The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-03-31
hty 10 he an echo Of our waking thoughts,

take a very logical mind to argue tina
out Tertullian and Martin Luthe
believed in dreams The dreams o
John IIuss are immortal St Angus
tine, the Christian father. gives as tn
fact that a Carthagenian physician wa
persuaded OF the Immortality OF tn
soul 10y an argument which he heard II
a dream. The night before his assas
s'vStion the wife OF julius C@sal
dreamed that her husband fell deal
across her lap. IA = possible TO prov
that God appears in dreams TO warn. u
convert and TO save men. My friend. 4
retired sea captain and Chyistiao
tells me that one night yhile o$tKs
sea no dreamed that q ships .rt
we're in great suffering waki.As/
feom his dream he put sbqa2 ..;s7s ~
lacked IN different directions' sdfpf4sed
every body on the vessel-they thought
he was going crazy-sailed on in an.
other direction honr after hour. and for
many .ours until he came 10 the perish.
ing crew and rescued them and brought
them 10 New York Who conducted
that dream2 The God OF the sea
In 1895 vessel went out from Spit
head for West India, aud ran against
the ledge Of rocks called the Caskets
The vessel went down, but the crew
clambered up on the Baskets, To die o.
thirst or starvation, as they supposed
But there was ship bound for south.
that had the captains son on
board. This lad twice in one night
dreamed that there was a crew of sail
ors dying on the Baskets. lie told his
father OF his dream The yesse. came
down by the Baskets in time to find and
10 rescue those poor dying men. Who
that dream? The God of the
rocks, the God of the sea
Rev. DIR. Bushnell, in his marvellous
book, entitled Mature and the Super.
natural gives the following fact that
he got from Capt Yount in California,
\ fact confirmed by many families:
-aIt lount dreamed twici one night
hat $50 mNe- aw-y tlert vas com
parry - tr.ve.ers fast in the snow. lie
{ 80 saw in the dream rocks of peculiar
and, telling his dream 10 an
I'D hunter, said: "Why, ! remember
hose rocks; those rocks are In the Car.
ON valley pass, $50 miles away" Capt
tount impclleG by this dream, al |
hough laughed at by his neighbors,
-athered men together, took mules and |
blankets and started out on the cxpedi- |
ion, Travelled l5J miles, saw those very |
ocks which he had described in his |
ream, and finding the suffering ones
{ the foot OF these rocks, brought them
ack TO confirm the story of Capt
cunt Who conducted that drearnp
he God Of the snow, the God OF the
Terra Nevadas
God has often appeared in dreams 70
escuc aud comfort You have known
perhaps 1t i something | state
n your own eNperience-you have seen
eople go to sleep with bereavements
and they awalsenea an
erfect resignation because of what
hey had seen in slumber DIR. Gran
age, one of the most remarka blc mea
ever met-remarkablc for benevoence
nd great philanthropes--at yelling.
IN, Eng, showed me house whcrr {
he Lord had appeared in a wonderful,
ream to poor woman. The woman
As rheumatic, sick, poor to the last
pint of restitution. She was waited
D and cared for by another poor WON
4, her only attendant Word came 10
ar one day that this poor woman had
ed, and the invalid of whom | am
'eaking lay helpless upon the
'uch, wondering what would be.
me OF her. In. that mood she
II asleep. In her dreams she said
e angel of the Lord appeared and
ok her into the open air and pointed
one direction, and there were !.
of bread, and pointed in an.
her direction and there were mount
ms of butter, and in another direction
III there were mountains of all kinds
worldly supplies. The angel Of the
ord said to her; Woman, all these :
ountains belong to your Father, and
you think that lie will let you, His
lid, hunger and die?" DIR. Crannare /,
Id me by some divine impulse he :
INT into that destitute home, saw the !,
Hcring there and administered unto
caring for her all the way through.
, you tell me that dream was woven
Of earthly anodynesP Was that the :
of diseased brain2 ,
,, 1t was an all-sympathetic God ad. '
essing poor woman through -
cam
have TO say that there u
e people in this house who were CON v
rtcd 10 God through n dream. The y
w. John Newton, the fame of whose !,
ETY. fills all Christendom, while 1t
otligate sailor on shipboard. in hi, r,
cam, gave him very beautiful ring. =,
d put II upon his finger, and said 10 !
N: AS long as you wear that ring " "
u will be prospered; il you lose tina, 4
Y you will be ruined" o'
IN the same dream another parsonage !"
peared, and 10y a strange infatuation =!
John Newton to throw that
x overheard, and it sank into the sea
zen the mountains in sight were full ii
fire and the air was lurid with con. DC
ming wrath. While John Newton Ii,
S rcpenting his folly in having N
own overheard the treasure, anoth 20
parsonage came through the dream, ~
1 told John Newton he would ,c
Inge into the sea and bring 20
ring up IL he desired it, lie I,
nged into the sea and brought it up,
| said to John Newton, Here is that
n, but think ! will keep it for you,
you lose IL again" and John New.
consented, and all the fire went out po
IN the mountains and all the signs WI
lurid wrath disappeared from the la
and John Newton said that he saw
his dream that that valuable gem va
) his soul, and that the being who We
suadcd him to throw ii overheard du
) satan, and that the One who big
nged in and restored that gem, Co
ping it for him, was Christ And
I dream makes one of the most Won col
ful chapters in the life Of that most a l
lderful man. pr,
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me and hear the new minister, civ
rles," said his mother-in-lav. No do,