The Red Cloud chief., 1892-03-25

obsequies, and no pretense at epitaphe-
ology, but you a tell how high he
was in conservation 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 1
will tell you the intelligence of its peo-
pie. Show me its gallery of painting
and sculpture, and l will tell you the
artistic advancement of its citizens.
show me its churches, and l will tell
you the moral and religious status OF
the place. From the fact that Cg's
bedstead vas thirteen and a-half feet
long, / conclude the giant himself was
about eleven feet high. But let no n
by this thought be induced to surrender
to unfavorable environments. A man
can make his own bedstead. Chantrey
and Hugh Miller were born stone
masons. but the one became an i'm
mortal sculptor and the other a Chris
tian scientist whose came 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, n 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 SUI
preme court of the United States. Yes,
a man can decide the size of his W
bedstead.
Notice furthermore that ven 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 BUSH
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-an iron be1stead. Let no
one think because he has great strength
of body or mind that he can afford
to trifle 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, hal throne but the Bible
never mentions his throne. King Og. no
doubt, had a crown but the Bible
mentions his crown. King Og, no
doubt, had a scepter, but the Bible does
not mention his scepter. Yet, n 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 glorifed with a
ladder filled with descending and
ascending angels. Christ, with a pillow
made out of the folted up coat OF a
fisherman, honors slumber ia 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 a
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 every
thing but sleep.
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 the 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
Og, the giant of the iron bedstead.
Mine cubits was the length thereof
and four cubits the breadth of it"
Why not let these Israelites 60 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 toward
the promised land does not meet more
than one giant
Brethren, l have made up my mind
that we will nave to fight all the way
up to the promised land. l used to
think that after a while / 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
ne cannot get into his iron bedstead
some other giant of opposition looms
up to dispute cur way. Let us stop
looking for ar easy time and make it a
thirty years war, or a sixty years war,
or a hundred years war if we live SO
long.
Must 1 be carried 10 the skies
On flowery beds OF ease,
While others fought to 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 n hundred feet
high. His bedstead is as long as the
| continent. His name is Doubt His
| common food is infidel books and skep-