Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1893-04-14

lreaiIlS when we nave q SuDernal book of in
hnite wisdom on all subjec5sp Why should
We harry ourselves with dreamss Why
should Eddystone All Barnegat lighthous IS
question summer FREELY.
Remark the Second-Aii dreams have an
| important meaning
| They prove that the soul is comparatively
independent Of the body. The eyes ara
! closed, tho senses are dull, tho entire BODY
| goes into q lethargy which III all langua ges
| is used as type of death, and then the soul
| spreads It's wing and never sleeps. It leap5
| the Atlantic Ocean and mingles in scenes
| b00O miles away. It travels great reaches OF
time, flashes back eighty years, and tho
| octogenarian is q boy again in his fathers
| house Ii the soul before it has entirely
| broken its chains of flesh can do all this, how
| far can it leap, what circles can it cut, when
| It is fully liberated.
| Every dream. whether agreeable or har-
assing, whether sunshiny or tempestuous.
means so much that rising from your couch
you ought to l1neel down and say: 10 God.
am immortal? Whence? Whithera Two
natures. Ny soul Gagged now-wnat when
the door of tile cage is openeds Ii my soul
can fly so far in the few hours in which my
body is asleep in the night how far can it
dy when my body sleeps the long sleep of
the grave% On, this power to dream, how
star thing, how overwhelming! If prepared
mentl Ii not prepared for the after death
fight, what's crushing agonyi Immortali
Lmniortali
Remark the Third--The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of disturbed
physical condition and are not supernatural
message.
job had carbuncles aud he was scared in
the night. He says, s'rhou scarest me with
dreams and terrifiest me with Visions Solo
mon had an overweight brain, over
wrought with public business, and he suf-
fered from erratic 8 lumber and he writes in
Ecclesastes, ga dream coneth through the
multitude of business DIR. Gregory in eS
perimenting 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 side of Mount Etna.
Another morbid physician. experimenting
with dreams, his feet uncovered through
sleep, thought he was riding in Alpine dill
gence. But great many dreams are mere
ly narcarcotic disturbance. Anything that
you see while under the influence of chlora.
Tor brandy or ''hasheeshn or lau5auu,1l is moi
a revelation from Coo. The learned d.
quincy GAd not 6scribe to divine communii
cation what he saw in sleep, opium satu.
rated, dreams which he afterward described
9 in the following words
VI was worshiped. was sacrificed la "a
from the wrath of Rrahma through ali ths
forests of Asia. Vishnu hatei me. silva laid
in wait for me. | come suddenly upon Isis
and Osiris. had done deed, they said. thai
made the crocodiles tremble. was buried
for thousand years in stons cofiins, WIZ,
naummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers
Ell the heart OF eternal pyramids. | was
kissei with the cancerous kiss OF crocodiles
and lay confounded with unuttsrahle shiny
things among wreathy and Nilotic mud"
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for dl-
vine revelation.
But have to tell you ';hat the majority
pr dreams are merely the penalty OF outraged
digestive organs, and you have no right to
rhnlstake the nightmare for heavenly revela-
kFlon. Late suppers are warranty deed for
sbad dreams. Highly spicei meals at IL
p'clock at night instead OF opening the door
Eleayenward open the door Internal and dia-
folical. You outrage natural law, and you
psult the Col who made these laws. 1t
Rkes from three to five hours to digest food.
I'D you have no right to tax your digestive
gans in struggle when the rest of your
iy is in somnolenee. The general rule is,
nothing after o Q clock at night. retire at
sleep on your right side, keep the win
y open Eve inches for ventilation, and
PR worlds will not disturb you much
y physical maitreatmenb you take the
fder that Jacob saw in his dream aud YOU
yer it to the neither world. allowing the
es5 oil the demoniaca. Dreams are mid
dyspepsia. An unregulated desire for
thing to eat ruined the race in para
and an unregulated desire for som q
TO eat keeps it ruined. The world
- 5000 years has tried in vain to digest
first apple. The world will not bt
lizsd until we get rid of dYspsptic
hnity Healthy people do not want
laverous and sleepy thing that SONS
call religion. They want religion
lives regularly by day and sleep
" by night.
through trouble or coming on of old age
haustion of Christian service you can
leep we'll, then you may expect iron
'songs in the night but there are NJ
sed communications TO those who will
surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon
IN at Leipsic, Dresden and Borodint
he near being destroyed through the dis
bed gastric juices of it commander
at is fha way Won h va 1ost sam Of var,