The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-03-10
TALMAGE SERMON.
aaiEF SYNOPSIS or THE plvlhfs SUN
DAY DISCOURSE

saLiecl: Capacity to sleep-It IL the fooE
Mans BIesslng-Words Of Comior. TOT
the Victims OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Means of Grace.
copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1901
w,surxaroy. d, Gin this discourse |
~ Taimaoe treats OF @ style OF disorder |
not much discoursed upon and unLoius
what must be a consolation TO many peop,o,
tsxt Psalms lxxvIi., 4, ''rhou Aoldest mine
eyes waking" =. q, .ha
mind gore into the playground OF dreams'
| n 10 fha relaxation OF the muscles ana tno
solace of the nerves; 1t is tue husn Oh ac-
tivities: 1t Is the soft curtaining OF the eyes;
| II is trance OF eight hours; II Is CAIN.
inc Of the pulses; II Is a breathing much
slower. though far deeper; 1t Is temper
ary oblivion Of all carking cares; It Is the
| doctor recognized by all schools OF medl-
| cine: 1t Is a divine narcotic; 1t 10 COM
plete an@sthetic; 1t IL an anger OF tue
night; 1t is great mercy OF COD ior tue
human race. Lack OF II puts patienas On
the rack of torture, or In the madhouse, or
In the grave. o blessed sleepl No wonder
the Bible makes much Of 1t. Through sleep
so sound that surgical inciston OF the side
of Adam did not waken him came the best
temporal blessing ever anordea 10
man-wifely companionship. While IN
sleep . on cot pillow With 81 angels nUSs coming
down and climbing. SO che giveth HIS
beloved Sleep" soliloquIzed the psalmist:
Solomon listens at the door OF tired
workman and euloglzes his pillow by say
ing, '"The sleep of laboring man Is
sweet" Peter was calmly sleeping Pc
tween the two constaoles that nign1 pe.
fore his expected assassination. Cnrist
was asleep in boat on Galilee when
tossed In the euroclydon. The annuncia-
tion was made to Joseph In sleep, ana
death Is described as only sleep ana tae
resurrection as glorious Weakening OUT Oh
sleep.
, llesshess Is an old disorder spoken OF again
, and again in the Bible. Ahasuerus SUI.
] fered from it, and we read, SIN that night
. could not the king Sleep" Joseph Hail
said of that ruler, HE that could COM
Imand q hundred and seven and twenty
provinces could not command sleep.
observation-disclosures had Insomnia. ana sn !,
record Is, "His sleep brake from MIN.
. solomon describes this trouble and says
!. "Neither day nor night seeth he sleep
with his eyes" Asaph was Its victim, 1ol
T. he complains In my text that his eyes ar
open at midnight, some mysterious powe
/ keeping the upper and lower iids IRON
70 Joining, "Thou holdest mine eyes wax
ing" .,.o,
y as when Jonah, trying to escape Iron
duty, slept In the sides OF the ship Will
the Mediterranean was In wrath pecaus
n Of that prophetic passenger; as wne
Columbus In his first voyage, exhauste
from being up many nights, gave the SUI
- In charge OF the steersmans and the crew
who leaving the management OF the yes
sell to boys, went to sleep and allowed u
!, ahin TO strike on the eand banks OF b
=. Thomas: as when the sentinel goes
sleep at his post, endangerlns the VINO
be army; as when the sluggard. who accom-
plishes nothing the day before ne went y
after he wakes, fills up Solomon's pictul
Oh Of him as he yawns out, "ks!ttle sleep an
o. little slumber and little folding OF II
n, hands to Sleep" But sleep at the rig
al lime and amid the right circumstance
II, can you imagine anything more blesse.
Fas II sleep. according to sacred ana ptoia y
In literature, Is an emblem OF death, u
re- morning to all refreshed slumberers
.rs a resurrection.
'he Remark the first: II you have escape
$ is the insomnia spoken OF In the text, thar
ur- God. Here and there one can commaI
sleep, and 1t comes the minute he orders
e and departs at the minute he wishes II
o. as Napoleon when he wrote: "Differe
AFFAIRS are arranged in my bed as In dra
'ers ers. When wish to interrupt one tram
thought close the drawer which contai
"a that subject and open that when contai
risi another. They do not mix together or
'd' convenience me. nave never Deen Ae
awake by an involuntary preoccupation
mind. When l wish for repose shut
ers Ali the drawers, and I am asleep. ha
always slept when / wanted rest, and
roa most at will" But I think In most ca
TEL. we feel that sleep is not the result OF T
olution, but direct gift from dod.
cannot purchase 1t. A great French NM
as cier cried out, "Alas, why Is there no sl'
to be soldf'
Remark the second: Consider among
Eroe worst crimes the robbery OK ourselves
tae others OF this mercy OF slumDer. M
ruinous doctrine has been incuicatsd
= this subject. Thomas Moore gave poor
vice when he said, The pest way
., from the night" We are told that, thou
thew did their work at night. Coperni
lived to be seventy-three years OF age,
m Galilei seventy-eight years, and Hersc
eiRhty.four years. Yes. but the reason
At Is they were all star hunters, and the
!" 4 time for hunting stars Ii at night. n
e.. ably they slept by day. Inc nlgu.
me. dent can have is "the midnight lam
T., Lord Brougham never passed more t
'1eVs four hours OF the night abed, and justin
P after one hour OF sleep, woIld rise 4
n his couch. But you are n.lthes !ustii
IA nor Lord Brougham. Let not the abs
- apotheosis OF early rising induce yo'
the abbreviRtion OF sleep. Get up "
you are slept out unless circumstai
. compel otherwise. Have no alarm g
fan making its nerve tearing racket
O'Clock in the morning, unless special
da, sons demand the forsaking OF your pi
: 20 at that hour. Most OF the theories al
lorn. early rising we inherited from times y
-e4t- ar ~
fully Peopieo Gu ro earav ratiremant ia impos:
tina In cur own times for those who are ia
h. part in the great activities OF life. L
IA no virtue In the mere act OF early RS
. II all depends upon what you do after
get up. 1t would be better for the wor
some people never wakened at all.
Remark the third: All those ought
comforted who by overwork In right q
kQ tions have come to insomnia. In all Q
Is pationsand professions there are t
Dol when a special draft Is made upon the
MI yous energy. There are thousands OF
and women who cannot sleep because
were injured by overwork In some III
domestic or political or religious exig'
Mothers who, after taking whole Ia
IT, OF children through the disorders tina
Il iti sure to strike the nursery, have peen
atalss physical wrecks, and one entire mig
tella slumber Ia to them rarity, II not al
! possibility. The attorney at law.
a through a long trial In poorly VENT
iA courtroom, has stood for weeks pal
IA for the rights Of widows and orpnai
for the life OF client In whose 1nno
|. he is confident, though all the Gil
tries the case all night long and every
XII TO-, he xcould lika N he ain m b0ripQ.