Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-12-07
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its wing and never sleeps. 1t leaps the At
lantic ocean and mingles in scenes 1900
miles away. 1t travels great reaches OF
time, flashes back eighty years, and the
octogenarian is a boy again in his faith
er's house. Ii 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! Ev-
cry dream, whether agreeable or harass-
ing, whether sunshiny or tempestuOus,
means so much that, rising from your
couch, you ought TO kneel down aud say:
20 God, am | 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 gravel
oh, this power TO dream. how startling,
how overwhelming! immoral, immortal!
! The Cause of Some Dreams.
! Remark the Third.-The vast majority
| of dreams are merely the result OF dis
! turhed physical condition and are not a
supernatural message. Job had car
| buncleS. and he was scared in the night
/
/ and terrifest me with visions" Solomon
| had an overwrought brain, overweight
with public business. and he Suffered
! from erratic slumber. and he writes in
! Ecclesiastes, A dream cometh through
the multitude of business" Dir, Gregory,
! in experimenting with dreams. found that
/ a bottle Of hot water put to his feet while
| in Slumher 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
! gcnce. But great many dreams are
| merely narcotic disturbance. Anything
| that you see while under the influence of
! choral or brandy or hashcesh or lam
| danum is not Il revelation from God.
! The learned De Quincy did not ascribe
| TO divine communication what he saw in
! sleep, opium saturated, dreams which he
! aftcrward described in the following
words: II was worshiped; l was sacri-
| feed; fed 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
crocodilcs tremble. ! was buried FOR Il
| thousand years in stone collins, with
| mummes and sphinxes in narrow cham
bers at the heart of eternal pyramids
| was kissed with the cancarous kiss Of
| crocodilcs and lay COMPOUNDED with an
utterabc shiny things among wreuthy
and Nilotic mud"
! DO not mistake narcotic disturbance for
| divine revelation. But / 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 revela tion
Late suppers arc a warranty deed for
bad dreams, Highly spiced salads at IL
| o'clock at night, instead OF opening the
door heavenward, open the door Internal
and diabolcal. You outrage natural law,
and you insult the God who made those
laws 1t takes from three to five hours 10
digest food and you have no right to
keep your digestive organs in struggle
, when the rest of your body is in somno-
| Ience. The general rule is. eat nothing
after q o'clock at night, retire at 10,
| sleep on your right side, keep the window
! open five inches for ventilation. and 9th
or worlds will not disturb YOU much. Iiy
| physical matreatment you take the lad
der that Joseph saw in his dream and
you lower it to the neither world, allow
ing the ascent OF the demoniaca Dreams
are midnight dyspepsia. An unregulated
desire for something to eat keeps il ruin
cd. The world during 5000 years has
| tried in vain to digest that hrSt apple
The world will not be evangelical until
we get rid OF a dyspeptic Christianity.
Healthy people do not want this caday-
erous and sleepy thing that some people
cali 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 indigestiblcs. Napoeon's army at
! Lcipsic. 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 bat
| ties.
The Echo of Day Thoughts.
Another remark | make is that our
| dreams are apt TO bc merely the echo Of
our daytime thoughts. ! will give you a
recipe for pleasant dreams. lii your
days with elevated thought and unsefsh
action, and your drcams viii be set 10
music. If all day you are gouging and
| grasping and ayaricious in your dreams,
! You will see gold that you cannot clutch
and bargains in which yon werc out Shy
| locked. If during the day you are irasci-
| bic aud pngnacious aud gunpowdcry Of
disposition, you will at nigh, have battle
with enemies in which they will get the
best OF sou. If you are an day long in a
| hurry, ut night YOU will dream Of rail
trains that you want to catch. while you
cannot move one inch toward the depot
] e YOU are always oyersuspicious and OK
pcctant Of assault. YOU will have Mt night
hailucnatiOns Of assasSins with daggcrs
drawn. No one wonders that Richard
III. the iniquitous. the night bcfore the
battle of Bosw0rth Field dreamed that
all those whom he had murdered stared
1t him and that ne was torn To pieces by
demons from the pit. The scholars dream
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