Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-07-25


must never leave home and take a va
cation herself. although her husband
can so or a-fishing every spring. The
result is that Satan drives that woman
on and on and on 10y overwork until he
drives her into the grave. Then Satan
laughs a mighty laugh OF triumph. lie
now has full swing in that motherless
and wifeless household. The sons ard
daughters of that mother are easily led
of into sin. Why? At the critical
time OF their lives the mothers hand Is
not there TO guide them. The husband
and the father having lost his wife's
ballast, becomes financially and spirit
ually wrecked. All those catastrophes
come upon that dead woman's home
because she would not let up in her
work. She would not take a rest, a
complete rest, away from home, which
every Woodworking Christian woman
needs at least once year.
Give the Brain n Rest.
l beg OF you. Woodworking Christian
men and women, to take n summer va
cation because rested brain can do
twice as much work i'm the same time
as a tired one. Some two or three
years after l entered the ministry my
father wrote me letter something like
this: Dear Frank, | hear you intend
TO stay in the city this summer aud
take 10 vacation. You say that you
cannot afford the time. Great mistake.
III you attempt 10 work all summer,
you viii have TO pay a big price for
diSobeying natures laws. Next winter
the sermons which you write will be
harder TO produce and poorer because
you have tired brain. Get out OF the
city by all means. You owe this rest
TO your family, your church and your
God. 4 sick or tired minister is of but
little use in his study, i'm the prayer
meeting or in his pulpit. l always find
that when my brain is rested il does
fits quickest and best work" That is
the kind of a letter which every SEN
sible father will write to- his son when
he finds that the boy does not know the
well known axiom that a rested brain
and n rested body can do twice as
much work as a tired physical organi.
cation.
Every physician will tell you that il
is an economy in time for tired men
and women to so off and take a vaca-
ton and rest. Yet it is a surprising
fact how many truly good Christian
people feel they cannot leave their
home and church work even for n few
weeks I'm year. If they were rested,
they could do much more work for
Christ and do ii much more easily.
Indeed. the older l grow the more l
believe that most good people need to
take this advice. Most good people
look tired. Go where you viii. in the
store or in tue home, and the one great
complaint that you hear every spring
and summer is: II aim SO tired, awful
ly tired. | am rs tired when / get up
i'm the morning as when lie down 60
sleep at night" Why, most people I'm
the sprngtime look as tired as that
poor woman who came to me one day
and said: mir. Talmage, don't talk to
me about heaven. l do not want TO
go TO heaven for n long time yet
am so tired that when come TO die /
want God TO let me sleep in my grave
for n thousand years. Then. after
have become thoroughly rested. want
10 open my eyes and see heaven" My
ovcrworked Christian friend. IL you
want TO do your best work for Christ
next winter you must treat your body
just as you would treat tired, run
down, exhausted horse which has been
worked all winter. You would take
Off his shoes and turn him out 10 grass.
You must treat your body as n farmer
treats a field which has been over.
worked in production. lie lets Il lie
fallow for awhile. You should treat
your body as nature treats the vegcta-
ton IL sends the colds OF winter so
that all the forces or the trees can lie
dormant. AS Christian worker for
next winter. when you will have so
much to do. what you need now 10
enable you to do your next winters
duty Is not medicine, but rest--com-
plete physical and mental rest; the
same kind of rest which Christ gave
TO his disciples when he led them Off
into desert place.
Go Into the Desert.
1 beg OF you, Woodworking Christian
men and women. To rest awhile be-
cause summer vacation ought not TO
cost you financially very much. Christ
did not tell his disciples 10 spend weeks
and months in order 10 get up an ex-
pensive wardrobe so they could go 10 n
fashionable hotel He did not want
them TO 20 10 a great watering place
where they could drink and carouse
and turn night into day and day into
night. lie did not desire that they
should go to place where they would
have TO be dressed up all the time.
To some people the idea OF taking n
vacation is not to find rest. but
From the time they arrive
nc the fashionable summer resort they
defy every physical law OF health.
And if after a few weeks OF carousal
they return TO the city with the fatal
germs OF disease or nvalidism planted
I'm their vitals they have no one to
blame but themselves. They will be
just as much TO blame for their on
siclnesses as my dissipated
classmate was blamed by the profess
or. He asked for a sick leave. The
professor looked at him a moment and
said: mo, sir, l will not excuse YOU.
You are young and strong. You have
been disobeying the laws OF mature.
and you must suffer the consequences.
You have no business TO be sick" So
these summer dissipators will find.
much TO their sorrow, that no man or
woman ever found physical rest in n
fashionable hotel by dancing until ]
Or in the morning. No man ever
found health ut the summer gaming
liable or in the hotel barrooms.
The fashionable watering places age
very expensive places in which TO live.
But when Jesus babe his disciples to
20 into desert place and rest awhile
he commanded them to go into the
luietude of the country. One can live
very cheaply in the rural districts. 1t
does not cost very much to 60 into the
suburbs of the city and live for little
while next to natures heart. TO dwell
n some quiet farmhouse far away
rom the great, busy world 1t does
not cost very much TO associate for n