The Penn's Grove record., 1893-03-31

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and lay COMPOUNDED with unutterable SHINY
things among wreathy and Nilotic mud"
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for di-
vine revelation.
But | have To tell you that the majority
of dreams are merely the penalty of outraged
digestive organs, and you have no right to
mistake the nightmare for heavenly revela-
ton. Late suppers are a warranty deei for
bad dreams. Highly spice1 meals at ii
O'Clock at night instead of opening the door
heavenward open the door internal and dia-
bolicaI. You outrage natural law. and you
insult the Col who made these " 1t
takes from three to five hours to digest food,
and you have no right to tax your digestive
c~gans in strug gle when the rest OF you
body Is in ~somnolence. The general rule is,
eat nothing after 8 o'clock at night, retire at
10, sleep on your right side, keep the win
dow open five inches for ventilation, and
other worlds will not disturb you much.
By physical maltreatment you take the
ladder that Jacob saw in his dream aud you
lower it to the neither world, allowing the
ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An ~unregulated desire for
something to eat ruined the race in para
disc, and In unreguiated desire for soma
thing to eat keeps it ruined. The world
during 5000 years has tried in vain to digest
hat first apple. Tue world will not be
evangelical until we get rid of a dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadat erous and sleepy thing that some
people call religion. They want q religion
that lives regularly by day and sleeps
SCUM tly by night.
If through trouble or coming on OF old &
or exhaustion of Christian services you can
not sleep well, then you may expect from
God songs in the night" but there are no
blessed communications to those who Will
ingly surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon's
army at Laipsic. Dresden and Borodino
came near being destroyed through Oh. ads
turbed gastric juices of it commander.
That is the way you have lost some OF your
battles.
Another remark l make is that our
dreams are apt to bs merely the echo OF our
day thoughts.
l will give you a recipe for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
thought and unselfish action, and your
dreams will be set TO music. Ii 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. II during the 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. II you are all day long in
a hurry, at night you will dream of rail
trains That you want to c4tch while you
rapuot move one inch toward the depot.
L L YOU are diWAfs ONtTsIsplElbu anu t3'
%pectant of assault, you will have at night
halluclnations of assassins with daggers
irawn. No one wonders that Richard Ill,
the in;quitous, tine night hetore the battle OF
Bosworth Field, dreamed that all those whom
no had murdered stared at him, ami That ne
was torn TO pieces by demons from tine pit.
The scholars dream is a philosophic echo.
The poets dream is a Rhythmic echo. Cole
ridge co imposed his "Kubia Khan asleep in
A narcotic dream, and waking up wrote
iown 800 lines of it. Tartini, the. violin
PLAYER, composed his most wonderfuS sonata
while asleep in a dream SO vivid that wax
ing he easily transferred 1t to paper.
Waking thoughts have their ecno in sleep
ng thou rhts. If a man spends his life in
trying TO make others happy ami is heavenly
minded, around his pillow he Will see Grip
ples WAC have got over their crutch and
proc assions of..celestialimperials aud hear thu
grand marca roll down from drums OF
heaven over jasper parapets. You are very
apt to hear in dreams what you hear when
7ou are wide awake.
Now, having slown you that having a
Bible we ought to be satisfied not ssging
any further communication from 10, n
IA wing shown you that all dreams have an
important mission, since they snow the COM
parative Independence of the soul from the
body, and having shown you thaV the ma.
iority of dreams are a result of disturbed
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that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an
echo OF our waking thoughts, l come now
TO my f, tn ami most important remark.
and that is to say that 1t Is capable OF PROOF
that tod does sometimes in our day, Ia
mas often since the close of the Bible dispen-
yation, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are from
ioi. Hor do / know its Is not God the
source OF all goodr 1t does not take a very
logical mind to argue that out. Tertulllan
and Martin Luther believed in dreams. Inc
dreams OF Johu Huss are immortal. St.
Augustine, thu Christian father. gives us
The fact that a C~arthaginiau physician was
persua led of the immortality oil the soul by
an argument which he heard in a dream,
The nignt before his assassination the wife
If julius Cesar dreamed that her husband
tell dead across her lap. II is possible to
prove that Col does appear in dreams to
warn, to convert an | TO save men.
MY TRENT, 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
bis dream, he put about the ship, tacke1 In
different directions, surprised everybody on
the vesseI-they thought he was going crazy
sailed on in another direction hour alter
hour and for many hours until he came 20
the perishing crew and rescued them aHu
brought them to New York. Who conduct
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ia 1876 a vessel went out from Spithead
for the West Indies and ran AGAINST the
ledge of rocks called the Caskets. The vessel
went down, but the crew clsmbered up on
the Caskets to die of starvation, as they
supposed. But there was a ship bound for
Southampton that had the captains son
on hoard. Tois lad twic5 in the night
drasmad that t,era was a crew of sailors
diving on the Caskets. He told his father of
M dream. Tn vessel came down by the
Ceskets in time to find and to rescue those
- dvinp men. Who conducted that
dreamf The Col Of the rocks, the God OF
the sea.
Tbs Rev. DIR. Bushnell, in his marvellous
hook entitled, Mature and the Supsrna-
tnral.n gives the following fact that ne got
IRON Ceutaiu Yount in California, a fact
confirmed by many lam lies. Captain Yount
dreamed twice n night That l5o miles
away there was a company of traders fast
in the snow. He also saw in tue dream roczs
al nacuIiar formation, AMI telling his dream
TO an old hunter the hunter sal, why, l
remember those rosks; those rocks are in
the Carson Valley pass $50 miles away"
Captain Yount, impeiled by this dream,
aitbough lau. at by his neighbors,
gathered together, took mules and
blankets : started out on the expedition,
Travelled l5J miles. saw those very rocks
which he bad described in his dream, and
finding the suffering ones at the loot OF
those rocks brought them back TO confirm
the story OF Captain Yount. Who con-
Quoted that dreamf The Got OF the snow,
the God of the Sierra Nevadas
God has often appeared in dreams to res
cue and comfort. You have known people
-perhaps it is something l state in your
own experience-you have seen people go TO
sleep with bereavernents inconsolaDie, and
they awakened in perfect resignation be
cause OF what they had seen in siumoer.
DR.. Crannage, one of the most remarkable
men / ever met-remarkabie for beneyol-
ence and great phiianthropies--at yelling
ton. England. showed me a house where
the Lord had appeared in a wonderful
dream to a poor woman. Tn woman was
rheumatic, sick, poor to this last point OF
restitution. She was waited on and cared
for by another poor woman, her only at.
tendaut.
Word came to her one dav that this pool
woman had died, AMI the invalid OF whom I
am speaking Law helpless uoon the couch
wondering what would become of her. In
that moo she fell asleen. In her dreams
she said the angel of the Lori appeared and
took her into the opsn air and pointsi in
one direction, AMI there were mountains OF
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