A SIGNIFICANT DREAM

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 27, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 20.

A SIGNIFICANT DREAM.

A PASTOR relates the following dream: "I dreamed that I was hitched to a carriage, attempting to draw it through the mud. Why I was assigned that position I could not explain. There I was, pulling with all my might, as though I was the best carriage-horse in town. I had almost reached the church when the mud seemed to get deeper and the carriage to draw so heavily that I gasped for breath and sank down exhausted. Looking back, I saw the entire congregation behind the carriage, apparently pushing; but the more I tried the harder it pulled. Finally I

stopped to examine into the difficulty. I went to the rear, where I supposed the congregation was, but nobody could be found. I repeated the call, but still no reply. By and by a voice called out, 'Halloo!' and looking up, whom should I see but one of the deacons, looking complacently out of the window. On going to the door of the carriage, what was my astonishment to behold the whole congregation quietly smiling inside."

Many a pastor who reads will say, "Alas! that was not all a dream." Reader, are you sure it was not your pastor?—Selected.