Woodruff County news., 1901-12-07

dream, whether agreeable or harass- ing, whether sunshiny or tempestu- ous, means so much that, rising from your couch, you ought to kneel down and say: 70 God, am I immortal! Whence? Whither? Two natures. 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 overwhelming! Immortal, immortal!
 Remark the Third.-The vast ma jority of dreams are merely the re- suit of disturbed physical conditions and are not a supernatural message. Job had carbuncles, and he was scared in the night. He says: "Thou scarest me with dreams and terri fest me with visions" Solomon had an overwrought brain, overwrought with public business, and he suffered from cratic slumber, and he writes A through the multitude of business" :" Dr. Gregory, in experimenting with dreams, found that a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in slum- Der made him think he was going up the hot sides of Mount Etna. An other morbid physician, experiment. ing with dreams, his feet uncovered through sleep, thought he was rid ing in an Alpine diligence. But a great many dreams are merely nar- cotic disturbances. Anything that you see while under the influence of chloral or brandy or hasheesh or laudanum is not revelation from God.
 Do not mistake narcotic disturb ance for Divine revelation. But I have to tell you that the majority of the dreams are merely the penalty of outraged digestive organs, and you have no right to mistake the nightmare for heavenly revelation. Late suppers are a warranty deed for bad dreams. Highly spiced sal ads at il o'clock at night, instead of opening the door heavenward, open the door internal and diabol- teal. 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 or gans in struggle when the rest of your body is in somnolence. The general rule is, eat nothing after six o'clock at night, retire at ten, sleep on your right side, keep the window open five inches for ventilation, and other worlds will not disturb 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 demoniacal. Dreams are mid night dyspepsia. An unregulated de- sire 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 evan gelized until we get rid of a dyspep- tic Christianity. Healthy people dc
 
 thing that some people call religion They want a religion that lives reg ularly by day and sleeps soundly by night. If through trouble or coming on of old age or exhaustion of Chris. tian service you cannot sleep well then you may expect from Goo "songs in the night" but there are no blessed communications to those who willingly surrender to indi gestibles. Napoleon's army at Leip | sic, Dresden and Borodino came neal being destroyed through the dis turbed gastric juices of it's command CT. That is the way you have lost some of your battles.
 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 processions of celestial imperials and hear the grand march roll down from drums of Heaven over jasper parapets. You are very apt to hear in dreams what you hear when you are wide awake.
 Now, having shown you that, hay ing Bible, we ought to be satisfied with not getting any further com munication from God, and having shown you that all dreams have an important mission since they show the comparative independence of the soul from the body, and having shown you that the majority of dreams are a result of disturbed physical conditions, and having shown you that our sleeping +houuhtS are ant to be an echo of