DREAMS.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 August 1912, Page 3

DREAMS.

-H The following- story of a remarkable experience in connection with dreams is thoroughly authentic. All the principals are living- and well known. During- several years a lady, living- with her family in the neighbourhood of London was in the habit of dreaming- that she visited and inspected in detail a house of which she had no knowledge when awake. This dream occurred so frequently that the lady asserted that she knew every room in the house as intimately as she knew the house in which she lived, and it became a staple matter of amusement at the. breakfast table. The family were in the habit of spending- some months every year in Scotland, but a year or two ago the house to which it had been their custom to go was not available, and a member of the family was commissioned to find a suitable place in its stead. In due course the family went to take possession, and as soon as the lady saw the house she said he seemed to know it. On entering she said she had surely been there before, and declared it was her dream house. She undertook to describe the rooms, which she did sufficiently to identify the house with the dreams. The owner of the house then proposed to show the upper rooms, but the lady said she knew them well, for she had seen them before; !to which the other replied, to her amazement: "I should think you had. Why, you are the old lady who has been haunting •us for years." Nothing uncanny, it may be added, attended the tenancy of-the house of dreams.

When faith grows weak, all virtues are weakened: when faith is lost, all virtues are lost.