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THE EXETER TIMES
THE PHANTOMS
OF THE NIGHT
A PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE
MIND DURING SLEEP.
AN an !;valence of immortality Dreams
Have a Significance, Says Rev, Dr.
Talmage -What Their Meaning Pro -
tends,
overwhelming? if prepared for the
after -death flight, what an enchant-
ment If not prepared for the after-
death flight, what a crushing agony!
Immoortal! Immortal!
Remark the third: The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of .dis-
turbed physical condition, and are not
a supernatural message.
Job had carbuncles, and he was scar-
ed in the night. He says: "Thou scar -
est me with dreams and terrifiest me
with visions." Solomon had an over-
wrought brain, overwrought with pub-
lic business, and be suffered from er-
ratic slumber, and he writes in Ec-
clesiastics: "A dream cometh through
the multitude of business." Dr. Gre-
gory, in experimenting with dreams
found that a bottle of hot water put
on his feet while in slumber made him
think that he was going up the hot
sides of Mount Etna, Another morbid
physician, experimenting with dreams,
his feet uncovered through sleep,
thought he was riding in an Alpine
diligence. But a great many dreams
are merely narcotic disturbance. Any-
thing that you sae while under the in-
fluence of chloral or brandy, or "has-
heesh," or laudanum, is not a revela-
tion from God. The learned De Quin-
cey did not ascribe to divine com-
munication what he saw in sleep,
opium saturated; dreams which he
afterward described in the following
words: `I was worshipped. I was
sacrificed, I fled from the wrath of
Brahmah, through all the forces of
Asia. Vishnu hated me. Sceva laid
in wait for me. I came 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. I was
kissed with the cancerous kiss of croco-
diles, and lay confounded with unutter-
able slimy things among wrathy and
Nilotic mud." Do not mistake narcotic
disturbance for divine revelation.
Rev. Dr. Talmage preached a very re-
markable sermon, the subject being a
psychological and religious study of the
phenomena of the mind during sleep.
and the significance of dreams as evi-
dence of immortality. The text chos-
en from Genesis 28, 14: " He took the
stones of that place and put them for
his pillows, and lay down in that place
to sleep, and he dreamed."
Asleep on a pillow -case filled with
hens' feathers, it is not strange •one
should have pleasant dreams. But
there is a pillow of rock, and 'Jacob
with his head on it, and to ! a dream
of angels, two processions, those com-
ing down the stairs met by those going
up the stairs, It is the first dream
of Bible record. You may say of a
dream that it is nocturnal fantasis, or
that it is the absurd combination of
waking thoughts, 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 He has march-
ed upon the human soul, decided the
fate of nations, and changed the course
of the world's history. God appeared
in a dream to Abimelech, warning him
against an unlawful marriage; in a
dream to Joseph, foretelling his coming
power under the figure of all the
sheaves of the harvest bowing down
to his sheaf; to the chiefbutler, fore-
telling his disimprisonment,; to the
chief baker, announcing his decapita-
tion ; to Pharaoh, showing him first
the seven plenty years, and then the
seven famine -stricken years, under the
figure of the seven fat cows devour-
ing the seven lean cows ; to Solomon,
giving him the choice between wis-
dom and riches and honor ; to the war-
rior, under the figure of a barley cake
smiting down a t ent, encouraging Gide-
on in his tattle against the Amale-
kites; to Nebuchadnezzar, under the
figure of a broken image and a hewn
down tree, foretelling his overthrow
of power ; to Joseph, of the New Testae
mant, announcin._ the birth of Christ:
in his own household ; to Mary, bid-
ding her fly from Herodic persecu-
tions; to Pilate's wife, warning him
not to become complicated with the
judicial overthrow of Christ.
We all admit that God in ancient
times and under Bible dispensation ad-
dressed the people through dreams.
The question now is, does God appear
in our day and reveal Himself through
dreams ? That is the question every-
body asks, and that question this
morning I shall try to answer. You
ask me if I believe in dreams. ;Vis
answer is, I do believe in dreams, but
all I have to say will be under five
heads.
