REMARKABLE DREAMS AND PROPHECIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 304, 23 November 1937, Page 2

REMARKABLE DREAMS AND PROPHECIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Those who were interested in Pastor Gaustad's outlook on the coming years (1888) will be interested in the outlook of Dr. Johnson in his novel, “Rassellas,” published in 1749. Although his hero finds himself in the deep blue sea, yet he often has glimpses of balloons flying. The writer well remembers about 1884 going into a room, putting his penny into the box, and sitting down and enjoying a concert from Queen’s Kail, London. Indeed, some writers distinctly believe that Ezekiel of Old Testament times, saw the days when machines would fly in the air. Still, it is well we have thoughtful men looking forward. It is to be trusted that the first part of the dream, of a great silence coming, will come true — at present the noise seems to be ten-’ fold—and that we may all be able to praise God for the coming in of the aeroplane. At present some of us are not feeling grateful a little bit, as we see our feilow men in several countries smashed to pieces, blinded and paralysed, and destroyed by these machines. Still, it may he that the fearful horrors of wry will lead at last the man of the world to realise that the way to peace is the way of the Cross, and not the way of force. —I am, etc.,