The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-12
OR THE SLEEPLESS.
1. Talmage Speaks on the Subject
of Insomnia.
Yep the Vacation Of the Soul 4
1Oivtne NarcOtic-W Ords of Com
Il ISOLATION for SufYcrers-The
N Last sleep.
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l

n Dursed upon and unfolds what must be
consolation to many people. Text,
u salms 77:4: Thou holdest mine eyes
taking"
sSS@ Sleep is the vacation OF the soul. 1t
ILL., the mind gone into the playground
vi dreams; it is the relaxation of mus
9Gles and the solace of the nerves: it is
8the hush of activities; it is the soft cur-
&staining of the eyes; ii is n trance OF
9eight hours; it is a calming of the
Mpulses; it is a breathing much slower.
Though far deeper; it is a temporary OBJ
S~Flivion of all carking cares: it is the doe
tor recognized by all schools of medi-
cine; it is a divine narcotic; it is a COM
anaesthetic; it is an angel of the
it is a great mercy of God for
the human race. Lack of it puts pa
gtients on the rack of torture or in the
I madhouse or in the grave. Oh, blessed
asleep! No wonder the Bible makes
much of it. Through sleep so sound
that a surgical i~ncision of the side of
n 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 Il ladder
set up, with angels coming down and
m climbing. So HE giveth His beloved
sleep" s~oliloquized the psnlmist. Sol
ONION listens at the door of a tired
workman and eulogizes his pillow by
saying: THE sleep of a laboring man
is sweet" Peter was calmly sleeping
between Tie two constables the night
before his expected assassination.
Christ was asleep in a boat on Galilee
when tossed in the euroclydon. The an
nunciation was made to Joseph in
sleep. and death is described as only a
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 it. and we read: in that
night could not the king sleep" Joseph
Hail said of that ruler: He that could
command Il hundred and seven and
twenty provinces could not command
Sleep N~ebuchadncZzar had insomnia,
ard the record is: Ellis sleep brake
from him. Solomon describes this
trouble and says: "Neithcr day nor
night secth he sleep with his eyes
/ Asaph was its victim, for he complains
] in nv text that his eyes are wide open
at midnight, some mysterious power
keeping the upper and lower lids from
(. ... ,,1Nl.,, I,1SoCt NINA ewes
I waking
n Wonderful is that law which Ralph
III Waldo Emerson called The "Iaw OF coin
vi pensation.' and it has been so arranged
3#that, while the hard-working populo'
#tions of the earth are denied many OF
&the luxuries. they have at least one lux
ury which many of the a~ffiucnt of III,
hi earth are denied and for which some o
sgthem would give millions of dollars IL
cash down-namely. capacity TO sleep
d The most of those who toll with han'
NJ and foot do not have to send out invita-
/ lions to sleep. They require no bromide
l or valerian or sulphonal or triavol t.
mt them to nightly unconsciousness
In five minutes after their heads toucl
III their pillows they are as far oil iron
MI the wall they were building, or IN
ditch they were digging, or the anvil
fhey were pounding, or the wheels the,
we're controlling, as heaven is from
earth. About three O'Clock in the morn
IN inc. the body at lowest tcTperatur
Ass and its furnaces nearly out. Whatacom
M ulcte quietude for the entire physica
and mental structure! All night Ions
vi for such sleep is busy with its Ell
chanted amounting of every corp"scl
Of the arteries and every rno'ccuie q
81 The entire physical organism, and tn
morning finds the subjects of such slice
aSfebuilt, reconstructed and touched c
God into u new life.
ssSMSS$& OF course there is an ~unriGhtcou
sNA&N sleep. as when Jonah, trying to escap
SSS from duty. slept in the sides of the shl
while the Mediterranean was IN wrat
because of that prophetic passenger
as when Columbus in his first voyag'
exhausted from being up many night
gave the ship in charge of the steer
III man and the crew, who, leaving II
vi management of the vessel to boys, WEI
asleep and allowed the ship to strlh
# on the sand banks of st. Thomas; 1
s@ when the sentinel goes to sleep az h
N, most. e~ndangering the whole army;
wbN1 the sluggard. who accomplish
nothing the day before he ito siee
ID and will accomplish nShiEg the ia
ArN- l., ,,o1-nr ellie 4, Sn1nmnn'S M
ture of him as he yawns out: "A lit
4sleep and a little slumber and q lit
Holding of the hands to Sleep IS
SSleep at the right time and amid II
&NfiCht circumstances-can you 'Aa@li
aAhything more blessed? If s.eer, a
cording to sacred and profane liter
fure. is an emblem of death. the NOR
.ETx1nr to all refreshed SAUNDERS is a resu
@afection.
/, M%19If you have escaped the hsomn
), MsSuoken of in the text, thank God. lie
md there one can command sleep. al
; sfk comes the minute he orders IT al
&x1parts at the minute he wishes it
sS8Sx6. as Napoleon when he wrote: sd
H$S39fent affairs are arranged in my he
sa&SSaYiGas in drawers. When ! wish to int
mt one train Of thought. close t
@4HNS3rawer which contains that subject a
ssxnen that which contains anoth'
They do not mix together or inconvel
lnce me. ! have never been kept ava
Ass&As1yy an involuntary p~reoccupa'ion
3SS6n1nd. When l wish for repose, sh
SSsgV6p all the drawers. and | am asleep.
R&Aye always slept when wanted r.
fEMN8SEnnd almost at will" But | think
.rA|NiS3tSnost cases we feel that sleep is not I
S%WS aesult of a resolution, but a direct g
sss%NsxFrom God. You cannot purchase it.