Connecticut western news., 1892-03-17
s @- CANAAN CONN. THURSDAY, MARCH 1892

lectual, moral, religious.
 The Bible indicates the length of the giant by the lSlgth of his bed stead. Let no ms say, II will be good" and yet keep evil surround ings. Let no man say, II will be faithful as Q Christian, and yet con sort chiefly with workings. You are proposing an everlasting impos- sibility. When a 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 obscquiee and no pretense at epitapheology, but you can tell how high he was ill conse- cration 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 I will tell you the intelligence of its people. Show me it's gallery of painting and sculpture, and l will tell you the artistic advancement of it's citizens. Show me it's churches, and I will tell you the moral and religious status of the place. From the fact that Og's bedstead was thirteen and half feet long, l conclude the giant himself was about eleven feet high.
 But let no one by this thought be induced to surrender to unfavorablc environments. A man can make his own bedstead Chantrey and Hugh Miller were born stonemasons, but the one became an immortal sculptor and the other a 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 barber who advertised "a penny shave. !" | Dr. Prideaux. ono of the gre&-est scholars of all time, earned his way through college by securing pots and pans. The late Judge Bradley worked ! his way up from charcoal burner to the bench of the supreme court of the United States. Yes, man can decide the size of his own bedstead. EVEN GIANTS MUST REST. a Notice, furthermore, that even | giants must rest. Such enormous physical endowment on the part of King Og might suggest the capacity l to stride across all fatigue and omit slumber. No. He required an iron bedstead. Giants must rest. Not approaching that fact, how many of | the giants yearly break down. Giants 1 in business, giants in art, giants in eloquence, giants in usefulness. They l live not out more than half their | days
 They try to escape the consequence of overwork by voyage across the sea or a sail in summer yacht, or call on physicians for relief from in l snrnnia or rnstnration- of f-nnstrunc | nerves, or the arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is what this giant of my text resorted to-an iron bed stead. Let no one think because he has great strength of body or mind that he can afford to trife with his unusual gifts. The commercial world, the literary world, the artistic wocld, the political world, the religious world are all the time aquake with the crash of falling giants.
 King Og no doubt, had throne, but the Bible hever mentions bis | throne. King Og, no doubt, had a crown, but the Bible never men ions his crown. King Og, no doubt, had a scepter, hut the Bible does not men tion his scepter. Yet one of the largest verses of the Bible is taken up in d F. scribing his bedstead. So God all up and down the Bible honors sleep. Adam, with his head on a pillow of Edenic roses, has his slulnber blest by divine gift of beautiful companion ship. Jacob, with his head on pill low of rock, has his sleep glorified with a ladder filled with descending and ascending angels. Christ, with pillow made out of the folded up coat of a 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 a window during a sermon of Paul, who had preached until midnight, but that was not so much a condemnation of sleep az a censure of long sermons. More sleep is what tho world wants. Econo- mize in everything but sleep. Will liam II. Seward, the renownod secre- tary of state, in the midst of his overmastering tolls longed for the capacity to rest, writing ill his mem orandum book, T have never found but one invaluable recipe for having good nights rest. and that is to have been restless and slcepless 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 ap'
 propriately pointed to them and said
 to his students. Behold the evil of
 fleets of early rising" In Bible times,
 when people aro2o at the voice of tho
 bird, they retired at the time the bird
 puts his head under his wing.
 One of oIu national sins is robbery of sleep. Walter Scott was so urgent about this duty of slunbcr, that when arriving at hotel where there was no room to sleep in, except
 that in which there was a corpse, in
 quired if the deceased had died of Q
 contagious disease, and when as.
 sured he had not, took the other bed
 in the room and foil into profound
 est slumber. Those of small endur' e.