The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-22


and what circles will it cut when 1t Il
eternally liberated2 Every dream yor
have, agreeable or harrassing, sunshiny
or tempestuous, proves so much that
arising from your pillow, you ought tC
kneel, crying out: "Oh. God! am ! an
immortal? Whence2 WbitherP TWO
naturesl Ny soul Gagged now-what
when the door of the cage is openf Il
while the body is asleep in the few hour
of earthly night the soul Can tly 80 tal
away, how far can it fly when the oooy
goes into the long sleep OF the graveF
Oh. this power to dreaml How startling
HOW overwhelming If we are titteC
for the after. death fight, what an en-
chantmentl lfunftted, what a crushing
agouyl
Third remark: Most of your dreams
are the result of physical disturbance
and not q supernatural address. Jot
had Carbuncles, and they frightened
him nights, and he says, Thou scares
me with dreams, and terrihest me
through visions" Solomon, through
overwork of brain suffers from errati(
slumber, and writes in Eclesiastes, "a
dream cometh through the multitude o.
business" DR.. Gregory, demonstrating
how dreams were the result of disturbed
physical condition, says that when bot
tie of hot water was applied to his feet
in sleep he thought he vas going up the
sides of Mount Etna. Buzerlingues ex'
perimented with dreams, and found that
leaving his feet uncovered while asleep
hs thought himself riding in an Alpine
diligence. Sometimes your dream ls
merely a narcotic disturbance. Do not
think that anything you see under the
effect Of chloral or laudanum or brandy
or hasheesh is firm the Lord. The
learned De Quincy was not foolish
enough to suppose he was having Di'
vine communication when under his
sleep, opium. saturated, he dreamt what
he described when he said: II was wor.
shipped, was sacrificed. l fed from
the wrath of Brahma through all the for
ests of Asia. Vishnu hated me; silva lay
in wait for me- came suddenly upon
Isis and Osiris. l had done deed, they
said, at which the Ibis and the crocodile
trembled. l was buried for a thousand
wears in stone collins, with mummies
and sphinxes,in narrow chamber at the
heart of eternal pyramids. | was kissed
with cankerous kisses by crocodiles, and
Law confounded with unutterabGe Shiny
things among reeds and NilotiC mud"
My friends, the vast majority Of dreams,
instead of being Divine communications,
are the penalty of outraged digestive or
gans, and you ought not to- mistake night
mare for heavenly revelation. Late sup.
pers are a wsrrsntee-deed for bad
dreams; highly spiCed salads at II o'clock
at night, instead Of opening communica'
ton with the heavenly world, will open
to Your mind the internal and the dia-
bolical. Offend natures laws and you
offend the God who made those laws. 1t
takes food from three to five hours to
digest, and you have no right to keep
your digestive organs in struggle while
the rest of your body is in somnolence.
AS a rule, eat nothing after six o'clock
at night; go to your pillow at ten o'clock,
sleep on your right side, have the win
dow open five inches for ventilation, and
other worlds will not be making in
roads upon yol. Through your physi-
cal maltrestment you take the ladder
which in Jacobs dream was set against
the sky, and you lower it to the neither
world, allowing the ascent of the demo-
niacal. The most of your dreams are
midnight dyspepsia. Unlegulated desire
for something to eat ruined the race in
Paradise, and an unregulated desire for
something to eat keeps it ruined, The
world during the last six Thousand years
has tried in vain to digest that first
apple. The world will never be evan.
geized until we get rid of dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people don't
want this CadaverOus and asthmatic and
sleepless thing that some people call re.
ligion, They want religion that lives
regularly by day and sleeps soundly by
night. If, through trouble or exhaustion
rom Christian service you cannot sleep,
you can expect songs through the night,
but there are no blessed communications
from heaven for those who willingly
themselves to indigestibles.
Fourth remark: Many dreams are
merely the echo Of waking thoughts. |
could give you a recipe for pleasant
lreams--fill up your days with elevated
bought and uDselfsh action, and your
lreams will be set to music. The man
who is all day grasping and gouging and
lvariCious will at night dream OfgOld he
,annot clutch and Of bargains in which
le was out-Shylocked. The man who is
,ugnaCious and irascibe and gunpow.
lery of disposition will have midnight
,attles with enemies getting the best Of
linn. The man always in hurry by
lay will pass his nights in trying to
atch trains of cars without being able
o move an inch. A man who in wake
ll moments is ever-suspiCious and ever
xpectant of assault, will have hallucna-
ion of assassins with daggers drawn.
you are not surprised that Richard the
'hird, the iniquitous, the night before
be battle of Boswerth Field, thought, in
lis dreams, he was stared at by all
hose whom he had murdered and
orn by devils from the pit. Scholars
reams are rythmic echo. Coleridge |
omposed his "Kubla Khan" in sleep |
nder anodyne, and, reused up, wrote
hree hundred lines of it. Tartinia, the |
iolin player, composed his most famous
onata in dream 80 wildly he easily |
,rote it out after waking. The habit of
ur waking thoughts will be for the most |
art the habit of our sleeping thought. |
man who tries to make others happy |
nd is heavenly minded, will have his
illow surrounded by Cripples that have
OF over the Crutches and procession of
elestial imperials and grand marches
lllad down from drums of heaven over
Isper parapets. A grand way to deCi-
her yonr thoughts by day is by consult
ig what have been your dreams by the
light. II your dreams are bad / fear
our life is bad. If your dreams are
ood, the probabilities are your life is
ood.
Having thus far shown that we ought
, be satisfied with the revelation already
lsde, if we get no other, and that all
reams demonstrated the sonl's compar-
live Independence of the body, and that
lost dreams are the penalty for the in