Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-14

faithful as 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, ard by
how sincere and long continued are
the regrets q his taking off. There
may be no porlD or obsequies and no
pretense at cpltapheology. but you
can tell how high he was in COMO
Grafton and how high in usefulness ~
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 I will tell you the intelligence OF
its people Show me it's gallery OF
painting and sculpture, and viii
tell you the artistic advancement OF
it's citizens Show me its churches,
| and | will 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
eiant himself was about eleven feet
high.
But let no one by this thought b
induced to surrender to unfavoralli-
environments. A man can make his
own bodstead Chantrey and Hugh
Miller were born stonemasons, but
the one became an immortal sculptor
and the other a Christian scien list
whose name will 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. !"
Dr.. Prideaux, one Of the greatest
scholars of ell time, earned his way
through college by securing pots and
pans. The late Judge Bradley worked
his way up from a charcoal bu rner
to the bench of the supreme court OF
the United States. Yes, a 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
slumber. No He required an iron
bedstead Giants must rest. Not
approaching that fact, how many of
the giants yearly break down. 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 overwork by a voyage across the
sea or sail in a summer yacht, or
call on physicians for relief from III
sOmnia. OF restoration of unStrung
nerves, or the arrest of apoplexies,
when all they need is what this giant
of nv 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
unusual gifts. The commercial world,
the literary world, the artistic world,
the political world, the religious
world are all the time aquake with
the crash of falling giants.
King Og, no doubt, had a thror .,
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 men
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 a pillow of
Edenic roses, has his Slumber bleSt by
a divine gift of beautiful companion
ship. Jacob, with his head on a 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 fisherman, honOrs slumbe1
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 window during
a sermon of Paul, who had preached
until midnight, but that was not sc
much condemnation of sleep as 6
censure of long sermons. More SLEEP
is what the world wants. Econo
mize in everything but sleep. Viii
liam H. Seward, the renowned secre
tary of state, in the midst of his
overmastering tolls longed for the
capacity to rest, writing in his mem
orandum book, II have never found
but one invaluable recipe for having
a good nights rest, and that is tc
have been restless and sleepless The
night before"
When President John Quincy
Adams and the distinguished Josial
Quincy went to hear Judge Story
, lecture on law to his students, and
when invited to sit beside the judge
F and both fell asleep, the judge ap