The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-07-27
Rest.


when he looks out for pauscs aud pc
riods Of rest. There is time when
man is overaowing with energy. lie
both finds work and makes work. H.
cuts down trees in the forest Of Diff
Guilty. lie fsbts with windmils lie
sketches out n programme which it
would take several liictimes to cncom-
pass. lie pats no limits to his encr.
gies or bis range sf possibilities BY
and by a man hu1s that his sphere is
strictly limited anl defined lie seeks
TO curtail rather th,n extend hi. on
gagomonts. llc no longer thinks that
he can know everybody and 20 every
where, but recognizes that in fact he
can, comparatively, only know few
persons aud 20 to few places He un.
derstanls small economies Of time aud
circumstances He appreciates the
iaissez tare. lie has a growing opiu.
ion 10 favor of holidays Instead Of
being a'ways busy, ho appreciates
pauscs from business. uo studies to
DO quiet. lie begins to think that
speech is silver and silence is golden
lie appreciates rest.
lie appreciates rest if it is only for
the sake OF work according 10 the
laws Of action aud reaction. Hence,
II you can economise seasons Of rest
you really secure opportunities OF
work. In New York every man seems
in n hurry, and every man has bis
programme too full. You uoto the
New Workers. short, quick aud some
what impatient walk. If he goes out
to dinner he has been working up to
the last minute at place of amuse.
mcnt be is too thoroughly tired to en-
JOY himself; even on q holiday he i.
busy with his schemes Of work. A
man csn do no justice to dinner, holi-
day or concert when bis most pressing
need is that he should lie upon q sofa
or 20 to bed. Hence comes nervous
ncss, indigestion, bad nights, aud all
kinds of horrors. II is here that the
smokers have great pull over the non
smoking part Of the community. They
understand how to take things quietly
They may like the aroma Of the weed,
but the indirec, result OF the res, is
chiefly valuable to them.
The taste for res. grows with our
growth in wisdom. A child canno,
understand it. When q child i. told
that bis father or mother wants to be
quiet, the sentence is q wonderment 1T
to him. The taste for quiet and
thoughtiulness ought 10 be developed d
rs much as any other taste. Rest is
an investment for action. All mere
friction, friction aud nothing more, ia
waste and loss. There is q balance and
equlpoise in nature, and any chaloric
that is usclessly given off is deduc.
lion from the sum of vital heat. II
you watch agricultural life, Won may
SEQ, on largo scale, how res, affects
labor. ln the winter the laborer's day
is very short. lie gets up at q vcry
lato hour, and goes to bed at an extra.
ordinary early hour. lie often takes
In winter nearly twice as much sleep
as he takes in summer In Summer he
will get up at four in tho morning, and
work at night whilo tho latest CLEAN oI
sunshine lasts. Ii would be utterly
impossible for laborer to do his sum
mer work unless be had stored up force
during his winter rest. In the old
days when warfare was chronic, winter
quarters were necessary to the sum
mer campaign. In rest you rccuperate
from fatigue, and you also store up
forces for action. The prophet is sent
into the wilderness before he begins
his mission amid cities. 10 the live,
Of various great men, yoa will hnd pc
riod' in which they seemed condemned
to inactivity But they ara merely
couchant for spring.
There are all kinds Of ways for
economiziug rest. And just in pro-
portion as a man realizes the precious
ness ofeifort aud Of work, as be would
desire not 10 lead feeble life Of in-
tellectual aims, so far will he be jcal,
Gus of useless effort, and desire tc
spare himself all friction aud contro'
versy Lifo is too short for quarrel
ing, aud for lot Of other things as
well. As far as possible let there be
no waste in life, as there is none ia
nature