Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-16


to divine communication what he saw in
sleep, opium saturated, dreams which he
afterward described in the following
words: Il was worshiped, / was sacri
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 a deed, they said, that made the
crocodiles tremble. | was buried for a
| thousand years in stone coffins, with num-
the heart of eternal pyramids. l was
| kissed with the cancerous kiss of croco-
diles and lay confounded with unutterable
| mud"
Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for
divine revelation. But I have to tell YOU
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.
dreams; Highly spiced salads at II o'clock
at 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.
1t 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 somnolence. The gen.
eral rule is cat nothing after o'clock at
night, retire at 10, sleep on your right
side. keep the window open five inches for
ventilation, and other worlds will not dis
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
unregulated desire for something to eat
ruined the race in paradise and an unreg-
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 cadaver.
Gus and sleepy thing, that some people call
| 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 indigesti-
bles. Napoleon'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 battles.
| All dreams that make you better are
from God. How do l know it? Is not
| God the source of all good? 1t does not
! take very logical mind to argue that out.
| Tertullian and Martin luther believed in
| dreams. The dreams of John Huss are i'm
|
father, gives us the fact that Carthage
nian 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 fell
dead across her lap.
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 profigate. sailor on ship
! board, in his dream thought that being
tiful ring and put it upon his finger ana
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 ana
| by 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 arr was
was lurid with consuming wrath. Whlle
| John Newton was repenting OF ms 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 it up and said to John Newton,
Here is that gem, but | think will keep
it for you lest you lose it again. Ana AND
| John Newton consented. and all the tre
went out from the mountains. and all the
| signs of lurid wrath disappeared from tne
| 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 Christ.
| And that dream makes one OF the most
wonderful chapters in the life OF that
most wonderful man.
| A 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 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
bunch of tuberoses. They stood on his
| desk. and at the close of the religious ser,
vices he took the tuberoses and started
homewarl. and the German followed him
and through an interpreter told MI. LAM
pher that on the sea he had dreamed OF
| and was told to follow him. Suffice 1T to
saw that through that interview and fol-
| lowing interviews ne became Christian
and is a city missionary. preaching the gos-
pei to his own countrymen. God IN
dream! ,.:,u1
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, this crew,
we're all banish he'd, and in this dream he, he
asked the reader why his own name was
omitted. and he was told it was to give
him more opportunity for repentance, =, He
woke up different man. He became Illus
trious for Christian attainment. If you
do not believe these things, then you must
discard all testimony and refuse TO accep1
any Kind of authoritative witness. God IN
a dream!
Rev. Herbert Mendes was converted to
God through a dream of the last Judgments
and many of us have had some dream OF OF
that great day OF judgment which shall be
the the Winding up Of the worlds history. If
You have not dreamed Of it. perhaps, to-
are enough materials to make a dream.
Enough voices, for there shall be the
roaring of the elements and the great
! carthaualle. Enough light for the dream,
for The world shall blaze. Enough excite