Connecticut western news., 1893-03-30


 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 dreamp The God of the sea.
 In 1895 vessel went out from Spit head for the West Indies and ran against the ledge of rocks called the Baskets. The vessel went down, but the crew clambered up on the Baskets to die 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 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 marvel ous book entitled Mature and the Su- pernatural," gives the following fact that he got from Captain Yount in Cal ifornia, fact confirmed by many fam lilies. Captain Yount dreamed twice one night that 150 miles away there was a company of travellers fast in the snow. He also saw in the dream rocks of pecul- jar formation, and telling his dream to an old hunter the hunter said, "Why, remember those rocks; those rocks arc in the Carson Valley pass. 150 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 150 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 Captain Yount. Who conducted that dream? The God of the snow. the God of the Sierra Neyadas.
 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- consolable, and they awakened in per feet resignation because of what they had seen in slumber. Dr: Crannage, one of the most remarkable men 1 ever met remarkable for benevolence and great philanthropies--at Wellington, England, showed me house where the Lord had appeared in wonderful dream to a poor woman. The woman was rheumatic, sick, poor to the last point of destitution. 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- ther, 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 out of earthly anodynes? Was that the phantasmagoria of & diseased brain? i No, it was an all sympathetic God addressing poor woman through 8 dream.
 Furthermore, have to say that there are people in this house who were con- verted to God through dream. The Rev. John Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all Christendom, while prof igate 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 lose 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 consum- | ing wrath. While John Newton was re- penting of his folly in having thrown | overheard the treasure, another person age 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 gem, but think will keep it for | you, lest you lose it again" and John Newton 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 per
 suaded him to throw it overheard 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 wonderful 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 white flowers. The German,
 arriving in New York, wandered into
 the Fulton street prayer meeting, and
 MT. Lamphier = whom many Of you
 know-the great apostle of prayer meet
 ings, that day had given to him 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
 German followed him, and through an
 interpreter told Mfr. Lamphier that on
 the sea he had dreamed of a man with 8
 handful of white flowers and waU told
 to follow him. Suffice it to say, through
 that interview and following interviews
 he became Christian and is city mis-
 sionary preaching the gospel to his own
 countrymen. God in dream!
 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, and that these people, this crew,
 were all banished, and in his dream he