Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-04-01

which in all languages Is used rs type
of death, and then the soul spreads its
wing and never sleeps 1t leaps the
Atlantic ocean and mingles in scenes
5000 miles away. 1t travels great
reaches of time, flashes back eighty
years, and octogcnnrian is boy again
in his fathers house. II the soul. be-
fore it has entirely broken its chain OF
flesh, can do all this, how far can 1t
leap, what circles can it cut when 1t is
fully liberated Every dream, whether
agreeable or harassing, whether sum
shiny 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 for in the few
hours in which my body is asleep in the
night how far can it fly when my body
sleeps the long sleep of the grave?'
Remark the third: The vast major
ity of dreams are merely the result OF
disturbed 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 terrifcst
me with visions" Solomon had an
overweight brain, overweight with
public business, and he suffered with
erratic slumber, and he writes in Ec-
clesiastes: "A dream cometh through
the multitude of business" DIR. Greg
DRY, in experimenting with dreams,
found that bottle of hot water put to
his feet while in slumber made him
think that he was going up the hot
sides of Mount Etna. 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
fluence of choral or brandy, or has
heesh," or laudamum, is not 4 revela-
ton from God Do not mistake
narcotic disturbance for divine revela-
ton.
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 n
dyspeptic Christianity. Healthy people
do not want this cadavcrous and sleepy
thing that some people call religion.
They want religion that lives regu-
larly by day and sleeps soundly by
night
Another remark l make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo of
our day thoughts.
l 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 outshylocked.
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 a hurry, ut 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
J sleeping thoughts II 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.
5 Now, having shown you that having
? Bible we ought to be satisfied in moi
, getting any further communication
Y from God, and having shown you thai
4 all dreams have an important mission
Y since they show the comparative indie
4 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
t you that our sleeping thoughts are ap
y to be an echo of our waking thoughts
. / come now to my fifth and most i'm
o portant remark, and that is to say, tina
s it is capable of proof that God doe
/ sometimes in our day, and has oftei
= since the close of the Bible dispense
ton, appeared to people in dreams
n All dreams that make you better ar
t from God. How do know it? Is no
o God the source of all good? 1t does no
j take very logical mind to argue tina
= out Tertullian and Martin Luther be
= lieved in dreams. The dreams of Johl
r Huss are immortal. St Augustine, tn
n Christian father, gives us the fact tina
T. Carthaginian physician was pei
r suaded of the immortality of the sou
A nv an argument which he heard in