The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-12-06
shiny things among wrsathy and Nilotie

heavenward, open the door internal and
diaholcal. Nou outrage natural law, and
YOU insult the God who made those laws
IL takes from three 10 five hours to digest
food. and you have no right - keep your
digestive organs IN struggle when the rest
OF your body is in somnolence. The gen.
eral rule is eat nothing after 6 o'clock at
night. retire az 10. sleep on your RIGHT
side, keep the window open five inches for
ventilation, and other worlds viii not dis
turb YOU much. BY physical mAltreatment
YOU take he ladder that Jacob saw in his
dream, and YOU lower it 20 the neither
world. allowing the ascent OF the demon.
acal. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An
unregulated desire for something TO eat
ruined the race IN paradise, and an unreg-
ulated desire for something 20 eat keeps il
ruined. The world during 6o00 years has
tried in vain 20 digest that first apple.
The world will not be evangehzed until
we get rid ot n dyspeptic Christianity.
Healthy people do not want the cadaver-
Gus and sleepy thing that some people call
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 NAV ex.
meet from God songs in the night but
there are no blessed communications 20
those who willingly surrender 10 ndigesti-
hles. Napo,eon's army az Ieipsic, Dres-
den and Borodino came near being de-
stroyed through the disturbed gastric
Juices of its commander. That is the way
YOU have lost some OF your battles.
Another remark | make Is that our
dreams are ant 10 be merely the echo Of
our DAYTIME thoughts. Y will give YOU a
recipe for pleasant dreams. Fill your DAYS
with elevated thought and unselhsh action
and your dreams Will be set 10 music. II
all dav YOU are goueing and grasping and
avaricious, in your dreams YOU will see
gold that YOU cannot clutch and bargains
in which YOU were out.Shyiocked. II dur
ing the day YOU are irascihe and pugna-
cious and gunpowdcry OF disposition. YOU
will Rt night have battle with enemies in
which thev will get the best Of YOU. II
YOU are all day long in a hurry, at night
Won will dream ~ rail trains that YOU
want 20 catch while YOU cannot move one
inch toward the depot. II YOU are always
oversusuicious and cNpectant of assault.
vou viii have az night hallucinations OF
assassins with daCgers drawn. No one
wonders that Richard III. the iniQuitous.
the nght before the battle OF Bosworth
Field dreamed that all those whom he had
murdered stared at him. and that he was
torn to pieces by demons from the pit.
All dreams that make YOU better are
from God. How do I know il? Is not
God the source of all qood' II does not
take very logical mind 20 argue that out.
dreams. The dreams OF John Huss are inn
mortal. St Augustine, the Christian
father. gives us the fact that a Carthage.
nian physician was persuaded OF the inn
mortality of the soul by an argument
which he heard in dream. The night be-
fore his assassination the wife OF Julius
Caesar dreamed that her husband fell
dead across her lap.
IL is possible 10 prove that God does
appear in dreams 20 warn. TO convert and
to save men. Nv friend. retired sea
captain and a Christian tells me that one
NIGHT while on the sea he dreamed that
ships crew were in great suffering. WAX.
ing 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 another di-
recton hour after hour. and for many
hours until he came TO the perishing crew
and rescued them and brought them to
New York. Who conducted that dream?
The God Of the sea.
Furthermore. have to say that there
are people who were converted TO Cod
through n dream The Rev. John New
ton the fame of whose piety fills all Chris
tendon. while n profligate sailor on ship
board, in his dream thought that being
! approached him and gave him very beau,
| tiful ring ar d nut IL upon his finger and
| said 10 him: "As long rs you wear that
ring YOU will be Drospered II YOU lose
that ring YOU will be ruined In the same
dream another parsonage appeared ana
| Nv strange infatuation nersuaded John
| Newton TO throw overheard that ring. and
it sank into the sea. Then the mountains
| in SIGHT were full Of FIRE. and the AIR was
was lurid with consuming wrath. While
| John Newton was repenting OF his folly IN
| having thrown overheard the treasure an.
other parsonage came through the dream
and told John Newton he would plunge
! into the Sc, and bring that ring up II he
| desired t. He plunged into The sea and
| brought IL M and said - John Newton
| Here is that gem. but think J VIII keep
| il for YOU lest YOU lose IL again" And
| John Newton consented. and all the fire
| went out from the mountains, and all the
| siyny of lurid wrath disappeared from the
| air, end John Newton said that he saw in
| his dream that that valuable gem was his
soul, and that the being. who persuaded
| him 10 throw il overheard was Satan. and
| that the one who plunged in and restored
| that gem. keeping IL for him, was Christ.
| And that dream makes one of the most
| wonderful ck,i: :.ers in the life OF that
most wonderful man.
| A German was crossing the Atlantic
| Ocean. and in his dream he saw man
! with n handful OF white flowers. and he
was told 70 follow the man who had that
| handful Of white flowers. The German,
arriving IN New York, wandered into the
| Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mr..
| Lamphier, the great apostle of prayer
meetings. that day had gwen ~ him, a
| bunch of tubproses. They stood on ms
| desk. and At tho close of the religious ser.
vices he took the tuberoses and started
| horneward, and the German followed him
! and through an interpreter told Mr.. lam.
| phior that on the sea he had dreamed OF
| a man with r handful ~ whJe flowers,
and was tod 10 follow him Suffice ~ 70
! cav that through that interview and fo'-
| loving interviews he became a Christian
! and il a city missionary. preaching the goa.
! mel 20 his own coun,rymen. GOD IN
John Hardonf. while on shipboard.
| dreamed one night 'ha, the dsy o' iudV.
-rent had come. and that the roll oi the
| ship's crew was called except his own
rame and that these, people. THIS crew,
were al banished. and in this dream he
! osked The reader whv his own name wns
/ emitted. and he was told u was 70 give
! him more oDp3rtunity for repentance. He
,,oke un A different mar He became illus.
| ,rous for Christian attainment ~ you
! 10 not believe these things. then you must
! discard al testimony and refuse 70 accept
anv kind 81 authoritative witness. God IN
2 dream
Pev Herbert Mendes was converted 20
/ God through A dream Of the last Judgment.
and many of us have had some dream of
that great day OF judgment. which shall be-
! .be winding M Of the worlds history. II
/ y,u have not drcsr of IL. uerhaps 20.
! oieht you nav dream Of that day. There
re enough materials 20 make a dream.
| Enough voices. fof there shall be the
| caring % the clements and the great
! earth1uake. Enough light for the dream,
I Tor the world shall b'aze. Enough excite
| nent. FOR the roIntlins shall fall knougn
water for the ocean shall rea-. Enough
astronomical phenomena. for the star.