The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-18

d0xment on the part OF King og might
suggest the capacity TO stride across All
fatigue and omit slumber. No. be requsT-
ed an iron bedssead. Giants must rest
Not aprfeclating that fact. how uiany
q tie giants yearly brtak down. Giants
in business. giants II art. giants IN ei0-
quenee giants in usefulness. They live
cut more than half ,heir days. They try
TO escape the consequences OF oveTwoFk
b voyage scrcss the sea. or a sail Ia
a summer yacht. or call on physicians
for relief from insomnia. OF restoration
CT anstrunS nerves. or the arrest OF apo
pleSIes. when all they need is what this
giant of my text resorted t0-an iron
bedstead- Let no one think because h.
has great strength Of body or mind that
he can afford 20 triie with his unusual
gifts. The commercial world. the literary
world. the artistic world. the political
time aquake with the crash OF falling
giants. King Og. no doubt. had throne.
but the Bible never mentions his throne.
King Og. no doubt. had crown. but the
Bible never mentions his crown. hing
Og TO doubt had a scepter but the Bible
OF the largest verses Of the Bible is tax
en- up In describing hts bedstead. 20 God,
all up and down the Bible. hopors sleep
God HoHers >ieeF.
Adam, with his head on a pillow Of
Edenie roses, has his slumber blest by
divine gift of beautiful companionship
Jacob. with his head on a pillow of rock
has his sleep siorifed with ladder filled
with descending and ascending angels
Christ. with a pillow made out Of the
folded-up coat Of a fisherman. honors
slumber In the back part OF the storm
tossed boat. The only case OF accident 10
sleep mentioned in the Bibse was when
Eutychus fell from window during a
sermon OF Paul. who had preached until
midnight: but that was not so much Of a
condemnation OF sleep as a eensure OF
long sermons. More s.eep is what the
world wants. EoonomiZe in everything
but sleep. William II. Seward. the re-
nOwned Secretary OF State. in the midst
OF his oyermastering tolls, longed for the
capacity te Tsst, writing in his memOran-
dun book: have never found but one
invaluable recipe for having a good
-sights rest, and that is TO have been
restless and sleepless the night before
When President John Quincy Adams and
the distinguished Josiah Quincy went 10
hear Judge Story lecture on law 10 his
students. and. when invited 10 sit beside
the judge. they both fell asleep, ;he judge
appropriately pointed TO them, and said
to his students; Behold the evil effects
Of early rising. In Bible times, when
people arose at the voice of the bird, they
retired at the time the bird puts his head
under his wing. one Of our rational sins
is robbery Of sleep. Walter Scott was so
urgent about this duty Of slumber taat.
han or-~fn-
no room TO sleep in, except that in which
there was corpse. inquired 4 the de-
ceased had died OF a contagious disease.
and. when assured he had not. took the
other bed in the room and fell INTO pro-
foundest slumber Those of small erdur-
anee must certainly require rest, if even
the giant needs an iron beistead
Notice. furthermore. hat iod's people, !
on the way to Canaan. need rot be sur
prised II they confront some sor. of
giant Had not the Israelitish host rad |
trouble enough already? No. Red Sea |
not enough? water famine nat enough? |
Long marches not enough? Opposition |
by enemies Of ordinary stature not
enough? They must meet Og, the giant |
OF the iron bedstead. Nine cubits was
the length thereof, and four cubits the i
breadth Of it Why not let these Israeli /
ties go smoothly into Canaan w.th0u. tris !
gigantic opposition? oh, they needed to I
have their courage ard faith further test /
cd and developed, And blessed is the
man who, IN our time. in his march to
ward the Promised Land, does not meet |
more than ore giant. Do Lot conclude |
that you are not on the way 10 Canaan /
because of this obstacle. Ak well might /
the lsraelites conclude ,hey were not on |
the way 10 the Promised Land because !
hey met flP tho Cf4vf -,
way Is scme evil propensity. some social /
persecution. some business misfortune,
some physical distress. Not one OF yCu
but meets giant who would like % new
you in twain. Higher than eleven feet 4
this Og darkens the sky, ara the rattle 1
of his buckler stuns the ear. ISlr you
are going 10 get the victory as did the /
IsraeliteS.
The ConaaerinE of Giants.
I'm the name OF the God OF Moses and
David and Joshua and Paul, charge on
him. ard you i'll leave his carcass in the /
wilderness. You want a battle shout.
Take that with which David. the FIVE
footer, assailed Goliah, the nine-footer.
when thai giant cried with singing con-
tempt. both in manner and intona ton.
Come 70 ne. and / viii give thy flesh
unto the fowls of the ar and 10 the beasts
Of the field and David looked UP at tie
monster OF braggadocio and defiantIy re-
piled: Thou comest TO me with a sword i
and q spear and with a shield, but | ceme
to thee in the name OF the Lord OF Hosts.
the God Of the armies of Israel whom
thou hast deGed This day will the Lord
deliver thee unto mine hand and | wiil
smite thee and take thine head from thse.
and | will give the carcasses of the host
of the Phiiistines this day unto the fowls
earth. that all the earth may know that
there il a God in Israel Then David.
with probably three swiris of the Sing
about his head, got into sufficient ino-
mentum and let hy I'll the Uranium % the
giant broke In, and he fell. and David
leaped or his carcass, one foot on his /
chest and the other on his head. and that
was the last OF the PhilIstine
But be sure yoI ge; the right battle
shout. and that you utter II with the right
spirit, or Og viii roll over you as easily
as at night he rolled into his iron he'd
stead
Brethren. ! have made up my raind
that we will have to fight all the way Id
10 the promised land. / used 10 think that
after awhile / would get into a time where
IL would be smooth and easy, but the time
does not come. and IL Will never come IN
this world BY the time King og is used
up 20 that he cannot get into his iron
bedstead. some other giant OF opposition
looms up 10 dispute our way. Let us stop
looking for an easy time and make il A
thirty years War or a sixty years WaF Jr
a hundred years war. II we I've 50 long
Must ! Be carried TO the skies
On f0Very beds Of eass
While others foaght 70 win the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas!
''D0 you know the name OF the biggest
giant that you can possibly meet-and you
meet himg He II not eleven feet hizn.
but 100 feet high. His bsdstead Is as long
as the continent. His name Is Doubt HIS
common food il infidel books and skep;i-
cal lectures. and ministers who do rot
know whether the Bible Is inspired al all,
or inspired in gDots. and Christians who
f.e Al /