Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-12-04

Whittier? Two natures My soul lag, !.
now-what when the door of the cage is
opened? If my soul caa fy so far in the
few hours in which my body is asleep in
the night. how far can it fly when my
body sleeps thu long sleep of the gravel"
| Oh, this power TO dream, how startling,
how overwhelming! immortal. immortal!
! The Cause of Some Dreams.
Remark the Third,--The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result of dis
| turbed physical condition and are not a
| supernatural message. Job had car
| buncles, and he was scared in the night.
! He says. Thou scarest me with dreams
and territiest me with visions" Solomon
had an overweight brain, oyerwrought
with public business, and he suffered
| from erratic slumber, and he writes in
| Eccles;astes, "A dream cometh thro Ugh
the multitude of business" DIR. Gregory,
| in experimenting with dreams, found that
| a bottle of hot water put to his feet while
| in slumber made him think he was going
| up the hot sides of Mount Etna. Another
morbid physician, experimenting with
| dreams, his feet uncovered through sleep,
| thought he was riding in an Alpine dill
gence. Eat great many dreams are
merely r ircotic disturbance. Anything
that 20 see while under the influence of
| chlora or brandy or hasheesh or lau-
| danr n is not revelation from God.
| II re learned De Quincy did not ascribe
| to divine communication what he saw in
| sleep, opium saturated, dreams which he
afterward described in the following
| words: Il was worshiped I was sacri-
| feed / fled from the wrath of Brahma
| through all the forests of Asia. Nishnu
hated me. Sceva laid in wait for me.
! came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris /
had done a deed, they said, that made the
| crocodiles tremble. ! was buI ed for a
Thousand years in stone collins, with
mummies and sphinxes in narrow cham
beers at the heart of eternal pyramids. /
was kissed with t cancerous kiss of
crocodiles and lay nfounded with un-
utterable Shiny things among wreathy
and Nilotic mud"
| Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for
divine revelation. But have to tea you
that the majority of the dreams are mere
| ly the penalty of outraged digestive or
gans, and you have no right to mistake
the nightmare for heavenly revelation.
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bad dreams Highly spiced salads at IL
o'clock at night, instead of opening the
! door heayenward, open the door Internal
and diabolieal. You outrage natural law,
and you insult the God who made those
laws. 1t takes from three to hve hours to
| digest food, and you have no right to
| keep your digestive organs in struggle
| when the rest of your body is in somno-
| lence. The general rule is, eat nothing
! after 6 o'clock at night, retire at 10,
sleep on your right side, keep the window
| open five inches for ventilation, and 9th
| er worlds will not disturb you much BY
! physical maltreatment you take the lads
| der that Joseph saw in his dream and
you lower it to the neither world, allow
| ing the ascent of he-demoniacal. Dreams
are midnight dyspepsia. An unregulated
| d sire for something to eat keeps it ruin
e,,. = he world during 5000 years has
| trit,. IN vain to digest that first apple.
| The -~orld will not be evangelical until
we id of a dyspeptic Christianit,
| HEALTHY people do not want this ca9av-
erous 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
service you cannot sleep well. then you
may expect from God songs in the
night" but there are no blessed commu-
nications to those who willingly surren-
der to indigestibles Napoleon's army at
| Leipsic, Dresden and Borodino came near
being de Dyed through the disturbed
gastric Juices of its commander That is
| the way you have lost some OF your bat
| ties.
The Echo of Day Thoughts.
Another remark | make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo Of
our daytime thoughts. | will give you a
recipe for pleasant dreams. Fill your
days with elevated thought and rnsefish
| action, and your dreams win be set 20
music. If all day you are gouSing and
grasping and avaricious in your dreams,
! you will see gold that you cannot clutch
| and bargains in which you We're out-Shy-
| locked If during the day you are irasci-
| BILE and pugnacious and gunpowdery OF
disposition, you viii at night hare battle
with enemies in which they vii! get the
| best of you. If you are all day .ong 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.
| II you are always oversuspicious and ex-
pectant of assault you will have at night
Authorizations of assassins with daggers
drawn. No one wonders that Richard
! Ill. the ;nIquitous, the night before the
! battle of Bosworth Field dreamed that
! all those whom he had murdered stared
at him ald that he was torn to pieces by
demons from the pit. The scholars dream
| is a plsil"sophic echo. The poets dream is
! a rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his
| 'Kubla Khan asleep in u narcotic dream
and. waking up, wrote down 800 lines of
| it, Tartinia. the violin player, composed
his most wonderful sonata while asleep IN
dream so vivid that. waking, he easily
transferred it to paper.
| Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts. If mar spend his life
! in trying to make others happy and is
! heavenly minded. around his pillow he
| will see cripples who have got over their
crutch and processions of celestial impe-
rails aud hear the grand march roll down
/ from drums of heaven over jasper para
| pets. 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 important mission since they
show the comparative independence Of
! the soul from the body, and having shown
| you that the majority Of dreams are re-
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