“DREAMS’' Dr. Talmife Siys They Are the Aveaie Thnwch Which Qo4 Hu MircheM Upon the Human SooL Proof of laimortiUty- WorooC Y> (M. WABjmrotOK. D. C.—In thii dioewtroo Sr. Tilraif* ditcnaon a r-.uch talked of tabjeet, and one in which all are interooted. The text u Joel ii, 23: "I will pour out My epirit upon all flesh. Your old nen shall dream drear*, your younf men shall see vtskma.” * In this photocraph of .he millennium the dream u lifted into rest eonapicmty.

nounona by the ladder set Ha.nat the ' ISagSSK . Sf-SSSTE-i oeren famine struck years, under the SS 3 4 .‘tSi,“J.'SS."dtsS mgmmpi ^■r^ h . d ™r..S3r^

d full of rerelai

we S'teti*fied lin * With twenty guidebooks to tell you how ~— to get to New York or Pittsburg or Lona don or Glasgow or Manchester do you want a night vision to tell you how to make the journey! We have in this Scripture fml direction in regard to the journey of this life and how to get to the celestial city, and with this grand guidebook, this magniflcent directory, we . ought to be satisfied. I have more faith • In a decision to which I come when I am wide awake than wh.-n I am sound asleep. I have noticed that those who givt a great deal of their time to studying dreams, get their brains addled. They are very anxious to remember what they dreamed shout the first night they Alept. in • hew house. ~JJ in then- dream ciey take the hand of a corpse they are going to die. If they dream of a garden it means a sepulcher. If something turns out according to a night vision, they say: "Well, I am mt» wunnieed; I dreamed it.” If it turns out different from the night vision, they say, “Well, dreams go by contraries.” In their efforts to put their dreams into fhythm they put their waking thoughts _ inJ>aSSH._ Now, the Dibit is so fnfl of ^ ■'•revelstion that we ought to be satisfied if we get no further revelation. Bound sleep received great honor when ’Adam slept so extraordinarily that the surgical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him. bnt there is no such need for extraordinarr slumber now, and be who catches an Eve must needs be wide awake! No need of such a dream aa Jacob had, with a ladder again*', the sky, when ten thousand times it tat been demonstrated that earth and heaven are in communication. No such dream needed aa that which was given to Abimdeeh, warning him against an unlawful marriage, e when we have the records of-the county clerk's office. No need of such a dream as was given -to Pharoah about the seven years of famine, for now the aeasons march in regular procession and steamer and nil tram carry breadstuff! to every tawiine struck nation. No need of a dream

‘ encouraged Gideon, for all mdom it is announced and

and demonstrated that righteousness sooner or later will get the iftLere should come about a crisis in your life upon which the Bible does not •eem to be sufficiently specific go to God in prayer, and you will get especial direction. I have more faith ninety-nine times out of a hundred in directions given

* s Bible in your lap and your

if ted in prayer to God than An nation you will get tmeon-

— j.or pillow. _ —_

I can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptians, with no Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese in their holy book, Chow Xing, should think their emperor gets his I&sseii&K

were classified into a s

do ym^and I^j)t so much stresaupon dto 'wisdom* onfall subj«ete! b0 Why lie we harry ourselves with dreams!

r should Eddystone

1

H this, now far can K leap, what circles can it cut when it it £ m'irEL startling, how orerwhehning! Immortal!

S»TiJlS2 1 a in.svus or hash scab or laudanum is not a revela-

tion from God.

The learned De Quinosy did not ascribe to divine communication what be saw in memm

came suddenly upon Isis and 0«i dons a dead, they aaid, that thousand yean in atone coffina, with mice and sphinxes in narrow ehaml. ths heart of eternal pyramlda. I kissed with the cancerous kirn of e g.'SsasSByan

m Do Mi mietoks narertie disturbanee for divine revelation. But I have to tell you that the mijority of the dreams are mere-

ly the penalty of outraged digeetive

— a -^tfomiet

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IPmistake

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diabolical. You outrage natural law, and you insult the God who made thoeeTaws. It takee from three to five hours to digeet food, and you have no right to keep Your digestive emus in struggle when the rest of your body is in somnolence. The general rule is eat nothing after S o'clock at

turb you much. By physical maltreatment you take the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream, and you lower it to the nether world, allowing ths ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An unregulated desire for something to eat mined the race in paradise, and an unregulated desire for something to cat keeps it ~ ’ ‘ ’ 9000 years has

"-ff. £,!! 1. ISrSftSfSSU: ous and sleepy thing that some people^call

idly bjr

teen well, then you mar ex>d '‘songs in the night.'’ but bleared communications to “ " surrender to indisestirmy at Leipsie. Dree-

