The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-07

The God of the snow, the God of the
Sierra Nevadas.
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
inconsolable, and they awakened in
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumber.
DIR. Crannage, one of the most re-
markable men l ever met-remarkable
for benevolence and great philanthro-
pies-at Wellington, England, showed
me house where the Lord had APP
peared in a wonderful dream to a poor
woman. The woman was rheumatic,
sick, poor to the last point of destitu-
ton 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 l 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 were mount
aims 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 impulse he went into that desti-
tute 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 out of earthly
anodynes? Was that the phantasma-
goria of diseased brain? No; it was
an all-sympathetic God addressing a
poor woman through dream.
Furthermore, / have to say that there
are people in this house who were con-
verified to God through a dream. Rev.
John Newton, the fame of whose piety
fills all Christendom, while n profligate
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:
''As long as you wear that ring you will
be prospered; if you loose that ring you
will be ruined" In the same dream
another parsonage appeared, and by a
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 consuming wrath. While
John Newton was repenting of his
folly in having thrown overboerd the
treasure, another parsonage came
through the dream and told John New
ton 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
gem. but think | will keep it for you,
lest you lose it again." and John New
ton consented, 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 valuable
gem was his soul, and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it over
board 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 WON
derful chapters in the life of that most
wonderful man.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
ocean. and in his dream he saw a man
with handful of white flowers. and
he was told to follow the man who had
that handful of flowers The German
arriving in New York, wandered into
the Fulton street prayer meeting, and
Mr.. whom many of you know
the great apostle of prayer meetings,
that day had given to him bunch of
tube-roses. They stood on his desk,
and at the close of the religious service
he took the tube-roses and started |
homeward, and the German followed |
him, and through an interpreter told |
Mr.. Lamphier that on the sea he had |
dreamed of man with a handful of |
white flowers and was told to follow !
him. Suffice it to say, through that in |
terview and following interviews, he |
became Christian, and is a city mis-
sionary preaching the gospel to his own |
countrymen God in a dream!
John HardoclS, while on shipboard, !
dreamed one night that the day of |
Judgment 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 to give him more opportunity for !
He woke up a different |
man. He became illustrious for Chris !
tian attainment If you do not believe |
these things, then you must discard all |
testimony, and refuse to accept any |
kind of authoritative witness God in |
a dream!
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted /
to God through a 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 1
of judgment which shall be the wind |
ing up of the worlds history. If you
have not dreamed of it, perhaps to-
night 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 excitement, for |
the mountains shall fall. Enough |
water, for the ocean shall roar
Enough astronomical phenomena, for
the stars shall go out Enough popu-
lations, for all the races of all the ages
will fall into line of one of two process
sions, the one ascending and the other |