Milford chronicle., 1893-03-31

echo or our waking Unougn1s, come now 20
my fifth and most important remark, and
shat is TO say that it is cspable of proof that
God does sometimes in our day and has Of
ten since the close Of the Bible dispensation
appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do know IL? iAnot God
.he source Of all good? IL does not take a
very logical mind to argue that out. Ter
tullian and Martin Luther believed IN
dreams The dreams Of John lluss are I'M
mortal 81. Augustine, the Christian fa-
ther, gives us the fact that Carthaginian
physician was persuaded Of the immortali-
ty OF the soul by an argument which he
heafsl in a dream. The night before his as-
sassination the wife Of Jal.rs Caesar
dreamed that her husband fell dead across
her lap It is possible to prove that God
does appear in dreams to warn, TO convert
and to save men.
My friend, retired sea captain and a
Christian, tells me that one night while 81
the sea he dreamed that a ships crew wer
in great suffering Waking up from his
dream, he put about the ship, tackled in diff
ferent directions, surprised everybody on
crazy-sailed on in another 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 dream? The God OF
the sea.
RESCUED By MEANS OF DREAMS.
In 1895 O vessel went ont from SPithead fol
tho West Indies and ran against the ledge OF
rocks called the Caskcts. The vessel went
down, but the crew clambered up On the
Caskets to die of thirst or starvation, os they
supposed. But there was "a ship bound fol
Southampton that had the captains son on
board This lad twice in one night dreamed
that there was a crew Of sailors dying on the
Caskets 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 marvellous
book entitled ".7g,ataye and the Su9ernat-
ural, F." gives the following fact that he got
from Captain Yount in California, fact
confirmed by many families: Captain
Yount dreamed twice one night that l5O
miles away there was q company Of travel
ers fast in the snow. He also saw in tho
dream rocks Of peculiar formation, and tell.
ing his dream to an old hunter the hunter
said: "Why, Irenemb Der those rocks. Those
rocks are in the Carson Valley pass, i5O
miles away"
Captain Yount, inipelled by this dream,
although laughed ut by Eesneighbors, gath
cred men together, took mules and blan
kets, and started out on the expedition,
Travelled $50 miles, saw those very rocks
which he had described in his dream, and
finding tie suffering ones at the foot Of
those rocks brought them back to confirm
the story of Captain Yount. Who con
Quoted that dream? The God Of the snow,
the God Of the Sierra Sevadas
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 90
to sleep with hereavements' iucJnsolable
and they awakened in perfect resignation
because Of what they he'd seen in siumbes
DR.. CIannage, one of the most remarkable
men ever inet-renarkable for benevo
lence and great phiianthropies-a Yelling
ton, England, showed me house WHARF
the Lord had appeared in wonderful
dream to poor woman. The woman was
rheumatic, sick, poor to the last point OF
destitution. 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, aud the invalid Of whom
ain 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 We're mountains OF
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 dies"
Dr.. Crannage told ME that by some di.
vine impulse be went into that destitute
horne, saw the suffering there and admin
istered unto IL, caring for her all the way
through DO ron tell inc that that dream
was woven out Of earthly nnodynes2 Was
that the phaltasnagoria Of diseased
braini No, it WIS an all sympathetic God
addressing poor woman through dream
THE DREAM or JOHN NEWTON.
Furthermore, / have 10 say that there
are people in this house who We're convert
ed 10 God through dream. The Rev
John Newton, the fame Of whose picty
fills all CErs;endon, while q pgoaigatesail
or on sbiphDard. in his tiream Thought tliet
a being approached him and gave him
a very beautiful ring aud put Il ugon his
finger end said TO him, ''.As long as you
wear ihat tiHg you will be piospered; Il
you lose that rirP you viii BE- 7iiued.
In the same dream another rciyOaagc gl.
peared and Ly a strange iufatuation per
suaded john Newton to throw that RUG
overheard aud Il sunk iato the sea Then
tie mountains in sight were fun Of fire, aid
the air was larid with consuming wrath.
While John Newton WAX rcpentiag of bis
folly 10 having thrown overheard the tresls-
ure another peisonaga came through tne
drean. apd told John Newton be would