Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-03-31


evangelical until we get rid of dyspsptc
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
sounily by night.
If through trouble or coming on OF old age
or exhaustion OF Christian service you cam
not sleep well, then you may expect fror'
God ''songs in the night" but there are n
blessed communications to those wac Will
ingiy surrender to indigestibieS. Napo'eoas
army at LeiDsic Ores leu AMI boro mo
came near being destroyed through the DIS
turbei gastric juices OF it commander.
That is the way you have lost soma OF your
battles.
Another remark make is that our
dreams are apt ~ be merely the ec1o Of our
day thoughts.
will give you recip, for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
thought and unsslhsh action, and your
dreams will be set TO music. lt all day you
are gougng and grasping and avaricious.
in your dreams you will see gold that you
cannot clutch and bargains in which you
were outshylocke1. II during the day you
are irasclble AMI puynacious and gunpow-
derry OF disposition, you will at night have
battle with enemies in which they will get
the best Of you. If you are all day long in
hurry, at night you will dream OF rail
trains tnat you want to catch while you
cannot move one inch toward tae depot.
II you are always overSusocious and ex-
pectant OF ASSAULT, you will have at nigh
hallucinations Of assassins with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard Ill,
the inquitous, the night before the battle Of
Bosworth Field, dreamed that all those whom
he had muir lerei stared at him, an tlat he
was tora 10 piecss by demons from the pit.
The scholars dream is philosophic echo.
The poets dream Is a rhythmic echo. Cole.
ridge composed his "Kubla Khan" asleep in
a narcotic dream, and waking up wrote
down 300 lines Of it. Tartini. the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in dream so vivid that wax
inghe easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their ecno in Sleep
ing thoughts. IL man spends his life in
trying TO make others happy and is heavenly
minded, around his pillow be will see crip-
pies wlo have got over their crutch and
prcc ssions of..celestial'imperiaisa and hear tbs
grand march roll down from dru rs OF
heaven over jasper parapets. You are very
apt to hear in dreams what you hear when
you are wide awake.
Now, having s1own you that having
Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting
any further communication from Col AMI
having shown you that all dreams have an
important mission, since they snow the com
parative independence of thu soul from the
body, and having SHOWN you that the ma
jority OF dreams are result OF disturbed
physical condition, aud having shown you
that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an
echo of our waking thoughts / come now
to my fifth an most important remark,
and that is to say that il is capable OF proof
that God does sometimes in our day and
has often since the close Of the Bible dispen-
satiop, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you bstterare from
God. Hov do know it? Is not God the
source Of all good! 1t does not take very
logical mind to argue that out. Tertulllaai
and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The
dreams of John Huss are immortal. St
Augustine, the Christian father, gives us
the fact that q Carthaginian physician was
persuaded of the immortality OF the soul by /,
an argument which he heard in a dream. !
The night before his assassination the wife
OF Julius Cesar dreamed that her husband I
fell dead across her lap. 1t is possible to
prove that Col does appear in dreams to
warn, to convert ami 70 save men.
Ny friend, a retired sea captain aud
Christian, tells me that one night while on (:
the sea he had dreamed that a ships crew >
were in great suffering. Waking up from .
his dream, he put about the ship, tackled In
different directions, surprised everybody on /
the veSsel-they though he was gong crazy
Jailed on in another direction hour after
hour, and for many hours until he came TO !
the perishiny crew and rescuad them and
brought them to New York. Who conduct
cd that dream The God of the sea.
In 1895 vessel went out from Spithead
for the West Indies ami ran AGAINST the
ledge of rocks called the Caskets. Toe vessel
went down, but ths crew clamoered up Oh
the Caskets to die OF starvation, as they
supposed. But there was a ship bound for
Southampton that had the captains son
on board. Tnis lat tw.cs IN the night
dreamed that taere was crew OF sailors
dying on the CasKets. de told his father OF
his dream The vessel CINE down by tle
Cassets In time to tlnI AMI to rescue those
poor dying men. Who conducted that
dream: The ool Of the rocIs, tho Col OF
the sea.
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell, in his marvellous
book entitled. Mature AMI the Superna.
tural," gives tue rollOwiny fact tnat ne got
from Captain Yount in California, a fac5
confirmed by many sam lies. Captain Hount
dreamed twice one night that $50 mics
away there was a company Of traders fast
in the snow He also saw in the dream roc -
OF peculiar formation. an telling his dream
TO an old hunter the hunter sal, why.
remember those rocSs; those rocks are IN
the Carson Valley pass, $50 miles away"
Captain Yount, impelied by this cream,
although laughed at by his ncighOors
gathered men together, toos mu.es and
blankets and started out on the expedition,
Travelled $50 miles. saw those very rocks
which he had described in his dream and
finding the suffering ones OF tho foot OF
those rccSs brought them back to conur
the story of Captain Yount. Who con-
Quoted that dream The Col Of the snow,
the God Of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams 10 res
cue and comfort. Yon have known people
--perhaps IL is something 1 state in your
own experience-you have seen people go to
sleep with bereavsments irconsolaoie, and
they awakened in perfect resignation be-
cause OF what they had seen III slumber.
Dr. Craunage one Of the most remarkable
men | ever INTERCHANGEABLE for benevo!-
ence and great philanthropies Yelling
ton, England, showed mo house where
the Lord had appeared in wonderful
dream to a poor woman, The woman was
rheumatic, sick, poor to the last point Of
restitution. She was waitel on and cared
for by another poor woman, her only at
tendant
Word came to her one day that this poor
woman had died, AMI the invalid Of who /
am speaking lay helpless uOon the c0uci
wondering what would become OF her. In
that MOOD she fell asleep. In her dreams
she said tho angel OF the Lori appeared and
took her into the open air and pointe in
one direction, and there were mountains 0;
bread, and pointed in another direction, an
there were mountains o. butter, AMI in an
other direction. and there were mountains
OF all kinds OF worldly suoD,y. The angel
OF the Lord said 10 her woman, all these
mountains belong to your Father, and do
you think that He will lei you, His child,
hunger and diey"
DIR. Crannage told me by soma divine i'm
pulse he went into that destituts home, saw
the suffering there and administered unto
1t, caring for her all tho way through. Do
you tell me that that dream was woven out
of earthly anodyneSg Was that the phau-
tasmagoria OF diseased braius No, it was
an all sympathetic God addressing a poor
woman through dream.
Furthermore, have to say that there are
people in this house who were converted to
God through a dream. The Rev. John
Newton, the fame Of whose pisty fills all
Christendom, while a prohigate sailor on
shipboard. in his dream, thought that a be.
ing approached him aud gave him very
beautiful ring aud put it upon his finger AMI
said 70 him, "As long as you wear that ring
you will be prospere I. IL YOU lose that RAG,