A DREAM.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3815, 21 March 1881, Page 2

A DREAM.

(To the Editor of the Evening- Btab.)

Sic,—The i'ollowi lg might be interestins; to many of your readers :—ln my dream I saw a lich vtHey of fcreat ien#*n and breadth, with a beautiful river running dowa the midst ot it, aad it was navigable for sm::H steamers. The whole valley was rich and in a high st'.te of cultivation, and was covered all over with pleasant homesteads, and being in such a nigh state of cultivation they produced five times more than any ordinary farm. The people were a fine, healthy, intel'igeat race; none we/c idle, nor yefc had any hard work ; they had plenty ot leisure time for recreation and for the improvement of their minds. The men had such a noble, independent bearing with them, with strong arms and stout hearts, and well sk'Ued in mechanics ; and tue v/omen were healthful and beautiful, c~3 and happiness beaming in their counteni.nces, as tney were not wef^hed do>n with hard work, thought, r-ad'eare. They moved about with so much grace and gentility, and both men and women had such a deep and enduring respect for each other —it might be consider, i worship on the part of'the women; they looked upon the man as being a long way auprior. to themselves ; they felt'so weak and timid, and felt the need of man's strong rrm and stout heart to rely upon. And, strange, but the men looked upon the women as being far superior to themselves; they knew they were stronger, but they thought little about that, where delicacy of taste and rich affections were wanted, they were nowhere. But this idea worked so wall when each thought the other better than tkey wire. Man thought that the last great work of God was ais best, aad the most noble thing on earth was woman's ■»

love. All their houses were so convenient and so well arranged, with beautiful fountains of water in the midst of flower gardens. If anyone was poorly (which was not often the case), the women appeared to know by instinct what to do, and, by their kind nursing and heirty, loving ways, they did ifc. Thei* kiridaes3 appeared to act as a charm upon their pfeitient. '2he women being so healthful and pure minded, and so rich in. ,1, love and goodness, there was a perpetual, ■ pleasant glow in their countenances —a.'..'£ sight to see that far excelled all other j-j sights—and wherever they went' they -. were able to produce a thrill of joy that '* is indescribable. And every living thing connected with those forms were happy : the cattlu, the horses, the sheep, the dogs, and the cats, were all boiling over with, happiness; and for the children, they ■played aud gamboled together, like so many lambs, frisking and skipping about. They had neither police or prisons; they appeared to be above law. What did they want with law when all were actuated by ;a feeling of goodness, and were, anxious to make all about them happy? If a selfish man happened to get amorigst , them, the way they cured him was by heaping so oiucii kindness upon him that he soon tired of the old way of receiving all and giving notb'ir back again. He found out the secret that it was more blessed to give than to receive, and he became one of the most liberal andi - benevolent ot any of them, never knowing '; ! before that there was such a lu^ur/ in ' i doinqr good. And lir.-j was •the.^qply religion they'had—the religion of making one another happy. Their -religion was to feed the huntfiy, to clothe the naked, and visit the sick. They did np.t believe iv getting up popular revivals, W/hien everybody got very E&uch expi^di' Thfey; ', knew that noting we s permanently weHjt|r done that is done under greatM^l^iteiaenp^ Their religion was not only Christ and be washed iv. the blqbd oj|J|Pf|;' I mb, but to imbibe Christ's' spitipp^;-/ humility, purity, love, and '.'/[gSd^^ifl,' and this is the only Christ,, the, -Oc^r.':; Saviour of the world. —I rm, &c, ' 'J'^l^: