Connecticut western news., 1901-12-05


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 It 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 every body on his vessel-they thought he was going crazy-sailed on in another direction hour after hour and for many hours until he came to the perlshing crew and rescued them and brought them to New York. Who conducted that dream? The God of the sea.
 In 1895 a vessel went from Spithead for the West Indies and ran on the ledge of rocks called the Baskets. The vessel went down, but the crew clam bered up on the Baskets, to die of thirst or starvation, as they supposed. But there was a ship bound for Southamp ton that had the captains son on board. This lad twice In one night dreamed that there was crew of sailors dying on the Baskets. He told his father of this dream. The vessel came down by the Baskets In time to find and to res cue those poor dying men. Who con ducted that dream? The God of the rocks, the God of the sea.
 A Remarkable Dream.
 The Rev. Dr. Bushnell in his marvel ous book entitled Mature and the Su- pernaturaP' gives the following fact that he got from Captain Yount in Cal ifornia, fact confirmed by many fam flies: Captain Yount dreamed twice one night that 15O miles away there was company 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, I remember those rocks. Those rocks are in the Carson valley pass, 15O 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 150 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 Captain Yount. Who con- ducted that dream? The God of the snow, the God of the Sierra Nevadas.
 God has often appeared in resource and comfort. You have known peo- ple-perhaps it is something I state in your experience-you have seen peo- pie go to sleep with bereavements in- consolable, and they awakened in per feet resignation because of what they had seen in slumber. Dr. Cranage, one of the most remarkable men I ever met-remarkable for benevolence and great philanthropies-at Wellington, England. showed me a house where the Lord had appeared in a wonderful dream to poor woman. 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 attendant. Word came to her one day that this poor woman had died, and the invalid of whom I am speaking lay helpless up on 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 hutter, and pointed in another direc- ton, and there were mountains of all kinds of worldly supply. The angel 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 went into that destitute home, saw the suffering there, and administered unto 1t, caring for her all the way through. Do you tell me that that dream was woven out of earthly anodynes? Was that the phantasmagoria of a diseased brain? No; it was an all sympathetic God addressing poor woman through a dream.
 Furthermore, have to say that there are people who were converted to God through dream. The Rev. John New ton, the fame of whose piety fills all Christendom, while a profiigate sailor on shipboard, In his dream thought that being approached him and gave him very beautiful ring and put 1t upon his finger and said to him: "As long as you wear that ring you will be prospered. If you lose that ring. you will be ruined" In the same dream another parsonage appeared and by a strange infatuation persuaded John Newton to throw overheard that ring, and 1t sank into the sea. Then the mountains In sight were full of fire, wrath. While John Newton was re- penting of his folly In having thrown overheard the treasure another person age came through the dream and told John Newton he would plunge into the sea and bring that ring up if he desired 1t. He plunged into the sea and brought 1t up and said to John Newton, Here Is that gem, but think will keep 1t for you lest you lose 1t again." And John Newton consented. and all the fire went out from the mountains, and all the signs of lurid wrath disappear ed from the air, and John Newton said that he saw In his dream that that val uable gem was his soul and that the being who persuaded him to throw 1t overheard was Satan and that the one who plunged In and restored that gem, keeping 1t for him, was Christ. And that dream makes one of the most won- derful chapters In the life of that most wonderful man.
 Come to Judgment.
 A German was crossing the Atlantic ocean, and In his dream he saw a man with a handful of white flowers, and he was told to follow the man who had that handful of white flowers. The German, arriving in New York, wan dered into the Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mir. Lamphier, the great apostle of prayer meetings. that day had given to him bunch of tuberoses. They stood on his desk, and at the oloco of tho rolI0iouc ooryioao ba tooly