St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-17
LIFE AT HIGH PRESSURE.
Pertinent Discourse by the Rector
of ST. Johns.


Rev. John H. White. rector of the
Church of st. John the Evangelist,
preached yesterday morning from L.
Kings, xvii. chap, 9th verse, ARISE,
get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth
to Zldon, and dwell there" He referred
10 the present age as beng one of great
intensity, when constant effort is be-
ing made to crowd more and more work
into a given period of time. Men are
devoting their best efforts to the task of
devising machinery which will do
double the amount of work which had
been done by the machinery previously
in use. In the world of mind it was the
same. The man who can perform the
greatest amount of intellectual labor n
limited time is the man WHO is in re-
quest among great journalists. The
man who can most rapidly report
the utteranceS of the pulpit or the
roStrum is sought for reporter,
And so in all the walks of life The
strain is inceSSant and the competition
amending. Thus it is that we are all
the time hearing of men who, in the Or
binary course of nature, ought to be ap-
preaching the best years of their life
and entering on their most successful
life work, but who instead suddenly
break down from Overwork. 1t is the
intensity of the struggle, the reverend
ing watchfulneSS, the rivalry of bust
ness, which breaks down young and
strong men in the most promising
period of their lives. There is sad
side to this characteristic of our age,
namely, that only the amen who are the
strongest, physically as well as NEIL
tally, can push themselves into the
front a Of
tardy minds are left behind. Every day
such are falling behind their fellows,
and we often witness the sorrowful
spectacle of an anxious search of some
means of providing, not competence,
but bare livelihood. To the business
men present the reverend preacher said
it was often difficult to account
For the Intensity
with which men, without any pressing
occasion for it, cling to the cares of
business life, working early and late
and taking no rest. 1t would seem as
though there must be an intoxication in
the life which buoyed them up and
rendered them unwilling to give up the
struggle, even for net ded rest. 1t was
the same in their pleasures, which were
pursued with so much intensity that
they were only given up when the tired
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desist.
The lesson conveyed in the text was
very striking. The great prophet, who
has stood before the people of Israel,
and their king and queen. and pro-
claimed Gods judgments upon an
! apostate nation, was sent by the divine
| command away from his busy life of
sermon, and address. and prophecy
away into the wilderness to rest.
| 1t was thus that God fitted and
| prepared the prophet for future
action. And then, when he wished to
return to duty, he was again sent
into seclusion, to the home of the
widow woman who was appointed to
sustain him, so that even his own eff
forts were hot necessary for his SUBJ
sistence.
To all men of the world come periods
of enforced idleness; it may be sick
ness or depression in business, or in
activity in the stock market; but the
busy hum of the worlds machinery is,
in a great measure, hushed. and man
has time to gather around him that
which is best in his nature-courage
hope, patience and courtesy, and God
causes him to pass through process of
Furnishing and refining which fits
and prepares him for the activities of
life when again he goes for tn to his &C
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