Wesley Corpus

Murder Prevented by a Threefold Dream Source: The Works of John Wesley, Volume 11 (Zondervan) Author: John Wesley --- MoNDAY, April 2, 1781, I was informed by a person in an eminent station, of a very uncommon incident: He had occasion to correct, with a few stripes, a lad that lived with him at Rochester, which he resented so as to keave his place. But sometime after, he seemed to repent, humbled himself, and was received again. He now behaved in a most becoming manner, and was doubly diligent in his service. But his mistress dreamed one night, that this lad was going to cut her throat: And she had a twin-sister, between whom and her there is so strange a sympathy, that if either of them is ill, or particularly affected at any time, the other is so likewise. This sister wrote to her from another part of the kingdom, that she had dreamed the very same thing. She carried this letter to her father, a gentleman that lives not far off, and was surprised to hear that he likewise, on the same night, had had a dream to the same effect. The lad had been observed to come up, about noon, into his lady's apartment, with a case-knife in his hand; and being asked why he did so, he said, he was going into the adjoining room, to scrape the dirt off from his master's embroidered clothes.- His master now took the lad aside, and examined him strictly. After denying it for a considerable time, it was at length extorted from him, that he had always remembered, with indignation, his master’s severity to him, and that he was fully resolved to be revenged, but in what particular manner he would not confess. On this he was totally dismissed without delay.