The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-08

while in Slumber made nm tnlnk ne 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 AL pine diligence. But great many dreams are merely narcotic disturbance. Any thing that you see while under the in- fiuence of chloral or brandy or hasheesh or laudanum is not a revelation from
 The learned De Quincey did not ascribe to divine communication what he saw in sleep. opium saturated. dreams which he afterward described in the following words; "I was worshiped, l was sacIi- fced fed led fro from the wrath of BTahma; vihSnn hated me. Sceva laid in wait for me. came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. l had done a deed. they say, that made the tr ersoSodiiss tremoie; l was se buried Tor a mummies and sphinxes in narrow cham bers at the heart of eternal pyramids. 1 was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiies and lay, .confounded with un- and Nilotic mud"
 Dyspeptic Christianity.
 Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for divine revelation. But I have to tell you that the majority of the dreams are merely the penalty of outraged digestive the nightmare for heavenly revelation. Late suppers are 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 diabolical. You outrage natural law, and you insult the God who made those laws. It takes from three to five hours to digest food. and you have no rignt when the rest of your body is in som nolence. The general rule is eat nothing after o'clock at night, retire at lo. sleep on your right side, keep the window open Axya for 1ot tnn n6 worlds will not disturb you much. By physical maltreatment you take the lad der that Jacob saw in his dream, and you lower it to the neither world. allow are midnight dyspepsia. An unregulated desire for something to eat ruined the race in paradise, and an unregulated de- sire for something to eat keeps it ruined The world during coco years has tried Tn 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 cadaverous and sleepy thing that some people call re- ligion. 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 may expect from God songs in the night" but there are no blessed commit nications to those who willingly surren- der to indIgestibles. Napoleon's army at
 
 near being destroyed through the dis turbed gastric juices of its commander. That Is the way you have lost some of your battles.
 Mission of Dreams.
 Another remark I make is that our dreams are apt to be merely the echo of our daytime thoughts l will give you receipe for pleasant dreams. Ill 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 Shylocked. If during the day you are irascible and pugnacious and gunpoW- dery of disposition, you will at night nave battle with enemies in which they will get the best of you. If you are all day long in a hurry, at night you will dream of rail trains that you want to eaten while you cannot move one inch toward the depot. If you are always oversus- picious and expectant of assault, you will have at night Authorizations of as- sassins with daggers drawn. No one wonders that Richard III, the iniquitous, the night before the battle of Boswortn Field dreamed that all those whom he had murdered stared at him and that ne was torn to pieces by demons from the l pit. The scholars dream Is phlloSophlc echo. The poets dream is d. rhythmic 1 echo Coleridge composed his "Kubla Khan" asleep in narcotic dream, ana waking up, wrote drown 3OO lines or IL | Tartinia, the violin player. composed his most wonderful sonata while asleep in a dream so vivid that, waking, he easily i transferred 1t to paper.
 Waking thoughts have their echo IT | sleeping thoughts. If a man spend hi. | life in trying to make others happy anc Is heavenly minded, around his pillow h' will see cripples who have got over thell
 crutch, and processions of celestial i'm | perlals and hear the grand march rol l dOxuD from drnmS Of heaven over laSDel parapets. You are very apt to hear 1T dreams what you hear when you art wide awake
 Now, having shown you that, having 8 Bible, we ought to be satisfied not get, | ting any further communication iron 1 God, and having shown you that al dreams have an important mission since l they show the comparative independence of the soul from the body. and having shown you that the majority of dreams are result of disturbed physical con- dition, and having shown you that oul sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo of our waking thoughts, I come now tc | fifth and most important remark, and | that is to say that 1t Is capable or prool | that God does something in our day ana 1 has often since the close of the Bible dispensation appeared to people IT dreams.
 Warned by God.
 All dreams that make you better ar' | from God. How do l know it? Is no God the source of all good? It does no | take very logical mind to argue tna' | out. Tertullian and Martin Luther be- lieVed in dreams. The dreams of JohI | Huss are immortal St. Augustine, th' Christian father. gives us the fact that : | Carthaginian physician was persuaded | of the immortality of the soul by an ar gument which he heard in dream; Th' | night before his assassination the Wlte o Julius Caesar dreamed that her husband f fell dead across her lap. IL,
 It is possible to prove that God doe' l appear in dreams to warn, to conVer' and to save men. My friend, a retired sea captain and a Christian, tells m'
 that one night while on the sea n | dreamed that ships crew were in grea suffering. Waking from his dream. h' put about the ship. tackled In dineren l directions, surprised everybody on hi! | vessel-they thought he was going crazy sailed on in another direction hour aftel hour and for many hours until he cam' to the perishing crew and rescued then and brought them to New York Wht conducted that dream? The God of thu sea. *".:
 the West Indies and ran on the ledge o
 rocks called the Baskets. The Vesse
 went down. but the crew clambered III
 m the Baskets, to die of thirst or starva
 tion as they supposed. But there was
 ship bound for Southampton that hal the captains son on board. This la |, twice in one night dreamed that ther
 was a crew of sailors dying on the Gas kets He told his lather of this dream The vessel came down by the Caske'
 in time to find and to rescue those po) dying men Who conducted that dream } The God of the rocks, the God or tn