Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-04-07

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The Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in bis marvellous
| book entitled, Mature ami tue Superla-
: tural, gives tue following fact taas .Ie gos
| from Captain Youut in Caifornla a fac.
| confirmed by many families. Captain You1s
dreamed twice one night that $50 mics
away there was )mpany or traders tas5
IN the snow. He also Sa W In the dream roc
| OF peculiar formation. an 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 cream.
| although laughed at by hls neighbors
gathered men together, took mues and
| blankets and started out on the expedition,
| travelled l5O miles. saw those very ROCKS
| which he had described in his dream, and
| those rocks brought them back TO confr n
the story of Captain Eount. Who con-
Quoted that dream? The Col 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 go to
sleep with bereavements incOnsolaDIe, and
they awakened In perfect resignation be-
cause of what they had seen IN slumber.
Dr. Crannage, one OF the most remarkable
men l ever met-remarkabie for benevo!-
i ence and great philanthropies-at Yelling
ton, England. showed me house where
the Lord had appeared in a wonderful
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
nd foin ~
| 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 do
you think that He will let you, His child,
hunger and die?"
DIR. Crannage told me by some divine i'm
pulse be went into that destitute home saw
the suffering there and administered unto
1t. caring for her all the way through. Do
you tell me that that dream was woven out
Of earthly anodynes? Was that the phau-
tasmagoria Of diseased brain? No. it was
an all sympathetic God addressing a poor
woman through dream.
Furthermore, have to say that there
people in this house who were converted to
God through a dream. The Rev. John
Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all
Christendom. while a profigate sailor on
shlpboard, in his dream, thought that a be-
ing approached him and gave him very
beautiful ring and put it upon his finger and
said to him, GAS long 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
treasure, 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 it up
and said to John Newton. Here is that
gen. but think / will keep it for you. lest
you lose it again." and John Newton con.
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 VINO 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
q handful of white flowers, and he was told
to follow the man who had that handful of
white flowers. The German, arriving in
new 4Ofk, wandered lnCO the FulCOn SCroeU
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 at the close
of the religious services he took the tube
roses and started homeward, and the Ger.
man followed him, and through an inter-
prefer told Mr.. Larnphier that on the sea lie
had dreamed Of a man with a 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 city missionary preaching the Gospel
to his own countrymen. God in 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,
banished, and in his dream he asked the
reader why his own lame was omitted, and
he was told it was to give him more oppor-
tunity for repentance. He woke up diff
ferent man. He became ilustrous for
Christian attainment. If you do not believe
these things, then you must discard all tes-
timOny and refuse to accept any kind Of au- J
thoritative witness. Godin dream!
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through dream of the last judgment,
and l doubt if there is a 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 a
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 |