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ton. Late suppers are warranty deed FOR
bad dreams. Highly spiced meals at IL
o'clock at night in stead Of opening the door
heavenward open the door Internal and dia-
bolical. You outrage natural law. ana you
insult the God who made these laws: IL
takes from three to five hours to digest Iooo'
and you have no right to tax your digestive
organs in struggle when the rest or your
body is in somnolence. The general rule Is.
eat nothing after o'clock at night, retire at
10, sleep on your right side, keep the win:
dow open five inches for ventilation, and
other worlds will not disturb you much.
By physical maltreatment you take the
ladder that Jacob saw in his dream ard you
lower it to the neither world, allowing the
ascent Of the demoniaca,. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unre2ulated desire for
something to eat ruined the race In para
disc, and an unregulated desire for some.
thing to eat keeps it ruined. The world
during 5000 years has tried in vain to digest
that first apple. The world Will not oe
e>angelized until we get rid of dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadaverous and sleepy thing that some
people call religion. They want religion
chat lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by night.
If through trouble or coming on Of oldage
or exhaustion OF Christian service you cam
not sleep we'll, then you may expect from
God 'songs in the night" but there are no
blessed communications to those who will
tngly surrender to indigestibles. 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 Oh your
battles.
Another remark I make is that our
dreams are apt to bs merely the echo OF our
day thoughts.
will give you recipe for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
dreams will be set to music. It 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-
derry Of disposition, you will at night have
battle with enemies in which they will get
the best of you. If you are all day long in
q hurry, at night you will dream OF rail-
trains that you want to catch while you
cannot move one inch toward the depot.
II you are always oversusoicious and e1-
pectant Of assault, you will have at night
hallucinatious 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 had murdered stared at him, and that be
was torn to pieces by demons from tine pit.
The scholars dream is philosophic echo.
The poets dream is rhythmic echo. Cole.
ridge composed his 'tKubla Khan" asleep in
a narcotic dream, and waking up wrote
down 800 lines OF it. Tartini, the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in dream so vivid that wax
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Waking thoughts have their echo In sleep
ing thoughts. If man spends his life Ia
trying to make others happy and Is heavenly
minded, around his pillow he will see Grip.
ples who have got over their crutch and
proc .ssions of.celestial. l.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.
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 snow the com
parutive Independence OF the soul from the
body, and having shown you that the ma
iority Of dreams are q result OF disturbed
physical condition, and having shown you
that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an
echo Of our waking thoughts, 1 come now
to nv firth 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-
satior, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are from
God. Hov. do know it2 Is not God the
source Of all good. It 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, tn, Christian father, gives US
the fact that Carthage ginian physician was
persuaded of the immortality OF the soul by
an argument which he heard In dream.
The night before his assassination the wife
of Julius Caesar dreamed that her husband
fell dead across her lap. It Is possible to
prove that Col does appear In dreams to
warn, to convert ami to save men.
My friend, retired sea captain and
Christian, tells me that one night while on
the sea he had dreamed that ships crew
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 70
the perishing crew and rescued them and
brought them to New York. Who conduct
ed that dream: The God Of the sea.
In 1895 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 ship bound for
SOUTHAMPTON that had the captains son
on board. This lad ewics in the night
dreamed that there was q crew Of sailors
dying 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
poor dying men. Who conducted that
dream? The TOD Of the rocks, the Col or
the sea.
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell, in his marvellous
book entitled, Mature and the Superna-
tural," gives tae following fact that ne got
from Captain Yount in California, fact
confirmed by many families. Captain Yount
dreamed twice one night that $50 miles
away there was company Of traders fast
In the snow. He also saw in the dream roc xs
OF peculiar formation, and telling his dream
to an old hunter the hunter sad, "Why, I
remember those rocks: those rocks are in
the Carson Valley pass. 15O miles away"
Captain Yount, impelied by this dream,
although laughed at by his neighbors,
gathered men together, took mules and
blankets and started out on the expedition,
Travelled 150 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 dream3 The Goi of the snow,
the God Of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams to res
cue and comfort. You have known people
perhaps it is something state in your
own experience-you have seen people go to
sleep with bereaveuents inconsolable, and
they awakened in perfect resignation be-
cause OF what they had seen In slumber.
DIR. Crannsge, one OF the most remarkable
men ever INTERCHANGEABLE for benevol-