Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-01-13
CAPACITY TO SLEEP.
DR.. TALMAGE EXTOLS The POOR
MANS BLESSING.
lie Has Words of Comfort Also For
the Victims of InsOmnln-The Law
of Compensation - Wakefulness a
Means OF Grace.

the Victims of InsOmni0-The Law
of Compensation WakefuIness a
Means of Grace.
Copyright Louis Klopsch. 1901
WASHINGTON. Jan. I. - In this dis
course Dr. Talmage treats Of style OF
disorder not much discoursed upon and
unfolds what must be consolation tC
many people; text, Psalms lXXvii, T.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking"
Sleep Is the vacation of the soul; II
IS the mind gone into the playground OF
dreams ii is the relaxation of the mus
eleS and the SOlace of the nerves; 1t is
the hush of activities; ii is the soft
curtaning of the eyes; ii is trance OF
eight hours: it is calming of the
pulses il is breathing much slower.
though far deeper; it is a temporary
oblivion of all carking cares; ii is the
doctor recognized by all schools OF
| medicine; ii is n divine narcotic; ii is
a complete anTsthetic; it is an angel of
the night; it is Il great mercy of God
! for the human race. Lack of it puts
patients on the rack of torture, or in
| tue madhouSe. or in the grave. o
| blessed Sleep No wonder the Bible
makes much of it. Through sleep SO
sound that surgical inciSiOn of the
| side of Adam did IL, waken him came
the best temporal blessing ever afford
ed to man-wifely companiOnship.
While in sIeep on pillow of rock ia
cob saw ladder set up, with angels
coming down and climbing. SO "he
giveth his btiosed sleep" sOlilOquzed
the psalmiSt. Solomon listens at the
door of a tired workman and eulOSiZes
his pillow 10y s8y1ng The sleep of
laboring man is sweet" Peter was
calmly slccpiur between the two con
stables the night be sOlr GS expected
assassination CArI was asleep in Il
boat on Galiiee when tOsStd IN the
eurOclydon. Tir aamunciatioT was
snade to .IoSrl Il IN ;lcrp. and Ie3tb ~
deSc,.lbed as onlfa sircp aai tih resi'T-
rectioNl as Il glOli los Weakening Uut ~
sleep.
On TIN. othcr ham. .Somnia or Sl1 p
lessnrsS is an old lis1r,.rr spoken Of
again and again N he Eib.r. MIA ne
rus suffered from H. ana We rca !. In
that night cGuil not Tie KING si'ep.
.IOseph Hail SAID OF tiIat ru:c.. lie
that could oJiHnland a huu.iSrd ana
seven and twenty prN 'nces could not
command steep" Nr.'ucha1neZZar had
Insomnia. AID the lccOrd Is. Has sleep
brake from him" Solomon describes
this trouble and says. Neither day nor
might seeth he sleep With his eyes.
.Asaph was its victim. for be complains
i'm my text that his eyes are open at
midnight. some mysterious power keep
ing the upper aud lower lids from join
ing. Thou hOldest mine eyes wax
Jug
Insomnia. which has troubled all ma
fions aud all ages has It's widest swing
jn ouT land because OF the push and
weed OF all styles of activities as In
no ~tber land. Where there is one man
or " NInnD with rgupoise of nerve
,bore oNe II dozen with Oyerwrought
and tano I'd ganglion. AT some time
in ,ifo olr ~st every one has bad
touch Of # t hA% been called Amer
icapitis" Iost night there were. as
there will be- tol %sbt. millions or peo-
pie to whom the 'Sf9s OF the teAt are
appropriate utteran, 2, > nov po'ue''
mine eyes waking"
Law of Compen Sahon.
Wonderful is that law when haipn
Waldo Emerson called ue III" Vi
and 1t has oeen SO ar
ranged that while the haru WORKING
populations of the earth are deuIeil
many Of the luxuries they ave al
least one luxury which many the
atf1uent Of the earth are denied anu nor !
which some Of them would give MI
ions of dollars In cash dOwn-namel. v
capacity to sleep The most Of those
who toll with hand and foot do not
nave to send out invitations to sleep.
They require no bromide or valerian or
iulphOnal or triavol to put them to u
lightly unconSciOuSnpSs. In five min
ties after their head touches their pill U
ow they are rs far off from the wall d
hey were building. or the ditch they a
we're digging. or the anvil they were |.
or the wheels they were u
OntrOlling as heaven is from earth
about 3 o'clock in the morning. the !,
ody at lowest Temperatures and its
urnaceS nearly out. what II complete >
uietudc fer the entire ph ysicHl and
rental structure. All nighc long. for e
uch, sleep is busy with It's enchanted
nointing Of every cOrpus&r Of the t
rteries and every mOiCculc Of the en- .
re physical organism. ana the morn U
lg finds the subjects of such sleep re- j
ullt, reconstructed and touched of c
cd into new life
OF course there is an unrighteouS 3
eep as when Jonah. trying to escape u
ON duty. slept in the sides OF the Il
Zip while the Mediterranean was in "
rath because of that prophetic pas s.
niger; as when Columbus in his first Il
)yage, exhausted from being up many
ghts, gave the ship in charge Of the q
eersman and the crew. who, leaving ii
e management of the vessel to boys, Il
ent asleep and allowed the ship to a
rike on the sand banks Of st. Thorn II
/; as when the sentinel goes to sleep "A
his post. endangering the whole u
my: as when the Sluggard. who ac- "a
mplisheS nothing the day lPfore he "
pnt 10 sleep and will accomplish moth %
Z the day after he wakes fills up u
'lomOn'S picture of him as lie yawns II
I, - little sle~n and ittse slumber %
ID a little folding Of the han(ss to I
'ep." Rut sleep ut the right time II
d amid the right circumstances can "
II imagine anything more blssSed2 10
sleep, acSNt'dinG to sacred and pro- IS
ne literafGrS-. Is an emblem of tieath- IS
e morning 20 all refreshed sfuTuber- Il
8 Is a resurrection. &c