The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-29


kets, 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 dreamf The God of the snow,
the God of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams 20 res
cue and comfort. You have known people
perhaps IL Is something / state in your
own experience-you have seen people &C
10 sleep with bereavements inconsolable,
and they awakened in perfect resignation
because of what they had seen in slumber.
Dr. Crannage, one Of the most remarkable
men | ever understandable for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-a yelling
ton, England, showed me q house where
the Lord had appeared in n 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 another poor woman, her only at
tendant
Word came 10 her one day that this poor
woman had died, and the invalid of whom
am speaking lay helpless upon the couch
wondering what would become OF her In
that mood she fell asleep. In her dreams
she said the angel OF the Lord appeared and
took her into the open air and pointed an
one direction, and there were mountains OF
bread, and pointed in another direction, and
there were mountains Of butter and in an
other direction and there were mountains
of all kinds of worldly supply The angel
of the Lord said TO her, Woman. all these
mountains belong TO your Father, and dc
you think that he will let you, his child,
hunger and dicy"
Dr (-raunafre told ma fhnt nv eor,o III
vine impulse he went into that destitute
home, saw the suffering there and admin.
istered unto il, caring for her all the way
through. Do you tell me that that dream
was woven out of earthly anodynesy Was
that the phantasmagoria OF a diseased
brain' No, II was an all sympathetic God
addressing poor woman through dream.
THE DREAM OF JOHN NEWTON.
Furthermore, i have to say that there
are people IN this house who were convert
ed to God through dream. The Rev.
John Newton, the fame of whose piety
fills all Christendon, while profigate sail
or on shipboard, in bis dream thought that
a being approached him and gave him
very beautiful ring and put it upon his
finger and said to him, "As long "a you
wear that ring you will be prospered; if
you lose that ring, you will be ruined. "
In the same dream another parsonage ap-
peared, and by strange infatuation per
suaded John Newton to throw that ring
overheard and it sank into the sea. 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 the treas
ure 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 II
up and said to John Newton, Here is that
gem, but think | will keep il for you, lest
you lose IL again" and John Newton con-
scented, 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 val
liable gem was his soul, and that the being
who persuaded him TO throw it overheard
was satan, and that the one who plunged
in and restored that gem, keeping it for
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 man with
a handful of white flowers, and be was told
10 follow the man who had that handful Of
New York, wandered into the Fulton street
prayer meeting, and Mr. Lamphier-whom
many Of you know-the great apostle of
prayer meetings, that day had given to him
a bunch Of tUberoses. They stood on his
desk. and ut the close Of the religious serv-
ices he took the tuberoses and started home
ward. and the German followed him, and
through an interpreter told Mr. Lamphier
that on the sea he had dreamed of a man
with handful of white flowers and was told
to follow him. Suffice it to say, through
that interview and following interviews he
became Christian and is a city missionary
preaching the gospel to his own countrymen.
God in "A dreaml
John Hardock while on shipboard
dreamed 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 and he was told it was to give
him more opportunity for repentance. lie
woke up a different man. He became IL
lustrious for Christian attainment Ii you
do not believe these things, then you must
discard all testimony and refuse to accept
any kind of authoritative witness. God In
in a dreami
CONVERTED THROUGH DRFAAf.
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 today that has not had some
dream of that great day of judgment which
shall be the winding up of the worlds his
tory. If YOU have not dreamed Of it. per
haps tonight you may dream Of that day.
There are enough materials to make
dream. Enough voices, for there shall be
the roaring Of the elements and the great
SarUnquaEe. Enough ngnJ Tor the dream,
for the world shall blaze. Enough excite
ment, for the mountains shall fall Enough
water, for the ocean shall roar Enough as
Economical 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 processions-the one ascending,
the other descending; the one led by the
rider on tho white horse of eternal victory,
the other led on by Apollyon on the black
charger of eternal defeat.
The dream comes on me now, and see
tho lightnings from above answering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath. and
hear the long, reverberating thunders that
shall wake up the dead, and on one side
see the opening of gate into scenes golden
and amethystine, and on the other side l
hear the Changing back of gate into bas-
tiles Of eternal bondage, and all the seas,
lifting up their crystal voices, cry, "Come
to Judgment and all the voices of the
heaven cry, Come to Judgment" and
crumbling mausoleum and Westminster
abbeys and pyramids of the dead with
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