Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-12-07

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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 inde-
pendence Of the soul from the body
and having shown you that the major
Ity of dreams are q result OF dis
turbed physical condition, and having
shown you that our sleeping thoughts
are apt to be an echo OF our waxing
thoughts, | come now to my fifth ana
most important remark, and that Is to
say that 1t Is capable Of proof that
God does sometimes in our day and
has often since the close of the Bible
dispensation appeared to people IN
dreams.
Warned by God.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do know 1t? Is not
God the source of all good? 1t does
not take a very logical mind to argue
that out Tertulllan and Martin Luther
believed In dreams The dreams OF
John Huss are immortal. st. Angus
tine. the Christian father, gives us the
fact that a Carthaginian physician was
persuaded OF the immortality OF the
soul by an argument which he heard
in a dream The night before his as
sassination the wife OF Julius Caesar
dreamed that her husband fell dead
across her lap.
1t is possible to prove that COO does
appear In dreams to warn. to convert
and to save men. My friend. retired
sea captain and Christian, tells me
that one night while OH the sea be
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
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 York. Who conducted
that dream? The God Of the sea.
In 1895 a vessel went from Spithead
for the West Indies and ran on the
ledge of rocks called the Caskets. The
vessel went down. but the crew clam
bered I'D on the Caskets. to die OF thirst
or starvation. as they supposed. But
there was ship bound for Southamp-
ton that had the captains 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 res
cue those poor dying men. Who con-
Quoted that dream? The God or the
rocks, the God OF the sea.
A Remarkable Dream.
The Rev. Dr. Bushnell In his marvel
Gus book entitled Mature and the Su'
pernaturar gives the following fact
that he got from Captain Yount In Cal
ifornia. fact confirmed by many fam
flies: Captain Yount dreamed twice one
night that $50 miles away there was
company of travellers fast In the snow
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 lol
miles away" Captain Yount. impeilec
by this dream. although laughed at Dy
his neighbors. gathered men together
took mules and blankets and started
out on the expedition. Travelled loC
miles. saw those very rocks which ht
had described In his dream. found the
suffering ones ut the foot Of those rocks
and 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 Nevadas.
God has often appeared In resourc'
and comfort. You have known peo
ple-perhaps II Is something | stat
In your experience-you have seen peo
ple 90 to sleep with bereavements In
consolable, and they awakened In per
feet resignation because Of what the.
had seen In slumber. DR.. Cranage, on
of the most remarkable men eve
met-remarkable for benevolence ant
great phIanthropies-at Wellington
England. showed me a house wher
/ the Lord had appeared IN a wonderfu
dream TO q poor woman. The womal
was rheumatic. sick. poor to the las
point of destitution. She was walte'
on and cared for by another poo
woman. her only attendant Wor
came to her one day that this poo
woman had died. and the invalid O
whom | am speaking lay helpless uT
on the COUCH wondering what woul
become of her. In that mood she fe
asleep. In her dreams she said tn
angel Of the Lord appeared and too
her into the open air and pointed |
one direction, and there were mour
tains of bread. and pointed In anothe
direction, and there were mountains
butter. and pointed In another dlre'
-.oL, snd there were mountains Of a
kinds Of - -Dnly. The angel Q
the Lord said to her: '"rsnssn, a
these mountains belong to your Fathe'
and do you think he will let you, hl
child. hunger and dieT DIR. Cranag
told me by some divine impulse q
went into that destitute home, saw I'd
suffering there, and administered unit
II. caring for her all the way through
Do you tell me that that dream wa
woven out of earthly anodynesf wa
that the phantasmagoria Of disease
brain? No; 1t was an all sympathet
God addressing a poor woman throug
a dream.
Furthermore, have to say that thel
are people who were converted to Go
through a dream. The Rev. John New
ton, the fame of whose piety nils q
Christendom. while a profigate sail'
on shIpboard. in his dream though
that being approached him ana gay
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