Milford chronicle., 1904-03-11

There is vision which comes from
God and one that is. like the nightmare.
the product Of our own brain under the
disturbance of physical or mental con.
ditiOns. There must be careful discrim-
ination lest we accept foolish fancies
and mischievous impulses as the voice
of God. That which is born of the flesh
is flesh, and that which is born of the
spirit is spirit
God Speaks In IA Rational Way.
l speak very emphatcally on this
subject. As Charles Dickens had his
"Bleak House, with its Ghosts walk,
and Nathaniel Hawthorne his House
of the Seven Gables" peOpled with
the evil spirits of past generations,
unless we beware we may have the
temples of our minds filed with the
weirdest 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 a man
some time ago in one of our eastern
cities? He pondered over these verses |
day in and day out: For he 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 stone" Then, in
order to demonstrate his belief in this
saying, that man jumped from the top
OF four story building and broke
nearly every bone in his body. Do
you suppose a vision like that came
from God or from the devil? What
right has a man to imagine that he
can get a vision from God by using
the Bible as a fetish or an amulet,
opening it 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 a man when in doubt !
about any matter to 90 to a fortune
teller or to Il sorcerer or a professor Of
diyination and to regard the voice of a
professional charlatan rs the voice Of :,
God! Oh, no. my friends. Gods voice =
IS not heard in the dark pancled rooms "
)f sin. Il is not heard from the lips Z
If those who are leading dishonest =
ives. 1t is not heard amid fanatic I
'aporngs. When God speaks to man Il
le speaks as he did TO Peter in Joppa- o
m the house top at midnoon, in broad ~
laylight. He speaks to man in ra- ~
ional way and at Il rational time. ''
The TeleDathy of satan.
There is vision sent by God. There ~
also ii Satanic telepathy. Christ. =.
one Of our bone and flesh Of our flesh, VI VI
'as tempted by the visions Of sin as a. a.
'ell as we. In the fourth chapter of -
luke we read that Satan took Jesus ~ ~
p to high mountain and in vision -
lowed unto him all the kingdoms Of 11
le world and said: "-All this power 10 -,
Ill l give thee and the glory of them, -
II that is delivered unto me, and to ~ ,,''
homsoever | will, l will give it. If
lou, therefore, Will worship me all 'S
lall be thine" Then Satan took ~
'sus to the pinnacle of the temple and
ked him to cast himself down from "a
ence, to prove that he was the Son -
God. But Jesus, instead of Obeying %
g Satanic vision, turned unto the ~
vii and answered. 1T is written 49, 49,
on shalt not tempt the Lord, thy
ID. If being so pure and holy as 80
T LORD was approached by tempta-
N and assailed by a tempter who
sed his wicked suggestions on pas Sos s',s
be whom ,.isio,, 80 - u siiouiu call
me to Peter on the house ton. to ~
Ike sure that the vision is heaven '4sl
It for our guidance and not a temp ,r
ion from the enemy sent to our own
'truction. the
'lvlne telepathy as with Peter. is -
en- manifested with Gods children li''A'
er some great trial or sorrow or -
thly misfortune has come upon 10, -
m When the casket is placed in W., !" ~
home it is apt to be felt. as Christ -
eared unto Mary on the first Easter w"
IN. 1t is very apt to be manifested -
idly in times of bereavement. as IL 80 80
le to my companion with whom I
'neyed through the Holy Land. 80.
Some Simple Facts. oe'u -
ow to explain this manifestation I -,
W not. | would give you the sim - w..
facts and let you judge for yourself. - ~ ~
were en- route from Beirut to Ath. - -
by way of Smyrna. It was about -
clock in the morning. l was awak. -. Az"
by my companion sobbing in his -
b. What is the matter, Troub?" 80
ked. oh" he answered, "some- ho,,
has happened at my sisters ~; ~;
e. had strange vision about it. ~ ~
rs not asleep but this vision has -
upon Inc as an overwhelming real. ~.
Nonsense. manr' l answered -
are not a fanatic are you? You 81,
asleep and had a bad dream: that saa7,
l." | did not believe in Gods vi 80
then as Go now My friend said - -,
ng, but that vision made such an ,,,oss,
ession upon him that he tcCk note ,ro,,t;i
le time and the latitude and the -,
tude we were then in. From Ath- CO u
We went directly home. So over nro,o-