The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-28

suggested that if all other remedies
failed ne might try going to bed.
Natures laws are simple and sure
enough. if not violated. TO bring he
balm OF sleep to all her children. The
supreme insight of Avon's Immortal
bard showed itself nowhere more
clearly than in his treatment of this
problem OF sleep. The uneasy head
that wears a crown or hides a crime
was duly noted in the reckoning. with
all the telling strength thai mental
science could ask for. But when j,
comes 70 the appointed agency of
happy. helpful Eiumber, It is the rest
after toll he turns to. and declares
that j, is not scientist or philosopher.
nor We, saint or mystic. but he who
follows the ev%er-running year with
profitable Nbor' who all night long
sleeps in Elysium.' It may be that
seeing something of the fruit of his
labor has to do with this Elysian
siumoer in most cases, and just there
IL where the mental or psychic science
no doubt finds the happiest field for
its exercise. Some pleasing hope Of
results tina DO not ~conspicuously ap-
pear with the running years may we'll
De broush. to bear upon the weary
toiler 20 make his rest complete. 4
>AS VI 6oliolS Sol IOuE6 lIlnl
IN the dead Of night despite any IA
,igue OF body that weighs his eyelids
GOWN. 1t Is a fact that SORROW, old
or new. will wake and cry in the night
IN defiance of any drug OF toll or
WEAKNESS that may be resorted to to
drown them. Nor will mental agen-
cles' any more than physical. avail to
quiet them unless they reach beyond
the individual life to drop the whole
burden into the lap OF the universal
where only things hoped for appear
to be secure of fulfillment.
Science and religion alike appear
TO find their most soothing balm for
wakefui. worrying spirits here. Even
politicians who are fain to declare. II
siumber not-the thorn is in M.
couch might exchange their thorny
couch for bed of roses if they could
nut reach that blessed mood in which
n heavy and the weary weight III
all this uninteliigible world" could be-
conceived Of as resting upon other
shoulders than their own. The power
our own that makes for righteous
ness. should certainly lift something
OF the load from people who UNDER
take to reform the world and his vif..
IN these lays. Great or small, the Ia
oorers in h vineyard appear to for
~ tHdt lne LORD OF the vineyard. az
sichard Watson Glider reminds them,
was here before they came" Whe,h-
er from the psychology of Maerter-
linck or the psychology of ancient
criptur man learns to look fearless
" upon life. knowing that the stars
IN their courses light for him. II is
IN the conquest of such a faith that
ne IS best enabled to wind I'm his
days with labor and his night with
.'esp" in the appointed order of ma
ure. There is no question. either,
mat in Wcrdworth's appeal to the
e n a hath kept watch DER mans
mortality the happiest and most po-
tent form of that faith declares it,
SELF. The sublimation of such teach.
inss, however, is with the sweet sing
er OF 1erael. who. in a passage too
often misapplied. resolves the psychic
feature of peaceful sleep to its trme
place and bearing in the relicious
world. Except the Lord keep the
city, the Waterman walketh in vain"
ne writes. 1T is vain for you to sit
up late. to eat the bread of sorrows"
for so. clearly in His unslumhertnx
care II givcth His beloved sleen."
There is nothing here to knit this
soothing note to that sleep Of death
80 commonly ascrfbed to It. but much
to iliumine and glorify that gift Of
sieep Tor weary man. guarded so
eenderIy by heavenly watchers.