Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1900-01-10
FOR THE SLEEPLESS
Or. Talnage Speaks on the Subject
OF insomnia.
sleep the Vacation ~ the Soul A
Divine Nnrc"ti,-W Words ct Com
ISOLATION ior >unrrer~-Ihe
Last sleep.
Icopyr.sh;. lsoo oy Louis Klopscn.l

"A consolation 20 many people. Text.
Psalms "a: Thou hoiGest mine eyes
waking"
Sleep is the vacation Of the soul. II
IL The mind gone into ;he playground
of dreams; II il the relaxation OF mus
! Giles and the soluce of the nerves: II is
| the hush OF activities; ii is the soft cur
! tanning OF the eyes; il is a trance Of
| eight hours; II is "a calming of the
pulses; ii is Il breathing much slower
though far deeper; il is Il temporary OBJ
! hvion OF all carking cares; it is the doc
! tor recognized by all schools of medi-
cine; it is Il divine narcotic; il is com
! plete anaesthetic; it is an angel of the
night; it is a great mercy of God for
the human race. Lack of it puts pa
tients on the rack of torture or in the
madhouse or in the grave. oh, blessed
sleep! No wonder the Bible makes
much of it. Through sleep so sound
that a surgical incision of the side of
Adam did not waken him came the best
temporal blessing ever offered TO man
-wifely companionship. While in sleep
on a pillow of rock Jacob saw ladder
set up, with angels coming down and
climbing. So He giveth His beloved
sleep" soliloquized the psalmist. Sol
ONION listens at the door of n tired
workman and eulogizes his pillow by
saying: The sleep of laboring man
is sweet" Peter was calmly sleeping
between the two constables the night
before his expected assassination.
Christ was asleep in n boat on Galilee
when tossed in the euroclydon. The an
nunciation was made 10 Joseph in
sleep, and death is described as only a
sleep and the resurrection as 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 it, and we read: I'm that
night could not the king sleep" Joseph
Hall said of that ruler: lie that could
command 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 seeth he 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 all ma
tions 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 dozen with overwrought and tan
gled ganglion. At some time in life
almost everyone has had a touch of it.
1t has been called "Americanitis." Last
night there were. as there will be to-
night, millions of people to whom the
words of the text are appropriate utter
ance: Thou holdest mine eyes wax
ing"
Wonderful is that law which Ralph
Waldo Emerson called the claw of com
! Pensation," and il has been so arranged
that, while the Woodworking popula-
tions of the earth are denied many of
| the luxuries, they have at least one lux
ury which many of the aff1uent of the
earth are denied and for which some of
! them would give millions of dollars in
cash down-namely, capacity to sleep.
J The most of those who toll with hand
and foot do not have TO send out invita-
| tons 10 sleep. They require no bromide
or valerian or sulphonal or triavol to
put them 10 nightly unconsciousness
In five minutes after their heads touch
their pillows they are as far off from
the wall they were building. or the
ditch they were digging. or the anvil
they were pounding, or the wheels they
were controlling. as heaven is from
earth. About three o'clock i'm the morn
ing. the body at lowest temperature
and its furnaces nearly out. whata com
pIete quietude for the entire physical
and mental structure! All rigEt long.