Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-12-07

Remark the second.-All dreams have

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. Ii travels great reaches OF time,
flashes back eighty years, and the oc-
togenarIan is boy again In his "a
theirs house. If the soul before 1t has
entirely broken its chain OF flesh can
do all this. how far can 1t leap, what
circles can II cut when 1t Is fully lib
erated Every dream, whether agree
able or harassing. whether sunshiny or
tempestuous. means so much that. ris-
Ing from your couch. you ought to
kneel down and say: 20 God. am Inn
mortal? Whence? Whittier? Two ma
lures. My soul Gagged now-what when
the door of the cage is openedf III my
soul can fly so far In the few hours In
which my body is asleep in the night,
how far can II ly when my body sleeps
the long sleep Of the graveT oh, this
power to dream, how startling, how
overwhelming! Immortal. immortal!
Remark theThIrd.-The vast majority
of dreams are merely the result or dis
turbed physical condition and are not
supernatural message. job had car
buncles and he was scared In the
night. He says, "Thou scarest me
with dreams and terrifest me with
Visions" Solomon had an oyerWrought
brain. overwrought with public busl-
ness. and he suffered from erratic
slumber. and he writes In Ecclesiastes,
"a dream cometh through the multi
tude of business" DR.. Gregory, In ex'
nerimentIng with dreams, found that
a bottle OF hot water put to his feet
while in slumber made him think be
was going up the hot sides Of Mount
Etna. Another morbid physician, ex-
perimenting with dreams. his feet un-
covered through sleep. thought he was
riding In an Alpine diligence. But
great many dreams are merely mar
cotic disturbance Anything that you
see while under the influence OF chlorai
or brandy or hashpesh or laudanum
is not revelation from God
The learned De Quincy dld not
ascribe 10 divine communication what
he saw In sleep opium saturated
dreams which he afierward described
in the following words: Il was wor
sbIned. was saci feed. | fled from
the wrath Of Brahna. through all the
forests OF Asia. Vishnu hated me-
Sceva laid In walt for me. came
suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. had
done a deed. they said. that made the
crocodlles tremble. was buried Ior
q thousand years in stone coffins, with
mummies and sphinxes In narrow
chambers at the heart Of eternal pyra-
mIds. was kissed with the can
cerous kiss of crocodlles and lay con-
founded with unutterable Shiny things
among wreathy and Nllotlc mud"
Dyspeptic Christianity.
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance
for divine revelation. But | have to
tell you that the ma jority OF the dreams
are merely the penalty Of outraged d.
gestIye organs, and you have no right
to mistake the nightmare for heavenly
revelation Late suppers are q war
ranty deed for bad dreams. Highly
spiced salads at II o'clock at night in
stead Of opening the door heavenward'
open the door Internal and fiiabolicaL
Yon outrage natural law, and you In
sult the God who made those laws. Ii
takes from three to five hours to di-
gest food, and you have no right to
keep your digestive organs In struggle
when the rest of your body Is In SON.
nolence. The general rule Is eat moth
ing after 6 O'Clock at night, retire at lO,
sleep on your right side, keep the win
dow 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 1t to the neither
world. allowing the ascent OF the de-
moniacal. Dreams are midnight dys-
pepsla. An unregulated desire Tor
something TO eat ruined the race IN
paradlse. and an unregulated desire
for something to eat keeps 1t ruined
The world during 5000 years has tried
in vain to digest that first apple. The
world will not be evangelized until we
get rid Of n dyspeptlc Christianity
Healthy people do not want the cadav'
erous and sleepy thing that some peo
pie call religion. They want religion
that lives regularly by day and sleeps
soundly by night II through trouble
or coming on of ola age or exhaustion
OF Christian service you cannot sleeE
well. then you may expect from Goo
Songs In the night" but there are DC
blessed communications to those who
. willingly surrender to indigestibles
Napoleon's army Mt Leipslc. Dresden
and BorodIno came near being destroy
cd through the disturbed gastric juices
OF Its commander That Is the way
you have lost some or your battles.
Mission of Dreams.
Another remark make Is that ou
dreams are apt 10 be merely the ech'
of our daytime thoughts | will CIV
| you recipe for pleasant dreams FIJI
your days with elevated thought ant
, unselish action and your dreams VII
be set to music. II all day you ar
gouging and graspIng and avariclous
In your dreams you VIII see gol'
! that you cannot clutch and bargain
! In which you were out-Shylocked. l
. during the day you are irascible an
I pugnacious aud gunpowdery Of dispC
I sItion. you will at night have Dattl
with enemies In which they Will &c
] the best Of you. II you are all ga.
3 long in q hurry, at night you VIII
D dream of rail trains that you want I
= catch while you cannot move one inc
] toward the depot. If you are AWAY
D oyersuspicious and expectant or as
D sault, you will have at night haiir
D cinations of assassins with dagger
b. drawn. No one wonders that Richar
r I'LL, the iniquitous. the night Defor
the battle Of Bosworth Field dreame
e that all those whom he had murdere