Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-17

enlist whose name will never die. Turner,
the painter i'll whose praise John Ruskin
expended the greatest genius of his life,
was the son of barber who advertised -
penny a 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 OF REST BRINGS DEATH.
Notice furthermore that even giants
must rest. Such enormous physical en-
Iowment on the part of King Og might
suggest the capacity to stride across all
fatigue and omit slumber. No. He re.
qIired 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 overworli
by II voyage across the sea or sail in
summer yacht, or call on physicians for
relief from insomnia or restoration of I'M
strung nerves or the arrest Of apoplexcs,
when all they need is what this giant of
my text rcsorted 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
mcrcal world, the literary world, the artis-
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 n
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 glorifed 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 men
toned in the Bible was when Eutychus
fell from n window during a sermon of
Paul, who had preached until midnight,
but that was not so much Il condemnation
of sleep as Il 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 Il good night rest, and that is to
have been restless and seepless the night
htfp Ioh,
Adams and the distinguished Josiah
Quincy went to hear Judge Story lecture
on law to his students, ard 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.
alter Scott was so urgent about this
duty of slumber that, when arriving at
hotel where there was no room to sleep in,
except that in which there was a corpse
inquired II the deceased had died of a con.
taSious disease and, when assured he had
not, took the other bed in the room and fell
into proioundest slumber. Those of small
endurance must certainly require rest if
even the giant needs an iron bedstcad.
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 Israeltish 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 bcdstead.
Mine cubits was the length thereof and
four cubits the breadth Of it," Why not
let these Israclites 20 smoothly into Canaan
without this gigantic opposition? Oh, they
needed to have their courage and faith fur
Their tested and developed! And blessed
the man who, IN our time, in his march
toward the Promised Land, does not meet
more than one giant. Donot conclude that
you are not on tLo way to Canaan because
of this obstacle.
As well might the lsraelitcs conclude
they We're not on the way to the Promised
Land because they met Og, the giant.
Standing in your way is some evil propcu-
sty, some social persecution some business
misfortune, some physical distress. Not
one of you but meets II giant who would
like to hew you in twain. Higher than
eleven feet this Og darkcus the sky and
the rattle Of his buckler stuns the ear.
But you are going to get the victory as did
the lsraelitcS. In the name of the God
of Moses and David and Joshua and Paul,
charge on him, and you will leave his car
tass in the wilderness. You want a battle
shout!
Take that with which David, the five
footer, assailcd Goliath, the nine footer;
when that giant cried, with singing CON
tempt both in manner and information,
Come to me, and | will give thy flesh
unto the fowls Of the air and to the beasts
Of the field" and David looked up at the
monster of braggadocio and defiantly re-
pied: Thou CONTEST to me with sword,
and with spear, and with a shield; but
come to thee in the name Of the Lord of
Hosts, the God of the armies Of Israel.
whom thou hast defied. This day will the
Lord deliver thee unto mine hand and
will smite thee and take thine head from
thee, and | viii give the carcasses of the
host of the Philistines this day unto the
fowls of the air and to the wild beasts of
the earth that all the earth may know that
there is "A God in Israel"
Then David, with probably three swirls
of the sling about his head, got it into
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