New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-26


ASkUporrs IN DR. Rush. The Doctor once in
formed me Gays an eminent divine1 that when he
was vopnx man he had been invited, on some oc-
casiouv u dine ID company with Robert Morris,
American Revolution. It 50 happened that the
company had waited some time for Mr.. Morris,
who, On his appearance, apOlogized for OBTAINING
them BY saying that he had been engaged in read
ing ,ermon of clergyman w NJ, had Just gone
said the doctor, how did you like the sermons /
have heard it highly extolled. why, doctor, y
said hes 81 did not like it at all. It is too smooth
and tame for me.' sMr. Morris, replied the doc
like hi, L replied Nj. Morris, that preaching
which drives man up into the corner Of his pew,
and makes him think the devil is after him.
heard him reprove his medical class once for
restlessness during Of his lectures, by saying,
tsGentemen, fear do not make you happy.
The happy ore Always contented.'' This gentle re-
buke pleased well that after lecture thanked
him for 1t. observing that when occasion should
offer, would try the effect Of it on my congrega.
tom Mo- 4 said the doctor, II hope you viii
not. It Is do compliment to minister of the Cos
pei to reprove his congregation forinattention he
should not be able to keep their attention. Add
ing that Doctor MS congregation were always
Df Rush vas perhaps one Of the most untiring
students that ever lived. Two Young physicians
were converting in his presence once, and one
of them said, when | finished my Studies"
tor, abrnbtly, why you must be happy man e e
have finished 70 young, do net expect tos nnsh
The writer once asked him how he had been
able 10 collect such an immense amount Of infor-
nation and facts as his publications and lectures
contained II have been enabled to do it, he
replied z by economizing my time as Mr.. Wesley
did IL have not spent one hour in amusement for
thirty years. And taking small notebook from
his spocket md showing It 10 me, said, 81 fill
such book as this once a week with observations
and thoughts which occur tome, and facts collected
in tie rooms Of my patients, and these are all
preserved and used "a 5 5s
once heard the. doctor relate the following
dream, to show that the memory sometimes ex
erts itself more powerfully in our sleeping than in
our waking hours in calling up things that have
been forgotten: a gentleman in JERSEY, Of large
connection with q neighbor, should settle his
estate After his death. in fulfilling the intentions
Of his WILL certain important paper, which could
not he dispensed with, was missing. Repeated
and sdiligeat search was made for it, but in vain.
The widow at length dreamed that the said paper
was in the bottom Of barrel IN the garnet covered
with a number; Of books. The dream made SO
strong an impression on her mind that she was in
duced to make an examination, and there, to her
astonishment, she found the paper. The DOCTORS
explanation was, that no supernatural agency had
been employed, but during the abstraction of all
external objects and impressions from the senses
In the sleeping state, the memory exerted itself
with an intenseness that it could not do in the
waking state. He supposed that her husband
had informed her at some time of the situation O
this paper, and that the fact had become dorman
in tAe memory until the dream called it up.
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