Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-03-24
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must rest. Such enormous physicaI en-
dowment on the part Of King Og might
suggest the capacity 10 stride across ali
fatigue and omit slumber. No. He re
quired an iron bedstead Giants must
rest. Not appreciating that fact, how
many OF the giants yearly break dcwn
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 oyerwork
by voyage across the sea or a sail in a
summer yacht, or call on physicians fol
relief from insomnia or restoration OF un.
strung nerves or the arrest of apoplexies
when all they need is what this giant OF
my text resorted to-aR iron bedstead.
Let no one think because he has great
strength of body or mind that he can afford
to trifle with his unusual gifts. The com
mercial world, the literary world, the artis-
tic world the political world, the religious
world, are all the 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 a
crown, but the Bible never mentions
his crown King Og no doubt had a scep-
ter, 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 a
pillow OF Edenic roses, has his slumber
blest by divine gift of beautiful compan-
ionship. Jacob, with his head on a pillow of
rock, has his sleep glorifed with a ladder
filled with descending and ascending
angels. Christ, with 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 men
TONED 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 condemnation
OF sleep as censureo of long sermons. More
sleep is what the world wants. Econo-
mize in everything but sleep. William
II. Seward, the renowned secretary of
state, in the midst of his overmastering
tolls longed for the capacity to rest, writ.
ing in his memorandum book, II have
never found but one invaluable recipe for
having a 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, 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 this
duty OF slumber that, when arriving at a
MOTEL where there was no room to sleep in
except that in which there was a corpse,
inquired if the deceased had died of a con.
tagious disease, and, when assured he had
not, took the other bed in the room and fell
into profoundest slumber. Those of small
endurance must certainly require rest if
even the giant needs an iron bedstead.
DO NOT FEAR THE GIANTS.
Notice, Furthermore, that Gods people
on the way to Canaan need not be sur
prised if they confront some sort of a giant.
Had not the Israelitish host had trouble
enough already? mol Red sea not enough.
Water famine not enough. Long marches
not enough. Opposition by enemies of Or
dlnary stature not enough. They must
need 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 go smoothly into Canaan
without this gigantic opposition? Oh, they
needed to have their courage and faith fur
ther 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. Donot conclude that
you are not on the way to Canaan because
of this obstacle.
AS well might the Israelites conclude
they were not on the way to the Promised
Land because they met Og, the giant.
in your way is some evil propen-
slty, some social persecution, some business
some physical distress. Not
one of you but meets giant who would
ike to hew you in twain. Higher than
eleven feet this Og darkeus the sky and
he rattle of his buckler stuns the ear.
But you are going to get the victory, as did
'he lsraelites. In the name of the God
If Moses and David and Joshua and Paul,
'harge on him, and you will leave his car
lass in the wilderness. You want battle
'hout!
Take that with which David, the five
'ooter, assailed Goliath, the nine footer;
when that giant cried, with stinging con-
empt both in manner and intonation.
Come to me, and l will give thy flesh
into the fowls of the air and to the beasts
If the field" and David looked up at the
monster of braggadocio and defiantly re-
,lied: Thou comest to me with sword,
ind with spear, and with shield; but /
'ome to thee in the name of the Lord of
Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
whom thou hast defied. This day will the
Lord deliver thee unto mine hand; and |
will smite thee and take thine head from
hee, and will give the carcasses of the
lost of the Philistines this day unto the
owls of the air and to the wild beasts of
he earth that all the earth may know that
here is God in Israel"
Then David, with probably three swirls
# the sling about his head, got it into
efficient momentum and let fly till the
ranium of the giant broke in and he fell
nd David leaped on his carcass, one foot
n his chest and the other on his head, and
hat was the last of the Philistine. But
'e sure you get the right battle shout and
hat you utter it with the right spirit, or
)g will roll over you as easily as at night
e rolled into his iron bedstead.
IT Is FIGHT ALL THE WAY.
Brethren, have made up my mind that
re will have to fight all the way up to the
romised land. used to think that after
while would get into time where it
Tould be smooth and easy, but the time
oes not come and it will never come in
bis world. By the time King Og is used
p so that he cannot get into his iron bed
tead, some other giant of opposition looms
p TO dispute our way Let US stop looking
or an easy time and make it thirty
ears war, or sixty years war, or a hun
red years. war, if we live so long.
Must be carried to the skies
On f1owery beds Of ease,
While Others fought to win the prize
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