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means of dream broadencd the
mind of the Apostle Peter, 81 that he
felt that Christ was tn be preached to
Gentle as we'll as dew. Peter was
sectarian. and believed none were or
could be saved except of his kind.
God used to dream to dispc! this
disparity. John Wesley, like Peter,
was inclined to believe that none
save his church-kind would or could
be saved. All Mcthodists saved.
all others lost. But dream.
one night, transported him in
Its uncertain wandcrings, to
he'll. The denominations! Wesley
asked earnestly: care there any
Roman Catholics here? Yes"
replied the gatc-kccpcr. "Any Epis-
copalians?" Yes "Any Presby-
terians:" eyes" Any Congregations
alists:" Still the answer, eyes. ("
ANY Baptists?" yes" And now
Wesley was ready for his anticipated
climax. ANY Methodists:" To his
great surprise chagrin, came the
usual YES In the unaccountabIe
method of dreams he was at once
hurried to thegatcs of the city of God.
Here too came the same Questions:
Are there any Roman Catholics
here st. Peter answered. No"
ANY Episcopalians:" NO" "Any
Presbyterians:" No" ".Any Consrc-
ga'ionalists:" "No.' "Any Baprst>?"
No. ANY Mctllodists::" No"
Then in wondering pcrplexity he
asked. "Well then, who are they
inside" The answer was, Chris
tains.
Gods word says the first dream was
from him whose sayin. love is as
broad as the universe. Who can say
the second wasn't from the same divine
source: Again. When Jesus was a
babe in the arms of Mary. God sent a
dream to his parents telling them it
was unsafe To tarry longer in the
land of lIcrod and to fee into Egypt
for safety. Has God in these DAYS
sent his angel in dreams to tell men
to flee from lierod to Egypt:
Mr. Sturgeon tells lis of a man who
used to say to his wife Sunday morn
ing. MARY. 90 to church and pray
for US both" He himself would go
to the ncighborS and talk horse or
hog. or whittle and whistle, or go to
view the ruins of a shirt factory. that
had burned down Saturday night.
just as many of our ncighborS did
today. But that man dreamed one
night, that when lie and his wife got
to the gates of heaven. Peter said.
MARY. 20 in for us both" That WAS
sufficient to alarm him. and make
him see his own obligations, be Il
Christian for himself, and render
the modicum of service belonging to
him as sucll. These cases parallel in
every particular the dream to
Joseph and Mary. The religious
zeal that sav"red too much of earth.
morality. and religion by proxy.
were lands governed nv IIcrods.
unsafe for living souls To live in. and
the "Flee thee" OF them all came
from the same helpful scarce.
To Abimelcch God came in Il dream
warning him against marrying the
wife of anpther man. To Joseph.
the fostcr-father of the Christ, God
came in dream telling him that his
newly made wife had a life within
her life. conceived Of the Holy Spirit.
These visions were carvings of
divine justice 10 these souls. Cicero
in his writings tells us of two
Arcadians who came to Wcgara. and
for some reason slept at different
hotels. The one OF these appeared
twice. in Il dream to the other. first
emploring help. then murdered. and
telling his fcl!Ow-trarclcr that his
body would be taken out of the city
early in the morning, bya certain
gate. ina covered wagon. Persuaded
by the dream. the other repairs to the
place appointed, at the time
designated, meets the wagon. bcholds
the body. arrests the murderer.
delivers him u Justice. Shakespeare
tells us dreams are nothing but
shadows.
And again Just before the battle of
Boswor,l, Field lie tells lis how
powerfully and justly the sleepo the
william Richard III was visistcd by
dreams. They unnamed him: nothing
but dreams. says Richard: '.Ry the
Apostle Paul. shadows tonight have
struck more terror TO the soul of
Richard the can the substance of ten
Thousand soldiers" In these drean.s
God as certainly fulfilled the claims
of justice as he did in the case of
Abimelch and Joseph.
DIR. Morgan. a Presbyterian minis
ter of Belfast, in his memoirs tells us