Borodino came near being destroyed through the disturbed gastric juices of its commander. That is the wsy you have lost some of your battles. AD dreams that make you better are ~ ' How do I know it! _ Is not

old age or exhaustion of,Chi you cannot sleep well, then pect from God ‘songs in tb

there are no bleared comm those who wiTlihgly surrendre toind

.y'l

Eaa R.‘3X!p

to say that there converted to God

sSi 1

dream another personage appeared and

s, sr-s-g*-. was lurid with q^isuming wrath. While

snsnar ass»“sx£ Ss into the tea and bring that ring up if h; desired it. He plunged into the sea and it for yon lest yon lose it again. And John Newton consented, and all the fire went out from the trl run tains, and all ths

5T-J1 ££

air, and John his dream tha

soul, tnd that in him to throw it ©

as

And thst dream make| one of the most

. —> nersuaded rd was Satan, and d in and restored

the life of that

wonderful chapters

most wonderful man. ,

A German waa eroding the Atlantic Ocean, and in his dreJn he saw a man with a handful of white flowers, and he was told to follow the Ion who had that handful of white flowed. The German, irriging in New York, teandered into the Fulton street prayer Jeering, and Mr. LamnMer, the great Aostle of prayer meetings, that day hsd| given to him a bunch of tuberoses. Tteev stood on his desk, and at the dare ofthe rtlixious ser homesnid!*and the German followed him and through an interpreter told Mr. Iramnhier that on the sea he had dreamed of a man with a handful of white flowers, and was told to follow fcim. Suffice it to say that through that -interview and following interviews he Uoame s Christian and is a city missionary, preaching the gospel 4o Ma own countrymen. God in • tsi gS’Sferjrag su , v^js‘<sx:£s-Js omitted, and he was 7 told it was to give him more opportunity for repentance. H# night you may dream of that day. There are enough materials to make a dream. Enough voices, for there sball, be the

roaring of tte -

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THE SABBATH SCHOOL

SaHsxb Meses site Pbarask. Ex. si. H*— QeUti Text, Isa Ixrfik, •—Msaery Verses, 4-7—Cesaiaeitery «■ ths Day's Less**

Introduction.—Moe

asked that

not return. But there is no suggesrion that any such duplicity was planned. They would hare gone and worshipped and returned, had they been permitted to do so; and than God would have made further demands epon Pharoah. It is not neoseaary for Jehovah to resort to trickery in order to aeeompUsh

1. ‘The Lord aaid.” Or. as some think, the Lord had mid, at soma time in tha past. Verms 1-3 are evidently thrown sr'.-.jsstt- “ Wssr Mosee waa haring with Pharaoh at the cloee of the preceding chapter. Pharaoh had ordered Moses to leave his presence, and threatened him with death if he saw his fsce again (10:28, 29); and Moses said he would see his face no more, but before he left Pharaoh he threatened him with the death of the first born. It was a terrible threat, but was earned out to the letter aoon after. 12:2M8. "One plague more." One more heavy blow must fall upon this hard-hearted monarch and hh land, ere he will be compelled to let go tbe favored objecta of Jehovah’s sovereign grace. The king of Egypt had ample warning of tbe terrible calamity that was to come upon them, and if he bad repented and humbled himself it might

have been averted.

2. “Let every man borrow," etc. "Let them ask every man." etc. R. V. Borrow is a wrong and misleading translation. God commanded tbe Israelites to ask or demand a certain recompense for their past services, and He inclined the hearts of the Egyptians to give liberally; and this, far from being a metier of oppression, wrong, or even charity, was no more than a very partial recompense for the long and painful services which we may aay 6O0.CM0 Israelites had rendered to Egypt, during many yean. There can be no doubt that during their servitude the profits of their labor went wholly to the Egyptians. God has many ways of balancing accounts, of righting the oppressed, and compelling those who have done wrong to make restitution. "Jewels,'' etc. The work translated “jewels" mar be translated "articles” or "gooda." "The Israelites received gold and silver, probably both in coin snif in plate of dif3. “Very great.” Because of the miracles be had wrought and the plagues he had brought upon the people. “This teems to be mentioned as a reason why no attempt had been made against his life." i. "About midnight. God’s judgments come upon sinners when they least expect it, and in their moments of fancied security. The dirkness esn now hide from God; we know not what will be in the approaching night. The wicked mar awake to find that the stern messenger of eternal justice has seized upon them. "Will I go out." In this last plague God is represented as descending in person. This was designed to impress Pharaoh with the terrible enar-

impress Pharaoh with tlx er of the next judgment. . "The first boni.’’ It

— barn.” It has been suggested thst this might not in every esse have meant •*--•*- * -*"* • -• ' - -

