Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-30

rise and sink again, as though borne end
less on the soft waves of slumber.
Persons frequently have more intelli-
gence, larger grasp, greater scope, deep
er insight, in sleep than in waketulness.
In dreams common minds have shown
the inspiration Of genius; in dreams the
intellect has found what vigilant retlec-
ton has sought in vain in dreams the
voice of prophecy has spoken; in dreams
what we consider the supernatural has
been attained.
The ancients were stanch believers in
the divine origin of dreams, as the Scrip
lures and the poems of Homer fully at.
test Pa.riarchs, sages, bardS, alike had
faith in and reverence for dreams were
warned, admonished, guided by them. -
According to Plutarch, Calphurnia
dreamed, the night before her husband,
Julius Cesar's assassination, that he fell
mortally wounded at her feet. So much
was he, the greatest man of antiquity,
impressed by her dream, that he would
not have gone to the senate had not one
of the conspirators, Brutus Abinus,
reused his pride against his fear.
Cicero relates that two Arcadians,
travelling together, arrived at Megara,
one of them lodging at an inn, the other
at the house ofa friend. The latter dream
ed that his companion came to him, be
seechng help, because the inn-keeper
was about to murder him. The dreamer
awoke but soon fell asleep again, when
his companion once more appeared, say
ing that the murder had been committed
and that the body had been concealed in
a cart. The feXt morning the Arcadian
repaired to the magistrates, and search
being ordered, the corpse was found in
the place described, and the assassin a.
rested. The Roman senate had the tenn
Pile of Juno rebuilt because Cecilia Me-
tella,. wife Of the Consul, had been told
by Jove in dream that such was his
will.
The early fathers of the Church, nota-
bly, Tertullan, Crvsostom, and Angus
tine, were convinced that dreams were sent
both by God and Satan that cures were
effected, crimes detected, souls lost and
saved by their agency.
For the clairvoyant power of dreams
we need not have recourse to antiquity
The middle ages and modern. even CON
temporaneous time, furnish remarkable
EXAMPLES.
Humboldt, in his "Cosmos," relates
that voice in a dream said to Colum
bus, before his western voyage, "God
will give you the keys of the ocean I"
Macario tells us. in his work on "Sleep,
Dreams, and Somnambulsm." that in
the small French town of La Charlie
lived beautiful young woman, Angelo
Bohin, who had many suitors. One Of
wealthy but the girl was averse, insist
ing that before long she would meet the
man she was destined to love. Soon af-
ter she had made this declaration to her
father, she dreamed that a Partisan,
whose appearance she exactly described,
had arrived in the town and proposed for
her hand. A few weeks later she en-
countered at a ball august, 1889 the
stranger she had seen in a dream. and
recognized him on the instant. He was
charmed with her. as she was with him,
and they were welded within month
He was Emile de Ia Bedoll'ere, editor of
" LIE Steele" In letter to Macario he
fully corroborates the story, adding that
tha girl had given her teacher, Mile.
Porcerate, a complete description Of his
look. manner. and dress long before he
had accidentally set foot in La Charlie
Beaumont, publishes in his "Treatise
Of Spirits" an account of an extraordi-
nary dream of daughter of Sir Charles
Lee, related by Lee to the Bishop of
and by him to the author
The daughter, having lost her mother at
the time Of her birth, was intrusted to
the care of her aunt, Lady Everard.-
Reaching maturity, she was betrothed TO
Sir William Perkins. Some weeks be-
fore the date of the nuptials she dreamed
1t was in Waltham, England, in 1922
that she was awakened about two O'Clock
in the morning Gt is not uncommon
while we are still asleep to dream we are
,wake) by handsome woman, who told
her she was her mother, and that they
would meet at noon the same day in heav-
en. The young lady, greatly agitated,
aroused her maid, and, after dressing,
wrote letter 10 her father, carried it to
ner aunt, and, informing her OF what
had happened, requested her to send the /
letter as soon as she was dead Her rel |
alive, thinking she had lost her wits. i'm
summoned physician, who,
On reaching the house, could detect no I
evidence of physical or mental ailment. |
Miss Lees conviction that she would ex-
pire ut the hour named could not be .
shaken. She requested the chaplain to
come to her and read prayers. When he
had done SO she took her cittern, played |
several hymns. accompanying the in /
strument with her voice, and singing
with so delicious melancholy that the
chaplain, and her tinswoman |
were moved to tears. A few minutes be- /
fore twelve o'clock she sat in an easy |
chair, and on the very stroke Of the hour
drew long heath, which was her last.
Abercrombie, in his "Intellectual Pow
ers," without mentioning names they /,
are here supplied), prints this authentic |
tale. Joseph d'Acre, young Scotch
man, went to Edinburgh to visit his uncle |
and aunt, Major and Mrs. Griffith. One
, ho 10 al tbor,, oF his ipfan. I