Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-27

dreams when We have IL Supernal bO
of infinite wisdom on al subjects? w
should we harry ourselves with dream
Why should EddystoDe and Baracg~
lighthouses question Il s>Iln-lcr freely.
PROOF OF Iai-lOi.T AI-lIY.
Remark the Secoau-1I e,-rc;3l.is h;;1
an important meanin<s.
They prove that the soul is coE.ra.'
lively independent of the fo@.-.
eyes are closed, the senses are dell.
entire body goes into d letn&rgy wine.
all languages is used as d type o. ,.ae.
and then the soul spreads its win; al
never sleeps. 1t leaps the At4an-;
ocean and mingles in scenes 3,C00 rai-,
away. 1t travels great reaches OF ti---<
flashes back 80 years, and the octoSk
marian is a boy again in his father
house. IF the soul before it has ont!-,c'
broken it's chains of flesh can do al t2is
how far can it leap, what circles cf1 !
cut, when it is fully liberated!
Every dream, whether Agreeable o.
harassing whether sunshiny Or tempea-
tuous, means so much that rising fr0r4
your couch you ought to kneel down and
say: 80 God, an immortaF Whence.
Whittier? Two natures. My soul cageG
now-what when the door of the cage /
opened? IF my soul can Gy SO far in tllc
few hours in which my boy Is asleep il
the night, how far can it Ey when my
body sleeps the long sleep CT tic grave:
Oh, this power TO dream. hoE5 STAT
how overwhelming! IF prepared f..
after death fight, what an el-e--;;-.nt1rc-- !.
If not prepared for the after death e -.
what a crushing agony! immortal In
mortal!
Remark the Third-The vast sn:;jj s,r.:;
of dreams are merely the result Of Ga
turbed physical condition and are not
supernatural message.
Job had carbuncles, and be was sa2-e>i
in the night. He says. Thou sc;,r~.
me with dreams and terrifost me vi, j
Visions Solomon had an overwro1;5.lt
brain, overweight with public bl-sl-
ness, and he suffered from cratic slJ-3---
Der, and he writes in Ecc!esiastes, "A
dream cometh through the multitude oi
business" DR.. Gregory, in experiment.
ing with dreams, found that bottle Of
hot water put to his feet while IA slUnl-
Der made him think that he WIS going
up the hot sides of Mount Etna.
Another morbid physician experiment.
ing with dreams, his feet uncoFero<,
through sleep. thought he was ridin:; il
an Alpine diligence. But a great naly
dreams are merely narcotic disturbance.
ANYTHING that you see while under tho
influence of choral or brandy or hash
eesh'' or laudanum is not a revelation
from God The learned De Quincy did
not ascribe to divine communication
what he saw in sleep, opium satUr>:l~..
] L, = it>/lst
the following words:
Il was worshiped. was sacrificed.
| fed from the wrath Of BrabIAa
| through all the forests Of Asia. Vls11-u
| hated me. silva laid in wait for me.
came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris
had done a deed, they said. that made
! the crocodiles tremble. | was buried fol
a thousand years in stone collins, WIZ
mummies and sphinxes in marrow Cham
bers at the heart of eternal pyramids. 4
was kissed with the c&ncerous ks g..
crocodiles and lay COMPOUNDED with L,
utterable Shiny things among wrc2tl.J
and Nilotic mud" Do not mistake r;.l~
cotic disturbance for divine revelation.
DREAMS OF DISEASE OR DRUGS.
But have to tell you that the najori
i ty of dreams are merely tle penn ci
/ outraged digestive organs. and You L., !
| no right to mistake the nightmare IL
heavenly revelation. Late sIppeT5 are 4:
warranty deed for bad dreams. H.
spiced salads a. ii O'CLOCK at night j.
! stead of opening the door ho2ye1w:.1.
|. open the door infoz.nal and Gi2bo-ic-.,
! You outrage natural law. and you l--s,.-.
the God who made those laws. Il
/ from three to five hours to digeS5 10,
and you have no right to tax your die :
tive organs in struggle when tae res, :.
your body IS in sOmnolence. Tho gen
| eral rule is. eat nothing after O'clOc-;
/ at night. retire at 10, sleep on your Ii 6
side, keep the window open five inches fer
ventilation, and other worlds will not d.
| turb> you much.
By physical naltreat1nent you take
the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream
and you lower it 20 the neither world. a.
lowing the ascent Of the demoniacal
Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An IN
regulated desire for something to e,,o
ruined the race in paradise, and an IN
regulated desire for something to eat
keeps it ruined. The world during 6,C00
years has, tried in vain to digest that -
apple The world will not be evangel-
lied untilwe get rid of a dyspeptic Chri--
tianity Healthy people do not want
this cadaverous and sleepy thing th,>t
some people4call religion. They WAIT /.
religion that lives regularly by day an.
sleeps soundly by night.
If through trouble or coming on Of
old age or exhaustion of Christian se1v-
ice you cannot sleep well, then you may
expect from God ''songs in the night. >
but there are no blessed communica-
lions to those who willingly surrender to
indigestibles. Napoleon's army at Leip
sic, Dresden and Borodino came near
1 being destroyed through the disturbed