The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-03-29

bottle Of hot water put TO his feet while
In slumber 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
that you see while under the influence OF
choral or brandy or "hashecsh" OF laud-
anum Is not revelation from God. The
learned De Quincy did not ascribe 20 d-
vine communication what he saw In sleep,
opium saturated; dreams which he after
ward described in the following words: II
was worshiped; | was sacrificed; | fed
from the wrath OF Brahma through all the
forests OF Asia. Vishnu hated me. silva
laid in wait for me. came suddenly upon
Isis and Osiris. l 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 COMPOUNDED with I'M
utterable Shiny things among wreathy and
Nilotic mud" Do not mistake narcotic dis
turbance for divine revelation.
A 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 mt 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 IL takes from three 20
iva To Il nd hux-
right 10 keep your digestive organs in
struggle when the rest Of your body is in
somnolence. 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 maltreatmcnt 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 10 eat ruined the race in
paradise and an unregulated desire for
something to eat keeps it ruined. The
world during ZOO years has tried In vain
10 digest that first apple The world will
not be evangelical until we get rid Of dys-
peptic Christianity. Healthy people do not
want this c4daverous and sleepy thing that
some people call religion They want a re-
ligion that lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by night.
Il through trouble or coming on Of old
age or exhaustion Of Christian service you
csnnot sleep well, then you may expect
from God songs in the night" but there
are no blessed communications TO those
who willingly surrender to indigestibles
Napoleon's army at Leipsic, Dresden and
Borodino came near being destroyed
through the disturbed gastric juices Of its
commander That is the way you have lost
some Of your battles.
Another remark | make is that our dreams
are apt to be merely the echo of our day
thoughts.
l viii give you a recipe for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
thought and unselfsh action, and your
dreams will be set 70 music. If 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. IL during the day you
are irascibe and pugnacious and gunpow-
derry OF disposition, you will 40 night have
battle with enemies in which they will get
the best q you. If you are all day long in
a hurry, at night you will dream Of rail
trains that you want to catch while you can
not move one inch toward the depot.
RECIPE FOR BAD DREAMS.
II you are always oversuspicious and ex-
pectant of assault, you will have at night
Authorizations of assassins with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard III,
the iniquitous. the night before the battle
of Bosworth Field dreamed that all those
whom he had murdered stared at him, and
that he was torn 10 pieces by demons from
the pit The scholars dream is n phil
OsOphic echo. The poets dream is a
rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his
"kubla Khan" asleep in a narcotic dream,
and waking up wrote down 300 lines Of it.
Tartini, the violin player, composed his
most wonderful sonata while asleep in a
dream so vivid that waking he easily trans
ferred it TO paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts If man spends his life
in trying to make others happy and IS
heavenly minded, around his pillow he will
see cripples VINO have got over their crutch,
and professions Of celestial imperials, and
hear the grand march roll down from drums
Of heaven over jasper parapets. You are
very apt 20 hear in dreams what you hear
when you are wide awake.
Now, having shown you that having a
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
comparative independence Of the soul from
the body, and having shown you that the
majority Of dreams are q result of disturbed
physical conditions, and having shown you
that our sleeping thoughts are apt TO be an
echo of our waking thoughts, / 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 Of
ten since the close Of the Bible dispensation
appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do I know il? Is not God
the source Of all goOdy IL does not take
very logical mind to argue that out Ter
tullian and Martin Luther believed in
dreams. The dreams of John Huss are i'm
mortal st. Augustine, the Christian IA
Their, gives US the fact that arthaginian
physician was persuaded OF the immortal.
~ Of the soul by an argument which he
heard in dream. The night before his as
sassination the wife OF Julius Cesar
dreamed that her husband fell dead across
her lap. 1t Is possible to prove that God
does appear in dreams to warn, TO convert
and TO save men.
Ny friend. a retired sea captain and a
Christian, tells me that one night while on
the sen he dreamed that a ships crew were
In great suffering. Waking up from his
dream, he put about the ship, tackled in diff.
ferent directions, surprised everybody on
the yessel-they thought he was going
crazy-sailed on in another direction hou
after hour and for many hours until he