The age-herald., 1901-12-01

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 If there should come about a crll4 In your life upon which the Bible does not seem to be sufficiently specific, go to God in prayer and you will get especial direc- tion. I have more faith ninety-nine times out of a hundred in directions given you with the Bible in your lap and your thoughts uplifted in prayer to God than in all the information you will get un- conscious on your pillow.
 I can very easily understand why the Babylonians and the Egyptians, with no Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese in their holy book Chow King, should think thetr Elm peror gets his directions through dreams from God, and that Homer should think that all dreams came from love. and that in ancient times dreams were classi- fled Into science, but why do you and put so much stress upon dreams when we have supernal book of infinite wis., dom upon all subjects? Why should we hurry ourselves with dreams? Why should Eddystone and Barnegat light houses question a summer fireny?
 Proof of Immortality.
 Remark the Second.-All dreams have an important meaning They prove that the soul is comparatively independent of the body. The eyes are closed, the senses are dall, the entire body goes into lethargy, which in all languages is used as a type of death, and then the 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 hack eighty years, and the octogenarian Is a boy again In his fathers house. If the soul before it has entirely broken its chain Of flesh can do all this, how far can 1t leap, what circles can it cut when 1t Is fully liberated? Every dream, whether agreeable or harrassing. whether sum- shiny or tempetuous, means so much that, rising from your couch, you ought to kneel down and say: 70 God. am I immortal? Whence? Whither? Two na- lures. My soul caged now-what when the door of the cage Is opened? If my soul can fly so far in the few hours in which my body Is asleep In the night how far can it fly when my body sleeps the long sleep of the grave?" Oh. this power to dream, how startling, how over whelmingl Immortall Immortall
 Remark the Third.-The vast majority of dreams are merely the result of 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 terriheth me with visions Solomon had an overwrought brain, overwrought with public business, and he suffered from cratic slumber. and he writes in Eccle- siastes, "A dream cometh through the multitude' of business" :" Dr. Gregory, in experimenting with dreams, found that a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in slumber made him think he 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 chioral or brandy or hasheesh or laudanum is not a revelation from God.
 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 wordss T was worshiped, was sacri- ffced, fled from the wrath of Brahma, through all the forests of Asia. vishnu hated me, Sceva laid in wait for me. l came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris I had done deed, they said, that made the crocodiles tremble. I was buried for thousand years in stone collins, with mrmmies and sphinxes in narrow cham bers at the heart of eternal pyramids. I was kissed with the cancerous kiss of crocodiies and lay confounded with un- utterable slimy things among wreathy and Nilotic mud''
 Dyspeptic Christianity.
 Do not mistake narcotic disturbance