Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-12-06

the nightmare for heavenly revelation.
! Late suppers are warranty deed for bad
| dreams. Highly spiced salads at IL o'clock
| Mt night, instead of opening the door
heavenward, open the door internal and
| diabolical. You outrage natural law. and
you insult the God who made those laws.
| It takes from three to five. hours. to digest
| digestive organs in struggle when the rest
| of your body is in somnolence. The gen
eral rule is eat nothing after o'clock at
night, retire at 10, sleep on your right
| side. keen the window open five inches for
| ventilation, and other worlds will not dis
| turb YOU much BY physical maltreat ment
| you take the ladder that Jacob saw in his
| dream. and ycu lower il to the neither
! world, allowing the ascent of the demoni-
| acal Dreams are midnight dyspepsia An
nnregulated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise, and an unreg-
ulated desire for something to eat keeps 1T
ruined The world during 5000 years has
| tried in vain to digest that first apple;
| The world will not be evangelical until
we get rid of dyspeptic Christianity
! Healthy people do not want the cadaverr,,
Gus 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 ex-
pect from God "songs in the night" but
there are no blessed communications TO
those who willingly surrender to indig Eaa
hles. Napoieon's army at Leipslc, Ores
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
All dreams that make you better are
from Cod. How do I know it? is not
God the source of all good? 1t does not
take very logical mind to argue that out.
Tertulian 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
Man physician was persuaded of the i'm
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.
Furthermore. [ have to say that there
are people who were converted to GOD
through a dream. The Rev. John New
ton. the fame of whose piety fills all Chris
tendon. while a prohigate sailor on ship
board in his dream thought that being
approached him and gave him. very beau,
tiful ring and put it upon his finger and
ring Won will be prospered. If YOU lose
that ring you will be ruined" In the, same
dream another parsonage appeared ana
nv a strange infatuation persuaded John
Newton to throw overheard that ring, and
it sank into the sea. Then the mountains
in sight were full of fire, and the ar r., was "a
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 sea and bring that ring up II ne
desired it. He plunged into the sea and
brought II up and said to John Newton,
"Herc is that gem, but I think ] will keep
it for Won lest you lose it again. Ana
John Newton consented, and all the tire
went out from the mountains, and all the
signs of lurid wrath disappeared from the
air. and John Newton said that he saw IN
his dream that that valuable gem was his
soul. and that the being who persuaded
him to throw it overheard was Satan, ana
that the one who plunged in and restored
that gem, keeping it for him, was Chrlst.
And that dream makes one OF the moSt
wonderful chapters in the LIE OF thaC
most wonderful man. .,,.
German was crossing the Atlantic
Ocean. and in his dream he saw man
with a handful of white flowers, and he
was told to follow the man who mad that
handful of white flowers. The, German,
nrr;vina in New York, wandered into the
Fulton street prayer meeting, and MIR.
Iamphier, the great apostle of prayer
meetings, that day had given to nm
bunch of tuberoses. They stood on MS
desk. and at the close of the religious SER
vices he took the tube-oses and started
homeward and the German followed him
and through an interpreter told Mr.. Lam.
nhier that on the sea 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 toll
loving interviews he became Christian
and is a city missionary, preaching the gos-
mol 70 his own countrymen. God in a
John Hardonk. while on. shipboard,
dreamed one night that the day OF ludg-
ment had come, and that the roll OF the
ship's crew was called except his own
name, and that these, people, TINS 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 opportunity for repentance. lie
woke up a different man. He became, Illus
trious for Christian attainment Ii you
Io not believe these things, then you must
discard all testimony and refuse to accept
anv kind of authoritative witness. God IN
dream! ..o1 4o
Rev. Herbert Mcndes was, converted TO
God through dream of the last judgment:
md many of Us have had some dream or
that great day of Judgment which shall be
he Winding I'D of the worlds history. Ii
vou have not dreamed of it, perhaps to-
nioht YOU NAV dream of that day. There
are enough, materials to make a dream.
Enough voices, for there shall be the
roaring Of the clements and the great
rorthnnake. Enough light for the dream,
;or the world shall blaze. Enough excite
,,ent. for the mountains shall fall. Enough
watcr. for the ocean shall rear. Enough
astronomical phenomena, for the stars
,hall 90 out. Enough populations, tor all
The races of all The ages will tall into ine
IF one Of two proces5lons; the one aSceIu
ng ard the other descending. the one led
~ bv the ridep on the white horse of
,tcrnal victory, the other led on by Apol-
Won on the black charger of eternal defeat.
i'he dream comes on me now, and L sec
The liohtnings from above answering the
roIcanic disturbances from beneath, and
T hear the long reverberating thunders
that shall wake up the dead, and all the
seas lifting I'D their crystal voices, cry,
Come to Judgment and all the voices Of
the heaven cry, Come to Judgment. and
crumbling mausoleum and Westminster
abbevs and pyramids of the dead with
marble voices cry, Come to Judgment,
And the archange1 seizes an. instrument o.
music that was made only for one sound,
and thrusting that mighty instrument
through the clouds and tuning it this
wav. he shall put it to his lips and blow
the long, loud blast that shall make. the
solid earth culver, crying, Come to Judg-
ment!"
Then from this earthly grossness quit,
Attircd in stars, we shall forever SIT,
copyright. 1901 l.. Klopschl
Lightning superstitions.
1t is we'll known that lightning plays