Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-10

when he looks out for pauses and
and periods of rest. There is time
when man is oYerfoWing with en-
ergy. He both finds work and
makes work. He cuts down trees
in the forest of difficulty. He fights
with wind-mills. He sketches out
programme which it would take
several lifetimes to incompass. He
puts no limits to his energies or his
range of possibilities. By and by a
man finds tnat his sphere is strictly
limited and defined. He seeks to
curtail rather than extend his en-
gagements. He no longer thinks
that he can know everybody and go
everywhere, but recognizes that in
act he can, comparatively, only
know few persons and go to few
places. lie understands small econ
Omies of time and circumstances.
He appreciates the ldiSSez .fdire.
lie has a growing opinion in IA
vOr of holidays. Instead of be-
ling always busy, he appreciates
pauses from business. He studies
to be quiet. He begins to think that
speech is silver and silence is golden.
He appreciates rest.
He appreciates rest if it is only
for the sake of work according to
the laws of action and reaction.
Hence, if you can economist seasons
of rest you really secure oppOrtuni-
ties of work. In New York every
man seems in a hurry, and every
man has his programme too full.
You note the New Workers. short,
quick and somewhat impatient
walk. 1T he goes out to dinner he
has been working up to the last
minute; at place of amusement he
lis too thoroughly tired to enjoy him
self; even on a holiday he is busy
with his schemes of work. A man
can do no justice to dinner, holiday,
or concert when his most pressing
need is that he should lie on q sofa
or go to bed. Hence comes nervous
ness, indigestion, bad nights, fatty
degeneration, and all kinds of hor-
rors. 1t is here that the smokers
have n great pull over the non-smok-
ing part of the community. They
understand how to take things quiet
ly. They may like the aroma of the
weed, but the direct result of the
rest is chiefly valuable to them.
The taste for rest grows with our
growth in wisdom. A child cannot
understand it. When a child is told
that his father or mother wants to
be quiet, the sentence is a wonder
menC to him. The taste for quiet
and thoughtfulness ought to be de-
veloped as much as any other taste.
Rest is an investment for action.
All mere friction, II iUtlUII and noJli-
InO moro iE and 1OES Tho
wasted sparkle and glitter might
have been consolidated into the dia-
mond. There is balance and equi-
poise in nature, and any calOric that
is uselessly given off is a deduction
from the sun of vital heat. If you
watch agricultural life, you may see,
on large scale, how rest affects la
Dor. In the winter the laborer's
day is very short. He gets up at q
very late hour, and goes to bed at an
extraordinary early hour. His object
is to ecOnomise light and fuel. He
often takes in winter nearly twice
as much sleep as he takes in sum
mer. In summer, he will get up at
four i'll the morning, and work at
night as long as tho last gleam of
sunset lasts. 1t would be utterly
impossible for a labOrer to do his
summer work unless he had stored
up force during his winter rest. In
the old days when warfare was
chronic, winter-quarters were ne
cessary to the summer campaign.
In rest you recuperate from fatigue,
and you also store up forces for ac-
tion. The prophet is sent into
the wilderness before he begins his
mission amid cities. In the lives of
various great men, you will find
periods in which they seemed con-
demned to inactivity. But they
were merely couchant for a spring.
There are all kinds of ways for
ecOnOmizing rest. And just in pro-
portion as n man realizes the pre-
ciousness of effort and of work, as
he would desire not TO lead a feeble
life Of intellectual aims, so far will
he be jealous of useless effort, and
desire to spare himself all friction
and controversy. Life is too short
for quarreling, and for lot of 9TH
er things as well. As far as posi-
bic let there be no waste in life, as
there is none in nature