Connecticut western news., 1893-03-30

l6W uOuIS III WHICH ny Uoiy lo doiOCp LII the night, how far can it fly when my body sleeps the long sleep of the graveT Oh, this power to dream, how startling, how overwhelming If prepared for the after death flight, what an enchantmentl If not prepared for the after death flight, what crushing agonyl Immortali Im- mortall
 Remark the Third-The vast majority of dreams are merely the result of dis turbed physical condition and are not 8 message.
 Job had carbuncles, and he was scared in the night. He says, "Thou scarest me with dreams and terrifest me with visions" Solomon had an overwrought brain, overwrought with public busi- ness and he suffered from cratic slum- Der, and he writes in Ecclesiastes, "A dream cometh through the multitude of business" Dr. Gregory, in experiment. ing with dreams, found that a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in 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 great many dreams are merely narcotic disturbance. Anything that you see while under the influence of chloral or brandy or "hash- eesh'' or laudanum is not revelation from God. The learned De Quincey did not ascribe to divine communication what he saw in sleep, opium saturated; dreams which heafterward described in the following words:
 'l was worshiped. was sacrificed. 1 fled from the wrath of Brahma through all the forests of Asia. Vishnu hated me. Siva laid in wait for me. l came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. l had done deed, they said, that made the crocodiles tremble. was buried for thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes in narrow cham bers at the heart of eternal pyramids. l was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiles and lay confounded with un- utterable slimy things among wreathy and Nilotic mud" Do not mistake nar- cotic disturbance for divine revelation
 DREAMS OF DISEASE OR DRUGS.
 But have to tell you that the majori- 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 warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly spiced salads at Il o'clock at night in- stead of opening the door heavenward open the door internal and diaboical. You outrage natural law, and you insult the God who made those laws. It 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 somnolence 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 un- regulated desire for something to eat ruined the race in paradise, and an un- 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- ized 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.
 kI,ro,,o,b fror7 h1o or corr,ino pr, of old age or exhaustion of Christian serv- Ice you cannot sleep we'll, then you may expect from God "songs in the night 7 but there are no blessed communica- tions to those who willingly surrender to indigestibles Napoleon's army at Leip- ic, 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 l make is. that our dreams are apt to be merely the echo of eur day thoughts.
 Twill give you 8 recipe for pleasant dreams: Fill your days with elevated thought and unselfish 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 sxpectant 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 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 8 philosophic echo. The poets dream is rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his "Kubla Khan asleep in narcotic dream, and waking up wrote down 300 lines of it. Tartini the violin player, composed his mosi wonderful sonata while asleep in dream so vivid that waking he easily transferred it to paper.
 Waking thoughts have their echo ir sleeping thoughts. If man spends hif life in trying to make others happy and is heavenly minded, around his pillow he will see cripples who have got owe, their crutch and processions of celestial imperials and hear the grand marcf roll down from drums of heaven oyer jasper parapets. You are very apt te
 hear in dreams what you hear when you
 are wide awake.
 Now, having shown you that having ( Bible we ought to be satisfied not get ting any further communication from God, and having shown you that al dreams have an important mission, since
 they show the comparative independence | of the soul from the body, and having chovUp vou that tho m ioritu If droam,