The Globe-republican., 1901-12-05


dream OF rail trains that you want to
catch, while you cannot move one
inch toward the depot II you are
always oversuspIcious and expectant
of assault. you will have at night hal
lucinations OF assassins with. daggers
drawn
The scholars dream Is phiIosophic
echo The poets dream is a rhythmic
echo CoIerIdge composed his <Kubla
Khan asleep in q narcotic dream and,
waking up. wrote down 300 lines of it.
Tartinia, the violin player. composed
his most wonderful sonata while
asleep in a dream so vivid that, wax
ing, he easily transferred 1t TO paper
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts If man spend his
life in trying TO make others happy
and is heavily minded, around his pill
low he will see cripples who have got
over their crutch and professions OF
celestial imperia1s and hear the grand
march roll down from drums of heav-
en- over jasper parapets- 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 a 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. I come now TO my fifth and
most important remark, and that is 10
I say that 1t Is capable OF proof that
God does sometimes IN our day and
/ has often since the close OF the Bible
1 dispensation appeared to people in
/ Dreams
i All dreams that make you better are
! from God How do I know it, Is not
/ God the source of all goodz 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 a Carthaginian
| physician was persuaded OF the immor-
/ tally 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
| It is possible TO prove that God does
] appear in dreams TO warn, to convert
! and to save men My friend. retired
sea captain and Christian. tells nae
/ that one night while on the sea he
/ dreamed that a 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-saiIed on in an
other direction hour after hour and
for many hours ZEzTtiI ne came To- the
perishing crew and rescued theI and
/ brought them to New York Who con
| Quoted that dream2 The God al the
! sea
The Rev DR. Bushnell in his mar
I Vicious book entitled Mature AID the
III
that he got from Captain YoUnt II
California q fact confirmed by many
| families CaptxIn Tount dreamed
| twice one nigh1 that $50 miles away
there was COM any of travellers fast
/ in the snow He also saw IN the
dream rocks OF a pecuIia< formation
and telling this dream to an old hunt
er, the hunter said Why. I remenr
Der those rocks Those rocks are N
the Carson valley pass. $50 miles
away Captain Yount- impelBed hz
this dream although laughed at Ey
his neIghbc-s gathered men together
took mules ana blankets and staTtEsi
out on the expedition. Travelled IsS
miles saw those very rocks which Le
had described IN mis- dream, found taze
suffering ones at the foot of those
rocks and brought them back 10 Cox
firm the story Of Captain Yount- Who
: conducted that dream2 The God OF Ike
snow. the God Of 1fle Sierra Neyadzrs
God has often appeared in resonTce
and comfort You have known peOpk
Z perhaps Il As something 1 state IL
/ your own experIene@yOu have seer
people go to sleep with bereaveTneats
I inconsolable, and they awakened IL
Z perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in sIuuazer- Dr. Gran
age. one of the most remarkable men
( L ever met-remarkabIe for beneSo-
( Ience and great phiIanthropIes-
wellington England showed me a
house where the Lord had appeared
in wonderful dream to q 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
1endan1- Word came 20 her enc day
/ that this poor woman had died and
the invalid OF whom L am speaking
lay helpless upon the couch wonder
I ing 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