The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-12-03

Carthaginian physician was persuaded OF
the Immortality Of the soul by an argu-
ment which he heard In q dream. The
night before his assassination the wife of
julius Cesar 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, to convert and
to save men. My friend. a retired sea
captain and a Christian. tells me that one
night while on the sea be dreamed that q
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-they
thought he was going crazy-sailed N in
another direction hour after hour and for
many hours until he came to the perish
ing crew INT rescued them and brought
them to New York. Who conducted that
dream? The God Of the sea.
In 1866 q vessel went from Spithead
for the West Indies and ran on the ledge
or rocks called the Caskets. The vessel
went down. but the crew clambered up on
the Caskets to die OF thirst or starvation,
as they supposed. But there was a ship
bound for Southampton hat had the cap
tain's son on board. This lad twice in one
night dreamed that there was a crew Of
sailors dying on the Caskets. He told his
father OF this dream. The vessel came
down by the Caskets in time to find and
to rescue those poor dying men. Who
conducted that dream? The God of the
rocks. the God OF the sea.
The Rev. DIR. Bushnell in his marvellous
book entitled Mature and the Supernatu-
rail- gives the following fact that he got
from Captain Yount in California. a fact
confirmed by many families: Captain
Yount dreamed twice one night that $50
miles away there was a company of trav-
elers fast in the snow. He also saw in
the dream rocks OF peculiar formation.
and, telling this dream to an old hunter,
the hunter said: why. l remember those
rocks. Those rocks are in the Carson
valley pass. 80 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. travel
ed 80 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 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 peoplAper-
haps it is something l state in your own
experience-you have seen people 60 to
sleep with bereavements inconsolable. and
they awakened in perfect resignation be-
cause of what they had seen in slumber.
DR.. Cranage. one Of the most remarkable
men l ever understandable for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-at Wei
lington, England, showed me a house
uhora tho I ord bod oppoo rod in q wan
derful dream to a poor woman. The wo-
man 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 l am speaking
lay helpless 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 mountains of
bread, and pointed in another direction,
and there were mountains of butter. and
pointed in another direction, 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..
Cranage told me by some divine impulse
he went into hat destitute home. saw the
suffering there and administered unto Ii,
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.
1t was an all sympathetic God addressing
a poor woman through a dream
Converted by Dreams.
Furthermore, | lave to say that there
are people who were converted to God
through a dream. The Rev. John New
ton, the fame OF whose piety fills all
| Christendom. while a profigate sailor on
shipboard in his dream thought that a be-
ing approached him and gave him a very
beautiful ring and put it upon his finger
and said to him: LAS 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 it sank into the sea. Then the
mountains in sight were full of FIRE. and
the air was lurid with consuming wrath.
| While John Newton was repenting Of his
folly in having thrown overheard the
treasure another parsonage came through
i luc OEeoH duu tOIu JOuu we" lOu uc
would plunge into the sea and bring that
ring up il he desired it. He plunged into
the sea and brought il up and said to
John Newton. Here is that gem. but |
think / will keep it for you lest you lose il
again." And John Newton consented,
and all the fire went out from the noun
tains, and all the signs of lurid wrath dis
appeared 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
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 a man
with a handful Of white flowers. and be
was told to follow the man who had that
handful of white flowers. The German.
arriving in New York, wandered into the