Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-03-19

proposing an everlasting impossibility.
When 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 Mt epitaphe-
ology, but you can 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 q city, and l
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 will tell
you the moral and religious status OF
the place From the. fact that Og's
bedstead was thirteen and a-half feet
long, conclude the giant himSSf 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 stone
masons, but the one became IN inn
mortal sculptor and the other Chris
tian 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 barber who advertised "a penny q
shave" DR.. Prideaux, one 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 n
charcoal burner to the bench OF the su-
preme court of the United States Yes,
man can decide the size OF his own
bedstead.
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 busi-
ness, giants in art giants in cloquence,
giants in usefulness. They live not
out more than half their days. They
try to escape the consequence OF over
work BY voyage across the sea or
sail in 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 bedstead. 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 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 crown. but the Bible never
mentions his crown. King Og, no
doubt, had scepter, 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 O pillow OF
Edenic roses, has his slumber blcst by
a divine gift of beautiful companion
ship Jacob, with his head on q pillow
of rock, has his sleep glorified with a
ladder filed with descending and
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 boat.
The only case of accident to sleep
mentioned in the Bible was when
Eutychus fell from window during a
sermon of Paul, who had preached until
midnight but that was not so much a
condemnation OF sleep as 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 II they confront some sort OF
a giant. Had not the Israclitish 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.
'Nine cubits was the length thereof
and four cubits the breadth OF it"
Why not let these Israelitcs 90 smooth
" 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. have made up my mind
that we will have 10 fight all the way
up to the promised land / used to
think that after q while would get
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