The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-01-10
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worthy of continuous and emphatic rec
ognition. Praise the Lord for 800 resur-
rections in year! Artificial slumber can
be made up by the apothecaries, but nat
ural sleep is a balm, panacea. cathol-
icon that no one but God can mix. Thank
| God morning, noon and night for this
strange Quietude, this refreshing dismiss
al, this recuperating absence, this re-en-
forcement of energies, this mighty bene-
| diction.
They Slept by Day.
! Remark the second: Consider among
the worst crimes the robbery Of our
selves Or others of this mercy of sumber
Much ruinous doctrine has been incul-
Gated on this subject Thomas Moore
gave poor advice when he said, 1.-THE best
way to lengthen our days is to steal a
few hours from the night" We are told
that, though they did their work at night,
Copernicus lived to be 73 years Of age
and Galilei IS years and Herschel 81
years. Yes, but the reason was they
were all star hunters, and the only time
for hunting stars is at night. Probably
they slept by day. The night was made
for slumber. The worst lamp d student
can have is 'the midnight lamp" Lord
Brougham never passed more than four
! hours of the night abed, and Justinian,
after one hour Of sleep, would rise from
his couch. But you are neither a JUS
tinian nor q Lord Brougham. Let not
the absurd apotheosis Of early rising in
duce you to, the abbreviation of sleep.
Get up when you are slept out, unless
circumstances compel otherwise. Have
no alarm clock making its nerve tearing
racket at 4 o'clock in the morning, unless
special reasons demand the forsalzing of
your pillow at that hour Most of the
| theories about early rising we inherited
from times when people retired at s Or 8
o'clock in the evening. Such early re-
tirement is impossible in our own times
for those who are taking part in the
great activities of life There is no vir-
] tue in the mere act of early rising. 1t
all depends upon what you do after you
get up. 1t would be better for the world
II some people never Weakened at all.
| But most Americans do not get sleep
jenough. The sin of late retiring is one
most widespread and ruinous. What is
| much needed is that in all our cities those
| who are leaders in social life turn back
| the hour of, drawing room assemblage
| from 10, and II o'clock to 8 or half past
/ {. SO that, the guests at 10 or half past 10
may meet sleep at the right hour in their
own dormitories. Two or three social
| heroines could do that in all the towns
and cities. Thousands of men and wom-
en- are slain each year by late hours.
An Honorable Wound. J
Remark the third: All those ought to
be comforted who by overwork in right
directions have come to insomnia In all
occupations. and professions there are
times when a special draft is made upon
the nervous energy. There are thou
sands of men and women who cannot
sleep because they were injured by over
work in some time of domestic or polit-
zeal or religious exigency. Mothers who,
after taking a whole family of children
through the disorders that are sure to
strike the nursery, have been left physi-
cal wrecks, and one entire night of slum-
Der IS to them rarity, if not an irnpos-
sibility. The attorney at law who
through a long trial in poorly ventilated
court room has stood for weeks battling
for the rightsw5f widows and orphans or
for the life of client in whose innocence
stances are unfavorable In his room he
tries the case all night long, and every
night, when he would like to be slumber-
ing. The physician, in9 time of epidemics,
worn out insqsaving the lives of whole
families and failing in his attempts to
sleep at night between the janglings of
his door bell. The merchant who has
experienced panics, when the banks went
n oil
monium, and there was a possibility that
the next day he would be penniless-that
night with no more possibility of gaining
sleep than if such blessing had never
touched our planet Ministers Of the Cos
pei, in time of great revival, all their DOW
crs of endurance drawn upon day by day
ard week by week and month by month
-sermonic preparation, neighborhood
visitation, heartbreaking obsequies, SYM
pathetic help for the anxious, the despair
ing and the dying. 1t is a wonder that
ministers Of the gospel have any nerves
left and that the angel of sleep does not
quit their presence forever.
But I hear and now pronounce highest
consolation for all those who in any de-
partment have sacrificed their health to
duty. Your sleeplessness is as much a
wound as you can find on any battlefield
and is an honorable wound. We all look
with reverence and admiration 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 to their life
work, have lost capacity for slumber.
Remember glorious Albert Barnes going
along the streets Of Philadelphia at 4 |
o'clock in the morning for many years to
his church study, writing all his common
taries before breakfast and keeping on
until he was stone blind. Will not the
Lord reward such sacrifices? And if,
through your fidelity, you have lost ca.
pacity to sleep, God, who never slumbers
or sleeps, will look after you. When you
hear the clock strike II and / and and |
5 and without your going into sumber,
let it remind you that you have not been
Il sluggard or do-nothing. You are suf-
fering III a good cause. Paul got sore
eyes in TIE Lords service and had many |
u scar, but, so far from complaining
about it, he exults in those scars. saying
in the only inspired letter we know that