Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-12-06

said: why, 4 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
Drocks 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 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 theemest remarkable men
ever met-remarkable for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-
Wellington, England, showed me a
house where the Lord had Appeared
in 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 di-
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 brain2 No. It
was an all sympathetic God addressing
a poor woman through dream.
Furthermore, 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
mt If dn0n HE f 7, and III RI him
GAS long as you wear that ring you
will be prospered; if you lose that
ring, you will be ruined" In the same
| 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 it. He plunged
into the sea and brought it up and said
but I think will keep it for you lest
y
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,
- -sck, Al
that dream makes one of the most
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 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
| 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 go out;
enough populati lions, 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. The dream comes on
me now, and I see the 1ightnings from
above answering the volcanic disturb
| ances from beneath, and I hear the
long reverberating thunders that II
wake up the dead, and all the seas.
lifting up their crystal voices. cry:
Some to judgment!" and all the