Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-17
NO. 6.

Remark the fifth: Let all insomnists
Know for their consolation that some
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 quick-they eat quick, they
walk quick, they think quick, and OF
| course they sleep quick. An express train
can go as far in thirty minutes as a way
train in sixty minutes. People OF rapid
temperaments ought not to expect n whole
night to do the work of recuperatfon which
| slow temperaments require. Instead OF
making 1t a matter of irritation and alarm
be Il Christian philosopher and set down
this abbrcviation OF somnolence as matter
Of temperament.
Remark the sixth: The aged insomnists
should understand that II their eyes are
held waking they do not require as much
sleep as once they did. Solomon, wIo 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 tie difficulty OF masticatioD on
the part Of the aged when he says, "Yhe
grinders cease becau Sc they are few," and
Of the octogenarian's caution in getting up
4 ladder or standing on a scaffolding, say
ing, "They shall be afraid OF that which is
high" and speak ks of the whiteness OF the
ny IL ~ u tlco tuht hoo
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 to
the head; saying, The silver cord Ei
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 of the
babe and the nine hours requisite In mid
life six hours will do for the aged, and "he
shall rise up at t g voice OF the bird" Let
all aged men and women remember that
they have been permitted to do great
ieal Of sleeping In their time and that II
they do not sleep so well now rs they used
20 it is because they do not require so much
sleep.
Remark the seventh: Insomnia is prob
ibly a warning that you hal better mod
srate your work. Most OF those engaged
In employments that pull on nerve and
brain are tempted to omit necessary rest
and sleeplessness calls a halt. Even their
pleasuriug turns to work. As Sir Joshua
Reynolds, the great painter, taking walk
with a friend, met sun drowned peasant
boy and said, 81 must go home and deepen
SForing Of my infant Hercules" The
drowned boy suggested IN i'm
provement in great picture. By
the time most people have reached
midlife, IL they have behaved
we'll more doors of opportunity open be-
fore them than they ought to enter.
Power to decline, power to say Mo-
they should now cultivate. When a man
is determined to be useful and satan can
not dissuade him from that course, the
great deceive- induces him to over work
nd In hlf tyat of hf,,, ha,-
thermometers to tell the heat. and barom-
| eters to tell the air, and ometers hung in
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
TTssseaI.s nal-hInS. ---,-sssa- by tue pulsu-
tfoi1e p. 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? A prominent
nnancier 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 overwork. Do not be In the board OF
directors of more than three banks aud
two trust companies and five life and
fire insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three SER
mons a Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath-school and conduct a
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
q paper and write for three magazines
and go to tour public dinners where you
will be called to make a speech more than
four times a week. Do not 20 so deep in
to the real estate business that before
spring all the real estate you will really
possess will be piece of ground 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
at bots ends. Do not under too many
burdens sweat like a camel trudging from
Aleppo to Damascus. Do not commit sui
eide.
Remark the eighth: All the victims OF
insomnia ought TO be consoled with the
fact that they will have good, long sleep
after while. Sacred and profane lltera-
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, aud so He in
spires Job and David aud Daniel and Jonn
and Paul to call that condition "sleep"
When a. 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,
HE is not dead. but sleepeth." Cheer
,ng 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 ca,-
ried of, but while here and there, in ore
case out of millions, the resurrectionist
may disturb the pillow OF dust the last
ia n m tN ha ban fro los,
sion. There will be no burglary OF the tomb.
And 1t will be a refreshing sleep. You have
sometimes risen in the morning IN ore weary
than when you laid down at night but
waking from the sleep OF which speak
the last fatigue, the last ache, the last
worrment, will be forever gone. Oh, what
a refreshing sleepi
So my hearer, my reader, Good night"
Nay God give yoI such sleep tonight as
Is best for you, and II you wnke too soon
may He fill your soL! with "reminiscences
and ex pectations that will be better than
sIumber. Good night Having in prayer.
kDeeling at the bedside, committed your
self and all yours 10 the keeping OF ths
slumberless God, fear nothing. The
pestiience that walketh in darkness will
no. cross your doors..lI, and you need no.
be afraid of evil tiilngs. Good night,
May you have NJ such experience as
JOB had when he slid, Chou scnrest
me with dreams AMI terrifas me through
Visions" II you dream ct a., may II be g
vision OF reunions Ln1 CONGRATULATIONS.
and, waking, may you find some ot them
true. Good night And when you come
to the best sleep, the biIss:u s.esp, the last
sleep, may you be abe to turn eni say to
all the cares and fatigues and SereHve-
ments and pangs of lifetime, "Good
nightp' and your kindred, standing around
your fllumined pillow, give you hopeful
though sorrowful farewell as you move out
from their loving en- brace into the bosom
OF welcoming God. Cool night Good
night
Fai ure is merely the leaving I'M
done or badly dopa tboSa tbipas