Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-12-05


entire broken its chain OF flesh. can do
all thl, how iar can il leap, what circles
can it cut. W,At it is fully liberated. Ev-
cry dream. whether agreeable OF harass.
ing, whether suhshny or tcmpestuous.
means So much that rising from your
couch, YOU ought to knoc down and ,ay:
80 God, ana ! imuurtHG W hcn, -?
Whittier? TWO natures My soul Gagged
now-what when thc door OF the cage IS
opened! II my soul can ly SD far in the
few hours in which my body is asleep in
the night. how far can IT Ey when my
body sleeps the long sleep of the praVeE
Oh. this power To dream. how startling,
low overwhelming. Immortal immortal!
The Cause of some Drcams.
Remark the Third. The vast majority
Of dreams are merely the result Of dis
turhcd physical condition and are not IA
supernatural message. job had car
huncicS, and he was scared in the night.
lie says, Thou ScarVst me with dreams
aud tcrriicst me with visions" solomon
had an overwrought brain, ovorwrousht
with public business, and he suffered
from CrratN slumbpr, and be writes in
EcclcsIastcs. "a dream coneth through
the multitude of business DR.. Gregory,
in experimenting with dreams, found that
IA bottle of hot water put to his feet while
in >luuhcr made him think he WAS going
up the lot sides Of Mount Etna. Another
morbid physician, experimenting with
dreams, his feet uncovered through sleep,
thought he was riding in an Alpine dill
gcncc But Il great many dreams are
merely narcotic disturbance. Anything
that you see While under the influence of
chIoral or brandy or haslcc>h Or lau-
danum is not a revelation from God.
The learned De Quincy did not ascribe
TO divine communication what he saw in
sleep. opium saturated, dreams which he
aftcrward described in the following
words. II was worshiped, | was sacli-
feed; ! fed from the wrath Of Brahma
through all the forests Of ASIA Nishnu
hated me. Sccva laid in wait for me.
came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris.
had done a deed, they said, that made the
crocOdics trcmble. was buried for
thousand years in stone collins, with
mummies and sphinNes IN narrow cham.
bcrs at the heart of eternal pyramids.
was kissed with the cameron, kiss Of
crocodiles and lay con(ouudod with UNI
uttcrable shiny things among wreathy
and Niiotic mud"
DO not mistake narcotic disturbance for
y
that the majority of the dreams are mere
ly the penalty Of outraged digestive or
gans, and you have no right to mistake
the nightmare for heavenly revelation.
Late suppets are warranty deed for
bad dreams Highly splccd salads at II
o'clock at night, instead of opening the
door h,avehWard, open the door internal
and III 4buhcal You outrage natural law,
and you Insult the God who made those
laws 1t taxes from three to i've hours TO
digest food, and you have no right to keep
your digestive organs i'll struggle when the
rest of your body is in sumnOlenCe. The
general rule is, eat nothing after u o cluck
at night, retire at 10. sleep on your III It
side. keep the window open tive inches for
ventilation, and other worlds VIII not dis
turb you much by physical maltreat-
ment you take the ladder that Jacob saw
in his dream and you lower it to the
| neither world, allowing the ascent of the
| dcmonacal. Dreams are midnight dys-
pcpsja. An unregulated desire for some
/ thing to eat keeps it ruined. The world
unriug G,OUO years has tried in vain TO di-
.y~t that first apple. The world will not
7 be evangelical until we get rid of a dys-
pcptic Christianity. Healthy people do
I not want this cadaverous and sleepy
! thing that some people call religion. They
want 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 may expect
from God songs in the night" but there
| are no blessed communications to those
/ who willingly surrender to indigestihlcs.
/ Napolcon's army at Leipsic, Dresden and
| Borodino came near being destroyed
| through the disturbed gastric juices of its
| commander That is the way you have
/ lost some of your battles.
The Echo of Day Thoughts.
Another remark | make is that our
dreams are apt to be merely the echo Of
our daytime thoughts. | will give you 1t
recipe for pleasant dreams. Fill your
days with elevated thought and unscG>h
action. and your dreams will be set to
music II 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 shy
locked If during the day you are irasc-
bic and pugnacious and gunpowdely Of
disposition you will at night have battle
with enemies in which they will get the
best OF you. If you are all day long in g
hurry. at night you will dream Of rail
trains that you want to catch, while you
cannot move one inch toward the depot.
II you are always uyersuspicous and eX-
pcctant of assault. you will have AT night
Authorizations Of assaSsinS with dHggcra
drawn. SO one wonders that Richard
Ill, the iuiquitous, the night before the
baitlc of Bosworth Field dreamed that
all those whom he had murdered stared
AZ him and that he was torn to pieces by
demons from the pit. The scholars dream
is phiiosopbic echo. The poets dream is
Il rhythmic echo Coleridge composed his
"Kubla Khan" asleep in narcotic dream
and, waking up, wrote down 300 lines Of
it. Tariua. the violin player, composed
his most wonderful sonata while asleep IN
a dream so vivid that, waking, he easily
transferred it to paper.
Waking thoughts have their echo IN
sleeping thoughts. If man spend his life
in trying TO make others happy and IS
heavenly minded, around his pillow he
will see cripples who have got over their
crutch and professions OF celestial lmpe-
rails and hear the grand march roll down
from drums of heaven over jasper para
pets. You are very apt 10 hear in dream,
what you hear when you are wide awake
Now. having shown you that. having q
Bible we ought to be satisfied not getting
any further communication from God, am
having shown you that all dreams have
an important mission since they show tn,
comparative Independence of the sou
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