Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-04-01

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and then the soul spreads its wing and
never sleeps. 1t leaps the Atlantic
ocean and mingles in scenes 5000 miles
away. 1t travels great reaches Of time,
flashes back 80 years, and the octoge-
marian is boy again In his fathers
house. IF the soul before it has entirely
broken It's chains 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
harassing, whether sunshiny or tempes-
tuous, means SO much that rising from
your couch you ought to kneel down and
say: 80 God, am I immortal2 Whencef
Whitherr Two natures. My soul Gagged
now-what when the door of the cage Is
openedY II my soul can fly so far in the
few hours in which my body is asleep IN
the night, how far can 1t fly when my
body sleeps the long sleep Of the gravey'
Oh, this power to dream, how startling,
how overwhelming If prepared for the
after death fight, what an enchantmentl
If not prepared for the after death fight.
what crushing agonyl immortal I'M
MORTAL
Remark the Third-The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of dis
turbed physical condition and are not o
supernatural message.
Job had carbuncles, and he was scared
in the night. He says, "Thou scarest
me with dreams and terrifiest me with
visions" Solomon had an overweight
brain, overweight with public bust
ness, and he suffered from erratic SUM
Der, and he writes in Ecclesiastes, "A
dream cometh through the multitude Of
business" DR.. Gregory, in experiment
ing with dreams, found that bottle Of
hot water put to his feet while III slum-
Der made him think that he was going
up the hot sides of Mount Etna.
Another morbid physician, experiment
ing with dreams, his feet uncovered
through sleep. thought he was riding IN
an Alpine diligence. But a great many
dreams are merely narcotic disturbance.
Anything tilt you see while under the
influence of choral OF brandy or hash
eesh" or laudanum is not revelation
from God. rhe learned De Quincy did
not asclibe to divine communication
what he saw in sleep, opium saturated;
dreams which he afterward described IN
the following words;
~ was worshiped. was sacrificed.
| fed from the wrath of Brahma
through all the forests Of Asia. Vishnu
hated me. silva laid in wait for me. |
came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. |
had done deed, they said, that made
the crocodiles tremble. Twas buried for
q thousand years in stone collins, with
mummies and sphinxss in narrow cham
bers at the heart Of eternal pyramids. l
was kissed with the cancerous kiss of
crocodiles and lay COMPOUNDED with IN
utterable Shiny things among wreathy
and Nilotic mud" Do not mistake mar
cotic disturbance for divine revelation.
DREAMS OF DISEASE OR DRUGS.
But have to tell you that the MAORI
ty of dreams are merely the penalty of
outraged digestive organs, and you have
no right to mistake the nightmare for
heavenly revelation. Late suppers are a
warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly
spiced salads at II o'clock at right in
stead Of opening the door heavenward
open the door internal and diabolical.
You outrage natural 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 tax your diges-
tive organs in struggle when the rest OF
your body is in so1nnolence. The gen
eral rule is, eat nothing after o'clock
at night, retire at 10, sleep on your right
side, keep the window open five inches for
ventilation, and other worlds will not dis
turb you much.
By physical maltreatment you take
the ladder that Jacob saw In his dream
and you lower it to the neither world, al
lowing the ascent Of the demoniacal.
Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An IN
regulated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise, and an I'M
regulated desire for something to eat
keeps it ruined. The world during 5000
years has tried in vain to digest that first
apple. The world will not be evangel-
lied until we get rid Of adyspeptic Chris
tianity. Healthy people do not want
this cadaverous and sleepy thing that
some people call religion. They want a
religion that lives regularly by day and
sleeps soundly by night.
If through trouble or coming on of
old age or exhaustion of Christian serv-
ice you cannot sleep well, then you may
expect from God "songs in the night, ;
but there are no blessed communities
lions to those who willingly surrender to
indigestibles. 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
battles.
Another remark make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo OF
our day thoughts.
will give you 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 avari-
cious, in your dreams you will see gold
that you cannot clutch and bargains in
which you were outshylocked. If dur
ing the day you are irascible and pugna-
cious and gunpowdery 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 a hurry, at night
you will dream of rail trains that you
want to catch while you cannot move
one inch toward the depot.
EVIL THOUGHTS MAKE EVIL DREAMS.
If you are always oversuspicious and
expectant of assault. you will have at
night Authorizations Of assassins with
daggers drawn. No one wonders that
Richard III, the iniquitous, the night be-
fore the battle of Bosworth Field dreamed