Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-14

thirty years faithful IN attendance
upon churches and prayer meetings
and Sunday schools, and putting
himself among intense religious as
sociations. lie may have his ilnper-
fections, but he is very good man.
Great is his religious stature. That
other man has been for thirty yeais
among influences intensely worldly,
end he has shut himself out FROM all
ether influences, and his religious
stature is that Of a dwarf No man
ever has been or can be independent
of his surroundings-social, intel
lcctual, moral, religious
The Bible indicates the length Of
the giant by the length of his bed
stead. Let no man say, II will be
good" and yet keep evil surround
ings. Let no man say. II will be
faithful as Christian" and yet con
sort chiefly with wordlings You
are proposing an everlasting impos-
sibility. When a man departs this
life you can tell what has beeii 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 of. There
may he no pomp or obsequies and no
pretense at epitapheology, but you
can tell how high he was in conso-
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 tho
free libraries and schools of "a city,
and | will tell you the intelligence Of
its people. Show me its gallery of
painting and sculpture, and | wiz
tell you the artistic advancement Of
It's citizens. Show me its churches,
and l viii tell you the moral and
religious status of the place. From the
fact that Og's bedstead was thirteen
and half feet long, 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 o. Christian scientist
whose name viii never die Turner,
the painter, in whose praise John
Rusl1in expended the greatest genius
Of his life, was the son of barber
who advertised "a penny 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 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.
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
No, He required an iron
bedstead. Giants must rest, Not
that fact, how many Of
the giants yearly break down. Giants
IN business, giants in art giants in
giants in usefulness, They
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 a summer yacht, or
call ON physicians for relief from in
somnia, or restoration of mstrung
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 trifle with his
gifts. The commercial world,
the literary world, the artistic world,
tue political world, the religious
world are all the time aquake with
the crash of falling giants,
King Og, no doubt, had throne,
but tho Bible never mentions his
throne, King Og, no doubt, had a
but the Bible never mentions
his crown King Og, no doubt, had
a scepter, but the Bible does not mon
ton his scepter. Yet one of the largest
verses of the Bible is taken up in de
scribing his bedstead. So God all up
and down the Bible honors sleep.
Adam, with his head ON pillow of
Edenic roses has his slumber blest by
a divine gift of beautiful companions
ship. Jacob, with his head ON a pill
low of rock, has his sleep glorihed
with a ladder filled with descending
and ascending angels, Christ, with
A pillow made out of the folded up
coat of fisherman, honoIs slumber
in tho back part of the storm tossed
boat
The only case of accident 10 sleep
in the Bible was whom
Eutychus fell from window during |
a sermon of Paul, who had preached |
until midnight but that was not 40
much a condemnation OF sleep as /
,onsuro of long sermons. More sleep
IS what the world wants. Econo.
mizo in everything but sleep VII
lam IL. Seward, the renowned secre-
larry of state, in the midst of his
,verTnastering tolls longed for the
20 rest, writing in his mem
book, II have never found
bat one invaluable recipe for having
/ good nights rest and that is 90
laye been restless and sloepless the
light before