The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-27

Remark the third: the vast majority Of
dreams are merely the result of disturbed
physical condition, and are not super
natural message.
Job had carbuncles, and he was scared in
the night. He says: Thou scsrest NE with
dreams and terrifiest me with visions
Solomon had an overweight brain, over
wrought with public business, and he suf-
fered from erratic slumber, and he writes IN
EccleslasteS: "A dream cometh through the
multitude OF business" DR.. Gregory, in OK
perimentiug with Dreams found that bot
tie of hot water put to his feet while IN
slumber made him think that he was golug
up the hot sides OF Mount Etna- Another
morbid physician, experimenting with
dreams his feet uncovered through sleep,
thought he was riding in al Alpine dill
Rence. But great many dreams are merely
narcotic disturbance. Anything that on see
while under the Influence OF chloTaI or
brandy, or "hasheesh, - or landanum, Is not
revelation from God. The learned
De Quincy did not asCTl5e 10 divine COM
munication what be saw IN the sleep, opium
saturated: dreams which he efter ard de
scriued in the following words: Il was
wOrshiped. I was sacrificed. l fled from
the wrath OF Brahmah, through all the
forests Of ASIA. Nishnu hated ne. Sceya
laid in wait for me- I came suddenly upon
Isis and Osiris / had done deed, they
said that made the Crocodiles tremble.
was buried for a Thousand years in stone
collins, with mummles and sphtnxes in mar
row chambers at the heart of eternal pyrs-
mids l was kissed with the cancerous kiss
of crocodiles, and lay co0founded with IN
utterable shiny things among wreathy and
and Nilotic m ID" 10 not mistake narcotic
disturbance for divine revelation.
But l have to tel! you tina the majority
of the dreams are merely the penalty OF OUT
ragged digestive organs and you have TO
right to mistake the nightmare Tor heavenly
revelation. Late supperS a warranty
deed for bad dreams. Highiy-spiced salads
at eleven o'clock at night, lnsteed OF opening
the door heavonward, open the door in
fernal and diabolical You outrage natural
laws, ami you insult the Cod who made
those laws 1t takes from sthree TO five
hours to digest |. Cd, and you have no right
to keep your digestive organs in struggle
when the rest of your body is in somnoleuce.
The general rule IS, eat nothing after six
O'Clock at night. retire at ten, sleep on your
right side, keep the window open five inches
for ventilation, and other worlds will not
disturb you much. By physical mRltreatment
you take tho ladder that Jacob saw in MS
dream and you lower it to the neither
world, allowing the ascent OF the demoni-
acal. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An
unregulated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise, and an unregu-
lated desire for something to eat keeps it
ruined. The world during six thousand
wears has tried In vain to digest that first
apple. The world will not be evangelical
until we get rid OF dyspeptio Christianity.
Health people do not want this cadaverous
and sleepy thing that some people call re-
ligion. hey want n religion 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 ex-
pect from God songs in the night; but
there are no blessed communications Co
those who willingly surrender to indigesti
bles. Nsp0leOn's army al Leipsic, Dresden,
and Borodino. came near being destroyed
through the disturbed gastric juices Of its
commander. That is the way you have
lest some Of your battles.
Another remark | make Is that our dreams
are apt TO be merely the echo Of our day
thoughts.
l will give you a recipe for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with eleVat ed
thought and uuselfish action, and your
dreams will tie set to 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 wbicL you
were out.shylocked. If during che 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 ali 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 oversuspicious3 and ex-
pectant of assault, you will have az night
Authorizations Of sss0ssus with daggers
drawn. No one wonders thatsR !Chard ILL.,,
the iniauitous, the night before the battle of
Bosworth fed dreamed that oil those whom
he had muir iered stared at him, and that he
was corn 10 pieces by demons, from the 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 waxing up, wrote
down three hundred lines of il. Tartiui the
violin player, composed his most wonderful
sonata while asleep in a dream 81 vivid
that waking he easily transferred it to
paper
Waking thoughts have their echo In
sleeping thoughts. IL a man spends his life
in trying to make others happy and Is
heavenly minded around his pillow he will
see cripples who have got over their crutch,
and professions of celestial iDperials, 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 a
Bi le We ought TO be satisfied not getting
any further communication from God, and
having showed you that all dreams have
an important mission, since they snow the
comparative dependence of the soul from
the body aud having shown you that toe
majority of dreams are q result Of disturbed
physical condition, and having shown you
hat our sleeping thoughts are apt to be
IN echo OF our waking thoughts, | come
now TO my fifth and most important re-
mark. 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 dispensation, appeared to people in
dream1
ALI dreams that make YOU better are
from God. How do l know III Is not God
the source of all goodl 1t does not take a
very logical mind to argue that out. Ter
tullian and Martin Luther believed III
dreams. The dreams Of John HuSs are i'm
mortal. st. Augustine, the Christian
father, gives us the fact that the Cartha-
Rinian ply stefan was persuaded Of the i'm
mortality 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. 1t is possible to
prove that GCd does appear in
dreams to warn, to convert and to save
men. NV friend, retired sea captain aud
a Christian, tells me that one night while
on the sea he dreamed that a ships crew
were in great suffering. Waking up from
bis dream, be put about the ship tackled in
different directions, surprised every body on
the vessel-they thought be was going