Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-01-11

omcter aud want t right away. For the
lack of 4 how many are Dying and how
many have died OF ovCrworky a proml-
npnt hnanCier who recently departed tins
life was an officer in over hundred
financial and charitable institutions.
Thousands of editors, Of lawyers, of ply
sicians, of merchants, of clergymen arc
now dying of ovCrwork. Do nos be in the
board Of directors Of more than three
banks and two trust companies and hNc
life and tire insurance establishments.
DO not as pastor preach more than three
sermons n Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath school and conduct n Bible
class the same day. DO not edit paper
and write for three magazines and go to
four public dinners whore you Will he
called on to make n speech more than
four times week. Do not go 50 deep
into the real estate business that before
spring all the real estate you will really
possess will be n 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 smoking with the hot box. Do not
burn the candle ut both ends. Do not UNI
der too many burdens sweat like n camel
trudging from Acppo to Damascus. Do
not commit suicide.
Remark the eighth: All the victims Of
insomnia ought to be consocd with the
fact that they will have good long sleep
after awhile. Sacred and profane litera-
ture again and again speak of that last
sleep. God knew that the human race
would be disposed to make n great ado
about exit from this world, and so he in
spires Job and David and Daniel and
John and Paul to cali that condition
"sleep." When Mt Bethany the brother
who was the support of his sisters after
their father and mother were gone had
himself expired. Christ cried out in re-
gard to him. HE is not dead, but sleep
eth" Cheering thought to all poor sleep
ers, for that will he a pleasant sleep, in
duccl by no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightful dream, interrupted by no harsh
sound. Better than any sleep You ever
took, q child of God, will be the last
sleep. In your other slumbcrs your home
may be invaded by burglars and your
treasures carried off, but while here and
there. in one case ont of millions the
resurrectionist may disturb the pillow Of
dust the last sleep is almost sure TO he
kept from invasion. There will be no
burglary OF the tomb. And it 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 | speak, the last
fatigue, the last ache. the last worriment,
will be forever gone. Oh. what a refresh
ing Sleep
The Last Sleep.
Most people are tired. The nights do
not repair the day. Scientists, by minute
calculation, say that every night comes a
little short of restoring the body to where
it was the day before. and so every sew
enth day was put in for entire rest, to
make up III rcIaration for what the
nights could not do. But so restful will
be the last sleep that you will rise from
it without one sore nerve, without one
tired lmb-restod, forever rested, as only
God can rest you. O We tired folks all
up and down the world, tired with work
or tired with prosecutions. or tired witt
ailments, or tired with bcreavements. OF
tired in the struggle against temptation
clap your hands with eternal glee in eX
pectation of that sleep from which yor
will wake up so rested that you will nev
or need another sleep or even another
night. There shall be no night there,
because there will be no need of it
quietinS influences. No lengthening o
the shadows of tower and wall and gate
No evening mist rising from the river
No shutdown. "Thy sun shall no more q
down, neither shall thy moon WITHDRAW
itself, for the Lord shall be thine ever
lasting light, and the days of thy mourn
ing shall be ended"
So. my hearer, my reader, "Good
night" May God give you such sleel
tonight as IL best for you, and if 20,
wake too soon may he ELL your soul wit
"reminiscences and expectations that vii
be better than slumber. Good night
Having in prayer knceling at the bed
side, committed yourself and all yours t
the keeping Of the sumbcrlcss God, fea
nothing. The pestilence that walketh i
darkness will not cross your doorsill. an
you need not be Arid of evil tidinE,
Good nigl., May you have no such OK
pcricnce as Job had when he said, Tho
'scarest NE with dreams and terriiest m
through visions" If you dream at al
may it be vision Of reunions and cor
gratuatons, and, waking may you fin
some Of them true. Good night. An
when you come to the best sleep, tn
blissful sleep, the last sleep. may you b
able to turn and say to all the cares an
fatigues and bereevements and pangs Q
n lifetime, Good night" and your kir
drcd, standing around your illumined pi
low, give you hopeful though sorrowfr
farewell as you move out from thei
loving embrace into the bosom of n we
coming God. Good night! Good night.