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

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fore the battle of Bosworth Field dreamed
that all those whom he had murdered
stared at him, and that he was torn to
pieces by demons from the pit. The
scholars dream is philosophic echo.
| The poets dream is Rhythmic echo.
Coleridge composed his "Kubla Khan"
asleep in narcotic dream, and waking
up wrote down 800 lines of it. Tartinl,
the violin player, composed his most
| wonderful sonata while asleep in dream
SO vivid that waking he easily transferred
it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo IN
sleeping thoughts. If a man spends his
life in trying to make others happy and
| is heavenly minded, around his pillow
| he will see cripples who have got over
| their crutch and professions of celestial
imperials and hear the grand march
roll down from drums of heaven over
Jasper parapets. You are very apt to
hear in dreams what you hear when you
are wide awake.
Now, having shown you that having
Bible we ought to be satisfied not get
ting any further communication from
| God, and having shown you that all
dreams have an important mission, since
| they show the comparative independence
of the soul from the body, and having
shown you that the majority of dreams
are result of disturbed physical condi-
ton, and having shown you that our
sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo
Of our waking thoughts, come now to
| my fifth and most important remark,
and that is to say that tits capable of proof
that God does sometimes in our day, and
has often since the close of the Bible dis
pensation, appeared to people in dreams.
THE PURE IN HEART DREAM AS THEY THINK.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do know it? Is not
| God the source of all good? It does not
take very logical mind to argue that
out. Tertullian and Martin Luther be-
| lieved in dreams The dreams Of John
Huss are immortal st. Augustine, the
| Christian father, gives us the fact that
Carthaginian physician was persuaded
| Of the immortality of the soul by an ar
| gument which he heard in dresm. The
night before his assassination the wife Of
| julius Casf 4 lreamed that her husband
fell dead ACROSS her lap. It is possible to
prove that God does appear in dreams to
warn, to convert and to- save men.
/ My friend, a retired sea captain and
| Christian, tells me that one night while
on the sea he 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 thought
he was going crazy-sailed on in another
| direction hour after hour, and for many
| hours until he came to the perishing
crew and rescued them and brought
| them to New York. Who conducted
| that dream? The God of the sea.
In 1896 a vessel went out from Spit
head for the West Indies and ran against
the ledge of rocks called the Caskots.
| The vessel went down, but the crew
clambered up on the Caskets, to die of
starvation, as they supposed. But there
was a ship bound for Southampton that
had the captains son on board. This
lad twice in one night dreamed that
| there was crew Of sailors dying on the
| Baskets. He told his father of his dreall.
i The vessel came down by the Caskets in
time to find and to rescue those poor
/ dying men. Who conducted that dream?
The God of the rocks, the God Of the sea.
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell, in his marvel
| GUS book entitled Mature and the SUI
pernatural," gives the following fact
that he got from Captain Yount in Cal
ifornia, a fact confirmed by many FAM
4 lies. Captain Yount dreamed twice
one night that $50 miles away there was
company of travellers fast in the snow.
He also saw in the dream rocks of pecul-
lar formation, and telling his dream to
an old hunter the hunter said, "Why,
remember those rocks; those rocks are
in the Carson Valley pass, 150 miles
away"
Captain Yount, impelled by Thu
dream, although laughed at by his neigh
bors, gathered men together, took mules
and blankets and started out on the ex-
petition, Travelled $50 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 conducted that dreami
The God Of the snow, the God Of the
Sierra Nevadas
HELP SENT BY DREAMS.
God has often appeared in dreams to
rescue and comfort. You have known
people-perhaps it is something state
in your own experience have seen
people go to sleep with bereavements in
consolable, and they awakened in per-
feet resignation because of what they
had seen in slumber. DIR. Crannage, one
of the most remarkable men ever met
remarkable for benevolence and great
philanthropies Wellington, England,
showed me house where the Lord had
appeared in wonderful dream to poor
woman. The woman was rheumatic,
sick, poor to the last point Of restitution.
She was waited on and cared for by an
other poor woman, her only attendant.
| Word came to her one day that this
poor woman had died, and the invalid of