Once I was holding a meeting in North Dakota about ten miles in the country
north of Denbeg. The morning after the meeting closed, I woke up and lay
awake a while, then fell asleep again and I had a dream. I dreamed that I
saw Brother and Sister Gaulke driving on the highway south of Grand Forks.
Suddenly I saw the car go up in the air amidst a cloud of dust. Some folks
came and took Sister Gaulke out of the wreck and laid her on a blanket,
then a big black blanket came up between me and Brother Gaulke and the
wreck. When I awakened it was just fifteen minutes past seven. It made such
a vivid impression on me that I said to the family with whom I was staying,
"I will not leave here until the mail carrier comes; I expect a telegram."
I then told them my dream. They went with me to the mail box a mile from
the farm, and when the mail carrier came, he had brought me a message from
Mrs. Johnston telling what had happened at exactly the hour I was having my
dream, and asking me to come at once, so instead of going to my next
appointment I went at once to Grand Forks. On my arrival at the hospital
when Sister Gaulke saw me, she said, "Of all the angels in heaven, how did
you get here?" Sister Gaulke recovered but her husband lingered a few days
and then went home to glory.
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I had a dream one time while I was in Europe about my second son who was
working in a store in Superior, Wisconsin. I saw him go to a music store
and buy a special instrument. I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep
again, so got up and wrote to him, telling him that it was all right that
he bought the instrument, for I knew he was interested in music, but I
asked him to please not join an ungodly band as it might lead him into
temptation and into bad things which would "bring down his daddy's gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave."
He wrote back and thanked me for my letter but never mentioned a word about
the instrument. A few days later I came home from Europe and he had
resigned his position and gotten another one. His grips and trunk were
brought to the house. The family were anxious to see what he had in them
for he had been gone several years, so when they finally got to the big
trunk he lifted his hand and looking at his mother and the rest, said
hesitatingly, "I don't know, now...." His mother said, "Clarence, have you
got something in your trunk you do not want us to see?" He answered, "Daddy
knows." I said to him, "It is all right, Clarence; I am sure you obeyed my
admonition." He opened the trunk and there was a new violin! Then he told
us that when he was buying the violin he had intended to join an orchestra,
but when he got home from the store with his violin there was daddy's
letter. This fulfilled the Scripture that "Before they call I will answer
and while they are yet speaking I will hear."
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