The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-12-06

! dream or rail trains that You want u
catch, while you cannot move on
inch toward the depot, II you arr
always oversuspicious and expectnn
OF assault, you will have at night hal
lucinations of assasslns with dagger
drawn.
The scholars dream is phllosophi'
echo. The poets dream is Rhythmic
echo, Coleridge composed his "kubl'
Khan" asleep in a narcotic dream aud
waking up. wrote down 500 lines of II
Tartinia, the violin player. composed
his most wonderful sonata Will,
asleep in dream so vivid that wax
ing. he easily transferred It to paper
Waking thoughts have their echo In
sleeping thoughts, II a man spcad his
life in trying to make others happy
and is heavily minded, around his pit
low he will see cripplcs who have got
over their crutch and professions OF
celestial imperials and hear the grand
march roll down from drums OF heav-
en- over jasper parapots, You are very
apt to hear in dreams what YOU hear
when you are wide awake,
Now. having shown you that, having
a Bible, we ought to be satisfied not
getting any further communication
from God, and having shown you that
all dreams have an important mission
since they show the comparative indie
pendence of the soul from the body,
and having shown you that majority
Of dreams are the result of disturbed
physical conditions. and having shown
you that our sleeping thoughts are apt
to be an echo of our 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 and
has often since the close of the Bible
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? 1t does
not take very logical mind to argue
that out Tertullian and Martin
Luther believed in dreams. The
dreams of John Huss are immortal.
st. Augustine the Christian father,
gives us the fact that Carthaginian
physician was persuaded OF the immor-
tality of the soul by an argument
which he heard in dream. The night
before his assassination the wife OF
julius Caesar dreamed that her hus-
band fell dead across her lap.
1t is possible to prove that God does
appear in dreams to warn, to convert
and to save men. My friend, a retired
sea captain and Christian, tells me
that one night while on the sea he
dreamed that ships crew were in
great suffering. Waking from his
dream, he put about the ship, tackled
in different directions, surprised
everybody on his vessel-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.
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell in his mar
velous book entitled Mature and the
gives the following fact
that he got from Captain Yount in
California, fact confirmed by many
families: Captain Yount dreamed
twice one night that $50 miles away
there was company of travellers fast
in the snow. He also saw in the
dream rocks of a peculiar formation,
and. telling this dream to an old hunt
err. the hunter said: why, | remem-
her those rocks. Those rocks are in
the Carson valley pass, $50 miles
away. Captain 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
ones at the foot OF those
rocks and brought them back to con-
firm the story of Captain 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 | state in
your own experience-you have seen
people go to sleep with bereavements
and they awakened in
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumber. DR.. Gran
age, one of the most remarkable men
| ever met-remarkable for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-at
Wellington, England, showed me a
house where the Lord had appeared
in a wonderful dream to poor wo-
man. 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 at
tendant. Word came to her one day
that this poor woman had died, and
the invalid of whom l 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
and took her into the open