Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1893-04-14

uiOEe, nave 10 say CNaC there ar3
people IN this house who were converted to
God through dream. The Raw. John
Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all
Christendom, while prohieate sailor ON
sh1pboard. in his dream, thou yht that a bs.
ing approached him and gave him a very
beautiful ring and put it upon his finger and
said to him, "As long as you wear that ring
you will be prospered; if you lose that ring,
you will be ruined. .
In che same dream another parsonage APP
peared, and by strange infatuation per-
suaded John Newton to throw that ring
overheard, and it sank into tho ssa. Then
the mountains in sight were full of fire.
and the air was lurid with consuming
wrath. While John Newton was repenting
of his folly in having thrown overheard tbs
tire isure, another parsonage 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. 'sHere is that
gem, but think will keep it for you. lest
you lose it again. and John Newton con-
sented 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 valu-
able gem was his soul, and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it overheard
was Satan, and that the one VINO plunged in
and restored that gen. keeping it tor 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
white flowers. Tie German, arriving in
New York, wandered into the Fulton street
prayer meeting, and Dir. Lamphier -whom
many OF you know-the great apostle of
r,ra mo- mi Iau baH Or n
bunch of tubersses.
They stood on his desk, and at the close
Of the religious services he took the tuoe-
roses and staFtsd homeward, and the Ger
man followed him, and through an inter-
prefer told Mr.. Lamphier that on the sea he
had dreamed Of man with a handful OF
white flowers and was told to follow him.
Suffice it to say, through that interview and
following interviews he became a Christian
and is a city missionary preaching the Gospel
to his own countrymen. God in dreami
Jchn Hardock, while On shipboard.
drea ned one night 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, ana
he was told it was to give him more oppor-
tunity for repentance. He woke up diff
ferent man. He became ilLustrious for
Christian attainment. Ii you do not bellows
these things, then you must discard all tes-
timony and refuse to accept any KING OF au-
| thoritatiye witness. Goain a dreamt
| Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
| God through dream Of the last Judgment
| and doubt if there is a man or woman In
| this house to-day that has not had soma
dream Of that great day OF Judgment which
| shall be the winding up OF the worlds his
| tory, Ii you have not dreamed of it, per-
! L, 10 iohf w ma
| There are enough materials to make d
dream, Enough voices. for there snail be
/ the roaring OF the elements and the great
earthquake. Enough light for the dream.
for the world shall blazs Enough excite
| Iment, for the mountains shall fall Enough
| water. for the ocean stall roar. Enough
astronomical phenomena, for the stars shall
go out. Enough populations, for all the
races of all the ages will fall into line OF one
of two professions, and 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, an1 ! sa6
the Ii ,htnings from above ans Tering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath, and
hear the long reverberating thunders that
shall wake up the dead, AMI on ons side
see the opening OF gate into scenes golden
and amethystine and on the other side
hear the changing back of gate into has
tiles of eternal bondage, aud all the seas
Ito Judgment and all the voices of tn
heaven cry, "Come to ju lgmentp ant
lcrumbiing mausoleum and WestminsteI
abbeys and pyramids of tho dead with mar
BILE voices cry, Come to judgmentw
And the archangel selass an Instrument 0
music which has never yet been sounded, al
instrument of music that was made only TO
one sound, and thrusting that might
trumpet through the chou is and turning
this way he shall put It 20 his lip anu Dios
the long. loud blast that shalt make 60
solid eartn quiver, crying, Come to Judg
ment."
Then from this earthly grjssncss quit,
Ate;red in ssars we shall forsvef SIT