The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-12-06

| enUlre DOuy goes INTO IeInarSy
which in all languages is used as
type of death, 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 so
years, and the octogenarian is "a boy
again in his fathers house. If the
soul, before it has entirely broken its
chain 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 harass-
ing, whether sunshiny or tempestu-
Gus, means so much that, rising from
your couch, you ought to kneel down
and say: 80 God, am L immortal!
| Whence? Whittier? Two natures.
My soul Gagged nOw-what when the
door of the cage is opened? If my
soul can fly so far in the few hours
in which my body is asleep in the
night, how far can it fly when my
! body sleeps the long sleep of the
grave?" Oh. this power to dream,
how startling, how overwhelming!
Immortal, immortal!
Remark the Third.-The vast ma
iority of dreams are merely the re-
suit of disturbed physical conditions
and are not a supernatural message.
Job had carbuncles, and he was
scared in the night. He says: Thou
scarest me with dreams and terri
fest me with visions" Solomon had
an overweight brain, overweight
with public business, and he suffered
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 slum-
Der made him think he was going
up the hot sides of Mount Etna. An
other morbid physician, experiment
ing with dreams. his feet uncovered
! through sleep, thought he was rid
| ing in an Alpine diligence. But a
great many dreams are merely mar
cote disturbances. Anything that
| you see while under the influence of
choral or brandy or hasheesh or
| laudanum is not revelation from
God.
The learned DR.. Quincy did not
ascribe to Divine communication
what he saw in sleep, opium sat
! urated. dreams which he afterward
| described in the following words: 81
was worshiped; l was sacrificed; /
! fled from the wrath of Brahma
! through all the forests of Asia.
| Vishnu hated me. Sceva laid in wait
| for me. l came suddenly upon Isis
and Osiris. I had done a deed, they
said, that made the crocodiles trem-
bic. I was buried for a thousand
years in stone collins, with num-
mics and sphinXes in narrow cham
bers at the heart Of eternal pyra-
| midS. | was kissed with the can
cerOus kiss of crocodiles and lay con-
| founded with unutterable Shiny
| things among wreathy and Nilotic
mud
Do not mistake narcotic disturb
ance for Divine revelation. But l
| have to tell you that the ma iority of
| the 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 sal
ads at II o'clock at night, instead
| of opening the door heavenward.
! open the door Internal and diabol-
! ical. 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 keep your digestive or
CANS in struggle when the rest of
| your body is in somnolence. The
| general rule is. eat nothing after six
o'clock at night. retire at ten, sleep
/ on your right side, keep the window
/ open five inches for ventilation. and
other worlds will not disturb you
much. BY physical maltreatment you
! take the ladder that Jacob saw in
! his dream and you lower it to the
neither world. allowing the ascent of
! the demonacal. Dreams are mid
night dyspepsia. An unregulated de-
sire 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 evan
/ geIized until we get rid of n dyspep-
! tic Christianity. Healthy people do
not want this cadaverous and sleepy
! thing that some people call religion.
They want a religion that lives reg
ularly by day and sleeps soundly by
| night. If through trouble or coming
on of old age or exhaustion of Chris
tian service you cannot sleep well,
| then YOU may expect from God
| songs in the night" but there are
no blessed communications to those
who willingly surrender to indi-
gestibles. Napoleon's army at Leip"
sic. Dresden and BorOdinO came nca~
being destroyed through the dis
turbed gastric juices of it's command
er. That is the way you have lost
some of your battles.
Now. having shown you that. hav-
| ing a Bible. we ought to be satisfied
with not getting any further com
munication from God, and having
shown you that all dreams have an
important mission since they show
the compare tive independence of the
soul from the body, and having
shown you that the majority OF
dreams are result of distur bed
physical conditions, and having
shown you that our sleeping
thoughts are apt to he an echo OF
our waking thoughts, L come now to
nv fifth and most important remark
and that is TO say that it is capable
of proof that God does sometimes in
our day and has often since the
close of the Bible dispensation ap-
peared to people in dreams.