The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-02

Il Is getting towards bedtime in our new
house; we have the most ample, convenient,
and healthful sleeping apartments. The room
twenty-iour hours ought to be comfortable. IL
Is one Of the greatest arts OF life to be q good
sleeper. Without this kind of repose we 60 TO
our work only half armed If you cannot sleep
yourself, do not keep the whole house awake
There are those who, not being able TO sleep
themselves, consider it kind of conscientious
duty, all night long. to slam the doors and win,
dOw-shutters. We shall have the apartments
well ventilated. j have passed the night in
rooms that for months had felt no ventilation
the windows being nailed down as if to stay
there.
Go to sleep tonight without fret or a care.
Everything will come out right in your business
and in the world. You will probably be a rich
man before you die. Keep good heart and IL
you fall, fall forward, never backward. Worry
not about the world as though it we're going to
ruin, All wrongs will be riehted, and we vet
shall see the full gush of the morning.
=, One summer day l went to the beach to see
gathered up all its shadows. counted ten sails
against the sky. They were in the dim distance
and seemed stalking there like the spirits of the
night walking the billows. The gloom of the
hour and spot were so great, that tried to break
it by uttering aloud ''Thy way, o God is in the
sea, and Thy path in the great waters.r 1t grew
lighter The cloudsin purple clusters hung above
the horizon; and 1t seemed as If those purple clus.
ters were pressed into red wine and poured out
upon the sea, and every wave turned into GRIM
son. Yonder fre.cleft stood opposite to fire.
cleft, and hele cloud, rent and tinged with
light, seemed like palace, with flames bursting
from the twindows-the whole sky lighted uD
until 1t was as II the angels of God were ascend.
ing and descending upon stairs of fire, and the
wave crests changed into crystals and Jasper
and amethyst, as they were flung towards the
beach. IL made me think of the crowns of
heaven, cast before the throne of the great
Jehovah, ! threw myself upon the sand and
uttered again, "Thy way, o God is in the sea,
and Thy path in the great waters ~
So, meLhinks, will come the morning of the
worlds deliverance; the long night OF agony
will begin to fade from the heavens; the dark
ness will fold its tents and away: the golden
feet of the rising day Will come skipping upon
the mountains, and all the wrathful, booming
billOws of the worlds woe break in the splendors
of eternal Joy.
Therefore don't fret You will sleep better
tonight if you don't fret. | leave you at the
door of the sleeping apartment IN our new
house. Turn the gas off square, and set your
shoes where you can get them quickly in case
OF fire. Goodnight, old and young. Let no care
ache your brow nor tear fall upon your pillow.
Think not of the house-hunting horrors de-
scribed in the opening of my lecture. Let
Gods lowering angel shake rest from his wings.
Let the old feel no ailments through all the
night hours, and may the young have their
dreams filled with odors of spring-time and
heaven. On your comfortable couch think of
Him who had not where to lay His head. Good
night.