The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-03-30

Grafton, 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 city,
and l will tell you the intelligence of
the people. Show me its gallery of
painting and sculpture, and will tell
you the artistic advancement of its citi-
zens. Show me its churches, and /
will tell you the moral and religious
status of the place. From the fact that
Ogs bedstead was thirteen and half
feet long, conclude that the giant him
self was about eleven feet high. But
let no one by this thought be induced
to surrender to unfavorable environ
ments. A man can make his own bed
stead Chantrey and Hugh Miller were
born stone masons, but the one became
an immortal sculptor and the other
Christian scientist 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, one of
the greatest scholars of all time, earned
his way through college by securing
pots and pans The late Judge Brad
ley worked his own way up from a
charcoal burner to the bench of the SUI
preme court of the United States. Yes,
a man can decide the size of his own
bedside.
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 bust
ness. giants in art. giants in eloquence,
giants in usefulness They live not out
more than half their days They try to
escape the consequences of overwork
by q voyage across the sea or sail in a
summer Yacht or call or physicians for
relief from insomnia or restoration of
mmstrung nerves ar the arrest OF apo
pickles, when all they need is what this
grant of my text resorteS to--an iron
bedstead Let no one think because he
has great strength Of body or mind that
hH can aFsrd to tribe with his unusual
gifts. The commercial world. the liter
arv world the artistic world, the polit-
ical world. the religious world, are all
the time awake with the crash of fall
ing giants. King Og, no doubt, had a
throne, but the Bible never mentions
his throne. King Og, no doubt had q
crown, but the Bible never mentions
his crown. King Og, no doubt, had a
scepter, but the Bible does not mention
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 oil
Edenic roses, has his slumber blest by
divine gift of beautiful companion.
ship Jacob, with his head on pillow
of rock, has his sleep gloritled with
ladder filled with descending and as
cending angels. Christ, with a pill
low made out OF the folded
up coat of a fisherman, honors slum bel
in the back part OF the storm tossed
boat The only case of accident tc
sleep mentioned in the Bible was wher
Eutychus fell from a wind ow during Q
sermon of Paul, who had preached unit
midnight, but that was no so much q
condemnation of sleep as censure Of
long sermons More sleep is what the
world wants. Economize.in everything
but sleep. William II. Seward, the re
nowned secretary of state, in the midst
Of his overmastering tolls longed for the
capacity to rest writing in his memo
randum book: ~ have never found but
one valuable recipe for having a goot
nights rest, and that is to have beer
restless and sleepless the night before
When President John Quincy Adam:
and the distinguished Josiah Quin
cy went to hear Judge Story lee
ture on law to his students, and wher
invited to sit beside the Judge and botf
fell asleep, the judge appropriately
pointed to them, and said to his stu
dents: Behold the evil effects O.
early rising" In Bible times, wher
people arose at the voice Of the bird
they retired at the time the bird put
his head under his wing. One of on,
national sins is robbery of sleep, Wal
ter Scott was so urgent about this duty
of slumber that when arriving at
hotel where there was no room to slice,
in, except that in which there was
corpse, inquired if the deceased hat
died of n contagious disease, and whel
assured he had not, took the other bet
in the room and fell into profoundes
slumber. Those of small endurance
must certainly require rest il even tn,
giant needs an iron bedstead.
Notice, furthermore, that Gods PEG
pie on the way to Canaan need not b.
surprised if they confront some sort o
a giant Had not the Israelitish hos
had trouble enough already? No! Re,
sea not enough. Water famine no
enough. Long marches not enough
Opposition by enemies of ordinary stat
IRE not enough They must meet Og
the giant of the iron bedstead. MIN
cubits was the length thereof and fou
cubits the breadth of it." Why not lie
these Israelites go smoothly into Ca
naan without this gigantic opposition
o, they needed to have their courag
and faith further tested and developed
And blessed the man, who, in our time
in his march toward the Promised Ian,
does not meet more than one giant d,
not conclude that you are not on tn