Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-02-16
FOR THE SLEEPLESS.
Dr.. Talmage Speaks on the Subject
of Insomnia.
sleep the Vacntion Of the SOHl - A
Divine Nnrc0tic--Words OF Con-
ISOLATION for SuTerers-The
Last sleep.


Washington. Jan.7.
In this discourse DR., Talmage treats
of a style of disorder not much dis
coursed upon and unfolds what must be
consolation TO many people. Text.
Psalms 7T:4: Thou holdest mine eyes
waking"
Sleep is the vacation of the soul. II
is the mind gone into the playground
of dreams; il is the relaxation of mus
cles and the solace of the nerves; IL is
the hush of activities: II is the soft cur
tanning of the eyes; II is trance OF
eight hours; IL is calming OF the
pulses il is breathing much slower,
though far deeper; il is temporary OBJ
nvion of all carking cares; it is the doe
Tor recognized by all schools of medi-
cine; il is divine narcotic: il is COM
plete anaesthetic; il is an angel of the
night; il is a great mercy OF God for
the human race. Lack of II puts pa
tients on the rack of torture or 10 the
madhouse or in the grave, oh, blessed
sleep! No wonder the Bible makes
much of it, Through sleep so sound
that surgical incision of the side of
Adam did not wakep him came the best
temporal blessing ever offered TO man
--wifely companionship. While in sleep
on q pillow OF rock Jacob saw a ladder
set up, with angels coming down and
climbing. So "He giveth His beloved
sleep" soliloquized the psalmist. Sol
omon listens al the door of tired
workman and eulogizes his pillow by
saying: "'rhe sleep of laboring man
is sweet" Peter was calmly sleeping
between the two constables the night
before his expected assassination.
Christ was asleep in boat on Galilee
when tossed in the eurocydon. The an
nunciaiion was made 10 Joseph in
sleep. and death is described as only
sleep and the resurrection as a glorious
Weakening out of sleep.
On the other hand. insomnia, or sleep
lessness. is an old disorder spoken Of
again and again in the Bible. Ahasuerus
suffered from II, and we read: I'm that
night could not the king sleep" Joseph
Hall said of that ruler: "He that could
command a hundred and seven and
twenty provinces could not command
sleep" NebuchadneZZar had insomnia,
and the record is: His sleep brake
from him." Solomon describes this
trouble and says: Neither day nor
night see,h be sleep with his eyes"
Asaph was its victim. for he complains
in my text that his eyes are. wide open
at midnight, some mysterious power
keeping the upper and lower lids from
Joining: Thou holGest mine eyes
waking"
Insomnia. which has troubled al ma
,ions and all ages. and its widest swing
in our land. because of the push and
speed of all styles Of activities. as in no
other land. Where there is one man or
woman with equipoise Of nerves there
are a dozen with overwrought and tan
ged ganglion. AT some time in life
almost everyone has had touch Of II.
It has been called "Amercanitis." Last
night there were. as there will be 10.
night. millions of people TO whom the
words Of the text are appropriate utter
ance: "Thou holdest mine eyes wax
ing"
Wonderful IL that law which Ralph
Waldo Emerson called the "law of com.
pensation." and il has been so arranged
that. while the Woodworking popula.
lions of the earth are denied many OF
the Injuries they have at least one lux.
ury which many of the affluent of the
earth are denied and for which some ot
them would give millions of dollars in
cash down-namely, capacity TO sleep
The most of those who toll with hant
and foot do not have TO send out invita-
tons TO sleep. They require no bromide
or vaerian or sulphonal or triavol tC
put them 10 nightly unconsciousness
In five minutes after their heads to,lcl
their pillows they are as far off from
the wall they were building, or th'
r ditch they were digging, or the anvi
5 they were pounding, or the wheels the,
were controlling, as heaven is from
: earth. About three o'clock in the morn
5 ing, the body at lowest temperature
md It's furnaces nearly out, what a com
, pete quietude for the entire physica
and mental structure! All night long
Y for such sleep is busy with its en-
Q chanted amounting OF every corpuscl
' Of the arteries and every molecule o
he entire physical organism, and tn
morning finds the subjects of such slee
rebiilt. reconstructed and touched o
Goo into new life.
: CT course there Is an unrighteou
aleep, as when Jonah, trying to escap
from duty. slept in the sides of the shi
while the Mediterranean was in wrat
because of that prophetic passenger
, as when Columbus In his first voyage
. exhausted from being up many nights
;, gave the ship in charge of the steers
man and the crew, who, leaving tn
, management of the vessel TO boys, wen
asleep and allowed the ship to strik
on the sand banks of st. Thomas; q
: when the sentinel goes to sleep at hi
post, endangering the whole army; a
+, when the sluggard, who accomplisbe
'. nothing the day before he went to slee
: and will accomplish nothing the da
after he wakes, ills up Solomon's pi'
= lure of him as he yawns out: "A littl
" sleep and little slumber and ittI
folding of the hands 10 sleep" Bl
sleep al the right time and amid th
O right circums,ances-can you imagin
o anything more blessed? If sleep. a
o cording 10 sacred and profane liter;
a ture. is an emblem OF death, the morl
8 ing to all refreshed slum bers is resu
q rection.
9 If you have escaped the insomn
4 spoken OF in the text. thank God. Hel
and there one can command sleep, an