The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-04-01

Rev. John Newton, Inc fame of whose
piety fills all Christendom, while prof
ligate sailor on shipboard, in bis dream,
thought that being approached him
and gave him very beautiful ring and
put 1t upon his finger and said to him,
"As long az you wear that ring you will
be prospered; if you lose that ring, you
will be ruined"
In the same dream another parsonage
appeared, and by strange infatuatlon
persuaded John Newton to throw that
ring overheard, and it sank into the sea.
Then the mountains in sight were full OF
| fire. and the air was lurid with consum-
ing wrath. While John Newton was re-
penting Of his folly in having thrown
overheard the treasure, another person
age came through the dream and told
John Newton he would plunge into the
sea and bring the ring up If he desired it.
He plunged into the sea and brought
it up and said to John Newton, Here
| is that gem, but think 7, will. keep it for
| you, lest you lose it again, and John
Newton consented, and all the fire went
out from the mountains, and all the
signs of lurid wrath disappeared from
the air, and John Newton said that he
saw in his dream that that valuable gem
was his soul, and that the being who per-
suaded him to throw it overheard was
satan, and that the one who plunged in
and restored that gem, keeping it for
him, was Christ. And that dream makes
one Of the most wonderful chapters in
| the life of that most wonderful man.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
ocean, and in his dream he saw a man
with a handful Of white flowers, and he
was told to follow the man who had that
| handful Of wh;> flowers. The German,
arriving in Ms, York, wandered into
the Fulton street prayer meeting, and
Mr.. Lamphier whom many Of you
know-the great apostle of prayer meet
ings, that day had given to him bunch
| Of tuberoses.
They stood on his desk, and at the close
| of the religious services he took the tube
roses and started homeward, and the
| German followed him, and through an
interpreter told Mr.. Lamphier that on
the sea he had dreamed Of a papy with 2
handful of white flowers and was told
to follow him. Suffice il, TO say, through
that interview and following interviews
he became Christian and is city mis-
sionary preaching the gospel to his own
| countrymen God in a dream!
| John Hardock, while on shipboard
dreamed one nisnt that the day of judg
ment had come, and that the roll Of the
ships crew was called, except his own
name, and that these people, this crew.
Were all banished, and in his dream he
asked the reader why his own name was
omitted, and he was told it was to give
him more opportunity for repentance.
He woke up different man. He became
| illustrious for Christian attainment. If
| you do not believe these things, then you
must discard all testimony and refuse to
accept any kind Of authoritative witness.
| God in dream!
| DREAM OF THE JUDGMENT DAY.
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
| God through dream of the last judg-
| ment, and doubt if there is man or
woman in this house today that has not
/ had some dream Of that great day Of
| Judgment which shall be the winding up
of the worlds history. If you have not
dreamed of it, perhaps tonight you may
| dream Of that day.
! There are enough materials to make q
dream. Enough voices, for there shall
be the roaring of the elements and the
| great earthquake. Enough light for the
dream, for the world shall blaze. Enough
excitement, for the mountains shall fall.
Enough water, for the ocean shall roar.
Enough astronomical phenomena, for
the stars shall go out. Enough popula-
| tions, for all the races of all the ages
will fall into line of one of two process
sions, the one ascending and the other
descending, the one led on by the rider
on the white horse of eternal victory, the
other led on by Apollyon on the black
charger Of eternal defeat.
The dream comes on me now, and !
see the ightnings from above answering
the volcanic disturbances from beneath,
and hear the long reverberating thun-
ders that shall wake up the dead and on
one side see the opening Of a gate into
scenes golden and amethystine, and on
the other side hear the Changing back
Of d gate into bastiles Of eternal bond
age, and all the seas, lifting up their crys-
tai voices, cry, "Come to Judgment
and all the voices Of the heaven cry,
"Come to Judgment" and crumbling
mausoleum and Westminster abbeys and
pyramids Of the dead with marble voices
cry, "Come to Judgment
And the archangel seizes an instru-
ment of music which has never yet been
sounded, an instrument of music that
was made only for one sound, and thrust
ing that mighty trumpet through the
clouds and turning it this way he shall
put it to his lip and blow the long, loud
blast that shall make the solid earth
culver, crying, "Come to Judgment
Then from this earthly grossness quit,
Attired in stars we shall forever sit
|, Ravenous Crows.
Gas much as have studied the habits