The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-04-06

Oio VI pOol OocS SOn0LlmeS IN
. our day aud has often since the close of
l the Bible dispensation appeared to peo-
7 pie III dreams. Z
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do know it: Is not
God the source Of all good? 1t does
not take very logical mud to argue
that out. Tertulllau and Martin Luther
believed in dreams. The dreams of
John l1uss are immortal. ST. Angus
tine, the Christian father, gives us the
TACT that CarLhagnian physician was
persuaded OF the immortality of the soul
by an argument which he heard in
dream. The night before his assassina-
ton the wife of julius Caesar dreamed
that her husband fell dead across her
lap. 1t Is possible TO prove that God
does appear in dreams to warn, to con.
vert and to save men.
My friend, a retired sea captain and
a christian, tells me that one night
while on the sea he dreamed that
Snlps crew were in great suffering.
waking up from his dream, he put
about the ship, tackled in different di
rectlOns, 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 crew and
rescued them and brought them to New
nork; who conducted that dream? ?
The God of the sea-
In 1865 vessel went out from Spit
head for the West Indies and ran
against the ledge of rocks called the
Caskets. The vessel went down, but
the crew clambered up on the Caskets
TO die OF thirst or starvation, as thew
supposed. But there was a ship bound
for 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 YES
sci came down by the Caskets In time
to find and to rescue those poor diving
men. Who conducted that dream I?
The God OF the rocks, the God of the
sea.
! Ihe Rev. Dr. Bushnell, In his marvel
. Gus book entitled Mature and the Su-
, pernatural," gives the following fact
: Chat ne got from Captain Yount in Cal.
y itornla, Fact confirmed by many fam
lies: Captain Yount dreamed twice
s one night that $50 miles away there
y was a company of travellers fast IN the
q. snow lie also saw in the dream rocks
n Oi peculiar formation, and telling his
d dream to an old hunter the hunter said
c ""hy, remember those rocks. Those
| rocks are III the Carson Valley pass, $50
4 miles away"
y Captain 1Ount, impelled by this
. dream, although laughed at by his
= nelghborS, gathered men together. took
mules ana blankets. and started out on
T. the expedition, Travelled $50 miles, saw
q those very rocks which he had de-
~ Scrlbed in his dream, and finding the
~ suffering ones at the foot of those rocks
hn ply fD
~ OF captain Iount. Who conducted
ia that dream? The God of the snow
IL lhe God OF the Sierra Nevadas.
lG God has often appeared in dreams tc
al rescue and comfort. You have known
Ill people-pcrhapS it is something | state
nc III your own Xperience-yOu have seen
We people go TO sleep with bereaYements
no lnconSOlable. and they awakened in
in perfect resignation because of what
IN Laey had seen in Slumber. d.. Gran.
at mage, one OF the most remarkable mer
re ever met-remarkable for beneyO
he lence and great phllanthropies-a
N Wellington. England, showed me {
on mouse where the Lord had appeared il
w. wonderful dream to poor woman
me woman was rheumatic, sick, pool
Ike TO the last point of destitution. She
n, was waited on and cared for by another
H. poor woman, her only attendant.
Il. Word came to her one day that this
n poor woman had died, and the invalid
u or whom L am speaking lay helpless
l. upon the couch wondering what would
It become of her. In that mood she fell
q aSleen. In her dreams she said the an
It gel of the Lord appeared and took her
G INTO the open air and pointed in one di-
). rectlon, and there were mountains of
0 bread, and pointed in another direc-
, tlon, and there were mountains of but
Ter, and IN another direction, and there
were III ountalns of all kinds of world
ly supply The angel of the Lord said
r 10 her, wv olLan. all these mountains
belong to your Father, and do you
thlnk thai ne will let you, his child,
l hunger and die?"
DR.. Crannage told me that by some
: divine impulse he went into that dest;-
: tute home, saw the suffering there and
) administered unto it, caring for her ali
} he way through. DO you tell me that
, That dream was woven out of earthly
anodynes? Was that the phantasma-
gorla OF diseased brain? No, it was
an all sympathetic God addressing a
poor woman through a dream.
Furthermore, have to say that there
are people in this house who were con.
Yerted to God through dream. The
Rev. John Newton, the fame of whose
piety fills all Christendon, while prof.
ligate sailor on shipboard, in his dream
thought that being approached him
and gave him very beautiful ring and
put 1T 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 person.
age appeared, and by strange infatua-
ton 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 repentlng of his folly in
having thrown overheard the treasure
another parsonage came through the
dream and told John Newton he would
plunge into the sea and bring the ring
up if he desired 1t.
lie plunged into the sea and brought
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