Nicholas Malavetis's Dream of the Star of the East

“During the time of their earnest researches, and before they had been arrested the second time, Nicholas Malavetis had a dream which made an impression upon the two when they saw its import. He saw himself, one night, reading from a paper dated 1859. The paper was called, O Aster Tes Anatoles, (The Star of the East). It was a Greek periodical begun in the year 1858 by Mr. M. I). Kalapothakes, a Protestant preacher in Athens. Feeling that the dream was given to aid him in his search for the Church of Christ, he went to the office of the paper and obtained a bound volume of the year he had seen printed at the head of the sheet. He brought it to Mr. Pofantis, his friend, and related to him his dream, saying that there must be something in that paper to lead them to the light. Carefully examining the bound volume, to their joy and happiness they found an article in the Aster, giving an account of the new sect in America with an Apostolic organization, and a description of that Church in the far West as seen by an American editor, traveling in those early days. — Millennial Star 68:8”