Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-05

torn to pieces by demons from the pit
The scholars dream is a philosophic
echo The poets dream is a rhythmic
echo. Coleridge composed his "Knbla
Khan" asleep in a narcotic dream, and
waking up, wrote down three hundred
lines of it Tartini. the vio.in player,
composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in a dream so vivid, that
waking, he easily transferred it to
paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts. If a 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
a Bible we ought to be sa tisfied not get
ting any further communication from
God, and having shown you that all
dreams have an important mission,
since they show the comparative indie
~pendence Of the soul from the body.
and having shown you that the major
ity 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,
l come now to my fifth and most inn
portant remark, and hat 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 hat make you better are
from God. How do l know 1t? Is not
God the source of all good2 1t does not
take a 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
a ~Carthaginian physician was per-
suaded of the immortality Of the soul
by an argument which he heard in a
dream. The night before his assassina-
ton 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 con-
vert and to save men. My friend, a re-
tired sea captain and a Christian, tells
me that one night while on the sea he
dreamed that a 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 a 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 a ship bound for South
ampton that had the captains son on
board. This lad twice in one night
dreamed that there was a a crew Of
sailors dying on the Caskets He told
his father of his dream The vessel
came down by the Baskets 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
ve'ous 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 n
night that one hundred and fifty miles
away there was a company of travellers
fast in the snow. He also saw in the
dream rocks Of a peculiar formation,
and telling his dream to IN old hunter,
the hunter said: ''Why, / remember
those rocks; those rocks are in the
Ca son Valley Pass. one hundred and
CITY mi es away" Capt. iount, inn
PEELED By this dream. although laughed
1t by his neiQhbors, gathered men TO-
gether, took mules and blankets, and
started out on the expedition, travelled
one hundred and fifty 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 Capt
Yount Who conducted that dream?
The God of the snow. the God of the
Sierra Nevadas
God has often appeared in dreams to
rescue and comfort You nave known
people-perhaps II is something | state
in your experience-you have seen
people go TO sleep with bereavements
inconsolable. and they awakened in
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumber. DIR. Gran
mage. n Of the most remarkable men
[ ever met-remarkable for benevo- !
lence and great philanthropies-at
Wellington. England, showed me a
house where the Lord had appeared in
a wonderful dream to a poor woman.
The wo an was rheum matte, sick, poor.
20 the last point of restitution. She
was waited on and cared for by another /
poor woman. her only attendant.