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naded .Inhn Eazzton To throw that ring

Sudd0d JOhn Newton 70 thro" GQaI rluS
overheard, and 1t 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 repeating
of his folly in having thrown overheard the
treasure, another parsonage came through
the dream and told John Newton he would
plunge into the sea and bring the ring up IL
he desired it.
He plunged into the sea and brought it up
and said to John Newton, "Here ID that
gem, but think will keep it for you, lest
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 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 Atlantlo
ocean, and in his dream he saw man with
a handful of white flowers and he was told
to follow the man who had that handful OF
white flowers. The German, arriving In
New York, wandered into the Fulton street
prayer meeting, and MIR. Lamphier1whom
many OF you know-the great apostle o1
prayer meetings that day had given to him
q bunch Of tuberoses.
They stood on his desk, and at the close
of the religious services he took the tuoe-
roses and startsd homeward, and the ier-
man followed him, and through an inter-
spreter told Mr.. Lsmphier that on the sea ne
had dreamed OF man with handful or
white flowers and was told to follow him:
Suffice it to say, through that interview and
following interviews he became Christian
and is city missionary preaching the Gospel
to his own countrymen. God in dream!
John Hardock, while Oh 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 10 give him more oppor-
tunity for repentance. he woke up dlf-
ferent man. He became illustrious for
Christian attainment. II you 40 not Deiieve
these things, then you must discard all tes'
timony and refuse to accept any kind OF au-
thoritative witness. God in dreaml
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through dream OF the last judgment,
and doubt if there is man or woman In
this house to-day 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
earthquake. Enough light for the dream,
for the world shall blaze. Enough excite.
ment, for the mountains shall fall. Enough
water, for the ocean shall roar. Enough
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20 out. Enough populations, for oil the
races Of all the ages will fall into line OF one
of two professions, and the ono ascending
and the other descending, the one led on by
the rider on the white horse OF eternal
victory, the other led on by Aponyon on
the black charger Of eternal defeat.
The dream comes on me now, and zee
the Ii iyhtnings from above answering tho
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
bear tho Changing back OF gate into bas-
tiles of eternal bondage aud all the seas,
to. j1dgmentw and all the voices Of the
heaven cry, "Coms to judgmentw and
crumbling mausoleum and Westminster
abbeys and pyramids Of the dead with mar
BILE voices cry, Come to judgmentp .
And the archangel seizes an instrument OF
music which has never yet been sounded, an
instrument Of music that was made oaly for
one sound, and thrusting that mighty
trumpet through the clou Is and turning it
this way he shall put it to his lip aud blow
the long. loud blast that shall make the
solid earth quiver, crying, "Come to 1udg-
ment"
Then from this earthly grossnoss quit,
Attlred IN stars we shall forever ss