SAVED BY DREAMS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2648, 17 November 1919, Page 7

SAVED BY DREAMS.

FAITH THAT FORTIFIES. The faith of some people in dreams is strikingly illustrated by the story of Mrs. Fry, of Lewes, who, although repeatedly informed by the War Office, the commanding officer, and the chaplain of his company that her son was killed fifteen months before, steadfastly refused to believe he was dead, simply because she dreamt he was alive. Constant dreams of ber son buoyed up her hopes, and she expressed herself as in no way astonished when at last she heard that he was a prisoner in Germany. Ten days before the "Titanic" disaster the Hon. J.C. Middleton, vicepresident of the Akron-Canton Railway in Ohio, who had booked a passage on the ill-fated liner, dreamt he saw the ship capsized in mid-ocean and a lot of passengers struggling in the water- The following night he dreamt exactly the same thing, and this so impressed him that he decided' to cancel his passage. Mr. Melton Prior, the famous war correspondent, once told the writer how, on two occasions while in Africa, at the time of the Zulu War, he dreamt that he saw himself and witnessed his own funeral. Later: on arrival at Durban, he received a letter from his mother stating that she.bad had a precisely similar dream' and begging him not to go with a certain expedition. The coincidence so impressed him that he obtained a substitute, who was killed with the rest of the members of the expedition.