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lately had the joy of seeing three old backsliders return unto God, and besides,
of seeing their backslidings healed. O that others of this class would also
return to the Lord before repentance is hid from their eyes! On the death of
one of these poor, unhappy wanderers, I have lately had many sorrowful
reflections. For some years she was a member of my class, but her heart
departed from God, and then she left His people. I followed her closely in
her wanderings from the "fountain of living waters," and frequently
warned her, and entreated her to return. At length she gave me a flat denial,
saying, "I will never join the society at ____." The Lord still
strove with her. One night she had a most terrific dream, and by her horrid
screams in sleep, she alarmed the house in which she lived, When pressed the
following morning to tell what it was that induced her to utter such cries in
the night, she was not at first willing it should be known, but after a while
she said, "I dreamed I was dying unprepared, and that I saw Satan
standing by the bedside, waiting to carry away my departing soul." When
I heard of this, I told her it was certainly an awful warning from God, and
that she ought not any longer to quench the Spirit. But all was in vain; her
heart continued obdurate. When she got married, feeling I could not yet
entirely give her up, I went to her house for the purpose of once more trying
to persuade her to return to that Savior whom she had forsaken, but my
efforts were apparently fruitless. Judge what were my feelings when, a short
time after, I heard she was dead! She was ill only from the Friday to the
Tuesday following. The doctors who attended her saw the disease was mortal
and told her husband of it. She had no apprehension of danger herself, and
her husband had not the courage to communicate the doctor's opinion till just
before she expired! |
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From:
SIGNIFICANT DREAMS By Duane V. Maxey |