Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1900-01-10

Gospel have any nerves left and tina,
the angel OF sleep does not quit their
! presence forever.
But here and now pronounce high.
est consolation for all those who in any
! department have sacrificed their health
! TO duty. Your sleeplessness is as much
a wound as you can find on any battle
! field and is an honorable wound We
! all look with reverence and ao miration
upon one who has lost an eye or an arm
in the service OF his country. and we
ought TO look with admiration upon
! those who. through extreme fidelity 10
! their life work. have lost their capacity
! for slumber. Remember glorious Al
! bert Barnes going along the streets OF
| PhiladelI hia at four o'clock in the
morning tor many years TO bis church
/ study. writing all bis commentaries be-
/ fore breakfast. and keeping on until
| be was stone blind. Will not the Lore
| reward such sacrifices? And iftkrouph
your fidelity you have lost capacity to
! sleep. God. who never SUMMERS or
sleeps. will look after YOU When YOU
bear the clock strike twelve and one and
| two and three and four without your
! going TO your slum Der. let IL remind
YOU that you have not been n slmggarG
or do-notting. You are suffering in
good cause. Paul got sore eyes in the
Lords service. and bad many a scar.
but, so far from complaining about il.
he eXults in those scars. saying-in the
only inspired letter we know that be
wrote with his own hand. for the other
letters were dictated TO amanuenses-
in that letter TO the Galatians: II bear
in my body the marks of the LORD
Jesus"
All the victims of Insomnia ough;
to be consoled with the fact that they
will have Il good long sleep after awhile
Sacred and protane literature again
and again speak of that last sleep. Coo
knew that the human race woulG 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 al Bethany the brother who was
the support of his sisters after thei1
father and mother were gone had him.
self expired, Christ cried out in regard
10 him: He is not dead, but sleep
eth" Cheering thought TO all poor
sleepers, for thar VIII be Il pleasant
sleep. induced by 10 narcotic, disturbed
by 10 frightful dream, interrupted by
no harsh SOUND. Better than any sleeD
you ever took, q child Of God, will be
the last sleep. In your other sIumbers
your home may be invaded by burglars
and your treasures carried off, bui
while here and there, in one case out
OF millions, The resurrectionist NAV dis.
turb the pillow of dust, the last sIeep.
is almost sure TO be kept from iuva-
sion. There VIII be no burglary OF
the tomb. And it viii be a refreshing
sleep. You have sometimes risen in the
morning more weary than when YOU
Iaic down at night, but waking from the
sleep of which speak, the last fatigue.
the last ache, the last wUrriment, VIII
be forever gone. Oh, what 4 refreshing
sleep!
Most people are tired. The nights
dc not repair the day. Scientists. by
minute calculation, say that every
| night comes little short of restoring
the body to where il was the day be-
fore, and so every seventh day was
put in for entire rest, TO make UP in
leparation for what the nights could
not do. But so TeStful will be the last
sleep that you will rise from it with
out 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 be-
reavements, or tired in the struggle
against temptation, clap your hands
with eternal glee in expectation of
that sleep from which you will wake
| up so rested that you Will never need
another sleep OF even another night.
There shall be no night there" be-
| cause there will be no need of ITS
! quietfng influences. No lengtheninp
of the shadows of tower and wall and
gate. No evening mist rising from
the river. No shutdown "Thv sun
shall no more go down. neither shall
thy moon withdraw itself, for the
Lord shall be thine everlasting light.
and the days OF thy mourning shall be
ended"
50, my nearer, my reader, Good
night May God give You such sleep
tonight rs is best for YOU. and if YOU
wake too soon may He fiji your soul
with "reminiscences and expectations
! that VIII be better than slumber. Good
! night. Having in prayer, knceling az
| the bedside, committed yourself and
| all yours 10 the Keeping of the sIum.
| berIess God, fear nothing The pcsti.
| Icrcc that wulketh iu darkness will
not cross your doorsiIl aud YOU need
/ not bc afraid Of evil tdirrs. Goo.
| night. May YOU have no such as.
| pcrieucc as job bad when he said:
Thou scarcst me with dreams and
| terr'test me through visions" If
you dream al an, may IL be q vision OF
reunions and congratulations, and.
waking may you find some Of them
| frun- l.DL .--LtI IL 49,