Remark the firei : The Scriptures are
so full of revelation from God. that if oI will give you a recipe for pleasant,
dreams, we ought,
we get no communicationugh, from Him in dreams • Fill your days with elevated
nevertheless, to be thought and unselfish action, and your
satisfied,
Sound sleep ,received great honor dreams will be set to music. If all day
you are gouging and grasping anti
when Adam slept so extraordinarily avaricious, in your dreams you will
that the surgical incision which gave see gold that you cannot clutch, and
him Eve did not wake him; but there bargains in which you are out -shy -
slumber now, and he who cattches
is no such need for extraordinarryees locked. If during. the day you are iras
an cible and pugnacious and gunpowdery
.Eve must needs he wide awake! No of disposition, you will at night have
need for such a dream as Jacob had
with a ladder against the sky, when battle with enemies in which they will
get the best of you. If you are all
ten thousand times it had been demon- say long in a hurry, at night you will
strafed that earth and heaven are in dream of rail -trains that you want to
Communication. No such dream need- catch while you cannot move one inch
ed as that which was given to Abi- the depot.
melech, warning him against an un- toward< you are always over suspicious
lawful marriage, when we have the re -
I+
cords of the county clerk's office. No and expectant of assault youhave at
peed of such a dream as was given to night hallucinations of assassins with
Pharaoh about the seven years of daggers drawn. No one wonders that
famine, for now the seasons march in Richard III., the ini:tu.itous, thenight
regularprocession, and steamer and before the battle of Bosworth Field
rail -train carry breadstuff, to every dreamed that all those whom he had
started at him, and that he
famine -struck nation. No need of a was torn to pieces by demons from the
dream like htat which encouraged The scholar's dream in a rhythmic
Gideon for all through Christendom ite.chpit. it. Coleridge composed his 'Ruble
is announced and acknowledged and Hban" asleep in a narcotic dream, and
demonstrated that righteousness, soon -
waking up, wrote down: three hundred
er or later, will get the victory. lines of it. Tartini, the violin player,
If there should come about a crisis composed his most wonderful sonata
in your life upon which the Bible while asleep in a dream so vivid that
does not seem to be sufficient specific, waking he easily transferred it to
go to God in prayer and you will get aper.
especial directions. I have more faith, p per. ng thoughts have their echo
ninety-nine times out of a hundred, in in sleeping
thoughts. If a man spends
directions given you with the Bible in
your lap and your thoughts uplifted in his life in trying to make others happy,
prayer to God, than in all the informa, and is heavenly minded, around his
tion you will get unconscious on your pillow he will see cripples who have
pillow. I can very easily understand got over theirwicrutch, and hearsione
why the Babylonians and the Egyp- of celestial imperials, and the
tiaras, with no Bible, should put so granslmarch roll down from the drums
much stress on dreams; and the Chin- of heaven over jasper parapets. Yeas. ere, in their holy book, Chow 'Kin are very apt to hear in dreams what
Chin -
should think their emperor gets his you hear when you are wide v'a
directions through dreams from God; Now having shown you thathaving
and that Homer should think that all a Bible we ought to he satisfied not
dreams came from Jove, and that in getting any further communication
ancient times dreams were classified from God, and having shown you that
into a science; but why do you and all dreams have an important mission,
I put so much stress upon dreams since they show the comparative in -
when we have a supernal Book of in- dependence of the soul from the body,
he ma -
finite wisdom on all subjects? Whystreamand having shown you that
sultt of dis-
should we harry ourselves with .lority of dreams are
Barnes? Why should Eddystone and turbid physical condition, and having
Barnegat lighthouses question a sum- mar fire -fly? are apt to be an echo of our wakishown you that our sleeping thoughts.
