The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-03-25

mortal sculptor and the other Chris
tian scientist whose name will never
die. Turner. the painter. in whose
praise John Ruskin expended the
greatest genius of his life, was the son
of a barber who advertised "a penny q
shave" DR.. Prideaux, one OF the
greatest scholars of all time, earned
his way through college by securing
pots and pans The late Judge Brad
ley worked his own way up from a
charcoal burner to the bench of the su-
preme court of the United States Yes,
a man can decide the size of his own
bedstead
Notice furthermore that even giants
must rest Such enormous physical
endowment on the part of King Og
might suggest the capacity to stride
across all fatigue and omit slumber.
No. He required an iron bedstead
Giants must rest Not appreciating
that fact how many of the giants
yearly break down. Giants in busi-
ness, giants in art giants in eloquence,
giants in usefulness. They live not
out more than half their days. They
try to escape the consequence of over
work by a voyage across the sea or a
sail in a summer yacht, or call on
physician for relief from insomnia or
restoration of unstrung nerves or the
arrest of apoplexies, when all they
need is what this giant of my text re-
sorted to-au iron bedstcad. Let no
one think because he has great strength
of body or mind that he can afford
to trifie with his unusual gifts. The
commercial world, the literary world,
the artistic world, the political world,
the religious world, are all time aquake
with the crash of falling giants. King
Og, no doubt, had throne but the Bible
never mentions his throne. King Og, no
doubt, had a crown, but the Bible never
mentions his crown. King Og, no
doubt, had a scepter, but the Bible does
not mention his scepter Yet one of
the largest verses of the Bible is taken
up in describing his bedstead. So God
all up and down the Bible honors sleep.
Adam, with his head on a pillow of
Edenic roses, has his slumber blest by
a divine gift of beautiful companion
ship Jacob, with his head on a pillow
of rock, has his sleep glorified with a
ladder filed with descending and
ascending angels Christ with a pillow
made out of the folded up coat of a
fisherman, honors slumber in the back
part of the storm tossed boat
The only case of accident to sleep
mentioned in the Bible was when
Eutychus fell from a window during
sermon of Paul, who had preached until
midnight but that was not so much
condemnation of sleep as censure of
long sermons. More sleep is what the
world wants Economic in every
thing but sleep.
secretary of state, In the midst of his
overmastering tolls longed for the
capacity to rest writing in his memor-
andum book: 81 have never found but
one invaluable receipt for having a
good nights rest and that is to have
been restless the night before" When
President John Quincy Adams and the
distinguished Josiah Quincy went to
hear Judge Story lecture on law to his
students, and, when invited to sit be-
fore the judge and both fell asleep, the
judge appropriately pointed to them
and said to his students: behold the
evil effects of early rising" In Bible
times, when pc ople arose at the voice
of the bird, they retired at the time the
bird puts his head under his wing. One
of our national sins is robbery of
about this duty of slunber that when
arriving at hotel where there was no
room to sleep in except that in which
there was corpse, inquired if the de-
ceased had died of contagious dis
ease, and, when assured he had not,
took the other bed in the room and fell
into profoundest slumber. Those of
small endurance must certainly re-
quire rest if even the giant needs an
iron bedstead.
Notice, Furthermore, that Gods peo-
pie on the way to Canaan need not be
surprised if they confront some sort of
a giant Had not tho Israelitish host
had trouble enough already? No! Red
sea not enough. Water famine not
enough. Long marches not enough.
Opposition by enemies of ordinary
stature not enough. They must meet
0g,. the giant OF the iron bedstead
mine cubits was the length thereof
and four cubits the breadth of it"
Why not let these Israelites go smooth
ly into Canaan without this gigantic
opposition? o, they needed to have
their courage and faith further tested
and developed! And blessed the man,
who, in our time, in his march towlrd
the promised land does not meet more
than one giant
Brethren, have made up my mind
that we will have to fight all the way
up to the promised land 1 used to
think that after a while l would get
into a time where it would be smooth
and easy, but the time does not come
and it will never come in this world.
By the time King Og is used up so that
he cannot get into his iron bedstead
some other giant of opposition looms
up to dispute our way. Let US stop
looking for an easy time and make it a
thirty years war, or sixty years war,
or hundred years war if we live So
long.
Must be carried 70 the skies
On fowery beds Of ease,
While others fought 10 win the prize
And sailed through bloody seas?
Do you know the name of the big
gest giant that you can possibly meet
and you will meet him? He is not
eleven feet high. but one hundred feet
I,;1b HE hadS+aad Is nc 1opy nc tho
continent His name is Doubt His
common food is infidel books and skep-
teal lectures and ministers who do not
know whether the Bible is inspired at
all or inspired in spots, and Christians