The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-08
we ought. nevertheless. to be

dreams we ought. nevertheless to be
 With twenty guidebooks to tell you how to gef to New York or Pittsburg or Lon don Or Glasgow or Manchester do you want night vision to tell you how to make the journey! we have have Tn tnis ms Journey of this life and how to get to the Celestial city, and with this grand guide book, this magnificent directory, we ought to be satisfied. l have more faith wide awake than when am sound asleep
 I have noticed that those who give a
 great deal of their time to studying dreams get their brains added. They are dreamed about the first night they slept in a new house. If in their dream they take the hand of corpse, they are go Ing to die. If they dream of a garden, 1t out according to q night vision, they say, Well, am not surprised;; dream ed it." If 1t turns out different from the night vision. they say; well: dreams their dreams into rhythm they put their waking thoughts into discord. Now. the Bible Is SO full of revelation that we ought to be satisfied If we get no further
 Sound sleep received great honor when Adam slept so extraordinarily that the surgical ineision which gave him Eve did not wake him, but there is no sucn need Tor eXLfaOrQlndTy SluutuCI uO"s oNN he who catches an Eve must needs be wide awake! No need of such dream as Jacob had, with a ladder against the sky. when ten thousand times 1t has been demonstrated that earth ahe nsavsn are in communication. No such dream needed as that which was given to Abim, elech, warning him against n unlaWiui marriage, when we have the records or the county clerks office. No need or such a dream as was given to Pharaoh about the seven years of famine, Tor now the seasons march in regular process sion and steamer and rail tram carry ton No need of a dream like that which encouraged Gideon. for all tnrough Christendom 1t is announced and acknowl' edged and demonstrated that righteous ness sooner or later will get the victory. If there should come about crisis in your life upon which the Bible does not seem to be sufficiently specihc, go to Gud in prayer, and you will get especlai direction have e, more faith nineth1ns drsctions given you with the Bible in your lap and | your thoughts uplifted in prayer to God than in all the information you will get | unconscious on your pillow. .., I can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptians, With mo Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese Tn tneir Sdi, holy
 book Chow Kns' sh9sld sIrsetions snK through ,ns | dreams from God, and that Homer snoulo think that all dreams came from love | and that in ancient times dreams were classified into science, put why Go yoo and I put so much stress upon dreams | when we have a supernal book or m | finite wisdom on all subjects? Wh! | should we harry ourselves with dreams Why should Eddystone ana Sasnesa' | Iiphthousse question summer nrenyI
 Proof of Immortality.
 Remark the Second.-All dreams have l .. naanfnR They prove thal
 the soul is comparatively independen
 of the body The eyes are closed, the senses are dull, the entire body goes into a lethargy which in all languages IS
 used as a type of death. and then tho
 soul spreads its wing and never sleeps | It leaps the Atlantic ocean and mingles | in scenes 5000 miles away. It travels
 great reaches of time, flashes back
 eiehty years, and the octogenarian is g
 boy, again in his fathers house. If the | soul before it has entirely broken its | chain of flesh can do all this, how fal | can it leap what circles can 1t cut Whef if is fully liberated Every dream, wheth
 CT agreeable or harassing, whether sun.
 shiny or ,tempestuous, means so muci that, rising from your couch, you ough
 immortal? Whence? Whither? Two na
 lures. My soul caged now-what wher
 the door of the cage is opened! II my
 soul can fly so far in the few hours il
 which my body is asleep in the night
 how far can 1t fly when my body sleep
 inc long sleep of the grave?" Oh, thi
 power to dream, how startling, how over
 whelming! Immortal. immortal!
 Remark the Third.-The vast majorit,
 of dreams are merely the result of dis
 turbed physical condition and are not
 supernatural message. Job had car
 buncies and he was scared in the night He says, Thou scarest me with an terrified me~ with visions" Solomon ha .ft an overwrought brain, overwrought wit nublic business, and he suffered fror
 cratic slumber, and he writes in Eccle : siastes, "A dream cometh through th multitude of business" pr. Gregory, 1
 experimenting with dreams, found tn;