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said: "Whv. I remember those rocks.

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 suffering ones at
the foot of those rocks and brought
them back to confirm the story OF
Capt. 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
inconsolable, and they awakened in
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumber. DR.. Gram
age, one of the most remarkable men
| ever met-remarkabl BILE for benevo-
lence and great philanthropies-at
Wellington, England, showed me
house where the Lord had appeared
in a wonderful dream to poor wom-
an. The woman was rheumatic, sick,
poor to the last point of destitutiCn.
She was waited on and cared for by
another poor woman, her only attend
ant. Word came to her one day that
this poor woman had died, and the in
valid of whom I am speaking lay help
less 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
i'll one direction, and there were noun
tains of bread, and pointed in another
| direction, and there were mountains
of butter, and pointed in another di-
rectlon, and there were mountains of
all kinds of worldly supply. The an
gel 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?" DIR.
Cranage told me by some Divine inn
pulse he went into that destitute
home, saw the suffering there and ad-
ministered unto it, caring for her all
the way through. Do you tell me that
that dream was woven out of earthly
! anodynes? Was that the phantas-
magoria of a diseased brain? No. It
was IN all sympathetic God addressing
| poor woman through dream.
Furthermore, I have to say that
there are people who were converted
to God through a dream. Rev. John
Newton, the fame of whose piety fills
all Christendom, while a profigate
sailor on shipboard in his dream
thought that being approached him
and gave him very beautiful ring and
put it 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 strange infatuation persuad-
! ed 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 con-
Stunning wrath. While John Newton
was repenting of his folly in having
thrown overheard the treasure an
other parsonage came through the
dream and told John Newton he would
plunge into the sea and bring that
ring up if he desired it. He plunged
| into the sea and brought it up end said
| to John Newton: Here is that gem,
but | think | will keep it for you lest
! you lose it again" And John New
| ton consented, and all the fire went
| out from the mountains, and all the
signs of lurid wrath disappeared from
ho OH nd Tnh lo@ -
saw in his dream that that valuable
! gem was his soul and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it over
J board 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 wonderful man.
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted
to God through a dream of the last
| Judgment, and many of us have had
some dream of that great day of judg-
ment which shall be the winding up
of the worlds history. If you have
not dreamed of it, perhaps tonight
you may dream of that day. There are
| enough materials to make a dream
| enough voices, for there shall be the
roaring of the elements and the great
earthquake; enough light for the
| dream. for the world shall blaze;
enough excite ment, for the mountains
| shall fall; enough water, for the ocean
shall rear; enough astronomical phe-
nomena, for the stars shall go out:
enough populations, for all the races Of
all ages will fall into line of one of
| two professions, the one ascending
and the other descending, the one led
| by the rider on the white horse of
| eternal victory, the other led on by
Apollyon on the black charger of
eternal defeat. The dream comes on
me now, and ] see the :ightnings from
above answering the volcanic disturb
ances from beneath, and l hear the
long reverberating thunders that shall
wake up the dead, and all the seas.
| lifting up their crystal voices, cry:
"Come to Judgment" and all the
voices, of the heaven cry: "Come to
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