Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-30
NUMBER 40.

pheus. Beautiful as dream" is
simile founded on expel ience. and essen
TALLY poetic on account of its suggestive.
ness and expansive truth. We instinct
lively feel that .drenm, are higher condi-
tions which we are pre-, entcd from en-.
joying thoroughly, because, in the midst
OF them, we still rest under the shadow
Of the earth. When our cares aud truu.
bl's measumhly leave Us. as they some.
times do; when We seem for the nonce
hathed in a spiritual atmo,phere, vague
ly conscious, aud ON the eve ofa loitier
des my, We disirust our own sensn.i ms,
and ask anAiuusly, "Is this dream ?"
Could We but rem"mh her half the things
that sleep untolds, We might be sagcs,
seers, poets, prophets We might un,uvel
the my stely OF death and the stlu derpcr
mystery OF lite. Tho only bright
thoughts, the only clear perceptions in
their dreams. Who has not heard these
speak of the fantasies of the night, and
discerned that the part they played here.
in was beyond their normal selves :
They who are ranked as spontaneous
and clever frequently sigh To fix the nf-
| llatus that slumber lends them. Their
intellect seems stimulated aud exalted
by the closure of the gates between the
inner and outer world. They read in
spired pngcs that move them as no print.
ed word has done they behold p,ctures
that nrt catnot create they smlin over
landscapes that nature has not furnished
they hear music that comes not to NOR
tai oar they inspire and feel n love that
the soul hungers for, and never iastes
the ambrosp of, beneath the stars and
all this is their own crention.
Dreams ARE frequently indefinite in
complete. unsatisfactory which may
arise from their contiguity to waking
life, and its unwhole-, me habits. Thorn
are dreams, nevertheless, that slnke the
thirst oI the spirit as with nectar, and
those more than compensate for those
that disappoint, disturb, aud nntai2e.--
! Such dream, are. doubtless, reflected
from pure practice, mobile thought, gener-
ous purpose. There may be science II
d enm~, ~ yet undiscovered, by which
they may be regulated and the curtains
! of the future drawn inside for the contem-
plalion of immortal aims aud eternal
v>tas
Serp, with or without phenomena, IL
grateful to rs NIL, Gir ~ our fnl tune may
be cast. Beauty pnil> honor wenries
glory cheats power tires love sntates;
the present dngs to-morrnw never Il.
We turn from NIL the world muy offer,
all that prosperity cnn supply, to the no--
row couch and the soft pillow, on which
sleep, rest, and dreams ARE promised.
with sense Of joyou ness too full to find
Il tongue. Life Is disease res. is pc
culnr to tho spirlt,' says NovHlis (; aud
81 rp yicld- rest, which is better thnn
life. We mny hnve no certain know
ledge of sleep, or of whit it brings; but
its uncertainty is sweeter thnn the GER
tainty, in waking life, of care, of ,otrow,
and, como Whit mny, ot inevitable re-
greet Peichnnce nothing ia certain,
surely little is promb!e; aud In Place
hns wisely declared that nearly ull our
knowledge consists /, possbiltie. Hlnno.
Sleep hbounds in delightful pos.ibi iiio,,
aud the knowledge thnt il gives US serves
in IA thousand ways. We shou not al,
turn to it with longing 50 instructive were
it not natures ptnnccH tor past, present.
and future ills.
Our birth s but n sleep and forgetting.
Tho 80 i that rlsbs with us, oar lilo's star
Hath hud elsewhere its sotting
And cOmoth from utHr.