The morning news., 1892-03-14

can O QScl0e tie size OF bis own De16tea0.
Notice furthe more that even giants must
rest. Such enormous physical endowment
en- the part Of King Og might suggest the
capacity to stride across all fatigue and
omit 81 mber No. he required an iron
bedstead Giants must rest Not appre-
ciating that fact, how many of the giants
yearly break down. Giants in business,
giants in art. giants IN eloquence, giants in
usefulness. They live not out more than
half their days Then try to escape the
consequences of overwork by q voyage
across the sea or sail in a summer yacht,
OF call on physicians for relief from in-
somnia or restoration Of unsIrung nerves or
the arrest of apoplexies. when all they need
Is what this giant of my text resorted too,
an iron bedstead. Let no one think because
be has great strength OF body or
mind that he eau afford to trifie with his
unusual gifts. The commercial world,
the literary world. the artistic world, the
political world. the religious worlI, are
all the time aquake with the crash OF fall
ing giants. King Og, no doubt. had a
throne but the Bible never mentions his
throne. King Og. no doubt, had crown,
but the Bible never mentions his crown.
King Og, no doubt had sceptre. 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 bis slumber
blest by divine gift OF beautiful compani-
onship. Jacob with his head on a pillow
of rock, has his sleep glorified with q ladder
filled with descending and ascending angels
Christ, with 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 men
toned in the Bible was when Eutychus
fell from a window during q sermon OF
Paul, who had preached until midnight,
but that was not so much a condemnation
OF sleep as a censure of long sermons
More sleep is what the world
wants. Economic in everything but
sleep. William II. Seward. the renowned
Secretary Of State, ID the midst of his over
mastering ills longed for the capacity TO
rest, writing in his memorandum book: 81
have never found but one invaluable re~
cipe for having good nights rest and that
is to have been restless and sleepless 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 in vited to sit
beside the judge and both fell asleep, the
judge appropriately pointed to them, and
said to his students: behold the evil ef-
fects Of early rising" In Bible times, when
people arose at the voice OF the bird. they
retired at the time the bird puts his head
under bis wing. One Of our national sins is
robbery of sleep. Walter SCOTT was so ur-
gent about this duty of slumber that, when
arriving at hotel where there was no room
10 sleep in, except that in which there was
a corpse, inquired if the deceased had died
of contagious disease. and, when assured
he had not, took the other bed in the room
and fell into profoundest slumber. Those
of small endurance must certainly require
rest il even the giant needs an iron bed
stead.
Notice, Furthermore, that Gods people on
the way to Canaan need not be surprised if
they confront some sort OF q giant. Had
not the Israelitish host had trouble enough
alreadyi mol Red sea not enough. Water
famine not enough. Long marches not
enough. Opposition by enemies OF ordinary
stature not enough. They must meet Og,
the giant of the iron bedstead. mine oubirs
was the length thereof and four cubits the
breadth Of it," Why not let these Israelites
20 smoothly into Canaan without this gi-
gantic 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 toward the promised
land does not meet more than one giant. Do
not conclude that you are not on the way to
Canaan because OF this obstacle As we'll
might the Israelites conclude they were not
on the way TO the promised land because
they met Og, the giant. Standing In your
way is some evil propensity, some social
persecution, some business misfortune,
some physical distress. Not one of you but
meets giant who would like to hew you
in twain. Higher than eleven feet this Og
darsens the sky and ths rattle of his
buckler stuns the ear. But, you are going
TO get the victory as did the Israeites In
the name OF the God of Moses and David
and Joshua and Paul, charge on him, and
you will leave his carcass in the wilderness.
You want a battle shout Take that with
which David. the hve-footer, assailed
Goliath, the nile-footer, when that giant
cried, with stinging contempt both in man
ner an information; "Come to me, and will
give thy flesh unto the fowls Of the air and
TO the beasts of the feld'n and David looked
up ct the monster of braggadocio and de-
family replied: "Thou comest to me With
a sword and with a spear and with shield;
but / come to thee IN the name Of the Lord
of H Jsts. the God Of the armies OF
Israel, whom thou hast defied
This day will the Lord deliver thee unto
mine hand; and l will smte thee and take
thine head from thee, and ! will give the
carcasses of the host Of the Philistines this
day unto the fowl is of the air and to the wild
beasts of the earth that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israeli Then
David, with probably three twirls Of the
sling about his head got it into sufficient
momentum and let fly till the Uranium of
the giant broke In, and he fell, and David
leaped on his carcass, one foot on his chest
and the other on his head, and that was the
last of the Philistine. But, be sure you get
the right battle shout, and that you utter it
with the right spirit. or Og will roll over
you as easily as at night he rolled into his
iron bedstead.
Brethren. have made up my mind that
we will have to fight all the way up to the
promised land. l used to think that after a
while would get into a time where 1t
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
MP SO that he can not get into his iron bed
stead, some other giant Of opposition looms
up TO dispute our way. Let us stop looking
for an easy time and make 1t thirty years.
war, or a sixty years war; or q hundred
years war. If we live so long.
Must be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought TO win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seasf
Do you know the name of the biggest
giant that you can possibly meet-and you
will meet hlma He is not eleven feet high.
but one hundred feet high. His bedstead Is
as lol & as the continent. His name is
Doubt. His common food is infdel books
and sceptical lectures and ministers who do
not know whether the Bible is inspired at all
or inspired IN spots, and Christians who are
more intdel than Christian. You will
never reach the promised land unless you