Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-14

blessed communications to those who
willingly surrender to indigestibles.
Another remark 1 make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo
of our daytime thoughts. l will give
you a recipe for pleasant dreams. Fill
your days with elevated thought and
unselfish action, and your dreams will
be set to music If all day you are
gouging and grasping and avaricious
in your dreams you will see gold that
you cannot clutch and bargains in
which you were out-Shy1ocked. If
during the day you are irascible and
pugnacious and gunpowdery of dis
position, you will at night have battle
with enemies in which they will get
the best of you. If you are all day
long in hurry, at night you will
dream of rail trains that you want to
catch, while you cannot move one
inch toward the depot If you are
always oversuspicious and expectant
of assault, you will have at night hal
lucinations of assassins with daggers
drawn.
The scholars dream is a philosophic
echo The poets dream is rhythmic
echo. Coleridge composed his ''Kubla
Khan" asleep in a narcotic dream and,
Tartinia, the violin player, composed
his most wonderful sonata while
asleep in a dream so vivid that, wax
ing, he easily transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo in
sleeping thoughts. If a man spend his
life in trying to make others happy
and is heavily minded, around his pill
low he will see cripples who have got
over their crutch and professions of
celestial imperia1s and hear the grand
march roll down from drums of heav-
en- over jasper parapets. You are very
apt to hear in dreams what you hear
when you are wide awake.
Now, having shown you that, having
Bible, we ought to be satisfied not
getting any further communication
from God, and having shown you that
all dreams have an important mission
since they show the comparative inde-
pendence of the soul from the body,
and having shown you that a majority
of dreams are the result of disturbed
physical conditions, and having shown
you that our sleeping thoughts are apt
to be an echo of our waking
thoughts, come now to my 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 appeared to people in
dreams.
All dreams that make you better are
| from God. How do I know it? Is not
God the source of all good? 1t does
not take a very logical mind to argue
that out. Tertullian and Martin
Luther believed in dreams. The
| dreams of John Huss are immortal.
| ST. Augustine, the Christian father,
gives us the fact that a Carthaginian
physician was persuaded of the immor-
| tality OF the soul by an argument
which he heard in dream. The night
before his assassination the wife of
Julius Caesar dreamed that her hus-
| band fell dead across her lap.
| 1t is possible to prove that God does
| appear in dreams to warn, to convert
and to save men My friend, a retired
sea captain and Christian, tells me
| that one night while on the sea he
| dreamed that a ships crew were in
| great suffering. Waking from his
dream, he put about the ship, tackled
| in different directions, surprised
| everybody on his vessel-they thought
he was going crazy-sailed on in an
| other direction hour after hour and
| for many hours until he came to the
perishing crew and rescued them and
| brought them to New York. Who con-
| Quoted that dream? The God of the
| sea.
/ The Rev. DIR. Bushnell in his mar
veIous book entitled Mature and the
| Supernatural gives the following fact
that he got from Captain Yount in
| California, fact confirmed by many
families: Captain Yount dreamed
twice one night that $50 miles away
| there was company of travellers fast
| in the snow He also saw in the
| dream rocks of a peculiar formation,
and, telling this dream to an old hunt
er, the hunter said: why, 1 remem-
Der those rocks. Those rocks are in
/ the Carson valley pass, 150 miles
away Captain Yount, impelled by
this dream. although laughed at by
| his neighbors, gathered men together
/ took mules and blankets and started
out on the expedition, travelled $50
| miles, saw those very rocks which he
| had described in his dream, found the
| suffering ones at the foot of those
| rocks and brought them back to con-
| firm the story of Captain Yount- Who
| conducted that dream? The God of the
snow, the God of the Sierra Nevadas.
God has often appeared in resource
and comfort You have known people
perhaps It is something 1 state in