The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-03-16

you can tell how high ss was In ccnse-
Grafton, and how high in usefulness by
how long is MS shadow when he comes
to lie down What is true OF ipdividuals
is true OF cities and nations. Show m
the free libraries and schools of n 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
0g's bedstead was thirteen and a 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 nlasons, but the one became
an immortal sculptor and the other a
Christian scientist whose name will
never die. Turner, the painter, in
whose praile John Ruskin expended
the greatest genius Of his life. was the
son Of barber who advertised, "A
penny shuge." DIR. Pridenux. one o.
the greatest scholnrs of all +ime, earned
his way thr nugh college by occurring
pots and pans. The late Judge Brad
ley worked his own way up from a
charcoal buraer to the bench of the su-
preme court of the United States. Yes,
a man can d eide the size Of his own
bedside.
! Notice fun hermore that even giants
| must rest Such enormous physical
endowment on the part of King Og
might suggsst, the capacity TO stride
across all fitigue and omit slumber.
No He rec c.uired an iron bedstead.
Giants must rest. Not appreciating
that fact low many OF the giants
yearly brea't down Giants In bust.
ness, giants In art, giants in doquence,
giants in usefulness They live not out
more than half their days. They try to
escape the consequences OF overwork
BY voyage across the sea or a sail in a
summer yacl /, or call on physicians for
relief from insomnia or restoration OF
unstrung nerves or the arrest OF apo
pickles, 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 trile with his unusual
gifts. The commercial world. the liter
ary world, the artistic world, the polit'
ical world. tie religious world, are all
the time awake with the crash OF fall
ing giants. King 0g, no doubt, had a
throne, bat the Bible never mentions
his throne. King 0g, no doubt, had q
crown, but the Bible never mentions
his crown. King 0g, no doubt, had q
scepter, but The Bible docs not mention
his scepter Yet, one o, the largest
verses Of the Bible is taken up in de
scribing his bcdstead. So God all ur
and down the Bible honors sleep
Adam, with his head on pillow o.
Edenic roses, has his slumbcr blest BY
divine gift of beautiful companion
ship. Jacob with his head on pillow
of rock, hes his sleep glori6ed will
ladder fllel with descending and as
} cending angels Christ, with a pill
low made out Of the folded
J up coat of fisherman, honors slumbe
, in the back part of the storm-tosse,
J boat The only case OF accident =
, sleep mentioned In the Bible was whei
Eutychus fell from wind ow during
sermon Of Paul. who had preached unit
: midnight, but that was no so much
J condemnation OF sleep as a censure o
, long sermons More sleep is what tn
, world wants. Economize'in everything
, but sleep. William II. Seward, the re
nowned secretary OF state, in the mids
! Of his overmastering tolls longed for th
J capacity to rest, writing in his memo
! raudum book: 81 have never found bu
. one valuabls recipe for having a goo
] nights rest, apd that Is to have bee
/ restless and eleepless the night before.
! When President John Quincy Adam
, and the distinguished Josiah Quiu
| cy went to hear Judge Story lee
ture on law to his students, and whc'
, invited to sit beside the Judge and bot
| fell asleep, the judge appropriated
} pointed to them, and said to his stu
: dents: Behold the evil effects G
early rising" In Bible times, whe
: people arose at the voice Of tho bird
| they retired at the time the bird put
) his head und,r his wing One OF on
/ national sins is robbery OF sleep, Wa
ter Scott wal so urg ,nt about this dut
, OF slumber that, whcn arriving at
hotel where there was no room to slee
> In, except that in which there was
; corpse. inquired If the deceased ha
l died OF n contagious disease, and whe
Z assured he Il nd not. took the other be
/, in the room ind fell into profounde:
2 slumber. Those OF snail cnduranc
/ must certainly require rest II even th
! giant needs n iron bcdstead
v Notice, fur thermore, that Gods pei
s pie on the way to Canaan need not !
8 surprised II they confront some sort {
{ giant HID not the Israelitish hoi
}. had trouble enough already? MOI Re
i sea not enough Water famine nc
o enough Lolg marches not enougl
' Opposition NJ enemies of ordinary sta
o ure not enouS IN. They must meet OF
!, the giant of he iron bcdstead min
!. cubits was tue length thereof and fou
i cubits the breadth of It" Why not /,
: these Israeiites go smoothly into CT
y naan without this gigantic opposition
n o, they needed TO have their couraG
l. and faith fur ther tested and developed
2 And blessed the man, who, in our tim,
y in his march towarl the Promised Ian
v does not meet more than one giant. D
/ not conclude that YOU are not on III