Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-04-07
PHYSICAL condition ana are not supernatural


the night. He says, "fhou scaress me vita
dreams and terrifiest me with visions" Solo
mon had an overweight brain, over
wrought with public business, AMI ne SUI
fered from cratic s.umber, anu he writes In
Ecclesiastes, "A dream cometh through the
multitude of business" DR.. Gregory in q
perimenting with dreams, found that bottle
OF hot water put to his feet while In sumner
made him think that he was going up the
hot side of Mount EtBa-
Another morbid physician, experimenting
with dreams, his feet uncovered through
sleep, thought he was riding IN Alpine dlli-
gence. But great many dreams are mere
" narcarcotic dis urbance. Anything that
you see while under the influence or chloraI
or brandy or ''hasheesh" or laudanum ia not
revelation from God. The learned De
Quincy did not sscrlbe to divine communi-
cation what he saw in sleep, opium satu-
rated; dreams which he afterWaro described
ID the following words:
Il vas worshiped was sacrificed. n I'd
from the wrath of Brahma through all the
forests OF Asia. Vishnu hated me. silva lald
in wait for me. / come suddenly upon Isis
and Osiris. had done deed, they said, that
made the crocodiIes tremble. l was buried
for a thousand years in stone cOd1ns, with
mummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers
at the heart of eternal pyramids. L was
klssei with the cancerous kiss OF crocodlleS
and lay COMPOUNDED with unutterable sllmv
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for d.
vine revelation.
But have to tell you that the GaaioritY
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 warranty deed for
bad dreams. Highly spiced meals at IL
O'Clock at night instead OF opening the door
heavenward open the door internal and dia-
bolical. You outrage natural law. and you
insult the God who made these laws. It
takes from three to five hours to digest food,
and you have no right to tax your digestive
organs in struggle when the rest OF your
body is in sOmnolence. The general rule is,
eat nothing after 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 and 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 an unregulated desire for some
thing to eat keeps it ruined. The world
during 5000 years has tried in vain to digest
that first apple. The world will not be
evangelical until we get rid of dyspeptic
Christianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadaverous and sleepy thing that some
people call religion. They want 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 can.
not sleep WELL then you may expect from
God 'sOngs in the night" but there are no
blessed communications to those who will
lngly surrender to indigestibles. Napoleon's
army at Leipslc, Dresden and Borodino
turbed gastric juices of it commander
hat hp ha Of
battles.
Another remark make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo of our
day thoughts.
| will give you a recipe for pleasant
dreams: Fill your days with elevated
thought and unselfsh action, and your
dreams will be set to music. If all day you
are gouging and grasping and avaricious,
in your dreams you will sec gold that you
cannot clutch and bargains in which YOU
we're outshylocked. If during the day you
are irascible and pugnacious and gunpow-
1ery OF disposition, you will at night have
battle with enemies in which they will get
the best Of you. If you are all day long in
4 hurry, at night you will dream of rail
trains that you want to catch while you
cannot move one inch toward toe depot.
If you are always OverSuspiciouS and ex-
pectant of assault, you will have at night
OF assassins with Gaggers
uTaWn. NO one WOnQerS U0aG flC0acQ ILL.
the Ubiquitous, the night before the battle OF
Bosworth Field, dreamed that all those whom
he had murdered stared at him, and that he
was torn TO 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, aud waking up wrote
down 300 lines OF it, Tartini, the violin
player, composed his most wonderful sonata
while asleep in a dream so vivid that wax
ing he easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in Sleep
ing thoughts. Ii a man spends bis life in
trying to make others happy and is heavenly
minded, around his pillow he will see Grip
pies VINO have got over their crutch and
proc essions OF. celestial imperials 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
Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting
any further communication from God, and
having shown you that all dreams have an
mission, since they snow the com
0arative independence of the soul from the
body, and having shown you that the ma
ority of dreams are a result of disturbed
physical condition, and having shown you
hat our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an
echo OF our waking thoughts, l come now
% my fifth and most important remark,
md that is to say that it is capable of prooi
hat God does sometimes in our day, and
las often since the close of the Bible dispen- a
'stion, appeared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make you better are from
rod. HoV- do [ know FTP Is not God the
source OF all good? 1t does not take very
ogical mind to argue that out. Tertullian
md Martin Luther believed in dreams. The
ireams of John Huss are immortal. st.
Augustine, thu Christian father, gives us
The fact that Carthaginian physician was
persuaded of the Immortality of the soul by
III argument which he heard in a dream.
The night before his assassination the wife
If Julius Cesar dreamed that her husband