Milford chronicle., 1893-03-31

dreams and terrihest me with visions"
Solomon had an overwrought brain, over
wrought with public business, and he suf-
fered from erratic slumber, and he writes
in Ecclesiastes, "A dream cometh through
the multitude Of business" DR.. Gregory
in experimenting with dreams found that
bottle Of hot water put to his feet while
in slumber made him think Tint he was gO-
ing up the hot sides of Mount Etns-
Another morbid physician, experiment.
ing with dreams, his feet uncovered through
slqep. thought he was riding in IN Alpine
diligence But a great many dreams are
merely narcotic disturbance. Anything
that YOU see while under the influence Of
chloral or brandy or "hasheeshn or laud-
anun is not revelation from God. The
learned Dc Quincy did not ascribe to di-
vine communication what he saw in sleep,
opium saturated dreams which he after
ward described in the following words; i
was worshiped: | was sacrificed; / fed
from the wrath Of Brahma through all the
forests of Asia Vishnu hated me. silva
laid in wait fCJ ME. / came suddenly upon
Isis and Osiris. / had done deed, they
said, that made the crOcodiles tremble.
was buried for a Thousand years in stone
cofIins, with mummies and sphinXesin mar
row chambers at the heart Of eternal pyra-
mids. was kissed with cancerous kiss
of crocodiles and lay confounded with un-
utterable Shiny things among wreathy and
Nilotic mud" Do not mistake narcotic dis
turbauce for divine revelation.
A DREAM OFTEN A PENALTY.
But have to tell you that the majority
Of the dreams are merely the penalty OF
outraged digestive organs, and You have
no right to mistake the nightmare fol
heavenly revelation. Late suppers are q
warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly
spiced salads ut II O'Clock at night instead
of opening the door heavenward open the
door Internal and diabOiical You outrage
natural law, and you insult the God who
made those laws. 1t takes from three tC
five hours to digest food, and you have nc
right to keep your digestive organs il
struggle when the rest Of your body is in
somnolence. The general rule is, eat moth
ing after 6 O'Clock at night, retire ut TO-
sleep on your right side, keep the window
open five inches for ventilation, and Other
worlds will not disturb you much.
BY physical naltreutment you take the
laddertha Jacob saw in his dream, and you
lower it to the neither world, allowing the
ascent of the deInoniacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unregulated desire
for something to eat ruined the race il
paradise, and an unrcgulatcd desire fol
something 90 eat keeps it ruined. The
world during G,000 years has tried in vain
to digest that first apple The world will
not be evangelical until we get rid Of dys
peptic Christianity Healthy people do noi
want this cadaverous and sleepy thing that
some people call religion They want a re
ligion that lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by night.
If through trouble or coming on of old
are or exhaustion Of Christian service you
csnuot sleep well, then you may expect
from God songs in the night but thcTI
are no blessed communications to thosG
who willingly surrender to indigCstbles
Napoleons army at Lepsic, Dresden and
Borodino came near being destroyed
through the disturbed gastric juices Of it.
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 unsellish action, and YOU
dreams viii be set to music. If all day you
are gcuging 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
dery Of disposition, you will at night have
battle with enemies in which they viii gel
the best of you. If you are all day long in
a hurry, at night you will dream of raj
trains that you want to catch while you can
not move one inch toward the depot.
RECIPE FOR BAD DREAMS.
If you are always oversuspicious and ex-
pectant Of assault, you will have at night
hnllucinations Of assassins with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard III,
the iniquitous, the night before the battle
Of Bosworth Field dreamed that all those
whom he hal murdered stared athim, and
that be was torn to pieces by demons from
the Dit. The scholars dream is phil
osophic echo The poets dream is q
rhythmic echo Colerdge composed his
"Kubla Khan asleep in narcotic dream
and waking up wrote down $40 lines Of it.
Tartini, the violin player, composed lis
most wonderful sonata while asleep in q
dream so vivid that waking he easily tlsiaa
ferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts. Ifa man spends his life
in trying to make others happy and i
heavenly minded. around his pillow he will
see cIipples who have got over their urutch-
and professions Of celestial impe-ials. and
hear the grand march roll down from drums
Of heaven over jasper palapets. Ioa are
very apt to hear in dreams what yoa heal
when you are wide awake
aow, having shown you chat having q
Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting
any further communication from God, snd
having shown yon thai all dreams have ca
important mission, since they show The
comparative Independence Of the soul from
the body. and having shown you that che
majority Of dreams are a result Of disturbed
pl steal conditions. and having shown you
set our sleeping thoaghts are apt g be az