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

| BoSWorGh fIel0, dreamed CnaC all GhoSe 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 a Rhythmic echo Cole.
ridge composed his ssKubla Khan asleep in
narcotic dream, and waking up wrote
down 800 lines of it. Tartini, the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in dream so vivid that wax
ing he easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in Sleep
ing thoughts. lie man spends his life in
trying to make Others happy and is heavenly
minded, around his pillow he will see Grip.
Piles wac have got over their crutca aud
proc assons of..celestlal. perials and hear tha
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 a
Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting
any further communication from Col, and
having shown you that all dreams have an
Important mission, since they snow the com
parative Independence OF tn soul from the
body, and having shown you that the ma
jority Of dreams are a 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 AMI most important remark.
and that is to say that it is capable OF prooti
has often since the close of the Bible dispen-
sation, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are from
God. How do know it? Is not God the
source of all goodf 1t does not take very
logical mind to argue that out. Tertullian
and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The
dreams of John Huss ara immortal. ST.
Augustine, thu Christian father, gives us
the fact that Carthaginiau physician was
persuaded of the Immortality of the soul by
an argument which he heard in q drea II.
The night before his assassination the wife
of Julius Cesar dreamed that her husband
fell dead across her lap 1t is possible to
prove that God does appear in dreams to
warn, to convert an | TO save men.
Aiy friend, a retired sea captain and a
Christian, tells me that one night while on
the sea he had dreamed that 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 gong crazy
I-sailea'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 conduct
ed that cream? Tho God of the sea.
In 1896 vessel went out from Spithead
for the West Indisz and ran against the
ledge of rocks called the Baskets. The vessel
went down. bit the crew clambered up on
81 ;.slsets to dis of sfaryatien, as they
supposed. But there was a ship bound for
Southampton that had the captains son
ON board. This lad twice in the night
dreamed that tnere was crew or sailors
dying on the Caskets. He told his father OF
his dream. The vessel csne 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 Goi Of
the sea.
The Rev. DIR. Bushnell, in his marvellous
hook entitled, Mature and the Supsrna-
tural,n gives the following fact that he got
from Captain Yount in California, a fact
confirmed by many families. Captain Yount
dreamed twice one night that 100 miles
away Shere was company OF traders fass
in the snow He also saw in the dream ROCKS
OF peculiar formation. AMI telling his dream
to an old hunter the hunter sad, why. l
remember those rocks; those rocks are III
the Carson Valley pass, $50 miles away"
Captain Yount, impeiled by this dream,
although laughed at by his neighbors,
gathered men together, took mules and
blankets aud started out on the expedition,
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 CON
Quoted that dreame The God OF the snow
tho God of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared IN dreams to res
cue and comfort You have known people
--perhaps it is something l state in YOU
own experience-you have seen people so e
| sleep with bereavements inconsolable, anc
they awakened in perfect resignation pe
cause Of what they had seen III slumber
DR.. Crannage. one of the most remarkable
| men / ever met-remarkable for benevol
ence and great philanthropies- Wolling
! ton. England. showed me house wner
| the Lord had appeared in wonderful
dream to a poor woman. Tho woman wa
| rheumatic, sick, poor to the last point G
restitution. She was waited on and care
for by another poor woman, her only al
tendant
Word came to her one day that this poo
woman had died. and the invalid of whom
am speaking lay helpless upon the couel
wondering what would become OF her. /
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