Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — A Preacher’s Odd Dream. [ARTICLE]

A Preacher’s Odd Dream.

It was the habit of Rev. James Spurgeon, grandfather of the great preacher of that name, to pray each evening under a certain oak tree in a secluded wood in Honeywood Park. One night he dreamed, the story goes, that Satan appeared and threatened to tear him in pieces if he followed his accustomed route to the tree. There was another path by which ne might go in safety. Rembering ais dream, Spurgeon felt sorely tempter the next night to take the in which Satan was not. But this would be to capitulate. Trembling in every limb he made his way to the path in which the danger lay. He reached his goaJ in safety, and in prayer and song returned thanks for delivery from peril. When his prayer had ended he rose to return. In his path lay a piece of solid gold “as large as a curtain ring.” All inquiry failing to discover the owner he retained it, and when he married had his wife’s wedding ring made from his curious find.— Kansas City Journal.