nnd
Remark the second: All dreams have thoughts, I come now to my fifth
an important meaning!; most important remark, and that is to
They prove that the soul is con say, that, it is capable of proof that:
and
our
in day,
sometimes
parativaly independent of the body. God does1
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dull, the entire body goes into a lith dispensation, appeared to people Orgy, which in all languages is used dreams, r
are
All dreams that make you bene_
as a typ.i of death, and then the soul from God. How do I know:. it ? Is not
spreads its wing and never sleeps. It the source of all good? It does
ica,ps the Atlantic Ocean, and mingles GOd take a verylogical mind to argue
in scenes three thousand miles away. n° g
It travels great that out. Tin dr tan incl the dreamsn Lith-
ra Is reaches of time, flashes
back eighty years, anal the octogen er believed in dreams. The of
erten is a boyagain John Huss are immortal. Si. Augas-
.11 n in his fathers tine, the Christian father gives us the
house. If the soul, before it has en -Orth Tinian physician
l;' 1 brokenof flesh,can dotact that a C s,6 1
irEz y its chain . i a of the immortality.of,
all; this, how far can it leap, what Was pe -1 by
argument which he
Girdles s -,an it cat when it is fully lthf- the soul by an
r; d in a dream. The night before
axed/ .+,ver dream , whether agreeable heist
Essay g _ his assassination .the . wife of Julius
or' arasai wheal ei sunshinyor tem r
rhusband fell
estuon means so mach that,risingCaesar dreamed that:her
p s, cans r dead across'her lag.:' It possible to
from your couch you.;;ought tkneel
rove that God does appear In'dreanee
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yaVakin ' u from his :dream, lie put,
far can it fly vrl7en, my body sleeps the g P itacked . hi different:
long sleep of .tale grave.? Oh, this at)out the. ship t
power to..'dxeaxu, ltioav starilixtg, ;how, direetion-suepriised everybody oil tlie. aloedsl n West;virginia.
But I have to tell you that the ma-
jority of the dreams are merely the
penalty of outraged digestive organs,
and you have no right to mistake the
nightmare for heavenly revelation.
Late suppers are a warranty deed for
bad dreams. Highly -spirited salads at
eleven o'clock at night, instead of open-
ing the door heavenward, open the door
infernal and diabolical. You outrage
natural laws, and you insult the God
who made those laws. It takes from
three to five hours to digest. food, and
you have no right to keep your diges-
tive organs in struggle when the rest
of your body is in somnolence. The
general rulee is, eat nothing after, six
o'clock at night, retire at ten, sleep
on your right side, keep the window
open five inches for ventilation, and
other worlds will not disturb you much.
By physical mistreatment you take
the ladder that Jacob saw in his
dream and you lower it to the other
world allowing the ascent of the de-
moniacal. Dreams are midnight. dys-
pepsia. Au unregulated desire for
something to eat keeps it ruined. The
world during six thousand years has
tried in vain to digest that first apple.
The world will not -be evangelized until
we get rid of dyspeptic 'Christianity.
Healthy people do not want this cedar-
rous and steeply thing that some peo-
ple call religion. They want a religion
that lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by night. If through trouble
or coming on of old age, or exhaustion
of Christian service you cannot sleep
well, then you may expect from God
"songs in the night," but there are no
blessed communications to those who
willing surrender to indigestibles.
Napoleon's army at Leipsic, Dresden,
and Borodino came near being de-
stroyed through the disturbed gastric
juices of its commander. That is the
way you have lost some of your bat-
tles.
Another remark I make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo
of our day thoughts.
vessel -they thought he was going
orazy-sailed on in another 'direction
hour after hour, and for many hours,
until he Dame to the perishing crew,
and rescued them and brought them to
New York. Who conducted that dream?
The Godof the sea.
In 1895 a vessel went out from Pit,
head for West India and ran against
the ledge of rocks called the Caskets,
The vessel went down, but the crew
clambered up on. the Caskets, to die
of thirst or starvation, as they sup-
posed.But there was a ship bound for
Southampton that had the captain's
sonone
on board. Thisvice in
lad twice
night dreamed that there was a crew,
of sailors dying on the Caskets. He
told his father of his dream. The ves-
sel came: down by the Caskets in time
to find and rescue these poor dying
men. Who conducted that dreamt
The God of the rocks, the God of the
sea.
The Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in. his mar-
velous book, entitled: "Nature and the
Supernatural," gives the following fact
that hegot from Captain Yount, in
California, a fact confirmed by many
families:Captain Yount dreamed
twice one night that one hun-
dred and fifty miles away there was a
company of travelers fast in the snow.
