The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-12-06

everybody on his yeSsel-they thought
| he was going craZy-sailed on in an
other 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 con-
Quoted that dream? The God of the
sea.
Rev. DIR. Bushnell in his marvellous
book entitled mature and the Super
natural" gives the following fact that
he got from Capt. Yount in California,
| fact confirmed by many families:
Capt. Yount dreamed twice one night
| that $50 miles away there was a COM
pany 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, l remember those rocks.
Those rocks are in the Carson valley
pass, $50 miles away" Capt. Yount,
impelled by this dream, although
laughed at by his neighbors, gathered
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.
God has often appeared in resource
and comfort. You have known people
perhaps it is something 1 state in
your own Xperience-you have seen
people 90 to sleep with bereavements
/ c.N11 III hnx Ia,
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumber. DIR. Gram
| age, one of the most remarka bic men
I ever understandable for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-a
| Wellington, England, showed me
house where the Lord had appeared
in a wonderful dream to 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 day 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 one 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..
| Cranage 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 out of earthly
anodynes? Was that the phantas-
magoria of a diseased brain? No. 1t
was an all sympathetic God addressing
| a poor woman 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 profligate
sailor on shipboard in his dream
/ thought that a being approached him
/ and gave him very beautiful ring and
put II upon HIS anu Sdlt 10 MIN
AS long as you wear that ring you
VIII be prospered; if you lose that
ring, you viii be ruined" In the same
dream another parsonage appeared
and by strange infatuation 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-
Stunning wrath. While John Newton
was repenting 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 il. He plunged
into the sea and brought it up and said
to John Newton: Here is that gem,
but I think l 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 valua BILE
gem was his soul and that the being
who persuaded him to throw ii 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-
I ;nent 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 dream
enough voices, for there shall be the
roaring of the clements and the great
earthquake; 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 go out;
enough populati tons, 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
ADollvon on the black charger of
eternal defeat The dream comes on
me now, and l see the lightnings from
above answering the volcanic disturb b.
ances from beneath. and | hear the
long reverberating thunders that shall
wake up the dead, and all the seas.
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