DREAMS FULFILLED.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume I, Issue 3, 31 January 1890, Page 2

DREAMS FULFILLED.

Nineteenth century idias hive a dirpc f tendency towards the material and practical; therefore it is that ph'jiom«'na of any characer are—prop-rlyi or tin prop rly—received with scoffing, insinuations as to the mental aberration of the promulgator 3r other of disbelief in their authenticity. Nitwithstanding all this, ur.inferpretable at first, evidence of pschycic forces are presented from time to ti n-, and fcii'ese bearing on subsequent rosu'ts tend to remove some of the scales from sceptical eyes and allow the practical to — perhaps only bri fly —stu ly s >me of the phenun-na presenting th-mselvea. I A residmt in the district has p|r>lnced an! verified by direct livjng testimmy sornn pecu'iir —to many jastomndin r—circumstances of a lifetime. Tne subject is about forty-five yen's' of age, of medium height, in-lined toj be stoutly built, and healthy in appearance; light eyes form part o|' a fresh c unplexi m-d countenance pjar'ially cover d wit'i luxuriant hair of a veil)wish red colour while his cranial cappillary covering is very fair He r'bates the following circumstances thently anl without hesitation:I was bom in Australia, and in-irried there. I lived very hippily inliei u.ttil abiufc a year, aq I a half ifter our union, when I.hid a vision.vry d:eim v'lieh'distresstjl iiiein>r*e b'l.lo I can lescribe. Tnat dr a a will never be eXiced from my ir.eimry, even th»ujh uv reason amuM become diturou-d. I saw my -wife's f literal distinctly, it >,yas it tend*! by ah unc'e. the churci organist of the place we lived in, an 1 several friends who haJ been at our veiling. The vision had s> ..p iw-uTui i a eff-ci on"me that I was se-zid in |m by a fit of'sobbing, so sav re tliiat nv wife be-ame alarmed anl awakejned ne, an I a*ke I me the causs of my cjlisMirbanee. Words eann »t convey jtb« e iction that t »<»k place, the gulden rransid in from grief anl mmrniugj to tie jovfal realisation that I sti)l ■)»«sessed all that was nearest &i\ I d arest to me in this world. 1 didn't ell my wfa ih* source of my trouble, HtiU the for.'l)»ding tiok p >ssessiooj of ne an I day and night I felt intensely miserab'e.

• la's! my state of suspense was pot 1 stiiied to remain lon* without sqme devdopement. After lamented 'or a week by tin recollection of the mm ile dream, I lost my wife suddenly through blood poisoning. Years panned awiy, but the recollect ion of my wife's decease and its warn mg dream had not, nor will they ever leave mv mind.

I was living in Canterbury in this polony after leaving Victoria My mother was living in the houss with my pivs-nt wife (I essayed matrimony a second time), and myself in Ciirist-t.-hurch, and bef-ire she died I had the s;ime warning of her decease —viz.., a dream. My'raothe.r died a'week aher tny vision.. Those occurrences have since caused me to heed as signals of dunger su -h nocturnal visions as I have described, i'lie third, and inoit extraordinary visitation—for, by no less a name cm I call them—occurred a short time back in connection with a s-vere dyiamite accident, I diatin-.tly dreunt that tne viotiiii of the accident would suflfr fr >ui aui explosion; thvt he wmll be ton,: wounded, and bruised, but uot fatally, j «B 4 tk»* W Mwa wvvdd be lwoi**u<, j

IVB-? particulars I relafc -d to my wife and eldest daughter, us th" man was a connection of mine by marriage. About two no tnths »fter this vision I wan told "hin an ejiphsion had taken pac at the mine, arid hastening <o the spot f.und that the dream in every particular had been realise!, the accid at had happened to the self-same man in exactly the manner 1 ha 1 depiet'd to my wife and daughter, and on reselling the sp »t ]' said to those prestnt-r-" I knev it was coining." Not many weeks later I was again troubled in my slumber. I had a vision warning me of ap accident in the sain''mine where another and I were working ; this accident —as r. corded in dreamland-was to result without injury to either <>f us, in fact as I saw it 'before it happened it was indeed a narrow egeap3. Shortly after my vision—wnich I need hardly say w. ighed on my mind and caused me Ko exercise extrem- caution in all my work in or about the mine—pn explosion did take i place. I was at work with another and left the tunnel to put on the billy as it was " crib " or lunch time, and proceeded to the forge where the fire was to make some tea, I had not been many minutes away from- my mate when I h ard the sound of an explosion, jumped while in a silting posture over an adjac nt anvil and ran to the spot from whence the sound proceeded c illing out—" Are you hurt, 0- ." To my intense r.-lief I saw the man merging from the. smoke c lUUed by the dynamite discharge unhurt. He had had a nairrnw escape. If the shot had been plated in the face of thfe tunnel he must iiavs been blown to atoms. Such are the the most notable of my dreams.