The Forrest City times., 1892-03-18

The only case of accident to sleep men, toned in the Bible was when Eutychus fell from a window during a sermon of Paul, who had preached until mid night, but that was not so much con demnation of sleep as a censure of long sermons. More sleep is what the world wants Economize in everything but sleep. William II. Seward, the re- nowned secretary of state, in the midst of his overmastering tolls longed for the capacity of rest, writing in his memorandum book: "I have never found but one invaluable recipe for a good nights rest, and that is to have been restless and sleepy 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 beside the judge and both fell asleep, the judge appropriately pointed to them, and said to the students: Behold the evil effects 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 sleep. Walter Scott was so urgent about his duty of slumber that, when arriving at a hotel where there was no room to sleep in, except that in which was 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 a profound slumber. Those of small endurance must certainly require rest if even the giant needs an iron bedstead.
 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 high. His bedstead is as long as the common food is infidel books and skep- tical lectures and ministers who do not know whether the Bible is inspired at all or inspired in spots, and Christ ians who are more infidel than Christ ian. You will never reach the Prom ised Land unless you slay that giant. Kill Doubt or Doubt will kill you. How to overcome this giant? Pray for faith, go with people who have faith, read everything that encourages faith, avoid as you would ship fever and smallpox the people who lack faith. In this battle against King Og use not | fer weapons the crutch of d limping | Christian or the sharp pen of a contro- | versialist. but the sword of truth, which is the word of God The word ''If'' is made up of the same number of letters as the word ''Og," and it is just as big | a giant. If the Bible be true. If the | soul be immortal If Christ be God. If | our belief and behavior here decide our | future destiny. If. If. If. l hate that I word eff" Noah Webster says it is q Conjunction; say it is an armed giant Satan breathed upon it curse when l he said to Christ: If thou be the Son of God" What dastardly and infamous "If." Against that giant "If' hurl Jobs ''I know" and Paul's .I know" "I know that l my Redeemer liveth." ''I know in whom have believed" Down with the '.If" and up with ''I know" Oh, that giant Doubt is such cruel giant! | It attacks many in the last hour. It could not let my mother alone even in | her dying moments. After life of 1 holiness and conservation such as never heard of in anyone else, she said to my father: Father, what if, after l all, our prayers and struggles should go for nothing" Why could she not, after all the trials and sicknesses and bereavements of long life and the in firmities of old age, be allowed to gc without such cruel stroke from Doubt
 the giant? Do yon wonder l have a grudge against the old monster? If could would give him a bigger bounce than Satan got when, hurled out oi heaven. the first thing he struck wal the bottom of perdition.
 Whatever your work and wherever you work for God--forward You il your way and 1 in my way. Witt holy pluck fight on with something O
 the strength of Thomas Troubridge
 who, at Inkermann, had one leg sho
 off, and the foot of the other leg, ant
 when they proposed to carry him of
 the field, replied: No, do not nov,
 until the battle is won" Whatvever b'
 the rocking of the church or state, hav'
 the calmness of the aged woman
 in an earthquake that frightened everybody else, and who. when asked
 if she was not afraid, said: No, an
 glad that have God who can shals,
 the world" Whether your work be t.
 teach Sabbath class, or nurse an in
 valid, or reform a wanderer, or print
 tract, or train household, or bear tn
 querulousness of senility, or cheer tn
 disheartened or lead soul to Christ
 know that by fidelity you may hell
 hasten the time when the world shal
 be showed under with white lily an,
 incarnadined with red rose. An
 now, bargain with you tha
 we will come back some day iron
 our superstellar abode to see how tn
 world looks when it shall be fully en
 paradised-its last tear wept, its las
 wound healed, its last shackle broken
 it's last decert gardenized it's last gian
 of inquiry decapitated. And when W
 land, may it be somewhere near thi
 spot of earth where we have togethe
 toiled and struggled for the kingdor
 of God, and may it be about this hou
 in the high noon of some glorious Sal
 bath, looking into the upturned face
 of some great audience radiant wit
 holiness and triumph.