A Remarkable Dream

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 2, 1875

A Remarkable Dream.

A PRIVATE letter from Davenport, Iowa, received in Boston contains the following:— “We have been very anxious the last two weeks over the illness of Bishop Lee, which terminated in his death. The whole community are saddened by the event. Some two months ago he got up in the night and took a bath, and on returning to his room he made a mistake and stepped off a long flight of stairs, and landed at the foot with a tremendous crash, as he was very heavy, weighing over two hundred pounds. It roused the whole family, and Mrs. Lee and Carrie sprang from their beds, and lighting each a candle went to see what had happened, and found the Bishop lying on the floor of the entry. He got up, however, without aid, and seemed to have received no injury except a few slight bruises, though his right hand was a little lamed. Mr. H. and myself called on him two days after, and while telling us the circumstance of the fall he mentioned this coincidence: He had a letter in his hand, which he had just received from his son Henry, living at Kansas City. His son wrote: ‘Are you well; for last night I had a dream that troubles me. I heard a crash; and standing up said to my wife, “Did you hear that crash? I dreamed that father had a fall and was dead.” I got up and looked at my watch, and it was 2 o’clock. I could not sleep again, so vivid was the dream.’ And it makes him anxious to hear from home. The Bishop said he was not superstitious, but he thought it remarkable that Henry should have the dream at the very hour of the same night that the accident occurred. The difference in the time there and here is just fifteen minutes, and it was 2:15 by his watch, making it at the same moment. It was as if he had actually heard the fall. And the fall finally caused the Bishop’s death. His hand became intensely painful, and gangrene set in, which, after two weeks of suffering, terminated his life.”