The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-12-07


men together, took mules and blankets
and started out on the expedition.
travelled $50 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
Capt. Yount. Who conducted that
dream? The God Of the snow, the God
of the Sierra Nevadas.
Goo has often appeared in resource
and comfort. You have known people
perhaps it is something I state in
your own eXperience-you have seen
people go to sleep with bereavements
inconsolable, and they awakened in
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumber. DIR. Gran
age, one of the most remarkable men
| ever INTERCHANGEABLE for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-at
Wellington, England, showed me a
house where the Lord had appeared
in a wonderful dream to a poor wom-
an. The woman was rheumatic, sick,
poor to the last point of restitution.
She was waited on and cared for by
another poor woman, her only attend
ant. Word came to her one dav that
this poor woman had died, and the in
valid of whom | am speaking lay help
less 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 n direction, and there were noun
tains of bread, and pointed in another
direction, and there were mountains
of butter, and pointed in another d.
rection, and there were mountains OF
all kinds of worldly supply. The an
gel of the Lord said to her: "Woman,
all these mountains belong to your
Father, and do you think He will let
you, His child, hunger and die?" Dr..
Grange told me by some Divine i'm
pulse he went into that destitute
home, saw the suffering there and adj
ministered unto it, caring for her all
the way through. Do you tell me that
that dream was woven N of earthly
anodynes? Was that the phantas-
magoria of a diseased brain? No. II
was an all sympathetic God addressing
a poor m through a dream.
Furthermore, l have to say that
there are people who were converted
to God through a dream. Rev. John
Newton, the fame of whose piety fills
all Christendom, while a profigate
sailor on shipboard in his dream
thought that a being approached him
and gave him a very beautiful ring and
put it upon his finger and said to him:
y long as you wear that ring you
viii be %prospered; if you lose that
ring, you will be ruined" In the same
dream another parsonage appeared
and by a strange in%fatuation persuad-
ed 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 con-
suming wrath. While John Newton
was r~epenting of his folly in having
thrown overheard the treasure an
other 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 .nd said
to John Newton: "Here is that gem,
but I think I will keep it for you lest
you lose it again" And John New.
ton 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 persuaded him to throw it over
board 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 chapters in the life of that
most wonderful man.
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 iudg-
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
earthquakes; enough light for the
dream. for the world shall blaze:
enough excitement, for the mountains
shall fall; enough water, for the ocean
shall rear; enough astronomical phe-
nomena, for the stars shall 90 out:
enough populations, for all the races Of
all ages will fall into line Of one OF
two professions, the n 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. The dream comes on
me now, and l see the lightnings from
above answering the volcanic disturb
ances from beneath, and l hear the
long reverberating thunders that shall
wake up the dead, and all the seas.
lifting up their crystal voices, cry:
"Come TO Judgment" and all the
voices of the heaven cry: Come to
Judgment" and crumbling mausol-
cum and Westminster abbeys and
pyramids of the dead with marble
voices cry: Come to Judgment"