Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-01-12

t6mperam9ntS ought not 70 expect Il WhOlB
night to do the work of recuperation which
slow temperaments require. Instead OF
making 1t matter OF irritation and alarm
be Christian philosopher and set down
This Authorization Of somuolence rs d matter
OF temperament.
Remark the sixth: The aged insomnists
should understand that IL their eyes arc
held waking they do not require rs much
sleep as once they did. Solomon, who IL
knowledge was thousands OF years ahead
OF his time In his wondrous description OF
old age, recognizes this fact. He not ouly
speaks of the difficulty Of mastication OF
the part Of the aged when he says, "rhe
grinders cease bscau sc they are few" and
OF the oct0genarlan's caution In getting up
n ladder or standing on scaffolding, say
ing, "They shall be afraid OF that which is
HIGH" and speak Of tho whitoness OF the
hair by comparing 1t 10 II tree that has
white blossoms saying, "The almond tres
shall flourish" and speaks OF the spinal
cord, which Is the color OF silver, and which
the head, saying, 'rhe silver cord
be loosed." But be says OF The
aged, HE shall rise up Mt the voice Of
the Bird" that Is about halt past a
in the summer time, an appropriate houc
for the bird TO rise, for he goes to his
nest or bough at half past in tue evening.
But the human mechanism has been so
arranged that after it has boon running
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 "ho
shall rise up at tie voice OF the bird" Let
all aged men and women remember that
they have been permitted to do great
deal of sleeping In their time and that II
they do not sleep so we'll now as they used
to 1t is because they do not require so much
sleep.
Remark the seventh; Insomnia is PROB
ably 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 sleeplessnes5 calls q halt. Even their
p!easuring turls to work. Az Sir Joshua
Reynolds, the great painter, taking n walk
with friend, met sun Drowned peasant
boy and said, "l must go home aud deepen
the coloring OF my infant Hercules" The
sun Drowned boy suggested IN i'm
provoment in u great picture By
the tlmo most people have reached
midlfe, il they have behaved
vol more doors Of opportunity open be-
fore them than they ought to enter.
Power 10 decline, power to say NO"
they s,lOull now cultivate. When man
is determined TO be useful and satan can
not dissuado him from that course, tho
great doceiyer in lu,O' him to oyerT0rt
aud In that way get rid OF him. We havJ
thermometers to tell the heat, an barom-
eters to tell the air, aud Ometers hung in
engine rooms to tell the pressure OF steam.
and ometers to gau ,e and measure almost
everything Would that somo genius
would invent an ometer which, being hung
around tho ne X auI dropped over
heart and lang. woull by tue pulsa-
ton and respiration, tell whether one
Is under too great pressure or might carry
mora. All brain workers would want such
an ometer and want it right away. For
the lack Of it how many are dying AMI how
many have died OF Overwork? a prominent
flnancer 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 cergymeD, are now dying
OF overGorx Do not be in the board OF
directors OF more than three banks and
two trust companies AMI five life and
Gre insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three SER
mons Sunday AMI superlntend your
own Sabbath-school aaI conduct Il
Bible class the sans day. Do not edit
a paper and writo for three magazines
and go to four public dinners where you
will be called 10 mako speech moro than
four times Il week. Do not go SO deep In
to tue real estate business that before
spring all the real estate you will really
possess will be piece Of grounl about SIX
feet long aud three feet wide. Your 10.
somnia Is the voice OF nature, the voice of
al
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 both ends. Do not under too many
burdens sweat like Il camel tru lying from
Aleppo to Damascus. Do no. commit sui
eide.
Remark the eighth All the victims OF
insomnia ought to be console with the
fact that they will have Il COOL, long sleep
after while. Sacred aud protane 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 md Johu
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,
"He is not dead, but slecpeth." Cheer
ing thought to all poor sleepers, for
that will be pleasant sleep, in-
duced " no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightfu 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 thcre, in on2
case out OF millions, the resurrectiontst
may disturb the pillow OF dust the last
sleep is almost sure to be KEEP. from lnva-
sion. There will be no burglary OF the tomb
And 1t will be 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
worrment, will be forever gone. Oh, what
q refreshing sleep!
SO my nearer, my reader, GOOD ,Dighl"'
May God give you such sleep tonight as
Is best for you, and IL you wake too soon
may He fiji your soul with "reminiscences
and expectations that will be better than
slumber Good night! Having in prayer,
kneeling ut the bedside, committed your
self and all yours to tue keeping OF the
slumberess God, fear nothing me
pestllence that walketh in darkness viii
NOT cross your uoOESlll, "nu Jou n"ou ~
be afraid OF evil tidlngs. Good night!
May you have no such experience as
job had when no said, "Thou scarest
me with dreams and terrifies me through
Visions" II you dream at all, may 1t be q
vision OF reunions and congratulations,
and, waking, may you find some of them
trne. Good night! And when you come
to the best sleep, the bIissful sleep, the last
sleep, may you be able to turn aud say to
al the cares and fntigues and bereaye.
nients and pangs OF lifetime. "dood
night" and your kindred, standing around
your illumined pillow, give you hopeful
though sorrowful farewell as you move cut
from their loving embrace into the bosom
of welcoming God. Good night! Good
night