The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1893-03-31

fully liberated! Eve ~ dream, whethe
agreeable or harrassin whether sun
shiny or tempestuous, means so nue.
that rising from your couch you cugh
TO kncel down and say. 20 God. am
immortal2 Whence? Whittier? Tw,
natures. My soul Gagged now-wha
when the door Of the cage is opened
IL my soul can fly SO far in the few
hours IN which my body is asleep in TN
night, how far can IL fly when my bod,
sleeps the long sleep of the Grave?
Oh, this power TO dream, how startling
how overwhelming! II prepared 70
the after-death flight, what an enchant
mentl II not prepared for the after
death flight, what a crushing agony
immortal Immortal!
Remark the third: The vast majorit,
OF dreams are merely the result OF dis
turbcd physical condition, and are no
4 a sapernatursi sssss~s~
ielslQhhad csFpunaannEuIf - - -
Ia the night Tie says: "Thon scsres
mo with dreams and tcrrifest me will
visions" Solomon had an overwrough
brain, overweight with public bust
ness, and he suffered from giraffe slum
Der, and he writes in Ecclesiastes: "A
| dream cometh through the multitude
| OF business" DIR. Gregory, In eXperi.
menting with dreams, found that a bot.
Tie OF hot water put 10 his feet while in
slumher made him think that he was
going up the hot sides of Mt Etna.
Another morbid physician experiment.
ing with dreams, his feet uncovered
through sleep, thought he was riding
IN an Alpine diligence. But a great
many dreams are merely narcotic
disturbance. Any thing that you
se" while under the influence of
chloral or brandy. or "hashcesh, ="
or laudanum, is not a revelation
from God. The learned De Quincy did
not ascribe to divine communication
what he saw in sleep. Opium saturated
dreams which lac aftcrward described
IN the following words: 81 was wor-
SHIPPED, ] was sacrificed, fed from the
wrath Of lirahmah. through all the for
"sts OF Asia Nishnu hated me, Scova
laid in wait for me. | came suddenly up
on Isis and Osiris had done a deed,
they said, that made the crocodiles
trcmble ! was buried for a thousand
years in stone collins, with mummies
and sphinNcs In narrow chambers at
the heart Of eternal pyramids. was
kissed with the cancerOus kiss OF croco-
dies, and lay confoundcd with unutter-
able Shiny things among wreathy and
Nliotic mud DO not mistake narcotic
disturbance for divine revelation.
But have TO tell You that the una ior-
ny Of the dreams are merely the penal !
~ Of outraged digestive organs. and |
YOU have no right 10 mistake the night |
mare for heavenly revelation. Late |
'uppers are a warranty deed for bad /
dreams llighly-Spiccd salads at II /
o'clock at night, instead Of opening the |
ioor heavcnward. open the door infer |
lal and diabolicaL You outrage natu. /
-al law, and you insult the God who !
made those laws 1t takes from three /
20 i've hours To digest food, and YOU |
have no right 90 keep your digestive or !
yans in struggle when the rest Of your
body Is in somnolencc. The general
'ule is, eat nothing after g o'clock at
light, retire at 10. sleep on Your right
,ide, keep the window open five inches
or ventilation, and other worlds will
not disturb YOU much. by phys
cal maltrcatment you take the
adder that Jacob saw in his
iream and you lower 1t to the neither
world, allowing the ascent Of the de-
nonictL Dreams are midnight dyspep-
la. An unregulated desire for some
hing TO eat ruined the race in Paradise,
nd an unregulated desire for some
hing 10 eat keeps /. ruined. The Z
world during 5000 years has tried in I
ain 10 digest the first apple. The
world will not be- evangelical until we
ct rid Of n dyspeptic Christianity. |
lealthy people do not want this radav-
rous and sleepy thing that some PEG.
lie call religion. They want a religion .
hat lives regularly 10y day and sleeps I
oundly 10y night II through trouble
r coming OF old age, or exhaustion Of {
hristian service You can not sleep
'en, then you may expect from God !
Songs in the night" but there are no ,
icssed communication TO those who ,
surrender TO iudigestibleS I
apoleon's army at Lcipsic, Dresden
royed through the disturbed gastric |
iiscs Of its commander That is the ]
ay you have lost some OF your battles G
Another remark make is that our
-eams are apt TO be merely the echo of
lr day thoughts.
! will give you recipc for pleasant u
reams: Fill your days with elevated
,ppghtS aud ttnsa1 "a IA nj, -, ,,,,4 1870. q
cams will be set to music II all day !,
ou are gouging and grdsping and !
'ariciouS. in your dreams you will see |
I'D that You can not clutch, and bar !
inns IN which you were outshylocked. q
IL during the day you are irascible a
I'd pugnacious and gunpowdcry Of dis
'sition, you will at night have battle y
It'll enemies in which they will get the
st Of you. IL you are all day long in
hurry, at night you will dream of n
ii trains that you want to catch while p
n can not move one inch toward the =
pot l
II you are always oversuspicious and
pectant of assault you will have at s.
yht Authorizations of assassins with "
ggers drawn. No one wonders that u
rhard Ill, the iniquitous, the e.
yht before the battle of Bosworth I"
ED dreamed that all those whom he p
Il murdered stared at him, and that u
was torn To pieces by demons p
IN the pit The scholars dream is a al
ilosophic echo. The poets dream is g
'hythmic echo Coleridge composed lie
"kubla Khan" asleep in n narcotic &c
am, and, waking up wrote down II
&c hundred lines Of it. Tartini, the OF
lin player, composed his most won al
full sonata while asleep n dream In
vivid that waking, he easily trans W
rcd II TO paper p'
Waking thoughts have their echo in w
eping thoughts II a man spends pi
life Ia trying To make others happy nc
is heavenly.minded, around his pill IN
: he will see cripples who have got ue
r their crutch and professions of w
nstial imperials And hear the grand
rch roll down from drums of Heaven a.,
r jasper parapcts You are very apt ~,
rear in dreams what you hear when 80
are wide awake ~
ow having shown you that, having a.,
}ible, we ought TO be satisfied not
ting any further communication ~