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Shiny things among wreathy and Nlotic

that the majority OF the creams are mere
" the penalty of outraged digestive or.
gans, and you have no right to mistake
the nightmare for heavenly, revelation.
dreams. Highly spieed salads at II o'clock
ct night, instead of opening the door
hearenward. open the door internal and
diabolcal. 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 right to keep your
digestive organs in struggle when the rest
of your body is in somnoience. The gen.
eral rule is eat nothing after o'clock at
night. retire at 10. sleep on your right
side, keep the window open five inches for
turb you much. BY physical maltreatment
YOU take the ladder that Jacob saw in his
dream, and you lower it to the neither
world. allowing the ascent Of the demoni-
acal Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An
unregu!ated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise, and an unreg-
ulated desire for something to eat keeps it
ruined. The world during 5000 years has
tried in vain to digest that first apple;
The world will not be evanzelized until
we get rid of a dyspeptic Christianity.
Healthy people do not want the cadaver;;
Gus and sleepy thing that some people, call
IL.
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 may ex.
ncct from God "sones in the night, but
there are no blessed communications to
those who willingly surrender to indi9esti-
bes. Napoieon's army at Leipsic. 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 batties.'
Another remark I make is. that our
dreams are ant to be merely the echo OF
our davtine thoughts. will give you a
recinc for pleasant dreams. Fill your days
with elevated thought and unselfsh 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 dur
ing the day you are irascible and pugna-
cious and gunuowdery of disposition. you
will at night have battle with enemies in
which they will get the best of you. II
you arc 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
oversusnicious and eypectant of assault:
you will have at night hallucinations OF
wonders that Richard III. the iniquitous,
the night 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 it? Is not
God the source of all good? It does not
take very logical mind to argue that out.
TertulliaD and Martin Luther believed in
dreams. The dreams Of John Huss are i'm
mortal. St.. Augustine, the Christian
father. gives US the fact that Carthage
n;an physician was persuaded of the i'm.
mortality of the soul by an argument
which he heard in a dream: The night be-
fore his assassination the wife of julius
Caesar dreamed that her husband feu
dead across her lap.
It is possible to prove that God does
appear in dreams to 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 a
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 d.
rect:on 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 God
through dream. The Rev. John New
ton. the fame of whose piety fills all Chris
tendon. while n prohigate- sailor on ship
board. in his dream thought that being
approached him and gave him very beau.
tiful ring arr put it upon his finger and
said to him: "As long as you wear that
ring YOU will be prospered. If you lose
that ring you will be ruined" In the same
dream another parsonage appeared and
by a strange infatuation persuaded Joh9
Newton to throw overheard that ring, and
It sank into the sea. Then the mountains
in sight were full of fire, and the ar , was a
was lurid with consuming wrath. While
John Newton was repentipg 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 sea and bring that ring up if ne
desired IT.. He plunged into the sea and
brought it up and said to John Newton,
"Here is that gem. but think ] will keen,
il for YOU lest you lose it again. And
John Newton consented. and all thu, tlre
went out from the mountains, and all the
signs of mrid wrath disapneared from the
air, and John Newton said that he saW IN
his dream that that valuable. gem was hls
soul, and that the heing, who ,nersuaded
him to throw it overheard was Satan, and
that the ore who plunged. in and restored
that gem. lseeping It for him, was Chrlst.
And that dream NAL les one OF the most
wonderful chapters in the lie OF tha1
most wonderful man. =, .,,...
A German was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean. and in his dream he saw a man
with handful of white flowers, and he
was tod to 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 given to him a
bunch Of tuberoses. They stood on MS
desk. and at the close Of the religious ser,
vices he took the tnberoses and started
hon,eward. and the German followed MN
nhie- that on the spa he had dreamed OF
= man with a handful of white flowers,
and was told to follow him. Suffice 1t. to
saw that through that interview and fol-
lowing interviews he became. Christian
and is city missionary. preaching the gos-
mel to his own countrymen. God IN
dream!
John Fardonk. while on shipboarrd,
dreamed one night that the day of iudg-
ment had come, and that the roll OF the
ships crew was called except, ms own
name. and that these people: this crew,
were all banished. and in this dream ne
asked the reader why his own name was
omitted. and he was told it was to give
him more onnortunity for repentance.. He
woke ur different man. He became. illus
trious for Christian attainment. If you
do not believe these things. then YOU must
discard ali testimony and refuse to accent
anv kind of authoritative witness. God IN
Il dream!
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through a dream of the last judgment:
and many of us have had some dream OF
that great day of Judgment, which shall ne
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