The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-01-31


job had carbuncles, and he wa
scared in the night. lie says; "Ihol
scarest me with dreams and terri
fest me with visions" solomon ha,
an overwrought brain. overwrough
with public business. and he suffered
from erratic slumber, and he writes
in Ecclesiastes: ~ dream cometl
through the multitude OF business
DR.. Gregory, in experimenting with
dreams, found that bottle OF hot
water put to his feet while in slum
ber made him think he was going
mp 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 mar
cotic disturbances. Anything that
you see while under the influence Of
chloral or brandy or hasheesh or
laudanum is not a revelation from
God.
DO not mistake narcotic disturb
ance for Divine revelation. But /
have TO tell you that the maiority 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 II o'clock at night instead
of opening the door heavenward.
open the door internal and diabol-
ical. You outrage natural law. and
YOU insult the God who made those
laws. 1t takes from three TO five
hours 10 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 IL
ruined. The world during 6.000 years
has tried in vain TO digest that first
apple. The world will not be evan
relized until we get rid OF a dyspep-
tie Christianity. Healthy people do
not want this cadaverous and sleepy
Thing that some people call religion.
They want a religion that lives reg
ularly by day and sleeps soundly by
night. II through trouble or coming
on of old are or exhaustion Of Chris
tian service YOU cannot sleep well.
then you may expect from God
songs in the night" but there are
no blessed communications 10 those
who willingly surrender TO indi-
gestibles. Napoleon's army at Leip-
sic, Dresden and Borodino came near
being destroyed through the dis
urbed gastric juices Of It's command
r.. That is the way you have lost |
ome Of your battles.
Waking thoughts have their echo /
n sleeping thoughts. If a man spend /
lis life in trying TO make others
lappy and is heavenly minded,
,round his pillow he will see cripples
Who have got over their crutch and
OF celestial imperials
md hear the grand march roll down
rom drums of Heaven over jasper
You are very apt TO hear
n dreams what you hear when you
re wide awake.
Now, having shown you that. hav-
ng a Bible. we ought to be satisfied
18th not getting any further com
from God, and having
hown you that all dreams have an
nportant mission since they show
he comparative independence Of the
oul from The body, and having
hown you that the majority Of
reams are a result OF disturbed
hysical conditions, and having
hown you that our sleeping
loughts are spt TO be an echo Of
ur waking thoughts, / come now TO
~ fifth and most important remark.
nd that is 10 shy that IL is capable
+ proof that God does sometimes m
mr. day aud has often since the
ose OF the Bible dispensation APP
cared to people in dreams.
All dreams that make You better
re from God. How do know 10? is
OF God the source Of all good? II
pes not take a very logical mind to
rrue that out. Tertuillan and Mar
N Luther believed in dreams. The
reams Of John Iluss are immortal.
/. Augustine. the Christian father,
ives MS the fact that Carthaginian
,vsician was persuaded Of the inn
ortality Of the soul by an argument
hich he heard in dream. The night
fore his assassination the wife Of
llius Caesar dreamed that her hns-
and fell dead across her lap.
ID Is possible TO prove that God does
,pear IN dreams TO warn, to convert
d TO save men. My friend, retired
a captain and a Christian, tells me
at one night while on the sea be J
canned that q ships crew were in
eat suffering. Waking from his J
cam. he put about the ship. tackled
different directions, surprised
erybody OF his vessel-they thought i,
was going crazy sailed on in am
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