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Bulloch Times.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
STATESBORO, GEORGIA.
J. R. MILLER, Editor aid PuMister.
Rubinstein, the pianist, it is declared,
w uld become an American citizen if it
were not for the objections of his wife.
He is quoted as saying; “I am a Rus¬
sian of Russians; but I am also a Re¬
publican, and America is the land foi
those that love liberty.”
Wealthy Chinese merchants are send¬
ing their sons to England and America
to he educated. Last year America had
more Chinese students than England had.
The correct length of time for a thor¬
ough education is considered to be about
#ve years. If possible, the father goes
after his son and brings him home when
his period of education is completed.
Of the nflarly 7000 homicides reported
in 1892, 246 were committed by mobs,
this being an increase of forty-one over
the number reported for the previous
year. This represents an increase of
about fourteen per cent, in a single year.
Of the persons so murdered 231 were
men and five were women; eighty were
white and 155 were colored, while only
one-Indian was reported.
Among the many progressive measures
Inaugurated in England by Gladstone’s
administration is a scheme for teaching
the elements of politics in all scholastic
Institutions controlled or supervised by
the Government. Hitherto this branch
of education, to which so much attention
is paid in this country, as well as in
Switzerland and France, has been en¬
tirely neglected in the primary schools of
Great Britain.
An interesting case was recently tried
in England which illustrates an import¬
ant difference between English law and
that of this country, though the common
law of England forms the basis of all our
Btate codes except that of Louisiana. A
Mr. Cobb was traveling oa the Great
Western line. When the train stopped
at Wellington a number of roughs got
into his compartment, hustled him and
robbed him of all his money. He got
out and notified the station-master; but
the latter refused .to interfere or to de¬
tain the train until the thieves could be
arrested. Mr. Cobb sued the road, but
both the Divisional Court and the Court
of Appeals decided that, though the
facts might be as Mr. Cobb had stated
Tn Switzerland very stringent laws f ~
ist for the protection of fruit trees from
insects and other pests. No tree owner
is allowed to treat his trees as he chooses,
but a strict watch is kept over both
amateur and professional horticulturists.
The Russians believe thatcotton grow¬
ing will rapidly develop in their posses¬
sions in Central Asia. A cargo of the
fleecy staple was recently shipped from
Odessa to various German ports, The
quality, however, was very inferior.
According to the President of the
Kansas State Dairy Association it costs
more to grow a pound of wheat than to
make a pound of milk in that State, and
the wheat sells for three-quarters of a
cent a pound and the milk for a cent a
pound. ________
The failure of several Missouri banks
lias awakened in the New York Despatch
reminiscences of financial operations in
the past. “By common consent the
sweepstakes is awarded to a Stewarts
ville institution, the liabilities of which
were $100,000, and the assets a single
two-cent postage stamp. ''
A Bible wrapped in the American flag,
relates ihe New York Mail and Express,
was the first message sent through the
first pneumatic postal tube iu the United
States. This occurred at Philadelphia a
few days ago. Mr. Wanamaker felici¬
tously stated that he had sent “the great¬
est message ever given to the world. ’’
Says the New York Press: The Ni¬
caragua Canal will cut off an on average
about one-half the distance between this
port and 500,000,000 of people with
whom wc trade little and Great Britain
trades much. The Suez Canal is iu her
favor now, and we cannot meet her oa
even terms in those markets till our ships
can cross the Isthmus.
The fact that about 400 applications
for patents were made last year by women
is an indication to the New York Press
of how thoroughly the gentler sex is en •
tenng into the practical activities of
modern life. Many of these applications
relate to such industries as textile manu¬
factures and railway and electrical de¬
vices. The unselfish spirit of the fair
inventors is exhibited by the fact that
among the products of their genius are
improved braces, button hole flower
holders, self attaching neckties, sleeve
liuks and trousers splash'preventors. Man
is no longer sole lord of creation.
Charles Dudley Warner, in the Editor’s
Study of Harper’s Magazine, writing
upon some of the chana irbi
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Sermon.
Text: "lie took of the. stones of that
place and put them for his pillows and lay
down in that place to sleep , and he dream
ed."— Genesis xxviii., 11.
feathers Asleep it on a pillowcase filled with hens’
is not strange one should have
pleasant dreams, hut here is a pillow cf
rock, and Jacob with his head on it. and io!
ar)i earn of angels, two processions, those
coming stairs. down the stairs met by those going
up the It is the first dream of Bible
record. You may say of a dream that it is
nocturnal fantasia, or that it is the absurd
combination of waking thought*, and with
a slur of intonation you may say, “It is only
a dream,” but God has honored the dream
by making it the avenue through which
again and again Hehas marched upon the
human soul, decided the fate of Natious
and changed the course of the world's his
tory.
