Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-03-23


and Hugh Miller were born stone
masons. but the one became an immor-
tai 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 bar
Der who advertised "a penny a shave"
DIR. 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 char
coal burner to the bench of the SUI
preme court of the United States
Yes, a man can decide the size of his
own bcdstead.
Notice furthermore that even giants
must rest. Such enormous physical en-
dowment on the part of King Og nigh.
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 eloquence. giants in use
fulness. They live not out more than
half their days. They try to escape
the consequence of overworlS by n voy-
age across the sea or a sail in sum-
mer yacht or call on physicians for re-
lief from insomnia or restoration of I'M
strung nerves or the arrest of apoplexy,
when all they need is what the giant
of my text resorted to-an' iron bed
stead.
Let no one think because he has great
l.. Il
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 aqualle 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
mention his scepter Yet one of
the largest verses of the Bible
is taken up in describing his bed
stead. So God all up and down the
Bible honors sleep. Adam, with his
head on the pillow of Edenic roses, has
his slum Der blest by Divine gift of
beautiful companionship. Jacob. with
his head on n pillow of rock. has his
sleep glorifed with ladder filed with
descending and ascending angels
Christ with pillow made out of
the folded-up coat of fisher
man, 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
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 anything but sleep Will
liam Ii. Seward. the renowned score
tary of state, in the midst of his over.
mastering tolls longed for the capacity
to rest, writing in his memorandum
book: II have never found but one in
valuable recipe for having good
nights rest, and that is to have been
restless and sleepless 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 his students: BE
hold 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 this duty of slumber that,
when arriving at hotel where there
was no room to sleep in except that in
which there was n 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 the profoundest slumbcr.
Those of small endurance must GER.
tainly require rest, if even the giant
needs an iron bedstead.
Notice, Furthermore, that Gods peo-
pie on the way to Canaan need not be
| surprised if they confront some sort OF
giant Had not the Israelitish host
had trouble enough already? No! Red
Sea not enough. Water famine not
enough. Opposition by enemies of or
binary statue not enough. They must
meet Og. the giant of the iron bed.
stead. Nine cubits was the length
thereof and four cubits the breadth of
| it." Why not let these Israelites &c
smoothly into Canaan without this gil
| gantic opposition? Oh, they needed Ia
have their courage and faith further
tested and developed! And blessed the
man, who, in our time, in his march to-
ward the Promised Land does not meet
more than one giant Do not conclude
that you are not on the way tC
Canaan because of this obstacle
As well might the Israelites con,
clude they were not on tho
way to the Promised Lard because they
mot Og. the giant Standing in your
way is some evil propensity, some socia
persecution. some business misfortune
some physical distress. Not one of vor
but meets % giant who would like C
hew you i'm twain. Higher than clever
feet this Og darlSens the sky. and tn,
rattle OF his buckler stuns the ear. Blu
you are going 20 get the victory. rs die
the lsraelites I'm the name of the Goo
Of Moses aud David and Joshua anc
Paul charge on him, and you will leav,
his carcass in the wilderness You
want battle shout Take that which
David, the fve-footer, assailed Go
Hath, the nine-footcr, when that gian
cried with singing contempt, boil
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