Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-05


dystone and Barnegat lighthouses ques,
ton a summer FREELY?
Remark the second: all dreams have
an important meaning.
They prove that the soul is compare
lively independent of the body. The
eyes are closed, the senses are dull. the
entire body goes into a lethargy which
in all languages is used as a type of
death, and then the soul spreads its
wing and never sleeps 1t leaps the
Atlantic ocean and mingles in scenes
three thousand miles away. 1t travels
| great reaches of time, flashes back
eighty years, and the octogenarian is a
boy again in his fathers house. II the
soul, before it has entirely broken its
chain of flesh, can do all this, how far
can it leap. what circles can it
cut when it is fully liberated!
Every dream, whether agreeable
or harrassing. whether sunshiny or
tempestuous, means so much that
rising from your couch you ought to
kneel down and say: 20. Cod am !
immortal? Whence? Whittier? Two
natures. My soul Gagged now-what
when the door of the cage is opened? If
my soul can fly so far in the few hours
in which my body is asleep in the night,
how far can it fly when my body sleeps
the long sleep of the grave?" 0, this
power to dream, how startling, how
overwhelming! If prepared for the after
death flight what an enchantmentl II
mo- prepared for the after-death flight,
what a crushing agony! immortal I'M
mortal!
Remark the third: The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of dis
turbed physical condition, and are not
a supernatural message.
job had carbuncles and he was scared
in the night. He says: "Thou scarest
me with dreams and terrifest me with
visions" Solomon had an overweight
brain, overweight with public bust
ness, and he suffered from erratic slum-
Der, and he writes in Ecclesiastes: "a
dream cometh through a multitude of
business" DR.. Gregory, in experiment.
ing with dreams, found hat a bottle of
hot water put to his feet while in slum-
Der made him think that he was going
up bilC nOl oinCn VI MOunb Llna hhT
other morbid physician, experimenting
with dreams, his feet uncovered through
sleep, thought he was riding in an Al
pine diligence. But a great many dreams
are merely narcotic disturbances Any
thing that you see while under the in
fluence of chloral. or brandy, or 'has-
beesh," or laudanum is not a revelation
from God. The learned De Quincy did
not ascribe to divine communication
what he saw in sleep, opium saturated:
dreams which he afterwa I'd described in
the following words: 81 was w~orshiped.
l was sacrificed. fled from the wrath
of Brahma, through all the forests of
Asia. Vishnu hated me. Sceva laid in
wait for me. / came suddenly upon
Isis and Osiris ! had lone a deed. they
said, that made the crocodiles tremble.
| was buried for a thousand years in
stone collins, with mummies and
sphinxes in narrow chambers at the
heart of eternal pyramids. ! was kissed
with the cancerous kiss of c~rocodiles,
and lay COMPOUNDED with unutterable
Shiny things among wreathy and
Nilotic mud" Do not mistake narcotic
disturbance for divine revelation.
But | have to tell you that the major
ity of the dreams are merely the penal
ty of outraged digestive organs, and
you have no right TO mistake the night
mare 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 infer
nal and diabolical. You outrage nat
ural 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 trouble when the rest of your
body is in somnolence. The general
rule is, eat nothing after 9 o'clock al
night. retire at 10. sleep on your RICH,
side, keep the window open five inches
for ventilation, and other worlds will
not disturb you much. BY physical NAL
treatment you take the ladder that
Jacob saw in his dream and you lower
il to the neither world. allowing the as
cent Of the demoniacaL. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia An unregulated de-
sire for something to eat ruined the
race in Paradise, and an un regulated
desire for something to eat keeps it
ruined. The world during six thousand
years has tried in vain to digest that
first apple. The world will not be evan
gelized until we get rid of a dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not
want this cadaverous and sleepy thing
that some people call religion. They
want a religion that lives regu larly by
day and sleeps soundiy by nilht II
through trouble or com ng 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 communities
lions to those who willingly s~urrendert to
indigcstibles Napoleon's army at Leip-
sic. 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
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