The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-07

DRY, in experimenting with dreams
found that bottle of hot water put tC
his feet while in slumber made him
think that he was going up the hot
sides of Mount Ktna- Another morbid
physician, experimenting with dreams,
his feet uncovered through sleep,
thought he was riding in an Alpine
diligence. But great many dreams
are merely narcotic disturbance. Any
thing that you see while under the in
f1uence of choral or brandy, or "has-
heesh," or laudamum, is not a revela-
ton from God Do not mistake
narcotic disturbance for divine revela-
ton.
But have to tell you that the ma
jority of the dreams are merely the
penalty of outraged digestive organs,
and you have no right to mistake the
nightmare for heavenly revelation
Late suppers are warranty deed for
bad dreams Highly-spiced salads at
IL o'clock at night, instead of opening
the door heavenward, open the door in
fernal and diabolicaL You outrage
natural law, and you insult the God
who made those laws. 1t takes from
three to five hours to digest food, and
you have no right to keep your di-
gestive organs in struggle when the
rest of your body is in somnolence.
Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An
unregulated desire for something to
eat ruined the race in Paradise, and an
unregulated desire for something to
eat keeps it ruined. The world during
six thousand years has tried in vain to
digest that first apple. The world will
not be evangelical until we get rid of
dyspeptic Christianity. Healthy people
do not want this cadaverous and sleepy
thing that some people call religion.
They want a religion that lives regu-
larly by day and sleeps soundly by
night If through trouble or coming
on of old age. or exhaustion of Chris
tan service you cannot sleep well, then
You may expect from God songs in the
/ night" but there are no blessed COM
munications to those who willingly
surrender to indigestibles Napoleon's
army at Liepsic, Dresden and Borodino
came near being destroyed through the
disturbed gastric juices of its COM
lIlduNGIs 1itb ID bilC way gOu haNC
lost some of your battles.
Another remark l make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo of
our day thoughts.
1 will give you recipe for pleasant
dreams. Fill your days with elevated
thought and unselfish action, and your
dreams will be set to music. If all day
you are gouging and grasping and
avaricious. in your dreams you will see
gold that you cannot clutch, and bar
gains in which you were outshyloclzed.
If during the day you are irrascible
and pugnacious and gunpowdery of dis
position, you will at night have battle
with enemies in which they will get
the best of you. If you are all day long
in hurry, at night you will dream of
rail trains that you want to catch while
you cannot move one inch toward the
depot
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts. If man spends
his life in trying to make others happy,
and is heavenly minded, around his
pillow he will see cripples who have
got over their crutch, and professions
of celestial imperials, and hear the
grand march roll down from drums of
Heaven over jasper parapets. You are
very apt to hear in dreams what you
hear when you are wide awake.
Now, having shown you that having
Bible we ought to be satisfied in not
getting any further communication
from God, and having shown you that
all dreams have an important mission,
since they show the comparative indie
pendence of the soul from the body,
and having shown you that the major
ity of dreams are the result of disturbed
physical condition, and having shown
you that our sleeping thoughts are apt
to be an echo of our waking thoughts,
come now to my fifth and most i'm
portant remark, and that is to say, that
it is capable of proof that God does
sometimes in our day, and has often
since the close of the Bible dispense
ton, appeared to people in dreams
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do know it? Is not
God the source of all good? 1t does not
take very logical mind to argue that
out Tertullian and Martin Luther be-
lieved in dreams The dreams of John
Huss are immortal St Augustine, the
Christian father, gives us the fact that
Carthaginian physician was per-
suaded of the immortality of the soul
by an argument which he heard in a
dream. The night before his assassi-
nation the wife of Julius Cesar dreamed
that her husband fell dead across her
lap. 1t is possible to prove that God
does appear in dreams to warn, to con-
vert and to save men.
Ny friend, retired sea captain and
a Christian, tells me that one night
while on the sea he dreamed that a
ships crew were in great suffering.
Waking up from the dream he put
about the ship, tackled in different di-
rections, surprised everybody on the
vessel-they thought he was going
crazy-sailed on in another direction
hour after hour, and for many hours
until he came TO the perishing crew and
rescued them and brought them to New
York. Who conducted that dream? The
God of the sea-
In 1895 vessel went out from Spit
head from West India and ran against
the ledge of rocks called the Caskets.
The vessel went down, but the crew
clambered up on the Caskets, to die of
thirst or starvation, as they supposed.
But there was ship bound for South
ampton that had the captains son on
board. This lad twice in one night
dreamed that. there was a crew of sail
ors dying on the Caskets- He told his
father of his dream The vessel came
down by the Baskets in time to find
and to rescue those poor diving men.