from
! thence. to prove that he was the Son
of God. But jesus, instead Of obeying
the Satanic vision. turned unto the
devil and answered, ut IS written.
| thou shalt not Tempt the Lord. thy
! Cod II being SO pure and holy as
our Lord wSS approached by tcmpta-
/ ton ana aSsaiicd by tcInpter who
! based his wicked SUGGESTIONS on pas.
sagoS OF Scripture. how careful should
4 we be when n vision comes to US. as it
came TO Peter on the house top, to
make sure that the vision is heaven
sent for our guidance and not n tornD
tation from the enemy scnt to our owr
1estrnction
Divine tclcpnihy. as with Peter IS
/ often manifested with Coos chllarrn
1 after some great triaI or sorrow or
earthly misfortune has come upop
/ them. when The castot is placed in
The nome Il is apt to be folt. as Christ
/ appeared unto Mary on the frs, Easter
morn II is very art 10 be manifested
Vividlv n times Of bereavement. rs II
cnme TO my companion with whom
d iourncvnd ihroueh til" Holy Land.
some simple ract,.
! How ~ cyplHiu this manifestation |
/ know not would give YOU tie sim
| PIE facts and lct you judge for yourself
"" were "u ronro from Beirut to Ath
ems by way of smyrna II was about
3 o'clock in tho morning was awak
cnrd 10y my companion sohhtn- IN his
berth. what is the matter. Troub:'
I asked. "Oh." he answered. "soirc-
thing ha, happened 1T my sisters
home. had "A strange vision about it,
| was not asleep. but this vision has
| ity." "Nonsensc. man" answered
You are not fanatic arc you: You
were asleep and had bad dream: that
is all" | did not believe in Gods vi
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