Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-30

| thc SEA hc dreamed that ships crew were
| in grea' suffering. Waking up from his
| dream, he put about the ship, tackled in diff
ferent directions, surprised everybody on
| the vessel-they thought he was going
| crazy-s:liled 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.
| RESCUED BY MEANs or DREAMS.
In 1905 a vessel went out from Spithead for
| the West Indies and ran against the ledge of
| rocks called the Caskcts. The vessel went
down, but the crew Clambercd up on the
Baskets to die Thirst or starvation, as they
supposed. But there was ship bound for
| southampton that had the captains son on
board. This lad twice in one night dreamed
that there was a crew of sailors dying on the
Caskcts. lie told his father of his dream.
The vessel came down by the Baskets in
time to find and to rescue those poor dying
men. Who conducted that dream? The
| God of the rocks, the God of the sea.
The Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in his marvellous
book entitled Mature and the Supernat-
ural," 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 $50
miles away there was company of travel
ers fast in the snow. He also saw in the
dream rocks of peculiar formation and tell
ing his dream to an old hunter the hunter
said; why, remember those rocks. Those
rocks are in the Carson Valley pass, $50
miles away"
Captain Yount, impelled by this dream,
although laughed at by his neighbors, gath
cred men together, took mules and blan-
kets and started out on the expedition,
Travelled $50 miles, saw those very rocks
which he had described in his dream, and
finding the suffering ones Mt the foot of
those rocks brought them back to confirm
the story of Captain Yount Who CON
Quoted that dream? The God Of the snow,
the God of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams to res
cue and comfort. You have known people
perhaps it is something / state in your
own eXperience-you have seen people 90
to sleep with bereavcments inconsolable,
and they awakened in perfect resignation
because of what they had seen in slumber.
DIR. Crannage, one of the most remarkable
| men ] ever lnet-remarkable for beneVo-
lencc and great philanthrOpies-a Yelling
ton, England, showed me Il house where
the Lord / nd appeared in a wonderful
dream to a 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 to 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 in
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 We're mountains
, of all kinds of worldly supply. The angel
of the Lord said to her, Woman, all these
, mountains belong to your Father, and do
you think that he will let you, his child,
hunger and die"
DR.. Crannage told me that by some di-
vine impulse he went into that destitute
home, saw the suffering there and admin
istered unto it, caring for her all the way
through. Do you tell me that that dream
was woven out of earthly anodynes? Was
! that the phantasmagoria of a diseased
! brain? No, it was au all sympathetic God
: addressing poor woman through a dream.
. TIE DREAM OF JOHN NEWTON.
o Furthermore, | 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 pie Y
: fills all Christendon, while prolligate sail
: or on shipboard, in his dream thought that
n being approached him and gave him
c very beautiful ring and put it upon his
!, finger and said to him, AS long as 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 a strange infatuation per
II | suaded John Newton to throw that ring
overheard, and it sank into the sea. Then
Il the mountains in sight were full of fire, and
i the air was lurid with consuming wrath.
n While John Newton was repenting of hi.
p, folly in having thrown overheard the treas
q ure another parsonage came through the
t dream and told John Newton he would
n plunge into the sea and bring the ring uI
i if he desired it.
/. He plunged into the sea and brought il
up and said to John Newton, Here is that
gem, but think ] will keep il for you, lest
= you lose it again" and John Newton CON
1 sented, and all the fire went out from the
: mountains and all the signs of lurid wrat Ii
+ disappeared from the air, and John Newton
@ said that he saw in his dream that that val
q liable gem was his soul, and that the being
Il who persuaded him TO throw it overheard
n was satan, and that the one who plunged
/ in and restored that gem, keeping it ion
a 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 i'll his dream he saw a man with
n a handful of white flowers and he was told
;; to follow the man who had that handful oil
white flowers. The German arriving in
n New York, wandered into the Fulton street
e prayer meeting, and Mr.. phier-whou
: many of you know-the great apostle OF
II prayer meetings, that day had given to hin
!. n bunch of tuberos-s. They stood on hi,
d desk, and at the close of the religious serv
5 ices he took the tuberoses and started home
e ward, and the German followed him, and
r through an Interpreter told Mr.. Lamphiel
that on the he had dreamed of IA mar
u with a handful of white flowers and was told
:, to follow him. Suffice it to say, through
d that interview and following interviews he
Il became aGhristian and is a city missionary
e preaching the gospel to his own countrymeu
II God in dream!