The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-02-17

noon. Inefc lS SOuleullnB ABOUT lnt
ozone of the early atmosphere, some
thing about the exhilaratIon 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 I'm one halt
hour then than in any half hour Of the
afternoon or evening. EARLY 10 bed
and early to rise makes n man healthy,
wealthy and wise" has Just as much
truth tackled on to the last injunction
as on to the first
Almost without exception the great
workers OF the world have been early
risers. While other men were In bed
they were az their desks or in their
laboratories or down at their offices or
out making their Investigations. Har-
ry Lee once said TO his great leader, the
Father Of His Country, "Slr, we sol
diers are amazed at the vast amount Of
work you can accomplish" sir" an
swered General George Washington, Il
do what / do because | rise every
morning at O'Clock. and a 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 3. He then cleared away his
correspondence. lie laid out his plans
OF work. and "by breakfast time" he
said, Il have broken the neck OF the
days work" Frederick the Great did
not need any one to describe for him
the rising sun. During all the long
seven years war which has been the
marvel Of European strategists for a
century and a half he saw with his
own eyes the sun rise every morning.
But, though the great work OF nearly
all our great workers was due TO the
fact that they were early risers many
Of us llnger in our beds in the morn
ing just as long as possible. Instead
Of living up to the old prOverb we say,
Late to bed and late to rise and we
frltter away the late hours Of the night
on doing nothing, Just as in the morn
ing we fritter them away in bed.
"What time does your rising bell
ring?" | ask. "Oh," you answer, I'VE
do not have any rising bell; we get up
when we are slept out" What time
does your breakfast bell ring?" I'VE do
not have any breakfast bell" you an
swer. "When we are slept out, we get
up and dress and go to breakfast. That
is the history Of our house" Oh, no.
That Is part Of the history; il Is not all.
| will tell you the rest Of II. When you
awake. you get up and dress, but you
do not all dress at the same time. First
the father has his breakfast Then one
or two Of the children straggle down.
Then the mother comes last, or the
elder sister. Then the breakfast, which
ought to take Just twenty-five minutes,
drags out over an hour. The children
run Off to school. The father hurries
away to business. The servant girls
dishes are not washed for an hour and
a half later There has been no time
for prayers. Everything In the home
goes tOpsy tuvy merely because the
family did not arise together, eat to-
gether, pray together and go TO work
at the same time. The wasted minutes
Of the early morning are directly re-
spOnslble for whole days and weeks
and months Of life wasted for the serv-
ice Of the Master The Austrians lost
the battles Of Lodi and Arcola," said
Napoleon. because they did not appre-
ciate the value Of five minutes" The
reason many men waste whole days Of
life's service that might have been con-
secrated for Christ is because they do
not appreciate the value OF the saered
minutes IN the early hours Of the morn
ing.
How do we diminish our service for
Christ by lost days? BY not improv-
Ing the fragments of time that lie scat
tered about us during the days work,
by not utilizing those extra few min
utes here and there to fit ourselves in
tellgently by reading and study for
the work God has given us to do. by
that God will let us inter
pref the passage ASK. and We shall
receive; seek, and ye shall find; knock.
and II shall be opened TO you" when
our lips are dumb. when our feet are
palsied and know nothing about the
right paths to tread. when our hands
are helpless in their stupidities Can
the blind lead the blind? Can some
thing come from nothingi Can the
little child run and leap like a fawn
unless she has been first taught to
creep and to walk7
We must have intelligence in the di
rection Of our life or else all our work
will 20 for naught What would you
think II one summer day | should
walk up on the captains bridge Of a
steamer and say: Captain. | would
like to take charge Of this steamer.
Would the helmsman obey my com
mandT where would you take the
shipf" "To Australia I would an
swer. do you know anything about
the laws Of navigation?' NO" Then
| cannot let you take command. You
know not the law Of the compass. The
great surface Of the sea is the same
everywhere. You have no guideposts,
rs on the mountain sides. The hrst
hing you would do would be to get
he ship Off it's course II would take
rs perhaps days or weeks TO regain
Dur course, or perhaps we would never
be able to do 80. We might land In
China, as a dishonest captain MADE the
pilgrim fathers land on the cold, bleak
New England shores when they had
set sail for the southern lands. No
matter how good a mans purpose may
be- II he knows not the laws Of nayi-
cation he cannot guide his boat to the
right harbor."
What would you think OF laborei
who should enter your sickroom and
say: Discharge the doctor. Let me
be your physician and prescribe youi
What would you think
Of a mechanic who would try to con-
duct a case in court when he did not