The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-04-26
WHAT DREAMS ARE MADE OF.
A Practical Essay on Dreams With
Some Remarkable Examples of
What They Have Foretold.
n. o Christian Advocated

n. 0 Christian Advocate.
By REV. I. W. COOPER.
No doubt dreams are produced by vari.
Gus causes, to-wit: The Holy Spirit, Satan,
intensity of thought, grief, excessive joy and
disordered stomach. That was a charm
ing record of dream which appeared in the
February number of DR.. Sledd's Monthly.
| read it with intense interest Rev. Pres
ton Cooper had many dreams after his con-
version. His conversion was powerful
conversion. His conservation to God was
thorough. He lived in the sublime eie-
ment of faith. Rev. II. H. Montgomery
who was a dear and true friend of my
father related the following to me A Chris
tian lady was in dying CONDITIONAL had
given up hope, and the doctor had left her
to die, and as he was going home he met my
father and the question was asked, ''How is
your patient?" the reply was, she is dying,
there is not shadow of hope. NY father
spoke as follows she shall not die | will
not let her is it not written if you ask any
thing in my name it shall be done unto
you? God has answered my prayer. He
visited the dying lady, and before leaving
recovered; the doctor, her family, the lady,
-
her recovery from the chamber of death as
the special answer to prayer.
To his dreams: Cooper's we'll stands to-
day as a witness to the truth and fulfilment
of his dreams. Whilst living at the well
he had important business at Clinton and
Bolton, and only part of a day in which,
to attend to his business, and one of the
plans must be rejected until another time.
In the evening he remarked, he was in
trouble as he had important business at two
places next day, and he did not know how to
act. He did not 60, but next day proceeded
to Bolton, and after finishing his business
he went to the depot to take the train for
Vicksburg, when he learned there had been
a wreck of the train between Clinton and
Bolton, and in all probability if my father
had gone to Clinton he would have lost his
life. These dreams seemed to throw a
bright light over his pathway. He SEEM
ed 70 live IN the joyous supernatural. They
seemed to him as voices speaking to him
from the mysterious realm of life and love.
They Augmented his faith, and his Conse-
Grafton some thought bordered fanat-
csm. But the success of his ministry, the
strength of his mind, the purity of life, and
the grand test of all men, the eliminating
period-the period we call death, showed
there was no fauaticism in his heart He
lived in the immediate presence of Christ,
and his death was peaceful, triumphant
beautiful, and as glorious as the death
of the pure infant. There was no death
for him. Ny father had a dream that
threw mantle of sorrow over his last years.
The dream changed his countenance, his
preaching, his manners, the ringing laugh
ter, and the humorous conversation to which
he was given. At the time of this sad
dream, he was in charge Of the church in
Vicksburg and he resided at CoOper's Well.
A young man joined the Alabama Confer
ence the same year he did, they became
devoted friends. My fathers friend was
highly educated, accomplished in manners,
and good preacher. After a few years my
fat her was transferred to the Mississippi
Conference and his friend remained in the
Alabama Conference. My father soon
learned that his friend was drinking, and
step by step he lost his influence, his relig- |
ion, his character. My father did not forget |
his old friend but desiring to help him build |
up his character he wrote to him to come to
Mississippi and he would assist him in |
a school. My fathers friend came,
and the school was secured. For time |
there seemed to be a hope for the fallen |
minister of Christ The rebellious angels |
were driven out of heaven. What fall /
A place so pure, so happy, so bright and |
for one so dark, so hopeless and !
full of curses A fallen minister Driven |
in his own wickedness and shame away from
the cross of Christ. He joined the church. |
He and my father were often together. |
They talked of the golden happy days, when
they went out into the world to preach |
Christ They had had different experiences.
One was living under the very shadow of
the cross of Christ, and his sun was going
down in a clear bright sky; whilst the 9th
sr was wandering afar off in the cold, cold
world of evil and human depravity, and the
sun of his life was going down in gloom and
shame. One walked on the sea of life in
view of the eternal haven of peace, and the
other wrecked in mid ocean, and all was
gone, hope, character, and heaven. The
rays of life that seemed to gather around
the life of my fathers friend soon faded,
and he soon gave up all hope. When my
father left him to fill his appointment in
Vicksburg his friend was in feeble though
usual health While in Vicksburg he
dreamed his friend was dead. He saw the
body cold in death; the spirit of her friend
came to him; the impression of despair
was on his spirit. He showed my father a
long roll of preachers whom my father had
known while living and under the names
Of some VINO were the brightest lights in
the church was written, ''in hell" The
spirit told my father he was lost because he
had been recreant to his holy trust, and
added "Bro. Cooper, you are safe thus far,
but beware of popularity. Do not let pop
ularity ruin you" Ny father had this
dream three distinct times during the night,
and next day he left for his friends house
and found him dying, and everything
seemed to be a fulillment of his dreams.
0Do not let popularity fuin you" never
died from my fathers ears. What did this
dream mean? Was it true? To human
appearance it was. But l trust Christ |
pardoned his disgraced servant, and when
my father nassed intn the hright heYnnd. |