The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-01-13
FOR THE SLEEPLESS.
DR.. Talmage Speaks on the Subject
of Insomnia.
Sleep the Vacation Of the Soul = A
Divine knrcotic-WOrds of Con-
ISOLATION for sunerers-The
Last sleep.
iCopyrjght. 1900. by Louis Klopsch.l


coursed upon and unfolds what must be
a consolation to many people. Text,
Psalms 77:4: "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
Giles and the solace of the nerves; II Is
the hush Of activities; IL Is the soft cur
tanning of the eyes; II is n trance OF
eight hours; II is a calming of the
pulses; 1t is a breathing much slower,
though far deeper; II Is a temporary OBJ
ivion OF all carking cares; it is the doc
tor recognized by all schools Of medi-
cine; it is divine narcotic; IL. is com.
plete anaesthetic; it is an angel of the
night; il 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
-wifeIy companionship. While in sleep
on n pillow of rock Jacob saw ladder
set up. with angels coming down and
climbing. So ale giveth His beloved
sleep" solloquized the psalmist. Sol
ONION listens at the door of a tired
workman and eulogizes his pillow by
saying: "The sleep of laboring man
is sweet" Peter was calmly sleeping
hatx ha a.. al, Oh T.,
before his expected assassination.
Christ was asleep in n boat on Galilee
when tossed in the euroclydon. The an
nunciation was made TO Joseph in
sleep. and death is described as only n
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 il, and we read: ''In that
night could not the king sleep" Joseph
Hall said of that ruler: "lle that could
command n hundred and seven and
twenty provinces could not command
sleep" NebuchadneZZa had insomnia,
and the record is: His sleep brake
trouble and says: Neither day nor
night seeth he sleep with his eyes"
hsaph 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 overweight and tan
gled gangion. AT some time in life
almost everyone has had 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 Flaw of com
pensation," and ii 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 afIluent of the
earth are denied and for which some OF
them would give millions of dollars in
cash down-namely, capacity TO sleep.
The most of those who toll with hand
and foot do not have TO send out invita-
tons to sleep. They require no bromide
or valerian or sulphonal or triavol to
put them to nightly Inconsistencies
In five minutes after their heads touch
their pillows they are as far off from
the wall they were building or he
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 in the morn.
ing. the body at lowest temperature
and its furnaces nearly out, what com
plete quietude for the entire physical
and mental structure! All night long
for such sleep is busy with its en-
chanted amounting of every corpuscle
of the arteries and every molecule Of
the entire physical organism, and the
morning finds the subjects Of such sleep
rebuilt. reconstructed and touched Of
God into a new life.
OF course there is an unrighteous
sleep as when Jonah, trying to escape
from duty, slept in the sides OF the ship
while the Mediterranean was in wrath
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 the
management of the vessel to boys. went
asleep and allowed the ship TO strike
on the sand banks of ST. Thomas; as
when the sentinel goes to sleep at his
post, endangering the whole army; as
when the sllTgard. who accomplshes
nothing the day before he went TO sleep
and will accomplish nothing the day
after he wakes, fills up Solomon's pie
ture Of him us he yawns out: ~ little
sleep and little slumber and a little
folding of the hands 10 sleep" But
sleep at the right time and amid the
right circumstances-ca can you imagine
anything more blessed? II sleep. ac-
cording 10 sacred and profane litera-
ture Is an emblem of death The morn