The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-05-20

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Remark the second: All dreams have
N important meaning.
They prove that the soul is comparar
lively independent OF the body. The
ives are closed, the senses are dull, the
entire body goes into lethargy which
IN all languages is used as type OF
Heath, and then the soul spreads us
wing and never sleeps. 1t leaps the
Atlantic ocean and mingles in scenes
three thousand miles away. 1t travels
great reaches of time, flashes back
eighty years, and the octogenarian is
bow again in his fathers house. II the
soul, before it has entirely broken its
chain of flesh, can do all this, how far
can it leap. what circles can 1t cut when |
1t is fully liberated! Every dream,
whether agreeable or harassing, wheth.
err sunshiny or tempestuous, means SO
much that rising from your couch you
ought to kneel down and say: 20 God!
am / immortal? Whence? Whittier?
Two natures. My soul Gagged now
what when the door of the cage Is
opened? If my soul can fly so far in the
few hours in which my body is asleep
in the night, how far can it ny when
nv body sleeps the long sleep OF the
prave?" Oh, this power to dream. how
startling, how overwhelming! IL pre-
pared for the after-death flight, what
an enchan tmenG II not prepared for
the after-death fight, what crushing
agony! immortal! Immortal!
| Remark the third: The vast majority
| of dreams are merely the result OF dis
turbed physical condition, and are not
supernatural message.
Job had carbuncles, and he was
scared in the night. He says: Thou
scarest me with dreams and terrifiest
me with visions" Solomon had an
overweight brain, overweight with
public business, and he suffered from
cratic slumber, and he writes in Ec-
clesiastes: "a dream cometh through
the multitude of business" DIR. Greg
ory, in experimenting with dreams,
| found that a bottle of hot water put
to his feet while in slumber made him
think that he was going up the mol
sides of Mount Etna. Another NOR
bid physician, experimenting VIII
dreams, his feet uncovered through
sleep. thought he was riding In
an Alpine diligence. But great
. mapy dreams are merely narcotic
disturbance. Anything that you SCI
while under the influence of choral O
brandy. or s'hasheesh," or laudanum
is not a revelation from God. Tn
learned De Quincy did not ascribe t
y | hof
Sleep opium saturated; dreams VINO
:. he afterward described in the follow
: ! inc words: 81 was worshiped, wa
sacrificed. / fed from the wrath
!, Bramah, through all the forests
: Asia. Vishu hated me. Sceva laid 4
wait for me. l came suddenly upo
: Isis and Osiris. / had done q deco
thew said, that made the crocodile
tremble. was buried for one tho
e sand years in stone coffins, with nun
= mics and sphinxes in narrow chamoe
- at the heart of eternal pyramids
" was kissed with the cancerous kiss
:, crocodiles and lay COMPOUNDED wit
~ unutterable Shiny things amor
- wreathv and Nilotic mud" Do n
:, mistake narcotic disturbance for L
in vine revelation.
I'd But / have to tell you that the m
~ ioritv of the dreams are merely t
ia penalty of outraged digestive organ
IL and you have no right to mistake
I nightmare for heavenly reveiatie
oh Late suppers are a warranty deed
nm bad dreams. Highly-spiced salads
-. eleven o'clock at night, instead
al onenino the door heavenward, open
,at door internal and diabolical You O
~. rage natural law, and you insult
ed God who made those laws. 1t TAI
a from three to five hours to digest 10
ev and Won have no right to keep "
,o- digestive organs in struggle when !,
IN. rest of your body is in somnolence'
no general rule is, eat nothing after
an o'clock at night, retire at ten, sleep
ed vour right side, keep the window o.
mt Ave inches for ventila ton, and OF
al, worlds will not disturb you much.
"a. nhvsical maltrentment you take
I'm ladder that Jacob saw in his DIRE
nto and YOU lower it to
Of neither world, allowing the asc
.;s- Of the demoniacal. Dreams
midnight dyspepsia. An unre
nor lated disire for something to eat rui
r;lv the race in Paradise, and an uni
ave- Mated desire for some thing to
ore keeps it ruined The world during
nm thousand years has tried in vain 70
Eve pest that first apple. The world
cod not be evangelical until we get n
h a a dyspeptic Christianity. Healthy
,,e 40 not want this cadaverous
ted sleepy thing that some people cal
unit lligion. They want religion
hat lives regularly by day and 81
inc soundly by night If through tro
age or coming on of old age, or exhaus
NV Of Christian service, you can not S
cam we'll, then you may expect from
The "songs in the night" but there arr
the blessed communications to those
ion willingly surrender to indigesti
sad. Napoleon's army at Liepsic, Dire
Ion and Borodino, came near being
!, an. stroyed through the disturbed ga
.nrh ;uices of its commander. That !
&C way you have lost some OF your
that ties
/, o.t Another remark I make is thai
dreams are apt to be merely the
,r;s;s of our day thoughts.
does will give you recipe for pie
90 dreams: Fill your days with eie
,sne- thought and unselfish action ana
's;th dreams will be set to music. II a.