Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-09-05
tion by the will of God he fell on

sleep.
Oh, what good thing is sleep after
hard days work 1t takes all the
aching out of the head and all the
WEAKNESS out of ethe limbs, and all the
smarting out of the eyes. From it we
rise in the morning and it is a new
world, and if we, like David serve our
generation we will at life's close have
most desirable and refreshing sleep. In
it will vanish our last fatigue of body,
our last Worriment of mind, our last
sorrow of soul To the Christian body
that was hot with raging fevers, so that
the attendants must by sheer force keep
on the blankets, it will be the cool
sleep To those who are thin bIooded
and shivering with agues it will be the
warm Sleep To those who because of
physical disorders were terrified with
night visions it will be the dreamless
sleep. To nurses and doctors and moth
ers who were Weakened almost every
hour of the night by those to whom
they ministered Or over whom they
watched il will be the undisturbed
sleep. To those who could not get to
bed till late at night and must rise
early in the morning and before getting
rested it will be the long sleep
Away With Gloom.
Away with all your gloomy talk
about departing from this world If we
have served our generation, it will not
be putting out into the breakers; it will
not be the fight with the king of ter
rors; it will be going to sleep. A
friend, writing me from Illinois, says
that Rev. DR.. Wingate, president of
Wake Forest college, North Carolina,
after a most useful life, found his last
day on earth his happiest day, and that
in his last moments he seemed to be
personally talking with Christ, as friend
with friend, saying: "Oh, how delight
full it is! knew you would be with me
when the time came, and l knew it
would be sweet, but I did not know it
would be as sweet as it is. % The fact
was he had served his generation in the
gospel ministry, and by the will of God
he fell asleep. When in Africa Maj
wara, the servant, looked into the tent
of David Livingstone and found him on
his knees, he stepped back, not wishing
to disturb him in prayer, and some time
after went in and found him in the
same posture and stepped back again,
but after awhile went in and touched
him, and, TO- the great traveller had
finished his last journey, and he had
died in the grandest and mightiest pos
ture man ever takes-on his knees.
rolling the scroll of continent, and by
the will of God fell on sleep. In the
museum of Greenwich, England, there
C. e e
in the arctic regions, amid the relics Of
Sir John Franklin, who had persisted
amid the snow and ice, and the leaf of
that piece of book was turned down
at the words, "When thou passest
through the waters, I will be with
thee" Having served his generation in
the cause of science and discovery, by
the will of God he fell on sleep.
Why will you keep us all SO nervous
talking about that which is only dor
mitory and a pillowed slumber, cano-
pied by angels wings? Sleep! Transport
ing sleep! And what a glorious awaken
ing! You and I have sometimes been
thoroughly bewildered after long and
fatiguing journey. We have stopped at
a friends house for the night and after
hours of complete Inconsistencies we
have opened our eyes, the high risen
sun full in our faces, and before we
could fully collect our faculties have |
said, "Where am 1, whose house is |
this and whose are these gardens:''
And then it has flashed upon us in glad |
reality.
Blissfu1 Awakening.
And I should not wonder if after we |
have served our generation and by the |
will of God have fallen ON sleep, the |
deep sleep, the restful Sleep we should |
awaken in blissful bewilderment and |
for little while say: "Where am 1? |
What palace is this? Why, this looks |
like heaven! 1t is. 1t is. Why, there is
a building grander than all the castles
of earth heaved into mountain of |
must be the palace of |
Jesus. And look there at those walks
lined with foliage more beautiful than
[ ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those aisles
of verdure From what I have heard Of
them those two arm and arm must be
Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai
and him of the hating sun over Gideon,
and those two walking arm in arm
must be John and Paul, the one so
gentle and the other so mighty