The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-11

THE EMINENT DIv1NE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects Capacity to sieep-It ia the Poor
AIau's blessing Words OF Comfort For
the victims OF fInsomnia-Iyake efuincss
Means OF Grace.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. iaoo.l


wAsuIxGrox, ID. C.--In this discourse
Dr. Talmago treats OF q style OF disorder
not much dlscoursed upon and unfolds
what must be II consolation to many people;
text, Psalms lxxviI., 4, Thou holdest mine
eyes waking"
Sleep il the vacation Of the soul; it is the
mind gone into tho playground OF dreams;
1t Is the relaxation OF tho muscles aud the
solacs OF the nerves; Il Is the hush OF ac-
tlyities: 1t Is the soft curtaining Of tho eyes;
1t Is trance OF eight hours; 1t is n calm.
ing OF the pulses; II Is n breathing much
slower. though far deeper: It is u tempOr-
AIRY oblivion OF all carking cares II Is tho
doctor recognized by all schools Of medi-
cline: Il is a divine narcotic; II is u com
plets anmsthetic: II Il an angel OF the
night; II is great mercy OF God for the
human raca. Lack of ii puts patients on
tue rack of torture, or in the madhouso. OF
in the grave. O blessed sloepl No wonder
The Bible mukes much of It. Through sleep
40 sound that II surgical incisIon Of the side
of Adam iii not wakeu him came the best
Temporal blessing over afforded 10
man--witely compHnionship. Whle In
sleep on pillow OF rock jacob
saw ladder set ur, with angels coming
down and climbing. so He giveth His
belc ed sleep soliloquIzed the psalmist.
! Solrwoa listens ut the door OF u tired
workman and eulogizes his pillow by say
! ing, The sleep OF laboring man Is
sweet" Peter was calmly sleeping be-
tween the two constables that night be-
fore his expected assassination. Christ
/ was asleep In boat on Galilee when
| tossed In the euroclydon. The annuncia-
tion was nude TO Joseph In sleep, aud
| death IL described M only sleep and the
resurrection rs u glorious Weakening out OF
| sleep.
on the other hand, insomnia or sleep
! lesshess Is an old disorder spoken OF again
| aud again In the Bible. Ahnsusrus suf-
lered from it. and we read, "In that night
could not the king sleep" Joseph Hall
said OF that ruler, He that could COM
mand hunlred and seven and twenty
! provinces could not command sleep
| Nebuchadnezzar hal insomnia, aud the
record IL, His sleep brake from him.
Solomon describes this troGble and says,
| "Neither day nor night sseth he sleep
with his eyes Asnph was its victim, for
he complains In my text that his eyes are
open Mt midnight, some mysterious power
keeping the upper aud lower lids from
| joining, "Th0u holdest mine eyes wax
ing"
or course there is an uprighteous sleep,
as when Jonah, trying to escape from
duty, slept in the sides OF the ship while
| the Mediterranean whs In wrath because
OF that prophetic passenger; rs when
Columbus in his first voyage exhausted
from being mp many nights, gave tho Ship
| IN charge OF the steersman and the crew.
who leaving the management OF thU Vss-
sol ~ DNlN, Wtlb " HlttH uHh uliOMtN 'NN
ship to strike on the sand banks OF st,
! Thomas; as when the sentinel goes to
| sleep at his post, endangering the whole
army; as when the sluggard, who accom-
| plishes nothing the day before he went to
| sleep and will accomplish nothing the day
after he wakes, fills up Solomons picture
OF him as he yawns out, "a little sleep and
little slumber and II little folding OF tho
hands to sleep" But sleep ut tho right
time and amid the right circumstances,
can you imagine anything more blessei'
| II sleep, according to sacred aud proiane
literature, is an emblem OF death, tho
morning to all refreshed slumberers Is
resurrection.
Remark the llrst II you have escaped
the insomnia spoken OF In the text, thank
God. Here and thero one can command
sleep, and 1t comes the minute he orders 1t
and departs ut tho minute he wishes 1t to
go, as Napoleon when he wrote: sd iiferent
affairs are arranged in my bed as in draw
ers. When l wish to interrupt one train Of
thought close the drawer which contains
that subject and opcn that which contains
another They do not mix together or in.
convenience me. 1 have uev been kept
awake by an involuntary prcoccupation of
mind. When l wish for repose shut up
all the drawers, and am asleep. have
always slept when ] wanted rest and al.
most at wll.' But / think in most cases
we feel that sleep is not tho result OF Il ris-
olution, but u direct gilt from God You
cannot purchase II. great French ilnun-
cler cried out, Alas, why is there no sleep
TO be soldi"
Remark tho second: Consider among the
worst crimes the robbery OF ourselves or
Others Of this mercy OF sumber. Much
rulnous doctrine has been incucatsd on
this subject. Tbomas Moore gave poor adj
vice when he said, "The best way to
lengthen our days IL to steal II few hou rs
from the night" We nre told that, though
they did their work at night. Oopernicus
lived to be seventy-throe yenrs OF age, and
Galilei seventy-elght years, and Herschel
eiRhty-iour years. Yes but the reason was
they were all star hunters, and the only
time for hunting stars Is ut night. Prob
ably they slept by day. The night WAS
made for slumber. Tho worst lamp u stu
dent can have is "tho midnight lamp
Lord Brougham never pnssed more than
four hours of the night abed, and Justinlan,
after ono hour OF sleep, would rise iroul
his couch. But you nre neither II Justiuian
nor Lord Brougham Let not the absurd
apotheosls OF early rising induce You to
the abbreviation OF sleep. Get up when
You are slept out unless circumstances
compel otherwise. Have no alarm clncl:
making Its nervs tearing racket ut !
O'Clock in tho morLing, unless special rea
sons demand tho forsaking OF your pillow "
at that hour. Most OF the theories about
early rising we inherited from times wheA
people retired at 8 or 0 O'clock in tue even
III our own times for those who are taking
part In the great activities OF life. There
Is no virtue In the mere act OF early rising.
II all depends upon what you do after you
get ur. II would be better for the world II
some people never wnkened at all.
Remark the third: All those ought to lC
comforted Tho by oyerworli IN right dirrc.
tions have some to Insomnia. In all oecu-
pntions and professions there are times
whea Il special draft is made upon the ner.
voua energy. There are thousands OF mon
anc women who cannot sleep because they
We're Injured by overwork In some time oI
domestic or political or religious eXigency
Mothers who. after taking II whole family
OF children through the disorders that are
sHre to strike the nursery, have been lett
physlcal wrecks, and ono entire night OF
s!umber Is to them II ra-ity, IL not nn i'm
possibility. pho attorney Rt law, who
through long trial In poorly Ventilated
courtroom, has stood for weeks battling
for the rights OF widows and orphans on
for the life OF n client in whose innocencr
he Is confident, though all the clrcum'
stances arc unTavorable. In his room he
tries the case all night long and every night
when he would like to be slumberng. IN
physician, in time OF epidemic, worn ont In
saving the lives OF whole families and fail
Ing IN his attempts to sleep ut night be
tween the ianglings Of his doorbell The
merchant who has experienced panics
when the banks went down and Wall streel