He also saw in the dream rocks of
peculiar formation, and telling his
dream to an old hunter, the hunter
said: "Why, I remember those rocks,
those reeks are in the Carson Valley
Pass, one hundred and fifty miles
away." Captain Yount, impelled by this
dream, although laughed at by his
neighbors, gathered men together, took
mules and blankets, and started out
on the expedition. traveled one hun-
dred and fifty miles, saw those very
rocks which he bad described. .in his
dream, and finding. the suffering ones
at the foot of those rocks, brought
them back to confirm the: story of
Captain Yount. Who conducted that
dream? The God of the snow, the God.
of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams
to rescue and comfort. You have
known people -perhaps it is something
I state in your own experience -you
have seen people go to sleep with
bereavements inconsolable, and they
awakened in perfect resignation be-
cause of what they had seen in slum-
ber. Dr. Crannage, one of the most
remarkable men :L ever met -remark-
able for benevolence and great philan-
thropies -at 1\ ellingtrton, Englanci,show-
ed me a house where the Lord had
appeared in a wonderful dream to a
poor woman. The woman was rheu-
matic, sick, poor to the last point of
destitution. She was waited an and
cared for by another poor woman, her
only attendant. Wold came to her
one day that this poor woman had died,
and the invalid of whom Tam speaking
lay helpless, upon the couch wondering
what would become of her. In that
mood she fell asleep. In her dreams
she said the Angel of the Lord ap-
peared, and took her into the open air
and pointed in one direction, and there
were mountains, of bread, and pointed
in another direction, and there was
mountains of butter, and in another
direction, and there were mountains of
all kinds oil worldly supply. The Angel
of the Lord said to her: "Woman,. all
these mountains belong to your
Father, and do you think that lie will
let you, ills child, hunger and die ?
Dr. Crannage told me by some divine
impulse he went into that destitute
home, saw the suffering there, and
administered unto it, caring for her,
all the Way through. Do not tell me
that dream was woven out of earthly
anodynes! Was that the phantasma-
goria of a diseased brain? No; it was
an all -sympathetic Gou addressing a
poor woman through a dream.
Furthermore, I have to say that
there are people in this house who
were converted to God through a
dream. The Rev. John Newton, the
fame of whose piety fills all Christen-
dom, while a profligate sailor on ship-
board, in his dream, thought that a
being approached him and gave him a.
verybeautiful ring, and put it upon
his finger and said to him, "As long
as you wear that ring' you will be
prospered; if you lose that ring you
will be ruined." In the same dream
another personage appeared, and by a
strange infatuation persuaded John
Newton to throw that ring' overboard,
it sank into the sea. Then the moun-
tains in sight were full of fire and the
air was lurid with consuming wrath.
While John Newton was repenting of
his folly in having thrown overboard
the 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 el will keep it
for you, lest you lose it again;" and
John Newton consented, 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 valuable
gem was his soul and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it over-
board was Satan, and that the One
who plunged in and restored that gem,
keeping it for 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 follow the man who
had that handful of white flowers. The
German arriving in New York wander-
ed into the Fulton street prayer meet-
ing, and Mr. Lamphier-whom ` many
of you know -the great apostle of
prayer meetings, that day had given
to 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
German followed him, and through an
interpreter told Mr. Lamphie 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 following
interviews, he became a Christian, and
is a city missionary preaching the
Gospel to his own countrymen. God
in a dreamt
Rev. Herbert Mendez was converted.
to God through a dream of the last
isa
there
aif her
and I doubt
judgment; t
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,
man or woman in this
house
to -day
Y
that has not had some: dream of that
great day of judgment which/ shall be
the winding up of the world's history.
If you have not dreamed of that day,
.
perhaps to night you may dream of it.
There are enough materials to make
a dream. Enough voices, for there
shall be the roaring of the elemental,
and the great earthquake. Enough
light for the dream,.._for. ,the world
aba.li blaze, Enough' excitement, for
the mountains
sh�ll fall. Enough
noug
h w
ater
for theocean stall roar., Enoughas-
tronomical
as-
tronorical.phenomena, "fot the stars
shallgo o out. Enough population, for.
all the races of all the ages will 'fall
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into line
of one of two rocessions, the
one ascending and other descending,
the one led on by the rider on the
white horse of eternal victory, the eth-
er led on by sepollyon on the black
charger of etersial defeat.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH. 14.
