Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-17

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own bedstead. Chantrey and Hugh
Miller were born stonemasons, but
the one became an immortal sculptor
and the other a Christian scientist
whose name VIII 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, a man can
decide the size of his OWE 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
approaching that fact, how many of
the giants yearly breakdown. Giants
in business, 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 overwork by a voyage across the
sea OF a sail in a summer yacht, or
cali on physicians for relief from II.
somnia. or restoration of unstrung
nerves, CT 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 trife 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 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 seepter, but the Bible does not men
ton his scepter. Yetone of the largest
verses of the Bible is taken up in de-
scribing his bedstead. So God all up
and down the Bible honors sleep.
Adam. with his head on u pillow Of
Edcnic 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 a ladder filed with descending
aud ascending angels. Christ, with
a pillow made out of the folded up
coat of & fisherman, honors slumber
in the back part of the storm tossed
bo2t.
The only case Of accident to sleep
mentioned in the Bible was when
Eutvchus fell from a window during
a sermon OF Paul, who had preached
until midnight, but that was not so
much q condemnation of sleep as a
censure Of long sermons. More sleep
is what the world wants. Econo-
mize in everything but sleep. vii
liam H..Seward, the renowned secre-
tary of state, in the midst of his
overmastering tolls longed for the
capacity to rest, writing IN his mem
or&adum book. Il have never found
bat one invaluable recipe for having
a good nights rest, and hat is to
have been restless and sleepless the
night before
When President John Quincy
Adams and the distinguished Josiah
Ounce went to hear Judge Story
lecture on law to his students, and,
when invited to sit beside the judge
and both fell asleep, the judge ap-
propGateiy pointed to them and said
to his students. Behold the evil eff
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 his wing.
One OF our national sins Is robbery
Of steep. walter Scott was st urgent
about this &1ty Of slumber. that
when arriving at a hotel where
there was no room to sleep in, except
that in which there was a corpse. in
CARED If the deceased had died Of a
Contagious disease, and when as
sared be had not, took the other bed
in the room and fell into profound
est &umber. Those of small endur-
ance mast certainly require rest, if
even the giant needs an iron bed
stead.
DO SoT BE SURPRISED WIEN THE GREAT
OPPOSE YOU.
Notice. furthermore, that Gods
people on the way to Canaan need
not be surprised if they confront
some sort of a giant. Had not the
islaehtish host had trouble enough
already? No! Red sea not enough.
Wafer 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. Nine
cubes was the length thereof and
four cubics the breadth of it." Why
not let these Israelites go smoothly
INTO Canaan without this gigantic
opposition? Oh, they needed to have
their courage and faith further tested
and developed! And blessed TIE 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 Israel
ties conclude that they Were not on
thewaytothe 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.
Nz5one OF You but meets a giant who
would like to hew You in twain.
Higher than eleven feet this Og dark
ems the SKY and the rattle of his
bucller stuns the ear. But you are