Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-07

/ Aihlts W. Nuthl ~ bt SdAASh|u SCAffhS
any further communication from God,
and having shown you that all dreams
have an important mission since they
| show the comparative independence Of
the soul from the body, aud having shown
you that the ma Ority of dreams are a re-
suit of disturbed physical conditions, and
having shown YOU that our sleeping
thoughts are apt to be an echo Of onr
waking thoughts, | come now To my fifth
and most important remark. and that is
to say that it is capable Of proof that
God does sometimes in our day ana has
often since the close of the Bible dispen-
sstion appeared TO people IN dreams.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do | know it? Is not
God the source of all good? II does NOT
| take a very logical mind TO argue that
out. Tertullan and Martin Luther be-
lieved in dreams. The dreams Of John
Huss are immortal. St Augustine, the
Christian father, gives us the fact that a
Carthaginian physician was persuaded of
the Immortality of the soul by an argu-
ment which he heard in a dream. The
night before his assassination the wife VI
Julius Caesar dreamed that her husband
fell dead across her lap.
Warnings from God.
. 1t is possible to prove that God does
appear in dreams to warn, 10 convert and
to save men. My friend. 4 retired sea
captain and Christian, tells me that one
night while Oh the sea he dreamed that
ships crew were in great suffering. WAX
ing from his dream, he put about the
ship, tackled in different directions sur
prised everybody on his vesSel-ghey
thought he was going Crugy-sailed on in
another direction hour after hour and for
many hours until he came ~ the perish
ing crew aud rescued them aud brought
them to New York Who eouducted that
dream: The God of the sea
In 1908 Il vessel went trom Spithead
for the West Indies and ran On the ledge
of rocks called the CaSkets. The vessel
went down, but the crew clamhernd up on
the Baskets tn die Of thirst OF starvation,
as they supposed. But there was a ship
bound FOR Southampton thar had the cap
tain's son on hoard. This lai twice i'll one
night dreamed that there was "A crew of
sailors dying ON the CasketS. lie told his
father of this dream. The vessel came
down by the Baskets in ttme 10 ind and
to rescue those poor dying men. Who
conducted that dream The God of the
rocks, the God OF the sea.
Converted by Dreams.
There are people who we're converted 10
God through a dream. The Rcv, John
Newton, the fame of whose piety fills all
Christendom, while prohigate sailor on
shipboard in his dream thought that be-
ing approached him and gave him very
beautiful ring aud put it upon his finger
and said to him AS long as you wear
that ring YOU will he prospered, IL you
lose that ring you will be ruined, In the
same dream another parsonage appeared
and by strange infauation persuaded
| John Newton To throw overheard that
ring, and it sank into the sea Then the
mountains in sight we,s full 0f fire, and
the air was mrid with consuming wrath.
While John Newton vas repenting of his
| folly in having thrown overheard the
treasure another parsonage came through
the dream and told John Newton he
would plunge into the sea and bring that
ring up if he desired IT, lie plunged into
the sea and brought Ii up and said to
John Newton, Here is that gem, but |
think | will keep 1t for you lest you lose
il again And John Newton consented.
and all the fire went out from the noun,
tnins, and all the signs Of lurld wrath dis
appeared from the air, and John Newton
said that he saw in his dreaIN that that
valuable gem was his soul aud that the
being who persuaded han 10 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
chapters in the life Of that most wonder
| full man
A German was crossing the Atlantic
ocean, and in his dream he saw man
with handful of white d1wers. and he
was told TO follow the man ~ho had that
| handful of white flowers The German
| arriving in New York Tauderrd into the
Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mr.
| Lamphier, the great apostle Of prayer
| meetings, that day had given ta him a
| bunch Of tuber0ses They stood on his
| desk and at the close % the religions
| services he took the tuberoses and start
! ed homeward, AID the German followed
him and through an interpreter told Mr.
| Lamphicr that on the sea h. had dreamed
of n man with handful ~ white flowers
and was told to follow him Suffice il tc
| say that through that interview aud fol
| lowing interviews, he becaue a Christian
and is city missionary preaching the
gospel to his own countrymen. God in
dream,
/ Given Another Opportunity.
John lIardonk while IN .hpboarl
dreamed one night that t.tr dIy Of julg
ment had come aud that the roll of the
ships crew was called except his own
name and that these people, his crew.
were all banishcd, and IN his dream ne
rs god tho ryadar Vyhz bf- ,es.t 81, ,,,4,, ,,t.l
omitted and he was toid x was 80 give
him more opportunity for repentance lie
woke mp a different man. He became 81
nstrous for Christian attainment IL
/ YOU do not believe These tAiugs then YOU
must discard all testimony aai refuse TO
accept any kind of agihpr.ear.v. }.l,ness
God In dream,
The dream comes on tpe now. ana STE
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