"Saul the Persecutor, Converted." Acts 5.
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antagonism to !the disciples of the the Holy Ghost was first out- saw Jesus as well as heard him; -. an
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Lord. Went unto the high priest. This poured. Ananias's words in verse 13 implication made again in verso 17, by
high priest was probably Theophilus,would seem to imply the first of these A'nanias's words in verse 27, by the.
brother and successor of Jonathan, who I suppositions. Whether they were men words of Barnabas, and again in Acts
in turn had succeeded Caiaphas, the or women. Saul was a tender man at 22. 14; 26. 16; 1 Ctr. 9. 1; 15..8. Indeed,
high priest by whom our Lord was heart, as we know from fuller acquain- the appearance of Jesus to Saul on this
tried. Both Jonathan and Theophilus tante; but tenderness is not unfrettuent- occasion seems to be the main ground
were. sons of Arenas (Ananus) and bro- ly allied with inflexibility; and Saul,of his personal testimony to the resat- 1„
there -in-law of Caiaphas. sure he was right, locked up his feel- ' rection of our Lord. The rest of this
2. Letters. Written (see Acts 22. 5) ings end sympathies,. and inexorably verse and the sixth verse down to the
pursuedersuahis plPooans. Brans them bound ld words "Arise and go into the city" are
omitted from the text by the Re -
know their fate as soon as they start- vised Version, and in harmony with all
ed!' There was no mercy now at Jerusa- competent scholars. They were eve-' .
!tem for such as they.
We are to regard the story of Phil- in the name of "all the estate of the
elders;" in other words, with the full
ip's adventures in Samaria and on the authority of the Sanhedrin- The high
desert frond to Gaza as an extended priest doubtless wrote the letters, and
parenthesis, and to take up this lesson
as a continuation of the narrative
which was laid down at the third verse
of the last chapter. Saul, the fiery
young zealot who led in the martyrdoms
of Stephen and the persecution of the
Jerusalem Church, was a native of Tar-
sus in Asia Minor, descended from pure
Jewish stock, of the tribe of Benja-
min, of a family possessing the privi-
lege of Roman citizenship. He had
been trained in the law under Gama-
lie!, the greatest rabbi of that age, and
was evidently a leading spirit among
in this case he seems to have been
president of. the Sanhedrin. Damasous
is, according to tradition (to history
also, so fay as it reaches), the oldest
city in the world; if it has a rival ex-
isting it is the town of Hebron in Pa-
lestine. It has had a varied history;
was famous as fan back as the time
of. Abraham; was the seat of a mon-
archy subdued by David; became the
center of the later empire of. Syria;
for a while exacted tribute from both
Israel and Judah; later was subjected
by Israel; then became an ally of Is-
rael until overthrown by Tiglath-pi-
laser of Assyria. In later centuries
it was subjected by Babylon, Persia,
and the Romans. At the time of Paul's
the young men of Judaism. Damascus,'conversion it seems to have been sub
the scene of our lesson to -day, is one ordinate, to Avetas, pingg of Arabia.
of the oldest cities in the world. It Damascus became for a' while the most.
Y
hasthewhole Mo-
beautyfor hof the
been fa sus all assmetropolis olis
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m renowned n
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six• o nddn s woertd. A
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gh m
or
beauty Its fame for
large city. l
surroundings jias lasted through the
centuries. ft is in the heart of one
at the loveliest of oases. To the syn-
agogues. That is, to the presidents of
the synagogues which respected the au-
thority of the high priest and the San-
hednin. What power they had to car-
ry out the orders of the Sanhedrin
against Christian men and women we
do not know. Any of this way should
be "any of The Way" -the earliest des-
criptive epithet given to the Christians.
See Acts 16.17; 18. 25: 19. 9; 22,4; 24. 14,
wealth of trade and manufacture. It
r
has ' been repeatedly the seat of im-
perial power. Even now its popula-
tion is estimated at about one hundred
and twenty thousand, and it was much
larger and more populous in Paul's
time.
