Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1893-04-12

away there was company of traders fast
in the snow. He also saw in the dream rocks
of peculiar formation, AMI telling his dream
TO AN old hunter the hunter sad, "Why,
remember those rocks; those rocks are IN
the Carson Valley pass, $50 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,
Travelled 80 miles, saw those very ROCKS
which he had 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 con-
Quoted that dream? The God OF the snow,
the God of the Sierra Neyadas.
God has often appeared in dreams to res
cue and comfort. You have known people
--perhaps it is something | state in your
own experience-you have seen people go to
sleep with bereavements inconsolabe, and
they awakened in perfect resignation be-
cause of what they had seen in slumber.
| DR.. Crannage, ono of the most remarkable
men ever understandable for benevol-
ence and great philanthropies-at yelling
ton, England, showed me a house where
the Lord had appeared in n wonderful
dream to poor woman. The woman Wa
ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unreguIated desire Tor
something to eaC ruined the race in para
disc, and an unreguated desire for some.
thing to eat keeps it ruined. The world
during 5000 years has tried in vain to digest
that first apple. The world will not be
evangelical until we get rid of dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadaverous and sleepy thing that some
people call religion. They want 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 can.
not sleep well then you may expect from
God songs in the night" but there are no
blessed communications to those who will
ingly surrender to indigestbles, Napoleon's
army at Leipsc, Dresden and Borodino
came near being destroyed through the dis
| turbet gastric juices of it commander.
That is the way you have lost some of your
battles.
| Another remark | make is that our
| dreams are apt to be merely the echo of our
| day thoughts.
will give you recipe for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
| thought and unseltish action, and your
| dreams will be set 10 music. If all day you
| are gouging and grasping and avaricious,
| in your dreams you will see gold that you
| cannot clutch and bargains in which you
we're outshylockel II during the day you
| ire lrasclole an puSnaclous ana gunpoW-
| lery Of disposition, you will at night have
BATTLE WIN enemies III which th9y Will get
the best of you. If you are all day long in
hurry, at night YOU will dream of rail
trains that you want To eaten while you
anuoo move one men toward t4e depot.
~ you are always oVersnSpiclous anu e&-
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Inc SchoiaF "lei'h Is ph'iosophlc echo'
| The poets dream Is rhythmlc echo. Cole'
ridge composed his "hubla Khan asleep in
narcotic dream and waking ur wrote
| down 800 lines OF it, Tartini, the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in a dream 50 vivid that wax.
| inr he easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in sleep.
ing thoughts. If a man spends his life in
trying to make Others happy and is heavenly
minded, around his pillow he will see Grip.
ples VINO have got over their crutch and
proc lssions of.ceestial'imugrials and hear the
grand march roll down from drums OF
| heaven over JASPER parapats You are very
| apt TO hear in dreams what YOU hear when
YOU are wide awake.
Now, havinr SHOWN Won that having q
Bible we ought TO be satisfied not getting
any further Communication from Col, and
| having shown YOU that all dreams have an
important mission, since they snow the com
psrative Independence of thu soul from the
! body, and havinr shown Won that the ma
!
| physical condition. and HAVING shown Won
th9t orr sIeening thonghtS ara ant 70 ba m
echo Of orr waking tbourhts | come now
TO NV fifth AM most imuortant remark.
and TINT is TO saw that il is ctpable of proo'
that God does sometimes in unr day. and
| has often since the close of the Bible dispen-
sation, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are from
God. fior do know 1t? Is not tod the
source OF all good? 1t does not take very
| logical hlihl 10 argue that out. ler'u!ilan
and Martin Luther believed IN dreams. Inc
dreams OF John huss are immortal. 81.
Augustine, tn Christian father, gives us
| the fact that a Carthagnlan physician was
persuaded of the immortality of the soul by
an argument which h heard in a dream.
The night before his assassination the wife
of Julius Cesar dreamed that her husband
fell dead across her lap. 1t is possible to
prove that Go does appear IN dreams to
warn, to convert an to save men.
My friend, n retired sea captain and
Christian, tells me that one night while on
the sea he had dreamed that ships crew
we're in great suffering. Waking up from
his dream, he put about the ship, tackled in
different directions, surprised everybody on
the vessel-they thought he was going crazy
sailed on in another direction hour after
| hour, and for many hours until he came to
the perishin5 crew and rescued them and
brought them to New York. Who conduct
ed that dreamy The God of the sea.
In 1895 a vessel went out from Spthead
| for the West Indies and ran against the
ledge of rocks called the Caskets. The vessel
went down, but the crew cambered up on
| the CaSketS TO die OF starvation rs thew
.unposed. But there was a shin bound for
Somthomnton that had the captain's son
on hoarI Tnis lad twica in tha night
dreamed that thera was n crey of saiiors
Jvinn an tho caskots Ue tolJ h,s father of
~ Gpoar' Tha yessa, c,me down hy +ba
rastetS in +ime to find and IN rascua tbose
rheumatic sick moor 70 the LAST nont n,
destituton. She was waited m and careG
for bv another moor woman. her only at
PENDANT
Word came to her one dav that this mo,
woman had died and fine invalid of whom I
am speaking Law HELPLESS upon the couch