Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-04-07
Y. 4. BISnoP, Island Pond. "


rheumatic, sick, poor 10 the last point Of
| destitution. She was waited on and cared
Tor by anotherfpoor woman. her only at
tsndant
Word came.to her one day that this poor
woman had died, and the invalid Of whom
am speaking bay 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
Dread. and pointed in another direction, and
| there wcrs 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 dier
DR.. Crannage.told me.by some divine inn
pulse he went into that destitute home, saw
the suffering there and administered unto
IL caring for her all the way through Do
you tell me that that dream was woven out
OF earthly anodynes? Was that the phan-
tasmagoria of a diseased brain, No, It was
an all sympathetic God addressing a poor
woman through dream.
Furthermore, l have to say that there are
people in this house who were converted to
God through dream. The Rev. John
Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all
Chrlstendom, while profigate sailor ON
shipboard, in his dream, thought that a be-
ing approached him aud gave him a very
beautiful ring and put'it upon his finger and
said to him, "As long as you wear that ring
you will be prospered; il you lose that ring,
you will be ruined
In the same dream another parsonage ap-
peared, and by a strange infatuation per-
suaded 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 overheard the
treasure, another parsonage came through
the dream and told John Newton he would
plunge into the sea and bring the ring up IL
he desired il.
he plunged into the sea and brought it up
and said to John Newton. "Here is that
gem, but think l will keep 1t for you, lest
you lose 1t again." and John Newton con-
sented, 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 valu-
able gem was his soul, and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it overheard
was Satan, and that the one who plunged In
and restored that gem, keeping IL for him,
was Christ. And that dream makes one Of
the most wonderful chapters In the life OF
unAt most wonderful man.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
ocean, and in his dream he saw a man with
a 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 Mr.. Lamphier-whom
many OF you know-the great apostle Of
prayer meetings that day had given to him
a 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 Ger
man followed him, and through an inter
prefer told Mr.. Lamphier that on the sea he
had dreamed of man with handful or
white flowers and was told TO follow him.
Suffice it to say, through that interview and
following interviews he became Christian
and is a city missionary preaching the Gospel
to his own countrymeu. God in dreami
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 asked the
reader why his own name was omitted, and
he was told 1t was to give him more oppor-
tunity for repentance. He woke up DIFF
ferent man. He became illustrious for
Christian attainment. If you do not believe
timony and refuse to accept any kind OF au.
thoritatiye witness. God in a dreaml
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through dream of the last Judgment,
and doubt IL there is a man or woman in
this house to-day that has not had soms
dream of that great day of judgment which
SHALL be the winding up OF the worlds his
tory. Ii you have not dreamed of 1t, per-
haps tonight you may dream OF that day.
There are enough materials to make
dream. Enough voices for there snail be
the roaring of the elements and the great
Enough light for the dream,
for the world shall blaze Enough excite.
ment for the mountains shall fall. Enough
water, for the ocean shall roar. Enough
astronomical phenomena, for the stars shall
so out. Enough populations, for all the
races OF all the ages will fall into line of one
Of two PROFESSIONS and the one ascending
and the other descending, the one led on by
the rider on the white horse OF eternal
victory, the other led on by Apollyon on
the black charger Of eternal defeat.
The dream comes on me now, and l SEQ
the Ii shtnings from above answering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath, and
hear the long reverberating thunders that
shall wake up the dead, and on one side
see the opening of a gate into scenes golden
and methystine, and on the other side
hear the Changing back of gate into bas-
tiles of eternal bondage, and all the seas,
lifting up their crystal voices cry, ''Coms
to judgmentP and all the voices of the
heaven cry, Come to judgmentP and
mausoleum and Westminster
abbeys and pyramids of the deal with mar
BILE voices cry, "Come to judgmentp
And the archangel seizes an instrument of
music which has never yet been sounded, an
instrument of music that was made only for
one sound, and thrusting that mighty
trumpet through the clou Is and turning ft
this way he shall put it to his lip and blow
the long, loud blast that shall make the
solid earth culver, crying, "Come to iudg-
ment."
Then from this earthly grossness quit,
Attired 10 stars we shall forever sit