Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-14
or MS Observation-Disclosures. intel

1ue DliAle luuICdIcS the length Oh
the giant by the length of his bed
stead. Let no man say, II win be
good, and yet keep evil surround
ings. Let no man say, Il win be
faithful as a Christian, " and yet con-
sort chiefly with workings. You
are proposing an everlasting impos
sibility. When a man departs this
life you can tell what has been his
influence in a community for good
by those who mourn for him, and by
how sincere and long continued are
the regrets of his taking off. There
may be no pomp or obsequies and no
pretense at epitapheology, but you
can tell how high he was in conse-
Grafton and how high in usefulness by
how long is his shadow when he
comes to lie down.
What is true of individuals is true
of cities and nations. Show me the
free libraries and schools of a city,
and will tell you the intelligence of
its people. Show me it's gallery of
painting and sculpture, and l will
tell you the artistic advancement of
its citizens. Show me its churches,
and | will tell you the moral and
religious status of the place. From the
fact that Og's bedstead was thirteen
and half feet long, l conclude the
giant himself was about eleven feet
high.
But let no one by this thought be
induced to surrender to unfavorable
environments. A man can make his
own bedstead. Chantrey and Hugh
Miller were born stonemasons, but
the one became an immortal sculptor
and the other a Christian 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 a shave"
DR.. Prideaux, one of the greatest
scholars of all time, earned his way
through college by securing pots and
pans. The late Judge Bradley worked
his way up from a charcoal burner
to the bench of the supreme court of
the United States. Yes, man can
decide the size of his own bedstead.
EVEN GIANTS MUST REST.
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 business, giants in art, giants in
giants in usefulness. They
live not out more than half their
days.
They try to escape the consequence
of overwork by a voyage across the
sea or sail in summer yacht, or
call on physicians for relief from in
or restoration of unstrung
nerves, or the arrest of apoplexies,
when all they need is what this giant
of my text resorted to-an iron bed
stead. 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 the time aquake with |
the crash of falling giants.
King Og, no doubt, had a 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 men
lion his scepter. Yet one of the largest |
verses of the Bible is taken up in de-
sclibing his bedstead. So God all up
md 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 pill
low of rock, has his sleep glorifed |
with ladder filled with descending
md 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
fell from window during
4 sermon of Paul, who had preached
lntil midnight, but that was not so
much a condemnation of sleep as a
of long sermons. More sleep
S what the world wants. Econo-
nize in everything but sleep. Will
lam H. Seward, the renowned secre-
AIRY of state, in the midst of his
administering tolls longed for the
to rest, writing in his mem
book, Il have never found
but one invaluable recipe for having
| good nights rest, and that is to
nave been restless and sleepless the
hight before"
When President John Quincy
Adams and the distinguished Josiah
quincy went to hear Judge Story
ecture on law to his students, and,
when invited to sit beside the judge
md both fell asleep, the judge APP
pointed to them and said
% his students, Behold the I'll eff
'eots of early rising" In Bible times,
when people arose at the voice of the
ora, they retired at the time the Dlru
outs his head under his wing.