Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-01-12

sleep is always taken before IL o'clock
at night. Every hour Of sleep before
midnight is worth two taken in bed
after that time" Along exactly the
same line of thought | say, every
hour of work done before or 10
o'clock in the morning Is worth mt
least two hours of work after IL o'clock
noon" There is something about the
ozone of the early atmosphere, some.
thing about the cxhilaration of the
early morning, that arouses us and
fires us and drives us on and clarifies
our brains. so that we can accomplish
at least double the work in one half
hour then than in any half hour Of the
afternoon or evening. early TO bed
and carly TO rise makes man healthy,
wealthy and wise" has just as much
truth tackled on to the last injunction
rs on 10 tho first.
Almost without exception the great
workers OF the world have been early
riscrs. While other men were in bed
they were at their desks or in their
! laboratories or down at their Offices or
out making their Investigations. liar
| ry Lee once said 10 his Erca, leader, the
! Father of His Country. Sir we sol
| dicrs are amazed at til" vast amount OF
work YOU can accomplish" Sir" an
swcrcd General George Washington. II
/ do what | do because rise every
morning AT 4 o'clock. and n great deal
/ of my work IS done while others are
asleep" How did walter Scott write
his many books; he arose every morn
Ing at ,. lie then cleared away his
correspondence. lie laid out his plans
OF work. aud by breakfast time" he
said. 81 have broken the neck OF the
! DAYS work" Frederick the Great did
not need any one to describe for him
seven wears war which has been the
marvel OF European strateeists for Il
century and half lie saw with his
own ewes tho sun rise every morning.
But though the great work of nearly
all our great workers WAS due To the
fact that they wore early riscrs. many
Of US lingcr in our beds in tn" morn
ing lust rs long as possible. Instead
Of living up to the old provcrb we say,
Late to bed and late to rise and we
fritter away the late hours of the night
on doing nothing. just as in the morn
ing We frittcr them away in bed.
4 Family History.
"What time does your rising bell
ring ! ask oh You answer, I'VE
do not have any rising bell; we got mp
when We are slept out. What time
does YOU. breakfast bell ring I'VE do
not have any breakfast bell, you an
swol When we are slept ou:, we get
ND and dress and 80 TO breakfast. That
is the history of our house" oh. no
That is part OF the history; 1t is not all
will tell YOU the rest of il. When YOU
awake. YOU get I'D and dress, but you
90 not ali dress at the same time. First
the father has his breakfast. Then one
or two of the children struggle down
Thcn the mother comes last. or the
elder sister Then the breakfast, which
ought TO take just twenty-five minutes
drags ont over an hour. The children
run off 10 school The father hurricS
away To business. The servant girls
dishes are not washed for an hour anC
for prayers. Everything in the home
goes topsy turvy merely because th'
family did not arise together. eat to
, gcther pray together and 90 to wori
, mt the same time. The wasted minutes
. of tho early morning are directly r.
, sponsihle for whole days and week
and months OF life wasted for the sery
In, Of iA N
, the battles of Lodi and Arcola," sal,
, Napoleon, "berause they did not appre
, clato the value Of five minutes" TIL
: reason many men waste whole days o
! l!fe's service that might have been con
J sccratcd for Christ IS because they d
not appreciate the value of the sacre
p minutes in the early hours of the morn
ing.
Jtilizc tho Minutes.
G How do we diminish our service 70
Christ by lost days: BY not rnpro,
r ing the Fragments of time that lie sea-
, tered about us during the days worl
by not utilizing those extra few mir
+. utes here and there to fit ourselves il
tcl!igeutly by reading and study fc
:. the work God has given us To do b
:, supposinS that God will let us inte
!, pref the passage. Ask, and ye sha
:, receive; seek. and yc shall find; knocl
:, and it shall be opened To YOU" whc
4. our lips are dumb when our feet ~
=, palsied and know nothing about III
, right paths TO tread, when our hand
ID, are helpless in their stupiditles. Ca
- the blind lead the blind? Can SOM
, thing come from nothing? Can IL
y. little child run and leap like Il faw
- unless she has been first taught ,
- creep and to walk?
We must have Intelligence in the d
=, rection of our life or else all our woI
-. will go for naught. What would sc
- think IL one summer day I shou
VI walk up on the captains bridge Of
1, steamer and say: Captain, / won
like to take charge Of this steame
- Would the helmsman obey my cor
p, mand?" where would you take Il
~ ship" 'To Australia" | would a
=. swer. do you know anything nbo
, tho laws OF navigation:" NO" 1.-The
~ ! cannot let you take command. "
-. know not the law of the compass. TT
- great surface of the sea Is the san
l., everywhere You have no guidcpost
~ rs on the mountain sides. The fir
10 thing you would do would be to Z
T., the ship off its course. 1t would ia
l, NJ perhaps days or weeks to rega