Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-30

ny when my body sleeps Tue long sleep Oh
the grave?" Oh, this power to dream, how
startling how overwhelming If prepared
for the after death fight, what an enchant
ment If not prepared for the after death
flight, what crushing agony Immortal
Immortall
Remark the Thirtl-The vast ma iority of
dreams are merely the result of disturbed
physical condition and are not n supernat
ural message.
Job had carhuncles, and he was scared in
the night He SAYS Thou scarest me with
dreams and terrificst me with visions
Solomon had an ovcrwrought brain, over
wrought with public business, and he suf
fercd from erratic slumber, and he writes
in Ecclesiastcs, "A dream cometh through
the multitude of business" DIR. Gregory
in experimenting with dreams found that
bottle of hot water put to his feet while
in slumhcr made him think that he was go
ing up The hot sides of Mount Etna
Another morbid physician, experiment
ing with dreams his feet uncovered through
sleep, thought he was riding in an Alpine
diligence But great many dreams are
merely narcotic disturbance. Anything
TINT YOU see while under the influence of
choral or brandy or "hasheesh" or laud-
anum is not a revelation from God. The
learned De Quincy did not ascribe to di-
vine communication what he saw in sleep,
opium saturated; dreams which he after
ward described in the following words IL
was worshiped: | was sacrificed; | fed
from the wrath of 3rahma through all the
forests of Asia Nishnu hated me. silva
laid in wait for me. ! came suddenly upon
Isis and Osiris. | had done n deed, they
said, that made the crocodiles tremble.
was buried for a thousand years in stone
collins. with mummies and sphinxes in mar
row chambers at the heart Of eternal pyra-
mids | was kissed with a cancerous kiss
of crocodiles and lay confounded with I'M
utterable Shiny things among wreathy and
Nilotic mud" Donot mistake narcotic dis
turbance for divine revelation.
\ DREAM OFTEN a PENALTY.
But have to tell you that the majority
of the dreams are merely the penalty of
outraged digestive organs, and you have
no right to mistake the nightmare for
heavenly revelation. Late suppers are a
warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly
spiced salads at II o'clock at night instead
of opening the door heavenward open the
door Internal and diabolical. You outrage
natural law, and YOU insult the God who
made those laws. 1t takes from three to
five hours to digest food, and you have no
right to keep your digestive organs in
struggle when the rest Of your body is in
somnolencc. The general rule IS, eat moth
ing after o'clock at night, retire at 10,
sleep on your right side, keep the window
open five inches for ventilation, and other
worlds will not disturb you much
BY physical maltrcatment you take the
ladder that Jacob saw in his dream, and you
lower it to the neither world, allowing the
ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unregulated desire
for something to eat ruined the race in
paradise, and an unreguated desire for
something to eat keeps it ruined The
world during G0OO years has tried in vain
to digest that first apple The world will
not be evangelical until we get rid of dys-
peptic Christianity Healthy people do not
want this Cauaverous and sleepy thing that
some people call religion They want a re-
IiSion that lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by night.
If through trouble or coming on of old
age or exhaustion of Christian service YOU
| cannot sleep WELL then you may expect
| from God songs in the night" but there
| are no blessed communications to thos,
who willingly surrender to indigestibles
| Napoeon's army at Leipsic, Dresden anC
| Borodiao came near being destroyed
| through the disturbed gastric juices of il
| commander. That is the way you have lOst
some of your battles.
| Another remark make is hat our dream,
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 YOU
| dreams will be set TO music. If all day you
aye gouging and grasping and ayaricious
| in your dreams you will see gold that you
cannot clutch and bargains in which yor
were outshylocked. If during the day yoI
are irascible and pugnacious and gunpow
| derry OF disposition, you will at night hav,
| battle with enemies in which they will ge
the best of you. If you are all day long il
hurry, at night you will dream of raj
trains that you want to catch while YOU can
not move one inch toward the depot.
RECIPE FOR BAD DREAMS
If you are always oversuspicous and eX
pectaut of assault, you will have at nigh
Authorizations of assassins with dagger.
drawn. No one wonders that Richard III
the iniquitous the night before the battl,
| of BosWorth Field dreamed that all thos,
whom he had murdered stared at him, ant
that he was torn to pieces by demons from
the pit. The scholars dream is Il phil
osophic echo The poets dream is
rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed hi
'kubla Khan" asleep in II narcotic dream
and waking up wrote down 300 lines of it
Tartini the violin player, composed hi
most wonderful sonata while asleep in
dream so vivid that waking he easily trans
ferred it to paper
Waking thoughts have their echo il
sleeping thoughts. If man spends his lif
in trying to make Others happy and i
heavenly minded, around his pillow he will
see cripples who have get over their crutch
and professions of celestial imperials, anC
hear the grand march roll down from drum
Of heaven over jasper parapets You ar
very apt to hear in dreams what you hea
when you are wide awake.
Now, having shown you that having
Bible we ought to be satisfied not gcttin,
any further communication from God ant
having shown you that all dreams have al
important mission, since they show tn
comparative independence Of the soul from
the body, and having shown you that tn
majority of dreams are IA result ofdisturbe,
physical conditions, and having shown YOU
that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be al
fcho Of our waking thoughts, come now l.