The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1893-04-01

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 IN
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 a
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
m%unications to those who willingly
surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon's
army at Liepsic, Dresden and Borodino
came neal being destroyed through the
disturbed gastric juices of it's COM
mander. That is the way you AVE
lost some of your battles.
Another remark l make is hat our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo of
our day thoughts.
will give you a 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, 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 a 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, aud professions
of celestial imperials, and hear the
oil WI bo"h vi VI
Heaven over jasper parapets. You are
very apt to hear in dreams what you
hear when you are wide awake.
Now, having shown you hat having
n 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,
l come now to my fifth and nos 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 il? Is not
God the source Of all good? 1t does not
take a very logical mind to argue hat
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
a ~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 o n
vert and to save men.
My friend, a retired sea captain and
q 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
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.
Rev.. DIR. Bushnell, in his marvellous
book, entitled: Mature and the Super
natu raj, gives the following fact that
he got from Capt. Yount, in California,
a fact confirmed by many families:
Capt Yount dreamed twice one night
that $50 miles away there was a com.
pany of travellers fast in the snow. lie
also saw in the dream rocks of a pecu-
liar formation, and telling his dream to
an old hunter. the hunter said: "Why,
/ remember those rocks; those rocks are
in the Carson Valley pass, $50 miles
away" Capt. Eount. impelled by this.
although laughed at by his neighbors,
gathered men together, took mules and
blankets. and started out on an cxpedi-
ton, ira yelled $50 miles, saw those very
rocks which he had described in his
dream, and finding the suffering ones
at the foot of those rocks, brought
them back to confirm the story of Capt.
Yount. Who conducted that dream?
The God of the snow, the God of the
Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams to
rescue and comfort. You rave known
people-perhaps it is something l state
in your W experience-you have seen
people go to sleep with bereavements
inconsolable, and they awakened in
perfect resignation because of what
they had seen in slumbee@
Furthermore, l have to say that there
are people in this house who were con-
verified to God through a dream. Rev.
John Newton, the fame of whose piety
fills all Christendom, while n profiigate
sailor on shipboard, in his dream,
thought that a being approached him
and gave him a very beautiful ring, and
put it upon his finger, and said 10 him:
"As'long as you wear that ring you will
be prospered; if you loose that ring you
will be ruined" In the same dream
another parsonage appeared, and by a
strange infatuation persuaded John
Newton to throw that ring overheard,
and it sank into the sea. Then
the mountains in sight were full
of fire and the air was lurid
with consuming wrath. While
John Newton was repenting of his
folly in having thrown overboerd the
treasure, another parsonage came
through the dream and told John New
ton he would plunge into the sea and
bring the ring up if he desired it. He
plunged into the sea and brought it up
and said to John Newton: "IIere is n
gem, but ! think | will keep it for you,
lest You lose it again," and John New
ton consented, and all the fire went
out from the mountains, and all the
signs of lurid wrath disappeared from
the air, and John Newton said hat he
saw in his dream that that valuable
gem was his soul, and that the being
who persuaded him to throw it over
board was Satan, and that the one who
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