The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-01-31
A Dream With a Moral.
(BY J. W. BLACK J

The word "lost" has an awful meaning,
1t is an awful thing to be lost. Were
you ever lost and being alone? l have
been and it is an awful feeling. You be-
come bewildered and so excited that you
do not know your own home when you
see it. Lost! It's distressing word, and
distressing thing to be lost.
I had a dream last night. 1t was an
awful dream, and I was sure glad when l
awoke and found it was only dream. !
dreamed that was lost and it was an
awful place that I was in. I was sur
rounded by all kinds Of danger. 1tseem'
ed vas on a high scaffold and it was
! rotten and below was great chasms OF
pits, rough and rugged; every way l
would 60 I was in danger, and I had my
little boy with me. He was in awful
danger. I could see him on the very
brink of falling into the great chasm be-
low US. Oh, what trying time I had in
this dream. Lost and no one to help,
and my little boy lost with me. Oh, the
anxiety had then to find way of es-
cape. I had some hope, and finally
found man and I asked him where I
was at, and the way of escape from that
awful place, and he told me was in At.
lanta, Ca, and he pointed me to door
and went out that door and found my
self on one of the main streets of Atlanta.
People going to and fro, yet l was not at
ease. did not know how l ever got to
Atlanta and I had no money to return
home to Bamberg.
I then began to look and inquire for
some of my kinfolks and friends that I
knew were in Atlanta, but I could not
find them, but my little boy would be
lost from me every now and then and /
would be 80 distressed about him. Then
I would find him and he would tell me
that he saw some of my people, but when
I would go could not find them.
Oh, how distressed I was in this dream,
Away from home and I knew my wife
was uneasy about me and her baby boy.
Oh, how sad it was. 1t was simply tor
ment. but at this point in my dream /
awoke and found myself at home by the
side of my wife and the little boy asleep
in bed nearby. Oh, how good felt when
I found it to be only dream that I had
just passed through, but I feel that this
dream was to teach me lesson and that
I might profit by it and q great lesson
has presented itself to me.
Ilearn from this dream that I am lost
n this world and leading my children
with me, and it also teaches me that my
kinfolks and friends are not coming to
my rescue to lead me to the cross OF
Christ where can be found. When l
looked for friends in my dream they
could not be found, so it is with me now.
Yet there is hope in this life to find Christ
and be saved or found, but the saddest
thought of all is to be eternally lost. No
hope whatever to be found-to know that
I am eternally lost-eternal banishment
from God-tormented with all the horrors
of hell-the whole body, mind, and
strength tortured, seeing all the horrible
pits of hell-danger every way you turn
to 60, and being conscious that there is
no end to this state of mind and body
which is the soul.
If there is no fire and birthstone to tor
ture the soul in hell it will be hell enough
to be conscious of the fact of being lost
and lost forever. No hope whatever.
Then if we find that we have led some of
our loved ones there, oh, what torture
that will be to our soul. Lost and led
the little ones with US as in my dream.
This will be hell enough without the fire,
but believe there will be fire there, but
many are falling away from that belief,
but there is one thing certain, there is a
heaven to gain and hell to shun. We
are to be saved or to be lost and eternaliy
so. God grant that we may find. our
selves now, and be reconciled with wife
and children and friends. Be at peace
here on earth and ready when the sum-
mons comes to 60 and be forever at peace
with God and with all our loved ones.
This will be heaven enough without the
pearly gates and the golden streets of the
new Jerusalem, but there is more in
store for US than this if we will only be
found of God. He will find US and save
US if will only turn our face heavenward.
There is no hope now, but hope beyond
the grave. Work while it is called to-
day, for the night cometh when no man
can work. To-day if you will hear his
voice harden not your heart. This is
Christ's day, the gospel day. When man