The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1893-04-06

: RAN IS boy again in his fathers house
Ifthe soul, before 1t has entirely broken
its chain of flesh, can do all this, how
far can it leap, what circles can it cut,
when IL is fully liberated?
Every dream, whether agreeable O,
harassing, whether sunshiny or tenn
pestuous, means somuch that rising
from your couch you ought to kneel
down and say: 80 God! am immortal?
Whence? Whittier? Two natures. NV
soul Gagged now-what when the door of
the cage is opened? Ifmy soul can fly
so far in the few hours in which my body
is asleep in the night, how lar can it fly
when my body sleeps the long sleep of
the gravc?" On, this power to dream,
how startling, how whelmlng! If
prepared for the alter death flight, what
an enchantmcnt! If not prepared for
the after death flight, what crushing
agony! lmmorlal! Immortal!
Remark the Thlrd-The vast majority
dreams are merely the result Of disturb
ed physical condition and are not a
supernatural message.
Job had carbunclcs, and he was scared
in the night. He says, "Thou scarest
me with dreams and terriGest me with
visions" Solomon had an overwrought
brain. ovcrwrought with public business,
and he suffered from cratic slumber,
and he writes in Ecclesiastes, "a dream
cOmeth through the multitude of busl-
ness" DR.. Gregory in experimenting
with dreams found that a bottle of hot
water put to his ieet while in slumbcr
made him think that he was going up
the hot sides OF Mount Etna.
Another morbid physician, expert
mentlng with dreams, his feet uncovered
through sleep, thought he was riding in
an Alpine diligence. But great many
dreams are merely narcotic disturbance.
Anything that you see while under the
influence of chloral or brandy or
"hashcesh" or laudanum is not revela.
ton from God. The learned De Quincy
dld not ascribe to divine communication
what he saw in sleep, opium saturated
dreams which he afterward described in
the following words: Il was wOrshiped;
| was sacrificed; fled from the wrath
OF Brahma through all the forests o
Asa. Vlshnu hated me. silva laid in
wait Tor me. came suddenly upon Isis
and Osiris. l had done q deed, the,
said. that made the crOcodies tremble
l. was buried for thousand years il
stone collins, with mummies anc
sphnXcs in narrow chambers at tho
heart OF eternal pyramids. l was kissed
with cancerols kiss of crocodics ant
lay contoundcd with unutterable slimy
things among wreathy and Nilotc mud
DO not mistake narcotic disturbance io
{ divine revelation.
But have to tell you that the ma
| l.
i. penalty of outraged digestive organs
q and you have no right to mistake tn
II nightmare Tor heavenly revelation. Lat
IA Suppers are warranty deed for ba
y dreams. Highly spiccd salads at |
,c door hcavenward open the door intern;
I and diabollcal. You outrage natur;
10 law, and you insult the God who mac
those laws. 1t takes from three TO liN
IS hours to digest food, and you have I
,t right TO keep your digestive organs
in struggle when the rest your body is
I. somnolcnce. The general rule is, e.
nothing alter O'Clock at night, reti
" at 10, sleep on your right side, keen u
IN window open five inches for ventllatio
NJ and other worlds will not disturb yc
- much.
lc BY physical maltreatmcnt you tai
OF the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream
al and you lower it to the neither world, a
k, lowing the ascent Of the demoniaca
% Dreams arc midnight dyspepsia. A
. unrcGulatcd desire for something to ca
c ruined the race III paradise, and an I'm
| regulated desire for something to ca
a keeps it ruined. The world durin.
G 5000 ycms has tried in vain to diccs
y that first apple. The world will not bt
It evangelical until we get rid Of a dys
y pcptic Christianity. Healthy ocoplc dc
not want this cadavcrous and sleepy
Il thing that some people call religion
t Thoy want religion that lives regular.
: ly by day aud slcsps soundly by night.
= II through trouble or coming on ol
: old age or exhaustion oil Christian SER
/ vice you cannot sleep we'll, then you
} may expect from God "songs in the
) night" but there are no blessed coin.
} munlcatlons to those who willingly sur.
render to indigestiblcs. Napolcon's
army at Leipslc, Dresden and Bor )dno
came near being destroyed through the
disturbed gastric juices Of Its comman-
der. That is the way you have lost
some of your battles.
Another rcmak | make Is that our
dreahls are apt TO be merely the echo of
our day thoughts.
L will give you recipe for pleasant
dreams: FIJI your days with elevated
thought and unsellish action, and your
dreams will be set toSmusc. If all day
you are gougng and gcaspipo and
avarlcious, in your drea rs you will! sec
gold that you cannot cluLh and bargains
in which you were outshylocked. II
during the day you are irascible and
pugnacious and gunpowdery of disposi-
ton, you will at night have battle with
enemies in which they will get
the best of you. If you are all day
long in a hurry, at night you will dream
OF rail trains that you want to catch
while you cannot move one inch toward
the depot.
lfyou are always oversuspicous and
exlectant of assault, you will have at
night haliucinations of assassins with
daggers drawn. No one wonders that
Richard IIL, the iniqutous, the night
before the battle OF Bosworth Field
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