God appeared in a dream to Abitnelec'i,
warning in him against an unlawful marriage:
ing a dream to Joseph, foretelling ilis com
power under the figure of all the
sheaves of the harvest bowing down to his
sheaf; to the chief butler, foretelling his
disimprisonment, to the chief baker, Pharaoh, an
pouncing his decapitation, to
shoiving him first the seven plenty years
and then the seven famine struck years, un
der the figure of the seveu fat cows devour
ing the seven lean cows; to Solomon, giving
him the choice between wisdom and riches
and honor' to the warrior, under the figure
of a barley cake smiting down a tent, on*
couraging Gideon in his battle against file
Amelekites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under the
figure of a broken image and a hewn down
tree, foretelling his overthrow of power; to
Joseph of f he New Testament, announcing
the birth of Christ in his own household; to
Mary, bidding her fly from Herodic perse
cutions; to Pilate’s wife, warning him not
to become complicated with the judicial
overthrow ot Christ.
We all admit that God in ancient times
and uuder Bible dispensation addressed the
people through dreams. The question now
is. Does God appear in our day and reveal qhes
Himself through dreams? That is the
tion everybody asks, and that question You this
morning I shall try to answer. ask me
if 1 believe in dreams. My answer is I do
believe in dreams, but all I have to say will
be under five heads.
Remark the First—The Scriptures are so
full of revelation from God that if we get
no communication from Him in dreams we
ought nevertheless to be satisfied.
With 20 guidebooks to tell you how to get
to Boston or Pittsburg or London or GLaf
gnw or Manchester, do you want a night
vision to tell you how to make the journey ?
We have in this Scripture full direction in
regard to the journey of this life and bow to
get to the celestial city, and with this grand
guidebook, this magnificent directory, we
ought to be satisfied. I have more faith in
a decision to which l come when I am wide
awake than when I am sound asleep. I have
noticed that those who gave a great deal of
their time to studyiug dreams get their
brains addled. They are very anxious to
remember what they dreamed about the
first night they slept in a new house.
If in their dream they take the hand of a
corpse, they are going to die. If they dream
of a garden, it means a sepulcher. If some
thing turns out according to a night vision,
they say, ‘ Well, I am not surprised. I
dreamed if.” If it turns out diffierent from
the night vision, they say, “Well, dreams
go by contraries.” In their efforts to put
their dreams into rhythm they put their
waking thoughts into discord. Now
Bible is so full of revelation that we ought
to be satisfied if we get no further reveia
tion.
Sound sleep received great honor when
Adaui slept so extraordinarily that the sur
gical incision which gave him Eve did not
wake h i but .ther ne
or brandy or “hasheesh" or lau iatmm is not
a revelation from God. The leurnei Da
Quincy did not ascribe to divine eommuni
cation what he saw in steep, opium situ
rated; dreams which he afterward described
in the following words:
“I was worshiped. I was sacrificed, (fled
from the wrath of Brahma through all the
forests of Asia. Vishnu hated rue. Siva laid
in wait for me. I come suddenly upon Isis
and Osiris. I had done a deed, they said, that
made the crocodiles tremble. I was buried
for a thousand years in stone coffins, with
mummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers
at the heart of eternal pyramids. 1 was
kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiles
and lay confounded' with unutterable slimv
tliings among wreathy and Nilotic mud."
Do not mistake narcotic disturbanca for di¬
vine revelation.
But I have to tell you that the majority
of dreams are merely the penalty of outraged
digestive organs, and you have no right to
mistake the nightmare for heavenly revela¬
tion. Late suppers are a warranty deed for
bad dreams. Highly spiced meals at 11
o’clock at night instead of opening the door
heavenward open the door infernal and dia¬
bolical. You outrage natural law, and you
insult the God who made these iaws. It
takes from three to five hours to digest food,
and you have no right to tax your digestive
organs in struggle when the rest of yoilr
body is in somnolence. The general rule is,
eat nothing after (5 o’clock at night, retire at
Id, sleep on your right side, keep the win
dow open five inches for ventilation, and
other worlds will not disturb you much,
By physical mattreatment you take the
ladder that Jacob saw in his dream and you
lower it to the nether world, allowing the
ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unregulated de-ire for
something to eat ruined the race in para
disc, and an unregulated desire for sun ?
thing to eat keeps it ruined. Tne world
during 0000 years has tried in vain to digest be
that first apple. The world will not
evangelized until we get rid of a dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadaverous and sleepy thing that religion some
people call religion. They day want and a sleeps
that lives regularly by
soundly If by night. trouble coming of old
through Christian or service on age
or exhaustion of you cau
not sleep well, then you may expect from
God “songs in the night,” but there are no
biassed communications to those who will
ingly surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon's Borodino
army at Leipsic, Dresdeu and
came near being destroyed through commander. the uis
turbed gastric juices of it
That is the way you have lost some of your
battles,
Another remark I make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo of cur
day thoughts. recipe for pleasant
i will give you a
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
thought and unselfish action, and your
dreams will be set to music. If all day you
are gouging and grasping and avaricious.
