The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-03-29

torn to pieces by demons from Che 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 three hundred
lines of it Tartini, the violin player,
composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in dream so vivid, that
waking, he easily transferred 1t to
paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts. II 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 sa tisfed not get
ting any further communication from
God, and having shown you that all
dreams have an important mission,
since they show the comparative inde-
pendence Of the soul from the body,
and having shown you that the major
ity Of dreams are result of disturbed
physical condition, 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 inn
portant remark, and that Is to say that
it is capable Of proof that God does
sometimes in our day, and has often
since the close Of the Bible dispense
ton, appeared to people in dreams
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do l know it? Is not
God the source Of all good? 1t 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 per-
suaded of the immortality Of the soul
by an argument which he heard in
dream. The night before his assassina-
ton the wife of julius Cesar dreamed
that her husband fell dead across her
lap It is possible to prove that God
does appear in dreams to warn, to con-
vert and to save men. My friend, re-
tired sea captain and Christian, tells
me that one night while on the sea he
dreamed that ships crew were In
great suffering. Waking up from his
dream, he put about the ship, tackled in
different directions, surprised every
body 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 1895 vessel went out from Spit
head for West India. and ran against
the ledge Of rocks called the Caskets.
The vessel went down, but the crew
clambered up on the Caskets, to die Of
thirst or starvation, as they supposed.
But there was ship bound for South
ampton that had the captains son on
hoard. This lad twice in one night
dreamed that there was o a crew OF
sailors dying on the Caskets He told
his father OF his dream. The vessel
came down by the Caskets in time to
find and TO rescue those dying men
Who conducted that dream? The God
of the rocks, the God of the sea.
The Rev. DIR. Bushnell, in his mar
velous book, entitled, Mature and the
Supernatural" gives the following fact
that he got from Capt Yount in Cali.
fornia, a fact confirmed by many fam
lilies: Capt. Yount dreamed twice one
night that one hundred and fifty miles
away there was company Of travellers
fast in the snow. He also saw In the
dream rocks Of peculiar formation,
and telling his dream TO an old hunter
the hunter said: "Why, remember
those rocks; those rocks are In the
Carson Valley Pass, one hundred ant
fifty miles away" Capt Yount i'm
PEELED by this dream, although laughed
at by his neighbors, gathered men TO
gether, took mules and blankets, ant
started out on the expedition, traveleC
one hundred and fifty miles, saw thos,
very rocks which he had described II
his dream, and finding the suffering
ones at the foot OF those rocks brough
them back to confirm the story Of Capt
Yount Who conducted that dream
The God Of the snow, the God OF tn,
Sierra Nevadas
God has often appeared in dreams h
rescue and comfort You have know
people-perhaps 1t is something stat
In your own experience-you have seei
people go to sleep with bereavement
inconsolabie, and they awakened Il
perfect resignation because Of wha
thew had seen In slumber. DIR. Gran
, mage, one Of the most remarkable mel
, l ever met-remarkable for benevc
/ lence and great philanthropies-A
Wellington, England, showed me
house where the Lord had appeared Il
wonderful dream TO q poor woman
; The woman was rheu matte, sick, poor
10 the last point Of destitution. Sh
, was waited on and cared for by anothe
: poor woman, her only attendant
r Word came TO her one day that thi
poor woman had died, and tn
invalid Of whom am speaking
! lay helpless upon the couch, won
dering what would become G
! her. In that mood she fel
asleep In her sleep she said the Ange
Of the Lord appeared and took her int