Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-04-07

| bad dreams HlRnIy splcei iledis az IL
o'clock at night instead OF opening the door
! holica]. You outrage natural law. AMI you
! insult the Col who made these laws. 1t
takes from three to five hours to digest food.
| ann voii nave no right to tax your digestive
roans in struggle when the rest of your
bo5v is in somnolence. The general rule is,
eat nothing after o'clock at night, retire at
10, sleep on your right side, Keep tne win,
! dow omen five inches for ventilation, and
other worlds will not disturb you much.
Nv nhysical maltreatment you take thu
| ladder that Jacob saw in his dream an l you
lower n Tn the neither world. allowing the
ascent of the demo1iaca'. Dreams are mill
night dyspepsia. An unregulated desire for
something to eat ruined ths race IN para
disc, and an unregulated desire for SOM.
thing to eat keeps it ruined. Tue world
during 5000 years has tried in vain TO digest
that first apple. The world will not be
evangelical until we get rid of a dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadaveraBs and sleepy thing that sons
people call religion. They want religion
that lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by nignt
If 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
ingly surrender to indigestibles. Napoeo3s
army at Leipsic, ORES leu and Boro limo
came near being destroyed through the dis
turbed gastric juices of it commander.
That is the way you have lost soma OF your
battles.
Another remark l make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the ecao of our
day thoughts
will give you recipe for pleasant
dreams; Fill your days with elevated
thought and unselfsh action. and your
dreams will = - - music. 1t all day you
are gouging and grasping and avaricious,
cannot clutch and bargains in which you
were outshylocsei. Y during the day you
are irascible AMI pugaacious and guupow'
derry Of disposition, you WI at night have
battle with enemies in whica they will get
the best of you. If you ara all day long in
hurry at night you will dream OF rail
trains that you want to catch while you
cannot move one inch toward the depot.
If you are always oversuspicious and e1'
pectant of assault, you will have at nigh
halluclnations OF assassns with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard Ill,
the iniduitous, the night before the battle Of
Bosworth Field dreamed that all those whom
he had murdered stared at him, AMI that he
was torn to pieoss by demons from tue pit
The scholars dream is philosophic echo
The poets dream is a rhythmic echo. Cole
ridge 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 dream so vivid that wax
ing he easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their eclo in Sleep
ing thoughts. Ii a man spends his life in
irving to make others happy AMI is heavenly
minded. around his pillow be will sea Grip
pies WHO have got over their crutc1 ant
prcc ,ssions of..celestial imperials aud hear the
grand march roll down from drums oil
heaven over jasper parapets You are very
apt to hear in dreams what you near Wnen
you are wide awake
Now. having Shown YOU that having a
| Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting
| nny further communication from Col, AMI
having shown you that all dreams have an
important mission, since they saow the com
parative independence OF the soul from the
| body, and hav M shown you thai tue ma
iority of dreams are a result of disturbed
physical condition, aud having shown you
that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an
echo of our waking thoughts. L cone now
to my fifth an / most important remarS,
and that is to say that it Is capable or PROOF
has often since the close of the Bible dlspen-
sation. appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you betterare from
God. Hov do | know it? Is not Col the
source of all good? 1t does not take very
logical mind to argue that out. Tertulllan
and Martin Luther believed in dreams. The
dreams OF John Huss are immortal. 81
Augustine, th9 Christian father, gives Us
the fact that Carthaginian physician was
persuaded of the Immortality OF the soul by
an argument which he heard in dream.
| The n;pht before his assassination tle wife
of JuliIis CHsar dreamed that her husband
fell dead across her lap. 1t is possible 20
prove that Col does appear in dreams 10
warn. to convert an TO save men.
Nv friend. a retired sea captain and a
Christian, tells me that one night while on
the sea he had dreamed that a ships crew
were in great suffering. Waking up from
his dream, he put about the ship, tacket III
different directions, surprised everyoo ~ on
the veSsel-they thought he was gong crazy
- allied on in another direction nour alIer
hour and for many hours until ne came 10
the uerishiny crew and rescue 81 them ana
brou yht them to New York. Who conduct
ed tiat dream? The God of the sea.
In 1895 vessel went out from Spithead
for the West Indies AMI ran asainst the
leloe of rocks called the CasketS. Tie vessel
went down. but the crew clamoeretuJ on
the Caskets to die Of starvation, as they
suoposed. But there was a snip oou11 Ior
SOUTHAMPTON that had thu captains son
on board. This lal tw CO i'll. the night
dreamed that there was crew. OF sailors
DYING ON the Caskets. He toll his father OF
his dream The vessel cIme down ~ t1e
Baskets in tina to lin AMI ID rescU9 thosS
Door diving men. Who conducted that
dreamf The Col Of the rocks, the God OF
the sea-
The Rev. DR.. Bushnell in his marvellous
hook entitled. Mature and the Superna-
tural." gives tue following fact that ne got
from Captain Yount in California, fact
confirmed by many lam lies. Captain Yount
dreamed twice one night that $50 mile.
away there was a company Of traders fas
in the snow. He also saw in the dream rocGi
of peculiar formation. an telling his dream
TO an old hunter the hunter sal, why,
remember those ro;Ns; those rocks are IL
the Carson Valley pass 100 miles away"
Captain Yount, impelled by this cream
although laughed at by hrs neignoors
gathered men together, took mu,es anc
blankets and started out on the expedition
Travelled $50 miles, saw those very rock
which he had described in his dream, anc
finding the suffering ones at the foot
those rocks brought them back to couir II
the story of Captain Yount. Who con
Quoted that dream? The God of the snow
the God of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in dreams to res
cue and comfort. You have known peopl
perhaps it is something 1 state In you
own experience-you have seen people go I
sleep with bereavements inconsolaole, an
they awakened in perfect resignation be
cause of what they had seen in slumber
DR.. Crannage. one of the most remarkaol