The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-03-29
VIVID As the LIGHrN1Na's FLAsH

through my mind poured the "reminiscences
read when small boy, of this renowned itinerant
preacher. His name Is fresh in the minds of the
second generation after his day. Lorenzo Dow!
Time was when he had 20 peer in this country )
Protestant Church. Time was when he was
wOTShiped; when men, women and children,
melting in their sins under his eloquent
truths, paid him tribute in the highest manner
Now that that which made him all that man cen
see has fed his bones rest in obscurity Scarcely
one has probably paused IN passing this almost
sacred spot to throw even a pebble on the sod
blessed It's true, but how soon one is forgot when
that one Is beyond the point of personal obligation
for recollectiOnsl Perish the thought for tits
true that We remember only when we can be re-
As stood and thought of the many character
istics of Dow which fiOated into my memory, /
remembered that he was
AVERY sUPERsTITIoUs MAN,
and wondered If he really knew how it
was Of the ghosts that visited him in the flesh.
1t will be remembered Dow was also a very
frank man. He was blunt, ana he believed in
speaking of God aud religion, and everything
that business-like way which marks an acute aud
ready trading man OF the world. Speaking OF his
supersiuousness, remember OF the way b, told
rowing minister which he lead. He was quite n
boy, but he had concluded TO preach. On the
night of January 20, 1896, on his second night
out, and while sleeping in the home of friend:
he had dream. II was a strange dream, aud II
there Is nothing In dreams, Dow was deluded in
his calling and his life must necessarily have
been alb mt a failure He said a messenger came
~ him in ina drean, aud ssid. ..beSe &c ~, s
ministers come from England, who. in few min
uies will pass this way" Dow I'm his dream) fol-
lowed the messenger out, ran over e wood-pile.
ana jumped upon q log, to have fair view Of
them. Presently three men came over the hill
from the east; the foremost dismounted. The
other two, one OF whom rode white horse, with
the three steeds disappeared. Dow said to the
man who remained behind Who are you 2''
He replied, John Wesley" and walked towasd
had, he turned around, and, looking the young
preacher in the face. said: God has called you
to preach the Gospel; yon have been long time
between hope and fear, but
THERE is DIsPENsATIoN OF THE GOSPEL COM
MITTED TO YOU.
Woe unto you II you preach not the Gospel"
Dow put great stress on this dream. He was
"How ne (ihe ghOst) should know the exercise OF
my mind, when | had never heard OF him be-
FORE" At that time the mystery of dreams had
people were called by such appariiions to differ
ent acts. Dow. however, followed the dictaiOns
OF that presentiment, and with what success the
world already well knows.
Another dream soon came upon Dow. He was
called in this preSenttment TO Maine, where he
thought he was anted by Elder Jesse Lee, an
other noted Methodist preacher. lie started, he
wrote afterwards. and while on the way 10. he re-
ceived letter from the Elder confirming his
dream. He was wanted! Dow now knows Of real
dreams. IL Is possible we do not.
After his calls to his Masters work by the
dream
DOW STARTED UPON HIS wANDERINGs,
and the narratives OF his life and travels approach
very near TO the oddities. and seem akin IN their
WOnderfulness TO those aScr1bed to the Savior of
mankind. ! remember reading from Dows diary
OF q revival he held In Hampton or Skeinsb0r-
ough. believe IL was-a place at the south end OF
Lake Champlain- In one of his sermons he de
picied the torments of hell, or "hades, -
as he put it IL his notes. During
tns course Of his ne made
OF the wicked are an abomination to the Lord .
being one OF his expression. A woman IN the
audience took serious objections to this extraor-