Milford chronicle., 1902-07-25

Duflleu OUT the Drain OF many gen.
ius. by Overwork before that brain
lived long enough to light an intellec-
tual torch which would have cast its
rays all round the world"
When Satan sees a wife and mother
consecrating her life to the Masters
service, he says: Il must stop her also.
must kill her by overwork if l can
not do it in any other way" So Satan
tells that wife and mother that she
must do all the sewing. She must do
all the work in the kitchen. She must
look after her husbands interests in
every way. He may be able to smoke
his cigars and have a horse and go to
the club, but she must be a good wife
and keep every expense down. She
must never leave home and take a va
cation herself, although her husband
can 90 off a-fishing every spring. The
result is that Satan drives that woman
on and on and on by overwork until lie
drives her into the grave Then Satan
laughs mighty laugh Of triumph. He
now has full swing in that motherless
and wifeless household. The sons and
daughters Of that mother are easily led
off 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 a year.
Give the Brain n Rest.
I beg of you, Woodworking Christian
men and women, to take a summer va
cation because u rested brain can do
twice as much work in the same time
rs a tired one. Some two or three
years after I entered the ministry my
father wrote me Il letter something like
his: Dear Frank, l hear you intend
10 stay in the city this summer and
lake no vacation. You say that you
cannot afford the time. Great mistake.
If you attempt to work all summer,
!ou will have to pay big price for
CIisObeying 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. A sick or tired minister is of but
little use in his study, i'll the prayer
meeting or in his pulpit. l always find
that when my brain is rested it does
its quickest and best work" That is
the kind of letter which every SEN
slble father viii write to his son when
he finds that the boy does not know the
We'll known axiom that a rested brain
and rested body can do twice as
n UGH work as a tired physical organi-
Zltion.
Every physician will tell you that it
is an economy in time for tired men
and women to go off and take a vaca-
tion 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 few
weeks in year. If they were rested,
they cOulG do much more work for
Christ and do it much more easily.
Indeed, the older l grow the more l
believe that most good people need to
tn 1e this advice Most good people
look tired. Go where you will in the
store or in the home, and the one great
complaint that you hear every spring
AMI summer is: Il am so tired, awful
ly tired. l am as tired when l get up
in the morning as when l lie down to
sleep at night" Why, most people in
the springtime look as tired as that
poor woman who came to me one day
and said: Mr.. Talmage, don't talk to
me about heaven. l do not want TO
so to heaven for a long time yet.
am so tired that when l come to die l
want God to let me sleep in my grave
for thousand years. Then. after
have becone thoroughly rested. want
to open my eyes and see heaven" Ny
| Oyel'worked Christian friend. if you
wait to do your best work for Christ
mex. 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 lis shoes and turn him out to grass.
You must treat your body as a farmer
| treats a field which has been over
worked in production. He lets it lie
fallow for awhile. You should treat
your body as nature treats the vegeta-
( tion. 1t sends the colds of winter so
that all the forces of the trees can lie
dormant. AS a Christian worker fer
next winter, when you will have SO
much to do, what you need now to
enable you to DO your next winters
duty is not medicine, but restroom
pletC physical and mental rest; tn,
same kind of rest which Christ CAV,
to his disciples when he led them of
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 t
cost you financially very much. Chris
did not tell his disciples to spend week
and months in order to get up an ex
pensive wardrobe so they could go to
fashionable hotel He did not wan
them to go to a great watering plac
where they could drink and carOus
and turn night into day and day int
night. He did not desire that the
should 90 to place where they wOul
have to be dressed up all the tim,
To some people the idea of taking
SUMMER vacation is not to find rest, bU
dissiI alton. From the time they arriv
at the fashionable summer resort the
defy every physical law of healtl
And f after Il few weeks of carousi
they return to the city with the fat;
germs of disease or invalidism plante
in their vitals they have no one /
blame but themselves. They will b
al just as much to blame for their OF
q coming sicknesses as my dissipate
1 classnlate was blamed by the profess
|. or. E.e asked for a sick leave. tt
7 profes scr looked at him moment an
= said: mo, sir, will not excuse 70,
q You are young and strong. You hay
v been disobeying the laws of natur
and YOU must suffer the consequence
You have no business to be sick" S
these summer dissipators will fin
; much to their sorrow, that no man
woman ever found physical rest in
fashionable hotel by dancing until
or ? in the morning. No man ev,
/ found health ut the summer gami1
p table )r in the hotel barrooms.
+. The fashionable watering places a
very expensive places in which to liv
L But when Jesus babe his disciples
L go into a desert place and rest awhi
9 he commanded them to go into Il