The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-02-19
Remarkable Dreams.

NV Oohltt 1dlLuhBo III tuo COuIsc VI
a sermon on dreams. delivered in
Brooklyn, N. Y, after quoting numer-
GUS instances in which God had made
known His wishes by dreams or visions
to the prophets of old, remarked that
while he did not have faith in the pro
phetic character OF the majority OF
dreams in these later days, when we
have the Bible for guidance-attrib-
uting most dreams to overloaded
stomachs-cited number of remarkable
evidences OF dreams being fore warnings
as follows: Last OF all, 1 would say
that God does still at this very day, ap-
pear to persons in dreams. All dreams
that make you better are from God, and
therefore, a good dream that results in
good must be from Him. The old
fathers OF the Christian church believed
in dreams. Tertullian accepted them.
John Huss' dreams have become immor-
tai. The night before the assassination
OF julius Caesar, his wife dreamed that
he fell dead across her lap. l have a
friend, a retired sea captain, who
dreamed one night that suffering
ships crew were drifting somewhere in
in his vicinity. He reused up his men,
and made sail, and kept on sailing until
they thought he was stark mad. Final.
ly he came upon half-starved crew on
raft, took them in, fed them, and
brought them to New York. Who sent
that dreamP The God OF the sea In
1896 ship from Spithead was wrecked
on certain rocks, called the Caskets.
The crew climbed on the rocks, and the
captain of ship from Southampton had
twice in one night dreamed that ship
wrecked sailors were dying on the Cas-,
kets. He needed the dream, sailed out
of his course, and took off the survivors.
Who conducted that dreamP The God of
the seal The God of the rocksl The Rev.
DR.. Bushnell tells of dream that hap.
pened friend of his, Capt. Yount, in
the Sierra Nevadas. Youut dreamed
twice in the same night that a family
was slowly starving and freezing to
death in the snow. Hemming in their
camp, he saw Gn his dream) rocks Of
of a peculiar formation such as he had
never beheld before. He told it the next
morning to a neighbor, and the neigh
Dor said Great heavens Those are
exactly the kind of rocks they have at
-, naming a canon in the mountains
$50 miles distant. On the strength OF
his dream, Capt, Yount, despite the
sneers and laughter of his neighbors,
gathered company of men, started for
the canon, where, sure enough, they
found the freezing and starving family.
Who conducted that dreamP The God
of the snow The God of the Sierra
Nevadas
DIR. Cranage, at Wellington, England,
related to me how the Lord had appear
ed wonderfully to poor woman in that
village. One morning when she stood
starving at the door of her cottage with
another poor woman, her only compan-
ion, she suddenly cried out, Obi Jenny,
1 see mountains OF bread. I see noun
tains of butter Jenny said, All these
things belong to your Father, and do
you think he'll let you iieP Shortly
afterward relief came, and the poor
woman, who had been at the point of
starvation, was supplied with abundant
necessaries. Who conducted that visionP
The God of the hungry and starvingl
Why, there are people in this house
who have been converted to God in
dream. The Rev. John Newton, while
a prohigate sailor on shipboard, saw
beautiful being descend out of the
clouds and put ring Of priceless value
on his finger. The being said, Keep the
ring on, and you will prosper Another
being not so beautiful came up
and tried to induce him to throw the
ring into the sea. Mountains OF fire
appeared on the horizon, clouds lurid
with wrath shone overhead, the
dark angel was fast persuading him, and
at last John Newton, in despair, flung
the ring overheard. Then another angel
appeared and plunged in saying, I'll get
it and keep it for you, and when he
rose to the surface with the ring shining
in his grasp, the fiery mountain faded
away on the seaboard and the lurid light
left the sky. Then John Newton knew
that the ring was his soul
A German who was crossing the At
lantic saw in dream man with q hand
full of white flowers. Wien he arrived
in New York he wandered into the Ful-
ton-street prayer meeting, and saw
great bunch OF thberoses in the hands
OF the class-leader. The German follow
ed him home, became converted, and
enlisted under the banner Of the cross.
That German to-day is city missiona
ry. John Hardcastle, another sailor,
dreamed that he attended roll.call on
which his name was left out, and when
he asked the reason, was told that it
was to give him time to repens.
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