PRACTICAL NOTES.,
Verse 1. •Saul. Wha , woe met
hint last, was making havocwhenof the
Church, entering into "every house,"
and hauling followers of Jesus, both
men and women, to prison. Yet breathe
islaughter.
nout a u h r
threatening,. and sl g
Butwhyshould'Paul want to go
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22,
oftime- �.
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"Ye indicate', , the passing
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a month or so,'ivhch to Damascus? Evidently
because. ,her
� Ch.r"istians there. They
events of ehra �E.i 8 mayhave occur- were already ,
'have fled there from Saul's parse -
red. The indignant , prejudice of 0th- may
parse-
ers against the Chrstian community cutions, and :his purpose may have been
gradually
bitter to follow up some, already proscribed
"yet," The word "out" " faded, but Saul was should be in Jerusalem who may liars escaped.
.
omitted. He breathed the spirit of per- But it is not unlikely that much e.ar-
secutian and murder. Everything that ler than this Christianity was planted
h ng�
hesaw and heard, everything ghat he there by converts who had returned
r edyturbulent • from that Pentecostal feast at .which
did and said, incxeas.....his
, dently written in here by some copy -
3. As he journeyed. There were ist to harmonize this story with Acts
three main roads from Jerusalem to 26. 14, and 22. 10, because of the ails -
Damascus, and whichever Paul took, taken notion that two stories must be
his journey (by horseback probably) identical to agree, when really one of
would last five or six days.Whether he the most convincing proofs of the truth
went along the Egyptian caravan track, of any fact is the essential agreement
road
which crosses eastward north of the, of our Lord's statement as given in
of differing narratives. But one part
Lake of Tiberias; ox by the Petra
which crosses the Jordan near Jericho Acts 26 is bore reproduced.. it is hard
and proceeds almost directly noet.htvard; for thee to kick against the pricks.
or by the Roman road, which pass- This figure, which our Lord certainly
es through the middle of Samaria an
crosses the Jordan south ofthe L' ake
Tiberias, we do not know. Suddenly.
tee Gods revelations often come; but
used on this occasion, Aots 26. 14, is de-
rived from oxen driven by a goad, who,
if balky and bad tempered, may kick, --
but their kicking will only cause the
his heart had been gradually prepared goad to pierce deeper; so the truth of
for this sudden burst of conviction. God was piercing Saul's conscience, and
There shined ... a light from heaven, the more turbulently he resisted the.
It was "about noonday, Acts 22• fi; but more painfully was he convicted of his
the" light was "shave the brightness o'f fault. 4
the sun," Acts 26. 1a ft is child's play 6. Go into the city. Continue'your
to try to make these words of Luke journeyto Damascus.Itshall
be
told
describe aflash of lightning. Round.
thee what them must do. Clasp
Y
about him. Affecting his companions as
well as himself. See Acts 26. 13,, 14; 22.
9. See also our note on verse 7.
4. Fell to the earth. Overwhelmed
el
by thethesuddenness and splendor of the
hand in mine. Wait for further direc-
tions. .
FIRE RESTORED HER YOUTH.
vi i . Hemel a voice saying. "La theMoore. an
son Ii aA few days ago, Mrs. Mary 11Zo
Hebrew language," Acts 26: 14. Why ml"
old woman of Muncie, lnd., was calmly
persecutest thou me? inasmuch as be
had dome it to one of f t he least of smoking in her bed, when she
acci-
dentallyset fire to the clothes. Be
fore the fire was extinguished. she
skinthat
was badly burned. The new
sinceappeared where, the
old was
burned off is soft and as a baby's
fine
Christ's servants, be had done it to
,
5. He said. Saul said. Wh a art
thou,
Lord? A question of conscience, not of
theology. If the answer to this ques-
tion had been invented by theologians mer! white, is now
and her hair for y
we might expect,a definite statement 'et black, as it was "when -she was a
of the d vl of of oulr Lord or a deft- ?.that her.
. girl. She says that she feels
nate denied of it; er is im to tham youth has returned.
creed but thA answer is simply, I am.
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follows, meet have:stirred Saul's sem-
sitive conscience to its depths roues- bat they were all tailors.
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