The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1900-01-12

ness calls a halt. Even their pieasur-
ing turns to work, as Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, the great painter, taking "a walk
with q freud, met a ~sunbrowneC peas
ant boy and said: Unjust 60 home and
deepen the coloriug of my infant Her
cules.' The suubrowned boy suggest
ed an improvement in 8 great picture.
BY the time most people have reached
midiife. if they have behaved well,
more doors of opportunity open before
them than they ought 10 enter. Power
to decline, power to say No. they
should o cultivate. When a man is
determined to be useful and Satan
cannot dissuade him from that course.
the great deceiyer induces him TO over
work and in that way get rid of him.
We have thermometers to tell the heat
ard barometers TO tell the air, and ON
eters hung in engine rooms to tell the
pressure of steam. and Omcters to
gauge and measure almost everything.
Would that some genius would invent
an ometcr which, being hung around
the neck and dropped over heart and
lung, would by the pulsation and res
piration tell whether one is under too
great pressure or might carry more.
All brain workers would want such an
omctcr and want it right away. For
the lack of ii how many are dying and
how many have died of oyerwork, 4
prominent tinancier who recently de-
parted this life was an officer in over
Il hundred financial and charitable in
situations. Thousands of editors, OF
lawyers. of physicians, of merchants,
of ~clergymen are 0 dying of over
work. Do not be in the board of d.
rectors of more than three banks and
two trust companies and five life and
five insurance establishments, DO not
as a pastor preach more than three SER
mons a Sunday and superintend your
own Sabbath school and conduct "A
Bible class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for three magazines
and go TO four public dinners where
YOU Will be called on to make a speech
more than four times Il week. Do not
go 50 deep into the real estate business
that before spring all the real estate
you will really possess Wii! be a piece
of GROUND about six feet long aud three
feet wide. Your insomnia is the voice
Of nature. the voice of God. saying:
"i}ettcr slow up Stop that long,
swift train. the wheels Of which are
taking fire from the velocity and smok-
ing with the hot box. DO not burn the
VauLlr at both ends. Do not under too
many burdens sweat like camel trudg-
iug from .Aleppo to Damascus. DO not
commit suicide.
All the victims Of insomnia ought
to be consOled with the fact that they
VIII have a good long sleep after awhile.
Sacred and profaue literature again
and again speak of that last sleep, GOD
knew that the human race would be
disposed to make a great ado about
exit from this world, and 50 he inspires
Job and David and Daniel and John and
Paul to call that condition sleep. >
When at Bethany the brother who was
the support of his sisters after their
father and mother were gone had him
self expired, Christ cried out in regard
to him: "Ile is not dead, but sleep
eth Cheering thought to all poor
slcepers. for that will be Il pleasant
s.ecp. induced by 10 narcotic, disturbed
10y no irightful dream, interrupted by
no harsh sound. Better than any sleep
YOU ever took. O child of God, will he
the lnet elpen In yam other Sln"I
YOUR home may be invaded by burglars
ard YOUR treasures carried on, nut
while here and there, in one case out
of millions. the reSurrectionlSt may ols-
turb the pillow of dust. the last sleep
is almost sure to be kept from lnNa-
sion. There will be no burglary OF
the tomb. And il will be a refreshing
s}eep. You have sometimes risen IN the
morning more weary han Whr! you
laid down at night, but waking from the
sleep Of which | speak, the last fatigue
the last ache, the last Worrimtnt' VII
be forever gone. Oh, what a refreshing
sleep.
Most people are tired. The nights
dc not repair the day. Scientists ny
minute calculation, say that every
aipht comes a little short Of restoring
. fin, body to where it was the day be
, fore. and 20 every seventh day was
nut in for entire rest, to make up IL
reparation for what the nights cohio
not do, Hut 50 Testful will be the las
, glcep that YOU will rise from II with
ont one sore nerve, without one tree
i limb-rested. forever rested, as only
, God can rest you. q We tired folk
all up ard down the world. tired VIII!
work. or tired with prosecutions, o
, tired with ailments, or tired with be
rcayementS. or tired in the strngei'
against temptation, clap your hand
with eternal glee in expectation o
g that sleep from which YOU will wax
ur so rested that you will never meet
auother sleep or even another hIgh'
There shall be no night there, be
cause there will be no need OF II
q uuicting influences. No Iengthenin'
, of the shadows of tower and wall ant
a gate. No evening mist rising iron
4 the river. No shutdown. THY suj
shall no more go down, neither ShaI
thy moon withdraw itself, for til
Lord shall /. thine everlasting ligh'
. and the days of thy mourning shall b
h ended
b SO. my hearer, my reader, GOO
night" May God give you such sIec
tonight as is best for you. and if 20
- wake too soon may He fill your sol
:, with "reminiscences and expectation
81 that will be better than slnmber. Goo
- night. Having in prayer, kneelng
IN the bedside, committed yourself an
~ all yours to the keeping of the stun
!. bcrless God, fear nothing. The pest