The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23

that more than the quality of chance is present in the exact fitting of facts of life to the dreams of sleep. We may dismiss such dreams and their fulfilled sequences with wave of the hand and say, Mere coincidences;" but this is an assumption of knowledge that we do not possess and that no psychologist professes to have. In it's present un- developed state Psychic Science cannot explain many phenomena that it posi- lively knows to exist. It is true of those dreams that find their parallel In life. Some people take hem as warn ings or as prophecies. Sometimes, how ever, they seem to be without purpose, so far as we cen see. notwith standing the nicety with which the facts fit the dream. Beyond all cavil the subject is , one of interest.
 A young woman dreamed of being in q strange church where a sermon was preached by a. clergyman whom she had never seen before. On the following Sunday she determined to spend her time in going from church to church until she found the church of her dream. She went to number of churches, but none of them look like the church she had seen in Dreamland. Finally she came to one, quite dis heartened but went in. It was the iden-
 
 the friend with her when the clergy man entered, He's the man I saw in my dream; and if my dream is carried out, his text will be, Return unto thy rest. O my soul" When the time for the sermon came, the minister said. You will find the text at the seventh verse of the 116th Psalm, Return unto thy rest, my soul.''"
 The learned Dr. Moore. author of
 
 following remarkable dream as coming under his own observation: A friend of Dr. Moores dreamed that he was en- tertaining himself by reading the in- scriptions on tho grave-stones in q cemetery church yard, when a newly made grave attracted his attention. On the tomb stone there was the name of man whom he knew to be living, to- gether with the day and date upon which he had died. At the first oppor- tunity the dream was related to Dr. Moore, with the hope, he being a psy- chologist, that an interpretation might be given. But the doctor had no power to disclose the significance of the strange dream. Some months after wards news was received by Dr. Moore to the effect that the man named on the gravestone in the dream had died; his death occurred on the day and date that na0 been seen m the dream. was 1t coincidence? It might have been, but no one can say so with Knowledge.
 A DREAM ABOUT MAJOR ANDRE.
 Prior to his embarkAtion for Amer ica. at the beginning of the Revolu- tionary war, the young English officer of sad memory, Major Andre. went to Derbyshire to visit his friend, Miss Rebecca Steward. Miss Steward in- vited number of friends to meet Ma jor Andre. and among them a MT New ton, and curate, MT. Cunningham
 While awaiting the arrival of Miss Steward and Major Andre, who were out strolling. MT. Cunningn am the curate. related dream that he had the night before. He said: T saw a solitary horseman approaching in great speed, and as he neared me- saw three mon, who seemed to have been await ing the rider. spring out of ambush and seize the horses bridle. They com manded the rider to dismount; they then searched his clothing and led him