in your dreams you will see gold that you
cannot clutch atid bargains in which you
were outsbylocked. If during the day you
are irascible and pugnacious and gunpow
dery of disposition, you will at night have
battle with enemies in which they will get
the best of you. If you are all day long rail in
a hurry, at night you will dream of
trains tnat you want to catch while you
cannot move one inch toward*the depot,
If you are always oversuspicious will' have and night ex
peetunt of assault, you at
hallucinations ot assassins with daggers
( | rawn . No one wonders that Richard 111.,
the iniquitous, the night before the battle of
Bosworth Field,dreamed that all those whom
he had murdered stared at. him, and that he
was torn to pieces by demons from tne pit.
The scholar’s dream is a philosophic echo,
The poet’s dream is a rhvthmie echo. Cole
ridge composed his “Kubia Khan” asleep in
a narcotic dream, and waking up wrote
down 1100 lines of it. Tar tin!, the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in a dream so vivid that wak
i n g he easily transferred it to paper.
W thoughts^^tf^^Km aking thought^rfye their echo in sleep
ing spends his life in
trying toheavenly
immle l,
pies
prec
rheumatic, sick, poor tv> ihe last point of
destitution. Sue was waited on and cared
for by another poor woman, her only at
tendant.
Word came to her one day that this poor
woman bad died, and the invalid of whom I
am speaking lay helpless upon the couch
wondering what would become of her. In
that moo i she fell asleep. In her dreams
she said the angel of the Lord appeared and
took her into the open air and . points i in
one direction, and there were mountains of
bread, and pointed in anotoer direction, and
there were mountains o batter, and in an
other direction, an i there were mountains
of all kinds o: worldly suomy. The angel
of the Lord said to har, “Woman, all these
mountains belong to your Father, and do
you think that He will let you, His child,
hunger and die?"
Dr. Crannage told me by some divino im
puiso he went into that destitute home, saw
the suffering thare and administered unto
it. caring for her all the way through. Do
you tell me that that dream was woven out
of earthly anodynes? Was that the phan¬
tasmagoria of a diseased brain? No, it was
an all sympathetic God addressing a poor
woman through a dream.
Furthermore, I have to say that there are
people in this house who were converted to
Go:l through a dream. The Rev. John
Newton, the fame of whose piety tills ail
Christendom, while a profligate sailor on.
shipboard, in his dream, thought that a be¬
ing approached him and gave him a very
beautltul ring and put it upon his finger and
said to him, “As long as you wear that ring
you will be prospers i; if you lose that ring,
you w ill be ruined."
In the same dream another personage ap¬
peared, and by a strange infatuation per¬
suaded John Newton to throw that ring
overboard, and it sank into the ssa. Then
the mountains in sight were full of fire,
and the air wis lurid with consuming
wrath. While John Newton was overboard repenting the
of his folly in having thrown
treasure, another personage came through
the dream and told John Newton he would
plunge into the sea and bring the ring up if
he desired it.
He plunged into the sea and brought it up
and said to John Newton. “Here is that
gem, but I think I will keep it for you. lest
you lose it again,” and John Newton con
sented, and all the fire went out from the
mountains, and all the signs of lurid wrath
disappeared from the air, and John Newton
said that he saw in his dream that that valu¬
able gem was his soul, and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it overboard
was iSataD, and that the one who plunged in
and restored that gem, keeping it lor him,
was Christ. And that dream makes one of
the most wonderful chapters in the life of
that most wonderful man.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
ocean, and in his dream he saw a man with
a handful of white flowers, and he was told
to tollow the man who had that handful of
white flowers. The German, arriving in
New York, wandered into Lamphier—whom the Fulton street
prayer meeting, and Mr. apostle of
many of you know—the great
prayer meetings, that day had given te him
a bunch of tuberoses.
They stood on his desk, and at the close
of the religious services he took the tube¬
roses and started homeward, and the Ger¬
man followed him, and through an inter¬
preter told Mr. Lamphier that on the sea he
had dreamed of a man with a handful of
white flowers and was told to follow him.
Suffice it to say, through that interview and
loilowiug interviews he became a Christian
and is a city missionary preaching the Gospel
to his own countrymen. God in a dream I
John Hardock, while on shipboard,
dreamed one night that the day of judg¬
ment had come, and that the roll of the
ship’s crew was called, except his own name,
and that these people, this crew, were all
banished, and in his dream he asked the
reader why bis own name was omitted, and
he was told it was to give him more oppor¬
tunity for repentance. He woke up a dif¬
ferent man. He became illustrious for
Christian attainment. If you do not believe
these things, then you must discard all tes¬
timony and refuse to accept any kind ot au
tboritative witness. Godin a dream!
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
^iod m through a dream of the last judgment,
I doubt if there is p man or woman m
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