The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-02-03
HOME CIRCLEC COLUMN
\ COLUMN DEDICATED TO TIRED
MOTHERS AS THEY JOIN THE
HOME CIRCLE AT EVEN
ING TIDE.
How Long Children Should Sleep.

/ How Long Children Should Sleep.
Parents do not realize the risks they
are running with the health OF their
/ children when they allow them to keep
late hours. The U. S. Public Health
Service recommends the following
precepts:
School children aged four years
need twelve hours sleep day; aged
| five to seven. eleven to twelve hours:
eight TO eleven, ten to eleven hours;
and twelve to fourteen, nine to ten
hours. Children grow mainly while
| sleeping or resting; do you want yours
| to grow up stunted, Tired children
learn badly and often drift 10 the bot
tom Of the class; do you want yours
to grow up stupid? When children go
to bed late, their sleep is often dis
turbed by dreams and they do not get
complete rest; do you want yours to
sleep badly and become nervous? Suf-
ficient sleep draws a child onward and
upward in school and in home life: in
sufficient sleep drags IL backward and
downward. Which way do you want
your child to go? Tiresome children
are often only tired children; test the
truth of this. That a neighbours child
is sent to bed late is not good reas-
on for sending your child to bed late:
two wrongs do not make a right. Co
ing to bed late is a bad habit which
may be difficult to cure; persevere
till you succeed in curing it,
We hear a great deal Of discussion
about religion but very little discus
sion of God and our idea OF God is
always the basis of our religion. We
find that as humanitys idea OF God
evolves. religion evolves. Not that God
changes. That is the one great thing
Of which we can always be certain. II
is merely that as we evolve on the
higher and higher planes we are able
to grasp the ever increasing wonder
of God.
During the early biblical times God
was a God OF wrath. Because the peo-
pie of those times could only conceive
of wrathful god keeping them In the
right path, that was the idea they ere
ated. Later on when Hosea was
prophesying he told of forgiving God
and the people first gained the idea of
forgiveness.
When Jesus was on earth He preach
ed of God as He is--a God of Love.
Many people caught faint glimmerings
of what such a God might be but they
had not evolved far enough to gain
the full idea just as we have not to-
day. We all fail TO grasp the won
der and glory Of a God of Love.
1t seems that we must always at
tribute to God human characteristics.
To the majority of people he is I'M
doubtedly a vast corporal being who
resides somewhere in realms unknown
to man where he sits in judgment up
on the doings of man, just Judge
perhaps, but a stern one and given to
fits Of wrath over the antics Of some
particularly trying human. We must
always give to God these human at
tributes for of course, 1t is difficult to
imagine anything outside our own ex-
perience.
This is very aptly illustrated by the
man who stood UP in revival services
and said his greatest wish was to do
Gods bidding as long as he was not
expected to do anything dishonorable.
OF course he had no conception of the
omnipotence of God. He probably
thought of the Supreme Being as a
very highly evolved man with great
power but occasionally overcome by
human emotions.