St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-02-10

breviation of somnolence as a matter oil
temperament. An antelope ought NOT
to complain because it was not an OF
nor an eagle because it can 60 faster
than barnyard fowl.
Insomnia is probably a warning thu,
you had better moderate your work
Most of those engaged in employment
that pull on nerve and brain are tempt.
ed to omit necessary rest, and sleepless.
ness calls halt. Even their pleasur'
ing turns to work, as Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, the great painter, taking walk
with n friend. met sunbrowned peas,
ant boy and said: Il must go home and
deepen the coloring of my infant Her
cules." The sunbrowned boy suggest
ed an improvement in a great picture.
BY the time most people have reached
midlife, if they have behaved well.
more doors of opportunity open before
them than they ought to enter. Power
to decline, power to say NO." they
should now cultivate. When q man is
determined to be useful and Satan
cannot dissuade him from that course,
the great deceiver ind uces him to over
work and in that way get rid of him.
We have thermometers to tell the heat
and barometers to tell the air, and ON
eters hung in engine rooms to tell the
pressure of steam, and ometers to
gauge and measure almost every thing.
Would that some genius would invent
an ometer which, being hung around
the neck and dropped over heart and
lung. would by the pulsation and res
riration tell whether one is under too
great pressure or might carry more.
All brain workers would want such an
ometer and want it right away. For
the lack of it how many are dying and
how many have died of overwork. A
prominent financier who recently de-
parted this life was an officer in over
n hundred financial and charitable in
situations. Thousands of editors, of
lawyers, of physicians, of merchants,
of clergymen are now dying of over
work. Do not be in the board of di-
rectors of more than three banks and
two trust companies and five life and
five insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three ser
mons Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath school and conduct q
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for three magazines
and go to four public dinners where
you will be called on to make a speech
more than four times a week, Do not
go SO deep into 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 Insomnia is the voice
of nature, the voice of God, saying:
Better slow up" Stop that long,
swift train, the wheels of which are
taking FIRE from the velocity and smok-
ing with the hot box. Do not burn the
candle at both ends. Do not under too
many burdens sweat like camel trudg-
ing from Aleppo to Damascus. Do not
commit suicide.
All the victims of insomnia ough:
to be consoled with the fact that they
wiz have good long sleep after awhile.
Sacred and profane literature 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 inspires
Job and David and Daniel and John and
Paul to call that condition sleep
When ut Bethany the brother who was
the support of his sisters after their
father and mother were gone had him
self expired, Christ cried out in regard
to him: He is not dead, but sleep
eth" Cheering thought to all poor
sleepefs. for that will be a pleasant
sleep, induced by no narcotic, disturbed
by no 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 other slumbers
your home may be invaded by burglars
and your treasures carried off, but
while here and there, in one case out
Of millions, the resurrectionist may dis !
iurb the pillow of dust, the last sleep |
is almost sure to be kept from inva-
sion. There will be no burglary of |
The tomb. And it will be refreshing
sleep. You have sometimes risen in the
morning more weary than when you
aid down at night, but waking from the |
sleep of which speak, the last fatigue,
he last ache, the last worriment, will
De forever gone. Oh, what refreshing
sleep!
Most people are tired. The nights
10 not repair the day. Scientists, by |
minute calculation, say that every |
light comes a little short of restoring |
he body to where it was the day be-
ore. and so every seventh day was
tut in for entire rest, to make up in |
eparation for what the nights could
lot do. But SO rcstful will be the last
lcep that you will rise from it with
mt one sore nerve, without one tired
forever rested, as only
;od can rest you. o We tired folks
ii up ard down the world, tired with
work, or tired with prosecutions, or
ired with ailments, or tired with be-
or tired in the struggle
gainst temptation, clap your hands
With eternal glee in expectation of
hat sleep from which you will wake
p so rested that You will never need
mother sleep or even another night.
There shall be no night there" be-
ause there will be no need Of Its
uieting influences. No frightening
f the shadows of tower and wall and
ate. No evening mist rising from
he river. No shutdown. THY sun
hall no more go down, neither shall
by moon withdraw itself, for the
ord shall be thine everlasting light,
nd the days of thy mourning shall be
rded."
So. my nearer, my reader, ''Good
ight." May God give you such sleep
,-night as is best for you, and il you
axe too soon may He fill your soul
18th "reminiscences and expectations
lat will be better than slumber. Good
ight. Having in prayer, kneeling at
le bedside, committed yourself and ,
4 yours to the keeping of the slum-
erless God. fear nothing. The pesti-
zee that walketh in darkness will
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