absent; bnt, inasmuch as there was house where there was _ not one dead (12: 30), the word in some cases must have meant the "most eminent," or the "best beloved." In this tense the term is frequently used. "Behind the mill." Tbe poor captive slave employed in -the hardest labor. It was the custom then, as it is with the Arabs st present, to grind their corn with hand-mills, turned by their women servant!, who, for that purpose, stood behind the mill. 9. "Great cry.” The Egyptians were excessive in their manifestations of grief. "They whipped, beat and tore them- ' 'led they ran ^n. 3Z dead in every house. No went up before or since, .. 'Shall not a dog," etc. The Israelites were not only to be free from death, but they were to depart without being molested in any way; the dogs would not even bark at them. ; Doth put a difference." The Egyptians were crying, helpless, frightened, dead. The Israelites were quiet, peaceful, protected, blessed. So the Lord always.pnts a difference between His people and His enemies. One has the promise of this life and of that which is to come; the other has nothing to expect bnt indignation and wrath from the hands of an offended God. 8. '“Get thee out." See the fulfilment of this in Ex. 12: 81-38. "In a great anger." "IiThot anger.''—R. V. "Mom was not in an unholy passion: he was grieved at the perversity of a wicked sou?' “ *■ ' ' garden” harden Pharaoh’s — simple statement U made that it was ofjrhat actually ^ took pUee, it is jot til]

■im

/ It is well known that lightning plays soma truly remarkable tricks, and the recert thunderstorms in France hare called attention to ths different ways ths French peasants bars of preserving themselves from its disastrous affects. Soma, like tha ancient Romans, believe that a Ain confers immunity from lightning, and It Is reported that the peasants of tha C bast-off skins of snakes round thslr hats to preserve themselrsa from danger. Some believe that aUk will do ths trick, end tha idea that a garment made of silk exerts some Influence upon the matter Is rather home out by a catastrophe which once occurred in a church at Chataauneuf-lae-Moutiers, when two out of three priests who were officiating at tha altar were severely Injured daring a storm, while the third, who was dressed In ailkan garment!, remained quits untouched. Borne believe In sleeping on a pile of ' ~ nr of the

PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

if an honest man.—Greg-

ory,

The greatest Incitement to guilt Is the hope of sinning with impunity.— Cicero. To be faithful in darkness, that is the supreme test to which the human spirit is subjected.—George 8. Mer-

rtaxn.

To Judge of the real Importance of an individual we should think of the effect his death would produce.—

Leris.

A handwriting on the tablets of our heart* proclaim* that the aerrlc* of other*. 1* our dlvlnest freedom, and that that the law of love 1* the charier of our liberty.—George Brown. While a healthy body helps to make a healthy soul, the revel

P, pn

^Ith™'

Young, preserves from decay

news life.—James Freeman Clarke.

The patriotism which, catch!i Inspiration from on high,

at an Immeasurable distance below all lesser, groveling, personal Interests and feelings, animates, and prompt* to deeds of self-sacrifice, of valor, of

devotion, and of death Itself

the body, keeps the

Mental and moral activity body healthy, strong and

and

chlng Its 1 leaving

tself,—

,—that Is

Henry Clay.

Everyone has the burden of

veryone b which

y; of ifted b 1 God

Ignor-

In hu-

•htch

prayer; of sin, whl

nee and a

away; spirit

which a childlike

heavenly Father can alone

But we have also the duty to be strong. Bear the burden, and It will really bear you.—Henry Wilder Foote. There Is a cheerfulness which, even when things go seriously wrong, can keep from sinking Into mere fret and worry and bitternese. Some people talk of this as If it were all a matter of temperament Of course there are some to whom It comes easier than

to others. It Is so with ev<

Bnt apart from

y quality

rery <

apart from that, cheerful) a duty, and a duty which no o

ive into a sealed part of his -life

-Brooke

without something of a c

Herford, D. D.

aid us In being what we n

gels. < day. 1

lifting us up when

may '

gels, every one, think about n

bearing us In their

life, to e. Ani and

hands

we are fallen.' Their faces gladden us when well, and grow very sad at us when we sin. Aye! and In some way those that we speak of and think of heaven love us still with all the old love of earth and all the new love heaven together.—Rogert Collyer.

Abdul Barald'i Treasury. Turkey may be poor and oppressed, but the sultan has In his treasury a collection which even at a forced sale would pay the entire debt of the country. The treasury consists of three large halls, full of all sorts of precious articles, but, unfortunately, the light Is so bad that a close Inspection Is almost Impossible. At the entrance a splendid throne, captured from the Persians, Is the first object seen. It la one mass of pearls and studded all over with precious stones The first hall Is filled with a vast collection of gold and silver cups and plates, ancient stones, jewelled daggers, swords, knives and suits of armor. From the top of a second throne hangs a huge emerald, which looks too large to be real. Cases round the room contain necklaces, brooches and rings by hundreds. A dressing table covered with pearls Is exceedingly beautiful. Among this mass of treasures It Is rather surprising to find such articles as modern silver mounted dressing bags, telescopes photographic cameras, and even a case of raxors. The next hall la

give and

coffee cup

silver and precious nificent collection of enamelled copper bowls. Among the ornaments wer# many toys made out of the most precious material. The body of one little doll was formed out a single pearl The third hall contains quantities of coins. No attempt hss been made to classify them, but (hey are beautifully arranged In large cases. No one In the treasury, not even the guardians, seems to know anything about the history of the articles confided to their

p holders

Mire of tha Past.

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