The light., 1900-01-18
OF everything good. DR.. stephen n rvno

pectatlons Oh tue WOriuI Hnere there Is no
| night and where slumber will havs nd
uses. God THINKS just as much OF YOU
when you get but three or four hours OF
sleep as when ut night you get eight or
| nine hours.
Remark the fifth: Lst all insonnIsLs
| know for their consolation that soma
people sleep more rapidly than others. as
much In one hour rs others do in two, and
hence do not require as long a time in un-
| consciousness. In a book on the subject of
health years ago saw this fact stated by a
celebrated medical scientist: Some people
do everything qulck--they eat quick. thew
walk quick, they think quick, and OF
course they sleep quick. An express train
can 60 as far In thirty minutes as a way
train in sixty minutes. People OF rapid
| temperaments ought not to expect a whole
night to do the work OF recuperation which
slow temperaments require. Instead of
making 1t o matter OF irritation and alarm
| be a Christian philosopher and set down
this abbreviatlon OF somnolence rs a matter
| OF temperament.
Remark the sixth: The aged insomntsts
should understand that IL their eyes are
| held waking they do not requlre as much
sleep as once they did. Solomon, who In
knowledge was thousands OF years ahead
of his time In his wondrous description OF
old age, recognizes this fact. He not only
| speaks of the difficulty of mastication on
the part OF the aged when he says, "The
grinders cease becau Sc they are few" and
| OF the octogenArlan's caution In getting up
a ladder or standing on a scatfoldIng, say
Ing, They shall be afraid OF that which Is
high, =" and speaks Of the whiteness OF tho
hair by comparing 1t to a tree that has
white blossoms, saying, "The almond tree
shall flourish" and speaks OF the spinal
cord which Is the color OF silver, and which
relaxes In old age, giving the tremor 10
tha hna6 saving sGrha
be loosed." But he says of the
aged, ''He shall rise up at the voice OF
the bird;" that is about half past 4
in the summer time, an appropriate hour
for the bird to rise, for he goes to his
nest or bough at half past in the evening.
But the human mechanism has been so
arranged that after it has been running a
good while a change takes place, and in
stead OF the almost perpetual sleep CT the
babe and the nine hours requisite In mid
life six hours will do for the aged, and che
shall rise up at the voice OF the bird" Let
all aged men and women remember that
they have been permitted to do a great
deal of sleeping In their time and that IL
they do not sleep so we'll now as they used
to 1t Is because they do not require 50 much
sleep.
Remark the seventh: Insomnia Is prob
ably q warning that you had better mod
crate your work. Most OF those engaged
In employments that pull on nerve and
brain are tempted to omit necessary rest
and sleeplessness calls Il halt. oEven their
pleasuring turns to work. As Sir Joshua
Reynolds. the great painter, taking walk
with a friend, met a sun Drowned peasant
boy and said, "I must go home and deepen
the coloring OF my infant Hercules" The
sun Drowned boy suggested an I'M
the time most people have reached
midlife, II they have behaved
we'll more doors OF opportunity open be-
fore them than they ought to enter.
Power to decline, power to say NO"
they should now cultivate. When n man
Is determined to be useful and satan can
not dissuade him from that course, tue
great deceiver induces him to oyerwork
and In that way get rid OF him. We have
thermometers to tell the heat anil barom-
eterS to tell the air, and ometers hung 10
engine rooms to tell the pressure OF steam.
and ometers to gauge and measure almost
everything. Would that some genius
would invent an ometer which, being hung
around the ne.k and dropped over
heart and lung, would by the pulsa-
tlon and respiration, tell whether one
Is under too great pressure or might carry
more. All brain workers would want such
an ometer and want 1t right away. For
the lack OF 1t how many are dying and how
many have died OF overwork? prominent
flnancler who recently departed this life
was an officer In over 100 financial and
charitable institutions. Thousands OF
editors, OF lawyers, OF physicians, OF
merchants, OF clergymen, are now dying
OF over work. Do not be in t board OF
directors OF more than three banks and
two trust companies and Ave life and
fire insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three SER
mons n Sunday and superlntend your
own Sabbath-school and conduct a
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for three magazines
and go to tour public dinners where you
will be called to make a speech moro than !,
four times a week. Do not go so deep In
to the real estate business that before
spring all the real estate you will really
possess will be piece OF groun1 about six
feet long and three feet wide. Your In
somnia Is the voice OF nature, the voice OF
God, saying, "Better slow usl'' Stop that
long, swift train, the wheels Of which are
taking fire from the velocity and smoking
with the hot box. Do not burn the candle
ut both ends. Do not under too many
burdens sweat like u camel trudging from
Aleppo to Damascus. Do not commit sui
eide.
Remark the eighth: All the victims OF
insomnia ought TO be consoled with tho
fact that they will have q good, long sleep
after while. Sacred and profane litera-
ture again and again speak OF that last
sleep. God knew that the human race
would be disposed to make great ado
about exit from this world, and so He in
spires Job and David and Daniel and John
and Paul to call that condition "sleep."
When at Bethany the brother who WAS the
support OF his sisters after their father and
mother were gone had himself expired,
Christ cried out in regard to him,
ing thought to all poor sleepers, for
that will be pleasant sleep, In
duced by no narcotic, disturbed by 20
frightful dream, interrupted by no harsh
sound. Better than any sleep you ever
took, o child OF God. will be the last sleep.
In your slumbers your home may be In
vaded by burglars and your treasures car
rled off, but while here and there, In one
case out OF millions, the resurrectionlst
may disturb the pillow OF dust the last
sleep is almost sure to be kept from inv0-
sion. There will be no burglary Of the tomb.
And 1t will be a refreshing sleep, You have
sometimes risen in the morning more weary
than when you laid down at night, but
waking from the sleep OF which l speak
the last fatigue, the last ache, the last
worriment, will bs forever gone. oh, what
q refreshing sleepl
So my hearer, my reader, GOOD nightl"
May God give you such sleep tonight as
Is best for you, and IL you wake too soon
may He 1ll your soul with "reminiscences
and expectations that will be better than
slumber. Good night Having in prayer.
kneeling at the bedside, committed your
self and all yours to the keeping OF the
slumberIess God, fear nothing. The
pestilence that walketh in darkness will
| not cross your doorstill, and you need not
be afraid Of evil tidings. Good night
May you have no such experience as
Job had when he said, "Thou scarest
me with dreams and terrl1es me through
Visions" II you dream at all, may 1t be
vision OF reunions and congratulations,
| and, waking, may you find some of them
true. Good night Aud when you come