Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1892-03-19

| SOft cnieHN WITH MORNINGS. on
are proposing an everlasting impos.
sibility. When man departs this
life YOU can tell what has been his
influence i'll 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 bc no pomp or obsequies and no
pretensc at cpitapheology, but you
can tell how high he was i'll conSe-
Grafton and how high in usefulness 10y
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 city.
and will tell you the intelligence of
its people Show me its gallery Of
painting and sculpture, and 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 bcdstcad was thirteen
and Il half feet long, conclude the
giant himself was about eleven feet
high
But let no one 10y this thought bc
induced Ia surrender to unfavorablo
environments a man can make his
own belstcad Chantrey and Hugh
Miller were born stoncmasons, but
the one became an immortal sculptor
and the other Il Christian Scien ist
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 barber
who advertised II penny a shave
DR.. PridcauN. one of the gre ltcst
scholars of all time. earned his way
through college 10y securing pots and
pans. TIE late Judge Bradley wor,.cd
his way up from charcoal BURNER
to the bench of the supro me court OF
the United States. Yes. II man can
decide the size of his own bcdstcad
EVEN GIANTS MUST REST.
Notice. furthermore. that even
giants must rest. Such enormous
physical endowment ON the part OF
King Og might suggc..t the capacity
to stride across all fatigue and omit
slumbcr. No He required an iron
bedstead Giants must rest. Not
apprcciating that fact, how many OF
the giants yearly break down. Giants
in business. giants i'll art, giants III
eloquence. giants in usefulness. They
live not ont more than half THEN
days
They try tOcscape the consequence
of overwork 10y voyage across tn,
sea or Il sail in summer yacht, OF
call on physicians for relief from in
somnia, or restoration of umstruna
nerves. or the arrest of apoplcxics,
when all they nccG is what this giant
of my text resorted TO an iron bed
stead. Let no one think because III
has great strength of body or mind
that he can afford To triflc with his
unusual @ifts. Thccommercial world
the literary world, the artistic world
the political world. the religious
world are all the time aquake witt!
the crash of falling giants
King Og. no doubt. had a throne
but the Bl1le never mentions lii
throne King Og. no doubt. had /
crown. but the Bible never mentions
his crown King Og no doubt, haJ
a sccptcr but the Bible does not men
ton his sccpter. Yet one of the largest
verses of the Bible is taken up III de
scIibing his bedStcad So God all VI
and down the Bible honorS sleep
Adam. with his head on pillow OF
Edcnic roses. has his slumbcr blest by
Il divine Gift of beautiful companion
ship Jacob, with his head on pill
low of rock. has his sleep %l0riiicd
with ladder filled with descending
and ascending angels Christ. with
IA pillow made ont of the folded NJ
coat Of fisherman, honoIS Slumbcl
III the back part Of the storm tossed
boat
The only ease of accident to 81 .cl
mentioned III the Bible was when
Eutychus fell from Il window during
a sermon of Paul who had preached
until midnight. but that was not 81
much condemnation of sleep as q
censurc of long sermons. More slccL
is what the world wants. Econo
mize IN everything but sleep. vii
liam III. Seward, the renowned Sccrc
tary of state, IN the midst of his
oyermastcIlng tolls longed for the
capacity to rest. writing in his mem
orandmn book, II have never found
but one Invaluable recipe for having
a good nights rest. and that is IL
have been restless and slccplcSs til,
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 fcll asleep, the judge ap
propriately pointed to them and said
to his students. Behold the evil ef
fects of early rising" In Bible times,
when people arose ut the voice of the
bird, they retired nj 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 slumbcr, that
when arriving at hotel wher,
there was no room 10 sleep in. except
that in which there was corpse, in
quired if the deceased had died of Z
contagious disease, and when as
sured he had not. took the other bed
in the room and fell into profound
est slumbcr. Those of small cndur
ance must certainly require rest, il
even the giant needs an iron bed
stead
Do NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN THE GREAT
OPPOSE YOC.
Notice. furthermore. that God
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