that Browning
had in mind when he said:

"Let us cry 'All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh, more now,
Than flesh helps soul.'"

Sleep, then, is for the resting and the rebuilding of the body. The soul
needs no rest, and while the body is at rest in sleep the soul life is
active the same as when the body is in activity.

There are some, having a deep insight into the soul's activities, who say
that we travel when we sleep. Some are able to recall and bring over
into the conscious, waking life the scenes visited, the information
gained, and the events that have transpired. Most people are not able to
do this and so much that might otherwise be gained is lost. They say,
however, that it is in our power, in proportion as we understand the
laws, to go where we will, and to bring over into the conscious, waking
life all the experiences thus gained. Be this, however, as it may, it
certainly is true that while sleeping we have the power, in a perfectly
normal and natural way, to get much of value by way of light,
instruction, and growth that the majority of people now miss.

If the soul life, that which relates us to Infinite Spirit, is always
active, even while the body is at rest, why may not the mind so direct
conditions as one falls asleep, that while the body is at rest, it may
continually receive illumination from the soul and bring what it thus
receives over into the conscious, waking life? This, indeed, can be
done, and is done by some to great advantage; and many times the highest
inspirations from the soul come in this way, as would seem most natural,
since at this time all communications from the outer, material world no
longer enter. I know those who do much work during sleep, the same as
they get much light along desired lines. By charging the mind on going
to sleep as to a particular time for waking, it is possible, as many of
us know, to wake on the very minute. Not infrequently we have examples
of difficult problems, problems that defied solution during waking hours,
being solved during sleep.

A friend, a well-known journalist, had an extended newspaper article
clearly and completely worked out for her in this way. She frequently
calls this agency to her aid. She was notified by the managing editor
one evening to have the article ready in the morning,--an article
requiring more than ordinary care, and one in which quite a knowledge of
facts was required. It was a matter