The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-01-31
FARNIyIILE VA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 81. 1907

men together. took mules and blankets
and started ont on the eXped iion,
Travelled $50 miles. saw those very
+ rocks which he had described IN bis
/ dream. found the suffering ones at
/ the foot OF those rocks and brought
/ them back 10 confirm the story OF
Capt. Nount. 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 90 to sleep with bereavements
inconsolable. and they awakened in
perfect resignation because OF what
they had seen in slumber. DR.. Ora
age, one Of the most remarkable men
] ever understandable for beneyo-
lence and great philanthrop'es-at
Wellington, England, showed me a
house where the Lord had appeared
IN a wonderful dream 20 a poor wom-
an. The woman was rheumatic. sick,
poor to the last point OF destitution.
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 am speaking lay help
less upon the couch, wondering what
would become Of her. In that mood T.
she fell asleep. IN her dreams she said T.
the angel of the Lord appeared and /
took her into the open air and pointed I
in one direction, and there were moun- /
tains Of bread. and pointed in another /
direction, and there were mountains /
Of butter, and pointed in another di-
rection. 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 lie will let
You, His child. hunger and die?" DR..
Cranage told me by some Divine inn
pulse be went into that destitute
home, saw the suffering there and ad-
ministered unto IL. caring for her all
the way through. DO you tell me that
that dream was woven ont Of earthly
anodynes? Was that the phantas-
magoria Of diseased brain? No. II
was an all sympathetic God addressing
a poor woman through a dream.
Furthermore. ] have 10 say that
there are people who were converted
TO God through a dream. Rev. John
Newton. the fame OF whose piety fills
an Chrisiendom. while a prohigate
sailor on shipboard IN his dream
thought that a being approached him
and gave him a very beautiful ring and
put il upon his finger and said 10 him:
AS long as you wear that ring YOU
VIII be prospered: IL you lose that =
ring. you will be ruined" In the same
dream another parsonage appeared
and by a strange infatuation persuad-
ed John Newton 10 throw overheard
that ring, and IL sank into the sea.
Then the mountains in sight were full
)f fire, and the air was lurid with con-
suming 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
ing mp IL he desired II. lie plunged
nto the sea and brought Il up and said
o John Newton: "Here is that gem.
1ut 1 think ] will keep IL for you lest
you lose it again" And John New
on consented, and all the fire went
mt from the mountains, and all the
igns Of lurid wrath disappeared from ,
he air, and John Newton said that he
aw in his dream that that valuable
rem was his soul and tlOi the being
Who persuaded him to throw It over {
loard was Satan and that the one Who
,lunged in and restored that gem,
.ecping it for him, was Christ. And
hat dream makes one Of the most
wonderful chapters in the life Of that u
most wonderful man.
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted a
% God through dream OF the last
Judgment, and many Of us have had
ONE dream Of that great day Of iudg-
ient which shall be the winding up
I the worlds history. II YOU have
OF dreamed Of it. perhaps tonight
on may dream Of that day. There are
nouQh materials TO make a dream
nourh voices, for there shall be tho
caring Of the elements and the great
arihquake; enough light for the
ream. for the world shall blaze;
noueh excitement, for the mountains
hall fall: enough water. for the ocean
lall rear: enough Astronomical phe-
omena. for the stars shall 20 ont;
1oueh populations. for an the races of
n ages will fall into line Of one of
.vo professions. the one ascending
nd the other descending. the one led
r the rider on the white horse of
ernal victory. the other led on bv
pollvon on the black charger OF
ernal defeat. The dream comes on Il
q now. and see the lighinings from
,ove answering the volcanic disturb
noes from beneath. and I hear The e'
nr reverberating thunders that shall -
AXE up the dead, and all the seas. "'
Ting mp their crystal voices. cryi sc
'ome TO iudgmentl" and an the
ices Of the heaven cry: "Come 10 h'
dgmenti" and crumbling mausol- co
Inn and Westminster abheys and oi
.ram.ds OF the dead with marble VI
ices cry: "Come 10 Judgment"
nd the archangel seizes an insiru- ho
emf Of music which has never vet ri.
en- sounded. an instrument Of music ha
AT was made only for one sound.