The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-03-29


pernal book of infinite wisdom on all
subjects? Why should we harry our
selves with dreams? Why should Ed
dystone and Barnegat lighthouses ques-
tion summer FREELY?
Remark the second: all dreams have
an important meaning.
They prove that the soul is compara-
lively independent of the body. The
eyes are closed, the senses are dull, the
entire body goes into lethargy which
In all languages is used as 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 octog genarian is
boy again in his fathers house. If the
soul, before it has entirely broken its
chain of flesh, can do all this how far
can 1t leap, what circles can 1t
cut when it is fully liberated!
Every dream, whether agreeable
or harra ssing whether sunshiny or
hPOobuOuo DO lhuOh
rising from your couch you ought to
kneel down and say: 30, Godl am
immortal? Whence? Whittier? Two
natures. My soul Gagged now-what
when the door Of the cage is opened? II
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?" o, this
power to dream, how startling, how
overwhelming If prepared for the after
death flight. what an enchantmentl II
not prepared for the after-death fight,
what a crushing agony Immortall I'M
mortal!
Remark the third: The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of dis
turbed physical condition, and are not
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 overwrought
brain, overweight with public busi-
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 that a bottle Of
hot water put to his feet while in slum-
Der made him think that he was going
up the hot sides of Mount Etna An
other morbid physician, experimenting
with dreams, his feet uncovered through
sleep, thought he was riding in an AL
pine diligence. Buta great m any dreams
are merely narcotic disturbances Any
thing that you see while under the in.
fiuepce of chloral, or brandy, or "has-
heesh," 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 rd described in
the following words: 81 was worshiped,
/ was sacrificed. fed 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 l had done deed, they
said, that made the crocodiles tremble.
l was buried for thousand years in
stone cofIins with mummies and
sphinxes in narrow chambers at the
heart of eternal pyramids. ] was kissed
with the cancerous kiss OF crocodiles
and lay confounded with unutterablS
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. Lat'
suppers are q warranty deed for baC
dreams Highly spiced salads at Il
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 whC
made those laws It takes from thret
to five hours to digest food, and yo'
have no right to keep your digestiv,
organs in trouble when the rest Of you
body is in somnolence. The genera
rule is, eat nothing after Q o'clock a
night, retire at TO- sleep on your righ
side, keep the window open five inche
for ventilation, and other worlds will
not disturb you much. By physical NAL
treatment you take the ladder tha
Jacob saw in his dream and you lowe
It to the neither world, all lowing the as
cent Of the demoniacal Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unregulated dc
sire for something 10 eat ruined tn
race in Paradise, and an un regulate
desire for something TO eat keeps
ruined. The world during six thousan
years has tried in vain to digest tina
first apple. The world will not be evar
gelized until we get rid Of q dyspepti
Christianity. Healthy people do nc
want this cadaverous and sleepy thin
that some people call religion. The
| want religion that lives regu larly b
day and sleeps soundly by night
through trouble or coming on OF old age
or exhaustion OF Christian Sc rvice yo
cannot sleep we'll, then you may ex
. pect from God songs In the night;
but there are no blessed communics
tions tothose who willingly surrender {
indigestibles Napoleon's army at LeiI
sic, Dresden aud Borodino came nea
being destroyed through he disturbe
gastric juices Of its comma nder. Tha
| Is the way you have lost some Of you
, battles .
Another remark make is that on
dreams are apt to be merely the echo Q
our day thoughta