Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1893-04-07
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ttteus creams Wnlcn ne a1terwaru descrlDeC
in the following words:
II was worshiped was sacrificed. fec
from the wrath of Brahma through all ths
forests of ASIA Vishnu hated me. silva laid
in wait for me. | come suddenly upon Isl.
and Osiris. | had done a deed, they said, that
made the crocodiles tremble / was buried
for thousand years In stone coffins, with
mummies and sphinxes in narrow chamber
at the heart of eternal pyramids. | wa:
kissed with the cancerous kiss OF crocodiles
and lay confounded with unutterable slimy
things among wreathy and NDotic mud. "
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for di-
Vine revelation.
But have to tell youHthat the majority
of dreams are merely hepenalty of outrage
digestive organs, and you have no right to
mistake the nightmare for heavenly revela-
tion. Late suppers are a warranty deed for
bad dreams. Highly spiced meals at IL
o'clock at night instead of opening the door
heavenward open the door internal and dia-
bolical. You outrage natural law. and you
insult the God who made these laws. Ii
takes from three to five hours to digest food,
and you have no right to tax your digestive
organs in struggle when the rest OF your
body is in somnolence. The general rule is,
eat nothing after 6 o'clock atnight, retire at
l0, sleep on your right side, keep the win
dow open five inches for ventilation, aud
other worlds will not disturb. you much.
by physical maltreatment you take the
ladder that Jacob saw in his dream aud you
lower it to the neither world, allowing the
ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unregulated desire for
something TO eaC ruined the race in para
disc, and an unregulated desire for some
thing to eat keeps it ruined The world
Turing 5000 years has tried in vainto digest
that first apple. The world will not be
teangelized 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 religion
that lives regularly by day and sleeps
Foundly by night
IL through trouble or coming on of old age
or exhaustion of Christian service you cam
not sleep well, then you may expect from
God songs in the night" but there are no
blessed communications to those who will
ingly surrender TO indigestibies Napoleon's
army at Leipsic Dresden and Borodino
came near being destroyed through the dis
turbed gastric juices Of it commander.
That is the way you have,lost some OF your
battles.
Another remark make is that our
dreams are apt to betmerely the echo of our
day thoughts.
will give you recips for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
thShbht uuociush hIAipu, huu JOui
dreams will be set to music. IL all day you
are gouging and grasping and avaricious
in your dreams you will see gold that you
cannot clutch and bargains in which you
were outshylocked. II during the day you
are irascible and pugnacious and gunpow-
1ery of disposition, you will at night have
battle with enemies in which they will get
the best Of you. IL you are all day long in
hurry, at night you will dream Of rail
tra inc hat xyp,t mt To ooh txht y1tt
cannot move one incn toward the depot.
IL you are always oversuspicious and ex-
pectant of assault, You will have at night
hallucinations of assassins with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard Ill,
the iniquitous, the night before the battle OF
Bosworth Field, dreamed that all those whom
he bad murdered stared at him, and thaehe
was torn to pieces by demons from the pit,
The scholars dream Is philosophic echo.
The poets dream is rhythmic echo. Cole
ridge composed his "Kubla Khan" asleep in
a narcotic dream, and waking up wrote
down 300 lines of II. Tartini, the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in dream so vivid that wax
ing he easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in sleep
ing thoughts. II a man spends his life in
trying to make others happy and is heavenly
minded, around his pillow he will see Grip
Piles wno have got over their crutch and
prcc 'ssions f..celestialimperials 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 not getting
any further communication from God, and
having shown you that all dreams have an
important mission, since they show the com.
narafiVa inIannpfappa pf tho eOnl from tina
body, and having shown you that the ma
jorlty of dreams are a 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 most important 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 dispen-
sation, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are from
God. HoV' do know itY Is not Col the
source Of all good2 1t does not take very
logical mind to argue that out. Tertullian
and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The
dreams of John Huss are immortal. st.
Augustine, the Christian father. gives us
the fact that Carthaginiau physician was
persuaded Of the Immortality of the soul by
an argument which he heard in a dream.
The night before his assassination the wife
of Julius Cesar dreamed that her husband
fell dead across her lap. 1t is possible to
prove that Col does appear in dreams TO
warn, TO convert and TO save men.
Ny friend, a retired sea captain and
Christian, tells me that one night while on
the sea he had dreamed that ships crew
we're in great suffering. Waking up from
his dream, he put about the ship, tackled in
different directions, 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 conduct
ed that dreami The God Of the sea.
In 1895 a vessel went out from Spithead
for the West Indies 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 starvation, as they
supposed. But there was a ship bound for
Southampton that had the captains son
on board. This lad twice In the night
dreamed that there was crew of sailors
diving on the Caskets He told his father of
his dream. The vessel came down by the
Caskets In time to find and TO rescue those
Door dying men. Who conducted that
dream? The God Of the rocks, the Col Of
the sea.
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell, in his marvellous
book entitled, Mature and the Superna.
tural," gives the following fact that he got
from Captain Yount in California, fact
confirmed by many families. Captain Yount
dreamed twice one night that 100 miles
away there was company Of traders fast
in the snow. He also saw in the dream rocks
of peculiar formation, and telling his dream
to an old hunter the hunter sad, "Why, |
remember those rocks; those rocks are in
the Carson Valley pass, 100 miles away"
Captain Yount, impelled by this dream,
although laughed at by hts neighbors,
gathered men together, took mules and
blankets and started out on the expedition,
travelled 15O 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 Captain Yount Who con-
Quoted that dream2 The God OF the snow,
the God of the Sierra Nevadas.