Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-03-24

/ WIS Jhe son OF u barijer WAC 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 Bradley worked his
own 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
LACK or REST BRINGS DEATH.
Notice Furthermore that even giants
must rest. Such enormous physical en-
dowment on the part of King Og might
suggest the capacity TO stride across all
fatigue and omit slumber No He re-
| quired an iron bedstead Giants must
rest Not appreciating 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 voyage across the sea or "A sail in a
summer yacht, or call on physicians for
relief from insomnia or restoration of un-
strung nerves or the arrest of apoplexies,
when all they need is what this giant of
my text resorted to-an iron bedstead
Let no one think because he has great
strength of body or mind that he can afford
to triile with his unusual gifts. The com
mercia world, the literary world, the arts
tic world 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 never mentions
his throne. King Og no doubt had a
crown, but the Bible never mentions
his crown. King Og no doubt had scep-
ter, but the Bible does not mention his
scepter. Yet one Of the largest verses of
the Bible is taken up in describing his bed
stead. 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 divine gift of beautiful compan-
ionship Jacob, with his head on pillow of
rock, has his sleep glorified with a ladder
filled with descending and ascending
angels. Christ, with Il pillow made out of
the folded up coat of fisherman, honors
slumber in the back part of the storm
tossed boat.
The only ease Of accident to sleep men
toned in the Bible was when Eutychus
fell from a window during sermon Of
Paul, who had preached until midnight,
but that was not so much condemnation
of sleep as censure Of long sermons. More
sleep is what the world wants Econo-
mize in everything but sleep. William
II. Seward. the renowned secretary Of
state in the midst of his overmastering
tolls longed for the capacity TO rest, writ
ing in his memorandum book. II have
never found but one invaluable recipe for
having good nights rest, and that is to
have been restless and sleepless 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 appropriately pointed to them
and said to his students, Behold the evil |
effects of early rising
In Bible times when people arose at the |
voice of the bird, they retired at 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 slumber that. when arriving at a |
hotel where there was no room to sleep in. /
except that in which there was a corpse.
inquired If the deceased had died of con
tagious disease, and, when assured he had |
not, took the other bed in the room and fell |
into profoundest slumber Those of small |
endurance mist certainly require rest If
even the giant needs an iron bedstead
DO NOT FEAR THE GIANTS.
Notice, furthermore, that Gods people
ON the way TO Canaan need not be sur
prised if they confront some sort of a giant
Had not the Israelitish host had trouble
enough already MOI Red sea not enough
Water famine not enough Long marches
not enough. Opposition by enemies of or
binary stature not enough. They must
need Og. the giant of the iron bedstead
Mine cubits was the length thereof and
four cubits the breadth of it," Why not
let these Israelites 90 smoothly into Canaan
without this gigantic oppositiong Oh, they
needed to have their courage and faith fur
her tested and developed And blessed
The man who, IN our time, in his march
coward the Promised Land, does not meet
more than one giant. Donot conclude that
fou are not on the way TO Canaan because
If this obstacle.
As well might the Israeites conclude
hey were not on the way TO the Promised
land because they met Og, the giant
Standing in your way is some evil propen-
ity, some social persecution. some business
Misfortune, some physical distress. Not
me of You but meets giant who would
ike to hew YOU in twain. Higher than
even feet this Og darkens the sky and
he rattle OF his buckler stuns the ear.
Gut you are going to get the victory, as did
he Israelites In the name of the God
# Moses and David and Joshua and Paul,
barge ON him. and you will leave his car
ass in the wilderness Yon want "A battle
bout!
Take that with which David, the five
ooter. assailed Goliath the nine footer;
yhen that giant cried, with singing con-
empt both in manner and information,
Come to me, and | will give thy flesh
INTO the fowls of the air and to the beasts
f the field" and David looked up at the
Monster Of braggadocio and defiantly re
lied: Thou CONTEST to me with sword,
nd with a spear, and with a shield; but !
ONE to thee in the name of the Lord of
Iosts. the God of the armies of Israel,
rhom thou hast defied This day will the
ord deliver thee unto mine hand; and
Jill smite thee and take thine head from
bee, and | will give the carcasses of the
ost of the Philistines this day unto the
owls of the air and TO the wild beasts of
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