Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-01-08

well, more doors of opportunity open
before them than they ought to enter.
Power to decline, power to say NO."
they should now cultivate. When a
man is determined to be useful and
satan cannot dissuade him from that
course, the great deceiver induces him
to OverwOrk and in that way get rid of
him. We have thermometers to tell
the neat, and barometers to tell the air,
and ometers hung in engine rooms to
tell the pressure of steam, and ometers
to gauge and measure almost every
thing. Would that some genius would
invent an ometer which, being hung
around the neck and dropped over
heart and lung, would, by the pulsa
ton and respiration, tell whether one
is under too great pressure or might
carry more. All brain workers would
want such an Ometer and want it right
away. For the lack of it how many
are dying and how many have died of
Overwork? A prominent financier who
recently departed this life was an Of
ficer in over 100 financial and charita-
BILE institutions. Thousands of editors,
of lawyers, of physicians, of mer-
overwork. Do not be in the board of
directors of more than three banks and
two trust companies and five life and
fire insurance establishments. Do not
as pastor preach more than three SER
mons a Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath school and conduct a BIZ
BILE class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for three magazines
and go to four public dinners where
you will be called to make a speech
more than four times week. Do not
60 so deep into the real estate business
that before spring all the real estate
you will really possess will be 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 upv' Stop that long,
swift train, the wheels of which are
taking fire from the velocity and smok-
ing with the hot box. Do not burn the
candle at both ends. Do not under too
many burdens sweat like a camel
trudging from Aleppo to Damascus.
Do not commit suicide.
The Last Sleep.
Remark the eighth: All the victims
of insomnia ought to be consoled with
the fact that they will have a good,
long sleep after awhile. Sacred and
profane literature again and again
speak of that last sleep. God knew
that the human race would be disposed
to make a great ado about exit from
this world, and SO he inspires Job and
David and Daniel and John and Paul
to call that condition ''sleep." When
at Bethany the brother who was the
support of his sisters after their ia
Their and mother were gone had him
self expired, Christ cried out in regard
to him, "He is not dead, but sleepeth."
Cheering thought to all poor sleepers,
for that will be a pleasant sleep, in
duced by no narcotic, disturbed by no
frightful dream, interrupted by no
harsh sound. Better than any sleep
you ever took, o child of God, will be
the last sleep. In your other slumbers
your home may be invaded by bur-
glars and your treasures carried off,
but while here and there, in one case
out Of millions, the resurrectionist may
disturb the pillow of dust the last
sleep is almost sure to be kept from
invasion. There will be no burglary
of the tomb. And it will be a refresh
ing 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 wor-
riment, will be forever gone. Oh, what
a refreshing 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 be-
fore, and SO every seventh day was
put in for entire rest to make up in
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 limb
rested, 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
with ailments, or tired with bereave-
ments, or tired in the struggle against
your hands with eter-
nal glee in expectation of that sleep
from which you will wake up so rest
ed that you will never need another
sleep or even another night 'There
shall be no night there" because there
will be no need of it's Quieting inf1u-
ences. No frightening of the shadows
Of tower and wall and gate. No even
ing mist rising from the river. No
'"Thy sun shall no more go
down, neither shall thy moon with
draw itself, for the Lord shall be
thine everlasting light, and the days
Of thy mourning shall be ended
SO, my hearer, my reader, "Good
nightV May God give you such sleep