Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-02

with enemies IN WHICH they Will get
the best of you. IL you are all day
long in a hurry. at night you will
dream of rail trains that you want to
catch while you cannot move one nch
toward the depot. IL you are always
oversuspicious and expectant of as
sault. you will have at night hallu-
cinations of assassins with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard
Ill. the Ubiquitous. the night before
the battle of Bosworth Field dreamed
that all those whom he had murdered
stared at him and that be was torn
to pieces by demons from the pit. The
scholars dream is a philosophic echo.
The poets dream is a rhythmic echo.
Coleridge composed his "Kubla Khan"
asleep in a narcotic dream and, wax
ing up. wrote down 800 lines of it.
Tartinia, the violin player, composed
his most wonderful sonata while asleep
in a dream SO vivid that. waking. he
easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts haye their echo in
sleeping thoughts. If a man spend his
life in trying to make others hapI0
and is heavenly minded, around his
pillow he will see cripples who have
got over their crutch, and professions of
celestial imperials, n hear the grand
march roll down from drums of heav-
en- over jasper parapets. You are very
apt to hear in dreams what you hear
when you are wide awake.
Now, having shown you that, having
a Bible, we Ought to be satisfied not
getting any further communication
from God, and having shown you that
all dreams have an important mission
since they show the comparative indie
pendence of the soul from the body,
and having shown you that the major
ity of dreams are a result of dis
turbed physical condition, and having
shown you that our sleeping thoughts
are apt to be an echo of our waking
thoughts, l come now to my fifth and
most important remark, and that is to
say that it is capable of proof that
God does sometimes in our day and
has often since the close of the Bible
dis%pensation appeared to people in
dreams.
Warned by God.
All dreams hat make you better are
from God. How do l know it? Is not
God the source of all good? 1t does
not take a very logical mind to argue
that out. Tertullian n Martin Luther
believed in dreams. The dreams of
John Huss are immortal. st. Angus
tine, the Christian father, gives US the
fact that a C~arthaginian physician was
persuaded of the Immortality Of the
soul by an argument which he heard
~ q I,ooro TIa -irb4 hafo-n hiC 0c
sa~ssination 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 warm, to convert
and to save men. My friend, a retired
sea captain and a Christian, tells me
hat one night while on the sea he
dreamed that a ships crew were in
great suffering. Waking from his
dream, he put about the ship, tackled in
different directions, surprised every
body on his vessel-they thought he
wG@ going ~craZy-sailed on in another
direction hour after Jour and for many
hours until he came to the perishing
crew and rescued them and brought
them to New York. Who conducted
lUdl I'll LII 0Oo VI lhC sea-
In 1895 a vessel went from Spithead
for the West Indies and ran on the
ledge of rocks called the Baskets. The
vessel went down, bet the crew clam
bered up on the Caskets, to die of thirst
or starvation, as they supposed. But
there was a ship bound for Southamp-
ton that had the captains son on board.
This lad twice in one night dreamed
that there was q crew of sailors dying
On the CaSketS. He told his father of
this dream. The vessel came Town by
the Caskets in time to find and to res
cue those poor dying men. Who con-
Quoted hat dream? The God of the
rocks, the God of the sea.
A Remarkable Dream.
The Rev. Dr.. Bushnell in his marvel
Gus book entitled Mature and the Su-
pernatural' gives the following fact
that he got from Captain Yount in Cal
ifornia, a fact confirmed by many fam
lilies: Captain Yount dreamed twice n
night that 80 miles away there was a
company of travellers fast in the
He also saw in the dream rocks of pc
culiar formation, and, telling this dream
to an old hunter, the hunter said:
"Why. | remember those rocks. Those
rocks are in the Carson valley pass, 80
miles away" Captain Yount, impelled
by this dream, although laughed at by
his n~eighbors, gathered men together,
tool mules and blankets and started
out on the expedition. travelled 80
miles. saw those very rocks which he
had described in his dream, found the
suffering ones at the foot of those rocks
and brought them back to confirm
the story of Captain Yount. Who IN
Quoted that dream? The God of the
snow, the Coo of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in sourc
and comfort You have known npO-