Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-08-01
ARP QUOTES PETER,
Barlow Philosopher Eelyes Into iii?
Scriptures.
SEEMS TO Be PERFECTLY AT HONE
Was Too Early in the Morning to Get
Drunk Said the Prophet of O.d-ArI
r1oraiiZeS.

tOid by the Prophet Joel had already
come, for the devOut men from every
nation under heaven were there prop
ecying and speaking in every language.
The people said they were drunk, bat
Peter said NO, for it is only 9 o'c,ock
il the morning" | reckon the tOpa,s
drank more in the evening, just as
they do now, and went to bed drunk.
But it has always perplexed me to find
out when the age or period of work ng
miracles and seeing visions ceased ald
why the power was taken away from
the men OF God. Paul could work mir
aCles to save or to heal others, bat had
TO die by the eXecutiOncr. The b.OOd
Of the martyrs was the seed Of the
church, but has the time passed when
dreams and visions are OF no force CT
meaning? | was Eliminating about
dreams, because last night | dream ID
not less than theree hours in about III
a minute. The clock was striking II
and | dreamed it was the fire bell and
| saw the rising smoke and then the
flames Of the fire where the hotel was
burning. ! saw firemen climbing lad
ders and descending with women and
children in their arms | saw strmeas
of water flooding the roof and pouring
in at the windows. | heard the excited
voices of fremen and people and wit
messed the frantic efforts to keep the
fire from crossing to the next block. |
saw enough and heard enough to take
hours to recite and yet | awakened
with the last stroke of the hammer on
the little bell and knew that it was the
cock and not the fire bell that had
caused that long, exciting dream. This
same experience | had many years ago
when the report Of a gun provoked
a dream that begun in a quarrel BE-
tween two of my friends and cOltinGel
in a correspondence in which an apo
Ogy was demanded and | was c3iie1
uEcn to assist in the writing and sew
eraI letters were passed, but to no pur-
pose and it ended in a challenge. See
onds were chOs2n-the code duelO
was carefully c0nsulted-the ground
choscn-the time fixed and the duel
took place; and when the first shot
was fired | awOke. The report Of the
gun had precpitated and cOncCnt, ed
all Of that long and anxious dream into
a second of time Doubtless very many
people have had a similar experience
The medical books record many such
instances and Lord BrOugham declared
that all dreams were instantaneous.
Drowning men have the same expert
ence. Those who are resusctated de-
clare that every event OF their lives
came before them i0 the instant OF
losing consciousness. Time is nothing.
i seems to be aHnihil2ted. There is no
emotion OF surprise II your father Or
brother or friend appears to you in a
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las been dead many years. But Lord
BrOugham is wrong. The smile OF an
infant sleeping in its mothers arms
comes from dream and is not instan-
taDe0us. Sometimes it continues quite
a while and comes and goes. The moth
or believes the child sees angels and
heavenly things. Maybe it does, for o.
such is the kingdom of heaven. Lord
BrOugham is wrong, Tor men anu
women who have bad part of the skull
removed and left the brain eXposel
have dreamed while the doctors Looked
On and saw the brain dilate and pulSate
and become excited and disturbed ana
the patient would tell of bad dream.
When the sleep was sweet the Dralh
was in perfect repose.
What a wonderful piece OF mechan-
ism is this body Of ours. 1t can all e2p
save the heart and lungs and arteries.
They never sleep nor get day on lot
rest. Just think of it. For 10 years TINS
heart of mine has not failed 10 peal
time for every moment of my existence
and sends it's warm blood to every part
OF my body. Whether | am awake or
asleep, it is ever at its post of duty
Poor thing-I know it is tired. And SO
with my lungs that cease not day or
night to bring the heart its food, its
strength and power. The will, tie
brain, the eyes and ears-the sense o.
smell and taste and feeling all get sleep
and rest awake renewed, but the heart
and lungs can never rest. Their rest is
death. But the mystery is how is the
brain connected with the will When
the will is asleep the brain seems to
run riot and to reveal in curious and
fantastic fancies. 1t is a boy out OF
school. It is very like the effect OF OPP
nm on the senses an1 described by De
Quincy in his confessions. The VII
seems to be the strongest and most re-
sponsible faculty Of man. The heart IS
commonly called the seat OF the at
fnctions and emOtionS-in fact, the
very soul of man. and David says the
heart is sinful above all things and
desperately wicked, but that, Of course,
is fgurative. The heart is but lump
of hesh-a machine-an engine, as 1t
were, for a mechanical purpose. 1t has
nothing to do with affections or emo |
tons or sins or crime. 1t may be badly
diseased and the man not know 1t. II
his stomach is out OF order, he Know:
it quickly and feels sick all over. pc
will. and the brain, which is the sea
Of thought and reason, make up tie
spiritual part of man, but how th2y ere |
connected is known only to the Cle =
tor, generally they work In harmony |
Sometimes they do not. for, as Pau |
SAYS. that | would do | do nct-aAI |
that | would not do that | do.
A friend asked me the Other day / }
believed in dreams; that IS t. s ~, Il |
dreams as a warning, Or s!Sn. o. pEo22-
eCy.
No. l do not The dream b2o'- Is
humbug. But 1 do believe that scmo-
times there are spiritual visions taa'
come in sleep, but these are very rare
Some are too well autheIucAten &c
leave any doubt. Swedeaborg had many |
of them. Tartinian, a great composer
saws that the devil appeared to him on
night and challenged him TO play hi
some music, and he composed lhs
Devils Sonata" in a dream. and tx
devil sang it and danced It, aEI Ia III |
ian put it on paper when he aWaHe0
SoIeTidge says he composed his poem
of "Kubla Khan" in a dream, bat co l
only recall 800 lines Of it next nom
Jug. Abstruse problems N m9t1emat y
have been solved in dreams. but the |
most reasonable explanation Of all !
these is that the tired mind had rest
from sleep and became more sensitive |
and acute. Whether we have good |
dreams or bad dreams depends almost |
altogether upon what we had for sup
per and how much we ate Of ii. The |