The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-27
DIR. Talrn1s ge's Sermon.
BY THE REV. FRANK De WITT TALMAeE. D. D.

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It 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 lock after her hus-
binds interests in very way lie may
be abb to smoke his cigars and have
EoIse and go to the club, but she must
be a good wife ard keep every expense
down. She must never leave home and
take a vacation herself, although her
husband can go off a fishing every spring,
he result is that Satan drives that wo-
man on and on and on by oVerwork until
he drives her into the grave. Then satan
laughs a 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 spiritually wreck
ed All these eatastrophes come upon
that dead womans 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 Rest.
beg of you, hardworking Christian
men and women, to take a summer vaca-
ton because a rested Drain Gdn dO lnAIC
as much work in the same time as a tired
enc. Some two or three years after l
entered the ministry my fether wrote me
a letter something like this: Dear
Frank | hear you intend 10 stay in the
city this summer and take no vacation
You say that you cannot afford the time
Great mistake. If you attempt to work
all summer, you will have to pay big
price for disoteying natures laws. Next
winter the sermons which you write will
be harder to produce and poorer because
YOU have a til ed 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. 1 always find that when my
brain is rested it does the quickest work. :"
That is the kind of letter which every
sensible father will write to his son when
he finds that the boy does not know the
well known axiom that a rested brain
and a rested body can do twice as much
work as tired physical organization.
Every physician will tell you that 1T is
an economy in time for tired men and
women to f,o off and take vacation and
rest Yet III SURF rising fact how many
truly Christian people feel they cannot
leave their home and church work even
for a few weeks in a year. If they were
rested. they could do much more work
for Christ and do it much more easily.
Indeed. the older / grow the more l be-
lew 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 .reat complaint that
you hear every summer and spring Isl
II am so tired, awfully tired. I am tired
when l get up in the morning as when l
lie down to sleep at night" Why, most
people in the spring time look as tired as
that poor woman who came to me one
day and said: Mr.. Taimage, don't talk
to me about heaven. l don't want to go
to heaven for a long time yet. l am so
tired that when I come to ole l want God
to let me sleep in my grave for a thou
sand years. Then, after l have become
thoroughly rested, | want to open my
eyes and see heaven" My overworked
Christian friend If 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
to grass. You must treat your body as a
farmer treats a field which has been over
worked in production. He let's 1t. lie fall
! low for awhile. You should treat your
body as nature treats vegetation. 1t sends
| the colds of winter so that all the forces
tian worker for next winter, when you
/ will have SO much to do. what you need
! now to enable you TO do your next win
/ ter's duty is not to medicine, but to rest
/ complete physical and mental rest: the
same kind of rest which Christ gave to
his deciples when he led them off into a
desert place.
Go Into the Desert.
| / beg of you lard working Christian
men and women, to rest awhile because
a summer vacation ought not to cost you
/ financially very mucn. Christ did not
/ tell his declples to spend weeks and
months in order to get up an expensive
wardrobe so they could go to a fashiona-
BILE hotel He did not want them to go to
great watering place where they could
drink and carouse and turn night into
day and day into night. He did not de-
sire that they should go to a place where
they would have to be dressed up all the
| time. To some p pie the idea o. taking
a summer vacation Is not to find rest, but
dissipation. From the time they arrive al
the fashionable summer resort they defy
every fiscal law of health. And If after
few weeks of carousal they return to
the city with the fatal germ of disease
or invalidism planted in their vitals they
have no one to blame but themselves.
They will be just as nue. to blame for
their oncoming sickness as my dissipated
classsmate was blamed by the professor
He asked for a sick leave. The professor
looked at him a moment and said: mo.
sir,I will not excuse you. You are young
and strong You have been disobeying
the laws of nature, and you must suffer
the consequences. You have no business
to be sick" So these ummer dissipators
will find, much to their sorrow that no
man or woman ever found physical rest
in a fashionable hotel by dancing until /
/ or in the morning No ran ever found
heai,n at the summer gaming table or In
/ the hotel barrooms.
The fashionable watering places are
very expensive places in which to live
But when Jesus bade his deciples go into
desert place and rest awhile he com
manded them to go into the quietude OF
/ the country. One can live very cheaply In
the rural districts 1t does noc cost very
much to go into he suburbs of the cit,
and live for a little while next to ma
lures heart, to dwell in some quiet farm.
house far away from the great, bus,
world. 1t does not cost veiy much to as.
sociate for a little while with the cows
and the sheep, to carry the lambs and
feed the chickens, to toss the hay and
/ hunt the eggs 1t does not cost very
much to study Gods thoughts in the
leaves, TO study Gods thoughts in the
/ flowers, to hear Gods voice in the music
of the winds. No somnambulance car
rest the tired brain as the quietude of the
woods That is where Goo wants us tc
rest In the desert place means near tc
the great, throbbing heart of Mother
Nature.
To prove that it will not cost very much
to go out for a few days into the quie
tude of the country and rest a while