Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-03-24
stopping TO Rest.


are ready enough to take it, though not
alSays when we need it; on the o, her hand,
It is sometimes forced upon us in a wsy
that teaches us more than one lesson. We
lind, 10 the compelled pause, Of our lives,
that The world can do without us, and that
it is good thing 10 be occasionally cut of
from it. How nice it is TO let alone; how
nice to be let alonel Nearly al! forms of
trave.ing give US some degree Of this kind
OF feeling. Not, of course, riding in an
omnibus. for there is no telling whom. you
meet in II; but in some degree riding ia
cab, and in q considerable degree riding on
'hc railsay for any distance. In cab
you may lean back so that nobody can see
you; and you may shut your eyes upon the
hard faces, Hni 'qualid esses, and filthy
cutters, aud froUsy corners Of the streets
Nobody is likely TO stop the carriage
aud nobody eau stop trainl So that,
unless you have unpleasant fellow. travellers,
you are comfortably shut up from the rest
Of the world, with delic ons sensation tina,
there is no drawbrdge. II is au old re
mark that, from q similar point of view,
sea voyage is delightful. Nobody can
knock at the door; If you are i'll. nobody
can look 10 TO condo e; and how delightful
iba: is sOmeiimes-tO escape being re.
minded that You are no; well! Ou the
o her hand, you have your own delicious
iIcapaci,es. You caunot knock at any
body eIse's door. II something hasty oc-
ours to you, you cannot write it and post
IL 20 tiieud-wbO would be vcxcd by it.
A mastery inactivity is forced upon you.
Your ~hole being lies fallow Ceasing to
plague and to be plagued; knowing that
the great world ges on without your frett.
iUg aud fuming about IL; and yet retaining
u keen Sense Of your own vitality it
uust be u pleasant situation. A keen
sense Of yonr own vitality you must have,
for be mind puts forth On immense fresh
elasticity OF power in the presence of vast
suggestive spaces, aud magnificent sights
and sounds, such as are round it on the
great deep; aud yet there is rest and tri.
umpbent immunity. s4E
Scarcely suytb.Dg in life is so sweet to-
NE as the repose of Sunday---the 500, hing
suggestions of its devOu,er Offices, Its ST.
leuce, its calm, its immunites Defo,,
when he was in d ficultes, was called the
Sunday gentleman, because be only went
abr cad upon the day on which bailffs had
70 power but obers, not 10 difficulties,
may be permitted to rejoice 10 the certainty
of being let alone on Sundays. For my
part, l have never, since can recollect
at all, awoke on Sunday morning without
a sense of triumph in the quiet hours that
were before me. Sunday was always the
dsy on which rose early, in order to h.ve
as much as possible Of It's peace and sweet.
ness II is sill the sano with me. No
posman comes to-day. with bis couble
knock, 40 butcher rings the bell for orders
No carts 60 clatteriDg through the streets.
Even the doctor seems to 6nd less to do.
Aud now, 10 these soft, unfre,ted moments
causes Of irritation seem less than did
yesterday; we pause upon the momen.ous
step; the beut bow Of half angry energyis
reluxed; the mist OF passion has time to
thin away little; we come to the eud Of
the gentle day with pang. and 60 TO
bed with . rcgrstfal thought that 20, morrow
is Mouds7. / say We. feeling sure tha,
my own experience cannot be solitsry-but
il is mine, and much more keenly mine
than the pen can tell you. The influence
Of an eufoI ced psuss in clearing The mind
may be great. How often does it happen
that We fail to sec becauie We lock too
hard. We look at the picture, or at the
landscape; We attack it. so to tpeak, with
orr eyes; and we miss the beauty Of tt
But another day, when we are little re-
lived in our will, the landscape or 'be
pictureis permitted TO look a. us, aud
the calm receptirity OF q langour. enforced
it may be by illaess. takes 10 the loveliuess
we missed when we were at pains to see.