Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1901-12-12

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ton from God.
The 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: II was worshiped, was sacri-
feed, I fed from the wrath of Brahma,
through all the forests Of Asia. Vishnu
came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. I had
done a deed, they said, that made the
crocodiies tremb,e. / was buried for a
thousand years in stone collins, with mum
mics and sphinxes in narrow chambers at
the heart of eternal pyramids. was
kissed with the cancerous kiss OF croco-
dies and lay confounded with unutterable
Shiny things among wreathy and Nllotic
mud"
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for
divine revelation. But I have to tell 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;
Late suppers are a warranty deed tor bad
at night, instead of opening the door
h~eavenward. open the door internal and
diaboiical. You outrage natural law, n
YOU insult the God who made those laws.
Tt takes from three to five hours to digest
food, and you have NJ right to keep your
digestive organs in struggle when the rest
of your body is in somnolence. The gem
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, aud you lower it to the neither
world. allowing the ascent Of the demoni-
aca1. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An
,1~11,,1o%al IacirA Gov cor,ofh1nr RI cat
ruined the race in paradise, and an unreg-
ulated 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 evangelical until
we get rid OF a dyspeptic Christianity.
Healthy people do not want the cadaver;;
Gus and s.eepy thing that some people call
regularly by day and sleeps soundly by
pioht. IF through trouble or coming on Of
old age or exhaustion Of Christian service
YOU cannot sleep well, then yon may ex-
pect from God "songs in the night" but
there are no blessed communications to
those who willingly surrender to indigesti-
hles. Napo,eon's army at Leipsic. Ores
den and Borodino came near being de-
stroyed through the disturbed gastric
Juices of its commander. That is the way
yo1 have lost some of your battles.
All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do [ know it? Is not
God the source Of all good? 1t does not
take q very logical mind to argue that out.
Tertulliar and Martin Luther believed IN
dreams. The dreams Of John Huss are inn
mortal. St. Augustine. the. Christian
father. gives us the fact that a Carthage
MAN physician was persuaded of the I'M
mortality of the soul by an argument
which he heard in a dream. The night be-
fore his assassination the wife OF Julius
@y----.. 100000 that how husband foil
dead across her lap.
Furthermore. l have to say that there
are people who We're converted to God
through y dream. The Rev. John New
ton. the fame Of whose piety fills all Chris
tendon. while a profligate sailor on ship
board, in his dream THOUGHT that a being
approached him and gave him a very beau,
said to him: Gas long as you wear that
ring YOU will be prospered. II o lose
that ring YOU will be ruined" In the same
dream another parsonage appeared and
" a strange i%ufatuation persuaded John
Newton to throw overheard that ring, and
it sank into the sea. Then the mountains
in sight were full of fire, and the air was
was lurid with consuming wrath. While
John Newton was r%epenting OF his folly In
having thrown overheard the treasure an
other parsonage came through the dream
and told John Newton he would plunge
into the sea and bring that ring up II ne
desired it.. He plunged into the sea and
brought it up and said to John Newton,
Here is that gem, but I think ] will keep
il for YOU lest you lose it again" And
John Newton consented. and all the fre
went ont from the mountains. aud all the
signs Of l,lrid wrath d~:Sacccared from the
air, and John Newton said that he saw IN n
his dream that that valuable gem was HI:
soul, and that the being. who persuaded
him to throw it overheard was Satan. and
that the one who plunged in and restored
that gem, keeping it for him, was Christ
And that dream makes one Of the most
wonderful chapters in the life of that
most wonderful man. .., -.
A German was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean. and in his dream he saw a man
with a handful of white flowers. and he
handful of white flowers. The German,
arriving in New York, wandered into the
Fulton street prayer meeting, and MIR
Lamphier, the great apostle of prayer
meetings. that day had given to him q
bunch of tuberoses. They stood on his
desk, and at the close of the religious ser,
vices he took the tuberoses and started
homeward. and the German followed him
and through an interpreter told Mr.. Lam,
| phier that on the sea he had dreamed Of
a man with a handful of white flowers
and was tod to follow him. Suffice it te
saw that through that interview and fol
lowing interviews he became a Christian
| and is a city missionary, preaching the COS
peI to his own countrymen. God IN q
DIRE am! :,
John Hardonk. while IN shipboard
| dreamed one night that the day OF 1udg
| ment had come, and that the roll OF the
| ships crew was called except his owl
! name, and that these people. this crew
| were all bani=hed. and in this dream hi
| asked the reader why his own name was
| omitted, and he was tod it was to gIyt
him more opportunity for repentance. ID
| woke up a different man. He became illus
| trious for Chri. tian attainment. IT 70,
do not believe these things, then you mus
discard all testimony and refuse to accep'
| any kind of authoritative witness. God IL
a dream! 80.
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted t.
| God through q dream Of the last judgment
aud many Of us have had some dream o
that great day of judgment which shall b
the winding up of the worlds history. L
| Won have not dreamed of it, perhaps to
nieht you may dream Of That day. Their
are enough materials to make a dream
Enough voices. for there shall. be tn
roaring of the elements and the grea
earthquake. Enough light for the dream
for the world shall b'aze. Tough excite
ment, for the mountains shall fall. Enoug!
water. for the ocean shall rear. Enoug
astronomical phenomena, for the star
shall 90 put. enough populations. for al
~. w.. of OIL tho ARCS will fall into I'm