The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-12-13
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retire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep
clear through to 6 in the morning! 10
relieve this disorder all narcotics and
sedatives and morphine and choral and
bromide of potassium and cocaine and, In
toxicants are used, buc nothing is more
important than quiet spirit if we would
win somnolence. How is man going to
sleep when he is in mind pursuing an en-
envy? With what nervous twitch he will
start out of dream! That new plan Of
cOrnering his foe will keep him wide
awake while the clock strikes IL, u, /,
2. [ give you an unfailing prescription
for wakefulness: Spend the evening hours
rehearsing your wrongs and the best way
of avenging them. Hold convention of
friends on this subject in your parlor or
office at or 8 o'clock. Close the even
ing by writing bitter letter expressing
your sentiments. Take from the desk or
pigeonhole the papers in the case to re-
fresh your mind with your enemys mean
ness. Then lie down and wait for the
coming of the day, and it will come be-
fore sleep comes, or your sleep will be
worried quiescence and, if you take the
precaution to lie fiat on your back,
frightful nightmare.
ity? Why let your foes come into the
sanctities of your dormitory? Why let
those slanderers who have already torn
your reputation to pieces or injured your
business bend over your midnight pillow
and drive from you one of the greatest
blessings that God can offer-sweet, re-
freshing, all invigorating sleep? Why
not fence out your enemies by the golden
bars of the sunset? Why not stand be-
hind the barricade of evening cloud and
say to them, Thus far and no farther"
Many man and many woman is hav-
ing the health of body as we'll as the
health of soul eaten away by maley-
olent spirit. have in time of religious
awakening had persons night after night
come into the inquiry room and get no
peace of soul. After awhile | have blunt
ly asked them, ''Is there not some one
against whom you have a hatred that
you are not willing to give up?" After
little confusion they have slightly whis-
pered, Yes" Then 1 have said, you
will never find peace with God as long
as you retain that virulence."
Get Rid of Hidden Resentment.
A boy in Sparta having stolen fox
kept him under his coat and, though the
fox was gnawing his vitals, he submitted
to it rather than expose his misdeed.
Many man with smiling face has I'M
der his jacket an animosity that is gnaw-
ing away the strength of his body and
the integrity of his soul. Better get rid
Of that hidden fox as soon as possible.
There are hundreds of domestic circles
where that which most is needed is the
Of Rrothnrc narta nd
sisters apart and parents and children
apart. Solomon says brother offended
is harder to be won than a strong city.
Are there not enough sacred memories of
your childhood to bring you together?
The rabbins recount how that Nebu-
chadnezzar's son had such spite against
his father that after he was dead he had
his father burned to ashes and then put
the ashes into four sacks and tied them
to four eagles necks, which flew away in
opposite directions. And there are now
domestic antipathies that seem forever to
have scattered all parental memories to
the four winds of heaven. How far the
eagles fly with those sacred ashes! The
hour of shutdown makes to that family no
practical suggestion. Thomas Carlyle in
his biography of Frederick the Great
says the old king was told by the con-
fessor he must be at peace with his enc
mics if he wanted to enter heaven. Then
he said to his wife, the queen, Write to
your brother after l am dead that for
give him." Roloff, the confessor, said,
Her majesty had better write him i'm
mediately." 'No," said the king, latter
l am dead. That will be safer" So he
let the sun of his earthly existence go
down upon his wrath.
Again, we ought not to allow the sun
to set before forgiveness takes place, be-
cause we might not live to see another
day. And what if we should be ushered
into the presence of our Maker with a
grudge upon our soul? The majority of
people depart this life in the night. Be-
tween IL o'clock p. m. and o'clock a. m.
there is something in the atmosphere
which relaxes the grip which the body
has on the soul, and most people enter
the next world through the shadows of
this world. Perhaps God may have ar
ranged 1T IN that way so as to make the
contrast the more glorious. [ have seen
sunshiny days in this world that must
have been almost like the radiance of
heaven. But as most people leave the
earth between shutdown and sunrise they
quit this world at it's darkest and heay-
en-, always bright, will be the brighter for
that contrast. Out of darkness into IRA
diation.
Shall we then leap over the roseate
bank of sunset into the favorite hunting
ground of disease and death, carrying our
animosities with us? Who would want
to confront his God, against whom we
have all done meaner things than any
body has ever done against us, carrying
old grudges? How can we expect his
forgiveness for the greater when we are
not willing to forgive others for the less?
Napoleon was encouraged to undertake
the crossing of the Alps because Charlie
magne had previously crossed them And
all this rugged path of forgiveness bears
the bleeding footsteps of him who con-
quered through suffering, and we ought
to be willing to follow. On the night of
our departure from this life into the next
our one plea will have to be for mercy,
and 1t will have TO be offered in the pres
ence of him who has said, ''If you for
give not men their trespasses, neither will
your heavenly Father forgive your tres