Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-01

are wide awake.

ting any further communication from
God, and having shown you that all
dreams have an important mission, since
they show the comparative independence
of the soul from the body, and having
shown you that the majority of dreams
are result of disturbed physical condi-
ton, and having shown you that our
sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo
Of our waking thoughts, come now to
my fifth and most important remark,
and that is to say that tits capable of proof
that God does sometimes in our day, and
has often since the close of the Bible dis
pensation. appeared to people in dreams.
THE PURE IN HEART DREAM AS THEY THINK.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do I know it2 Is not
God the source of all good? 1t does not
take very logical mind to argue that
out. Tertullian and Martin Luther be-
heved in dreams. The dreams Of John
Huss are immortal St. Augustine, the
Christian father, gives US the fact that q
Carthaginian physician was persuaded
Of the immortality of the soul by an ar
| gument which he heard in dream. The
night before his assassination the wife Of
Julius Caesar dreN,ned that her husband
fell dead across her lap. It is possibleto
prove that God does appear in dreams to
warn, to convert Gnd to save men.
My friend, retired sea captain and O
Christian. tolls me that one night while
on the sea he dreamed that ships crew
were in great suffering. Waking up
from his dresm, he put about the ship.
tackled in different directions, surprised
everybody 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
y crew and rescued them and brought
them to N, York Who conducted
! that dream? The God of the sea.
In 1896 a vessel went out from Spit
head for the " est Indies and ran against
the ledge Of rocks called the Caskets.
The vessel went down, but the crew
clalnbered up on the Caskets to die Of
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 crew of sailors dying on the
Baskets. He TOLD his father of his dream.
The vessel came down by the Caskets 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 marvel
GUS book entitled Mature and the Su-
pernatural," gives the following fact
that he got from Captain Yount in Cal
ifornia, q fact confirmed by many fam
lilies. Captain Yount dreamed twice
one night that $50 miles away there was
company of travellers fast in the snow.
He also saw In the dream rocks of pecul-
lar formation, and telling his dream to
an old hunter the hunter said, "Why, l
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 neigh
bors, gathered men together, took mules
and blankets and started out on the ex-
petition, Travelled $50 miles, saw those
very rocks which he had described in his
dream, d1d finding the suffering ones at
the foot of those rocks brought them
back to confirm tile story of Captain
Yount. Who conducted that dream?
The God of the snow. the God Of the
Sierra Nevadas.
| HELP SENT BY DREAMS,
God has often appeared in dreams to
| rescue and comfort. You have known
people-perhaps it is something state
In your own experience-you have seen
people go to sleep with bereavements in
consolablc, and they awakened in per-
feet resignation because Of what they
had seen in slumber. DR.. Crannage, one
Of the most remarkable men ever met
remarkable for benevolence and great
philanthropics-at Wellington, England,
showed me house where the Lord had
appeared in 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 an
other poor woman, her only attendant.
Word came to her one day that this
poor woman had died, and the invalid of
whom I am speaking lay helpless upon
the couch wondering what would be-
come 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 direc-
ton, and there were mountains of
bread, and pointed in another direction,
and there were mountains of butter, and
inanother direction, and there were noun
tains of all kinds of worldly supply. The
angel Of the Lord said to her, Woman,
all these mountains belong to your Fa-
Their, and do you think that he will let
you, his child, hunger and die"
DR.. Crannage told me by some divine
impulse he went into that destitute home,
saw the suffering there and administered
unto it, caring for her all the way
through. Do you tell me that that dream
was woven but Of earthly anodynes? Was
that the phantasmagoria of diseased
brain? No, it was an all sympathetic
God addressing poor woman througha
dream.
Furthermore, have to say that there
are people in this house who were con-
verified to God through a dream. The
Rev. John Newton, the fame Of whose
piety fills all Christendom, while a prof
ligate sailor on shipboard, in his dream,
thought that being approached him
and gave him very beautiful ring and
put it upon his finger and said to him,
GAS 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
appeared, ind by strange infatuation
persuaded 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 consum-