Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-14

She was waited on and cared for by
another poor woman, her only at
tendant- Word came to her one day
| that this poor woman had died, and
the invalid of whom 1 am speaking
lay helpless upon the couch, wonder
ing 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 bread, and
pointed in another direction, and there
were mountains of butter, and pointed
in another direction, and there were
mountains of all kinds of worldly
supply The angel of the Lord said to
her, Woman, all these mountains be-
long to your Father, and do you think
he will let you, his child, hunger and
die?" Dr.. Cranage told me by some
divine impulse he went into that deSti-
tute home, and saw the suffering there
and administered unto it, 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.
1t was an all sympathetic God address,
ing a poor woman through a dream.
Furthermore have to say that there
are people who were converted to God
through a dream. The Rev. John New
ton, the fame of whose piety fills all
Christendom, while a profiigate sailor
on shipboard in his dream thought that
a being approached him and gave him
very beautiful ring and put it upon
his finger and said to him: LAS long az
you wear that ring you will be pros
pered; if you lose that right, you will
be ruined" In the same dream an
other parsonage appeared and by
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 re-
penting of his folly of having thrown
overheard the treasure another person
age came through the dream and told
John Newton he would plunge into the
sea and bring that ring up if he de-
sired it. He plunged into the sea and
brought it up and said to John New
ton, Here is that gem, but 1 think 1
will keep it for you lest you lose it
again. And John Newton consented.
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 valuable gem was
his soul and that the being who per-
suaded him To throw it overheard was
Satan and that the one who plunged
in and restored that gem, keeping it
for him, was Christ. And that dream
makes one of the most wonderful chap
ters in the life OF that most wonderful
man.
John Hardonk white on shipboard
dreamed one night that the day of
judgment 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 it was to give him more oppor-
tunity for repentance. He woke up
different man. He became illustrious
for Christian attainment. If you do
not believe these things, then you
must discard all testimony and refuse
to accept any kind of authoritative
witness. God in dream,
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted
to God through a dream of the last
judgment, and many of us have had
some dream of that great day of judg-
ment which shall be the winding up of
the worlds history. If you have not
dreamed of it, perhaps tonight you
may dream of that day. There are
enough materials to make a dream
enough voices, for there shall be the
roaring of the elements and the great
earthquake; enough light for the
dream, for the world shall blaze;
enough excitement for the maintains
shall fall; enough water, for the ocean
shall rear. enough astronomical phe-
nOmena, for the stars shall go out;
| enough populations, for all the races of
all ages will fall into line of one of two
professions, the one ascending and the
other descending, the one led by the
rider on the white horse of eternal
victory, the other led on by Apollyon
| on the black charger of eternal defeat
Ehe dream comes on me now, and I
see the lightnings from above answer
| ing the volcanic disturbances from be-
meath, and l hear the long reverberat-
| ing thunders that shall wake UP the
dead, and all the seas, lifting up their
crystal voices, cry, Come to judg-
ment!" and all the voices of heaven
| cry, Come to Judgment" and
| crumbling mauso1eum and West
| minister abbeys and pyramids OF
the dead with marble voices cry, Come
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