Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-12-04

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prised everybody on lis vessel-they
thought he WAS going cr;izy-sailed on in
another direction hour after hour and for
many hours until he came to the perish
ing crew and rescued them and brought
them to New York. Who conducted that
dream? The God of the sea.
In 1905 a vessel went from Spithea1
for the West Indies and ran on the ledge
Of rocks called the Baskets. The vessel
went down, but the crew clambered up on
the Caskets TO die Of thirst or starvation.
as they supposed. But there was a ship
bound for southampton that had the cap
tains son on board. This lad twice in one
night dreamed that there was crew of
sailors dying on the Caskets. He told his
father of this dream. The vessel came
down by the Caskets in time to find and
to rescue those poor dying MN. Who
conducted that dream? The God o. the
rocks, the God OF the sea.
The Rev. DR. Bushnell in his marvellous
book entitled Mature aud the Supernat-
ural' gives the following fact that he got
from Captain Yount in California. fact
confirmed by many families: Captain
Yount dreamed twice one night that 100
miles away there was company of tray
eIers fast in the snow. He also saw in
the dream rocks of peculiar formation,
and, telling this dream to an old hunter
the hunter said why, remember those
rocks. Those rocks are in the Carson
valley pass $50 miles away Captain
Yount. impeled by this dream, although
| laughed at by his neighbors. gathered
men together, took mules aud blankets
and started out on the expedition, travel
| ed 100 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 conducted
| that dream? The God of the snow, the
| God of the Sierra Nevadas.
! God has often appeared in resource and
comfort You have known people--per-
haps it is something | state in your own
| apprehension have seen people so TO
sleep with bereavements inconsolable. and
| they awakened in perfect resignation be-
cause of what they had seen in slumber.
Converted by Dreams.
! There are people who were converted to
God through dream. The Rev. John
| Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all
| Christendom, while profigate sailor on
| shipboard in his dream thought that be-
| ing approached him and gave him a very
beautiful ring and put it upon his finger
| and said to him. LAS long as you wear
| that ring you will be prospered; if you
lose that ring. you will be ruined" In the
! same dream another parsonage appeared
| and by a strange infatuation persuaded
| John Newton TO throw overheard that
ring, 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 that
ring up if he desired it. He plunged into
| the sea and brought it up and sa'l to
John Newton, Here is that gem, but |
| think | will keep it for you lest you lose
it again" And John Newton consented,
| and all the fire went out from the noun
| tains, and all the signs of lurid wrath dis
appeared from the air. and John Newton
J said that he saw in his dream that that
valuable gem was his soul and that the
| being who persuaded him to throw it
i overheard was Satan and that the one
| who plunged in aud restored that gem,
keeping it for him, was Christ. And that
| dream makes one of the most wonderful
| chapters in the life of that most wonder
! full man.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
| ocean. and in his dream he saw 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. the great apostle Of prayer
meetings. that day had given to him
bunch Of tuberoses. They stood on his
| desk. and at the close of the religious
| services he took the tuberOses and start
ed homeward, aud the German followed
| him and through an interpreter told Mr..
Lamphier that on the sea he had dreamed
of a man with handful of white flowers
and was told to follow him. Suffice it to
say that through that interview and fol-
! lowing interviews, he, became Christian
| and is a city missionary preaching the
! gospel to his own countrymen. God in
! dream,
! Given Another Opportunity.
John Hardonk while an shpboard
! 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, his crew,
we're all banished and in his dream he
| asked the reader why his own name was
omitted, and he was told it was to give
| MIN more opportunity for repentance He
| woke up different IL m. He became il
! lustrious for Christian attainment. If
| you do rot believe these things, then you
! roust discard all testimony and refuse to
! accept any kind Of authoritative witness.
| God In dream.
The dream comes on me now, AMI see
/ the liehtnings from above answering the
volcanic disturbances from beneath, and
| | hear the long reverberating thanders
/ that shall wake up the dead, and all the
| SPAS lifting up their crystal voices, cry,
Come to Judgment and all the voices
| oil the heaven cry. Come TO Judgment"
| aud crumbing mausoleum and Westmin-
! ster abbeys and pyramids of the dead
with marble voices cry, Come to judg
! lnant.' And the archangel seizes On in
| strument 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 clouds and turning ii this way he
/ sban put ii to his lip and blow tbs long.
1 Ioud blast that shall make the solid earth