Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1884 — ABE DREAMS PROPHETIC! [ARTICLE]

ABE DREAMS PROPHETIC!

Some Instance* in Point—How Prediction May Be Defeated. (Troy (N. Y.) Times ] ( Ten days before his death Lincoln dreamed that "the President” lay dead in the White House, “ killed by the hand of an assassin.” When his wife heard of the tragedy she exclaimed, “His dream was prophetic! ” The majority of dreams, however, are never ftilfilled—they are too fantastic, or they are solved by contrary events. People are often possessed of the idea that they shall soon die. They find themselves the subject of strange feelings. They know they are not what they once were, and as they approach certain ages they are quite sure they will not “be long of earth.” These impressions as a rule are the result of an imagination disordered by disease, but they can be shaken off by prompt and thorough measures. We are told that very many diseases can be prevented; indeed half the deaths are said to be preventable! Hence the importance of always acting promptly in every personal emergency. Justice William Moul, of West Sandlake, N. Yf, very highly esteemed in Troy, was for years plagued by forebodings that he was doomed to an early death. He had dull and flitting pains in various parts of the body, his complexion was bad, his appetite was variable; he felt weary without known cause, was constantly constipated, his tongue waS heavily coated, and frequent feverish disorders appeared. Then followed extreme tenderness and pain in the back, great lassitude, gravelly deposits in water, which wa's dark, frothy and odorous, all indicating liver and kidney disorders. These developments alarmed him, especially since physicians did him no good. About giving up in despair, he followed the counsel of one of the Supreme Court Justices to use Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy (of Rondout, N. Y.,) as an experiment. It scatteied his bad feelings, revived his appetite, restored his liver and kidneys, renewed his blood, increased his weight by twenty pounds, and to it alone he gives the credit of saving his life'. Drcams and warnings and forebodings of early death need not always be fulfilled if proper measures are promptly taken to defeat them.