Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-07-24

crOuched the demon1ac FORM OF death.
SO Satan tries to destroy the good man
by adulation, by applause. BY his
very successes Satan tries to turn his
humble heart of love into q vain heart
Of sin.
Then II Satan finds that worldly ap-
plause and the wine cup and the mid
night carousal do not stop the career
Of the good man who has consecrated
his life to good deeds he tries another
mode. He says: II will unkennel and
unleash nll the bloodhounds Of perse-
cution and misrepresentation and SIAN
der and turn them upon the good mans
track. I will let this pack Of demoniac
bloodhounds bury their white teeth
In bis limbs; l will let these blood.
hounds leap upon him and try to tear
out his heart. All, have made many
good man on account Of SANDER turn
and curse God! Perhaps can destroy
this man In this way"
How satan Kills By Overwork.
But after Satan has tried to destroy
this good man by both popular ap-
plause and by the hounds Of persecu-
ton and Islander and has failed Satan
has one way left. Satan says to him
self: II cannot make that man give up
his God, but I can kill him with over
work. I can pile the Christian oppor-
tunitles Of usefulness upon that bril-
liant, consecrated. young gospel min
lister; will keep him working during
the day and during the night; will
keep him working during the winter
and during the summer; I will give
him bigger church than he can at.
tend to; will have the editors write
him to send articles for their papers,
I will have the summer camp meetings
steal away his vacation; I will start n
revival In his church; will sap every
bit Of physical strength he has; will
kill him by overwork, as killed X irke
White, by offering him a Cambridge
prize; I will kill him as killed Will
liam Paley, Mt thirty-nine years Of age
the most brilliant Christian intellect Of
his day; I will kill him, as l have
burned out the brain of many gen
ius. by overwork before that brain
!
tual torch which would have cast its
rays all round the world"
! When Satan sees 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 1t In any other way" So satan
tells that wife and mother that she
must do all the sewing She must do
oil 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 horse and 60 to
the club, but she must be good wife
and keep every expense down. She
must never leave home and take va
cation herself, although her husband
can go off a-hshing every spring. The
result Is that Satan drives that woman
on and on and on by overwork until he
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
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 rest, a
complete rest, away from home, which
every hardworking Christian woman
needs at least once a year.
Give the Brain n Rest.
beg of you, Woodworking Christian
men and women, to take summer va
cation because q rested brain can do
twice as much work in 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, l hear you intend
to stay in the city this summer and
take no vacation. You say that you
cannot afford the time. Great mistake,
II you attempt to work all summer
you will have to pay 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. A sick or tired minister is Of but
little use in his study, in the prayer
meeting or in his pulpit. l always find
that when my brain Is rested it does
It's quickest and best work" That ia
the kind Of 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 rested body can do twice as
much work as a tired physical organi
Yation.
Every physician will tell you that II
is an economy In time for tired men
and women to 60 off and take vaca.
ton and rest. Yet 1t is 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 could do much more work for
Christ and do 1t much more easily
Indeed, the older grow the more
believe that most good people need to
take 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
and summer Is: II am so tired, awful
~ tired. am as tired when get ur
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