REV. OR. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: Capaoliy to Sleap~It is the Poor
Man's Blessing ~ Words of Comfort For
the Victims of [Insomnia Wakelulness
® Means of Grace.
{Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1900.)
Wasmxorox, D, C.—In this discourse
Dr. Talmage treats of a style of disorder
not much discoursed upon and unfoids
what must be a consolation to many peoples;
text, Psalms Ixxvil,, 4, “Thou holdest mine
eyes waking.”
Sleep is the vacation of the soul; it fs the
mind gone {nto the playground of dreams;
it is the relaxation of the muscles and the
solase cf the nerves; it is the hush of ac-
tivities; it is the soft curtaining of the wves;
it is a trance of eight hours; it is a calm.
fog of the pulses; it is a breathiog much
slower, though far deeper; itis a tempor.
ary oblivion of all carking oaras; it isthe
doetor recognized by all seliools of medi.
gine; it is a divine narcotle; it is a com-
plete anmsthetic; it is an angel of the
night; it is a great merey of God for the
human race, Lack of {t puts patients on
the rack of torture, or in the madhouse, or
in the grave, O blessed sleep! No wonder
the Bible makes much ot it, Through sleep
so sound that a surgleal fncision of the side
of Adam did not waken him came the best
temporal blessing over afforded to
man--wifely companionship. While
sleep on a pillow of rock Jacob
down nnd elimblog.
beloved sieap,"”
Rolomon
So “Ha glveth
solllogquined the psaimist.
listens at the door of a tired
fog, “The sleep of a Iaboring man Is
sweet.” Peter wns calmly sleaping be-
tween the two constables that night be-
forse his expected assassination. Christ
was asleap in a boat ou Galilee when
tossed in the surociydon, The annunein-
tion was
resurrection as a glorious wakeunlng out of
sleap,
On the other hand, Insomnia or sleep-
and again in the Bible. Ahasuerus sul-
eould not the king sleep.” Josaph Hall
sald of that ruler, “He that could com-
mand a hundred and seven and twenty
provinces could not command sleep.”
Nebuchadnezzar had insomnia, and the
record is, “His sleep brake from him.”
Salomon describes this tromble and says,
“Neither day nor night seeth he sjeep
with his eves.”’ Asaph was its vietim, for
he complains in my text that his eyes are
open at midaight, some mysterious power
keeping the upper und Jower lids from
joining, “Thou holdest mine eyes wak-
jog."
Of course there is an uprighteous sleep,
as when Jonah, trying escape from
duty, slept in the sides of the ship while
the Maditerranean was in
of that prophetic passenger; as
Columbus in his first voyage, exhausted
from being up m
to
of everything good, Dr. Btephen H, Tyne,
8r., in his antoblography says that theonly
encouragement he had to think he would
sloop ut night was ths fact that be had Lol
slept the night before,
Wakefulneas may be an opportunity for
prayer, opportunity for profitable refluc-
tion, opportunity for kindling bright ex-
pectations of the world, whore there is no
night and where slumber will have no
uses, God thinks just as much of you
when you get but threes or four hours of
sleep as when at night you get oight or
nine hours,
Remark the fifth: Lat all jnsomnisis
know for their consolation that some
people sleap more rapidly than others, as
much in one hour as others do in two, anid
henee do not require as long a time fn nun.
consciousness, In a book on tho subject of
honith years ago I saw this fact stated by a
celebrated medical scientist: Bome people
do everything quick—they eat quick, they
walk quick, they think quiek, and of
course they sleep quick. An express train
ean go as far {ao thirty minutes as a way
tealn in sixty minutes. People of rapid
temperaments ought not to expect a whole
night to do the work of recuperation which
slow temperaments require. Instead of
making it n matter of irritation and alarm
be a Christian philosopher and set down
thls abbreviation of somnolence esa matter
of temperament,
Remark the sixth: The aged insomnists
should understand that if their eyes are
held waking they do not require ns much
sleap as once they did. Solomon, whe in
knowledge wns thousands of years ahead
of bis time in his wondrons description ol
old age, recognizes this fact, Ie not only
sponks of the diMeuity of mastication ot
ha part of the aged when he says, “The
grinders cease becan se they are fow," and
of the octogenarian’s caution In getting ug
a ladder or standing en a seaffoiding, say:
fag, “They shall bes afrabl of that whiah is
high,” and speaks of the whiteness of the
hair by comparivg it 10 nu trea that has
saying, “The nimond tres
shall flourish,” and speaks of the sploa
cord, which Ix the color of sliver, and whict
relaxes In old age, giving the tremor
the head, saying, ‘The silver gore
be loosed." But he says of the
aged, ‘He shall rise up at tha soles of
the bird; that is aboat ball past |
in the summer time, an appropriate hout
for the bird to rise, for he goes to his
nest or bough at hall past 7 fu the eveniog
But the buman mechanism bas been a
arranged that after it has been running
«6! to boys, went to sleep and allowed the
ship to strike on the #and banks of St
Thomas: as when the sentinel goes
army; as when the sluggard, who accom-
of him as he yawns out, “A little sleep and
hands to sleep.” But sleep at the right
time and amid the right clrenmsiances,
ean you imagine anythiog more blessed?
If sleep, nocording to sacred sad profane
literature, Is an emblem of death, the
morning to all refreshed slumberers Is
a resurrection,
Remark the first: If you have escaped
the insomnia spoken of in the text, thank
God. Hers and there one can command
sleep, and it comes the minute he orders It
and departs at the minute he wishes it to
go, as Napoleon when he wrote: “Different
affars ard arranged in my bed as fo draw-
ers. When I wish to Interrupt ons train of
thought I close the drawer which contains
that subject and open tbat which contains
another. They do not mix together or in-
eonvenience me, I have nev r been kept
awake by an involuntary preoccupation of
mind. When I wish for repose | shut up
all the drawers, and I am asleep. I have
always slept when I wanted rest, and al-
most at will.” Bat I think io most cases
we fea] that sleep is not the resuit of a res
olution, but a direct gift from God.
eannot purchase it. A great Freach finas-
eler eried out, “Alas, why Is there no slesp
to be sold?”
Remark the second: Consider among the
worst crimes the robbery ol ourselves or
others of this mercy of slumber. Much
ruinous doctrine has been inoulecatad on
this subject.
vice when he sald, “The best
lengthen our days is to steal a few hours
from the night.” Wa are told that, though
they did their work at night.
Galilet seventy-eight years, and Herschel
they were all star hanters, and the only
time for bunting stars is at night. Prob.
ably they siept by day. The pight was
made for slumber. The worst lamp a stu-
dent ean have fs “the midaight lamp’
ford Brougham never passed more than
four hours of the night abed, and Justinian,
after one hour of sleep, would rise from
his couch. Bat you are neither a Justioian
por a Lord Brougham. Let notthe absurd
apotheosis of early rising induse you to
the abbreviat’~a of sleep. Get up when
you are slept oul unless circumstances
compel otherwise, Have no alarm cloek
making Its nerve tearing racket at 4
o'slook in the morning, unless special rea.
sons demand the forsaking of your pillow
at that hour. Most of the theories about
early rising we inherited from times when
ng. Buch early retirement ls Impossible
fn our own times for those who ara taking
a in the great activities of lite, There
no virtue in the mere act of early rising.
It all depends upon what you do alter you
get up. It would be better for the world if
gome paople never wakened at all,
Remark the third: All those onght to be
comiorted who by overwork in right direc.
tions have coms to insomnia, In all ocou-
pations and professions theres are times
whea a special draft is made upon the per-
vous energy. There are thousands of men
and women who eanaot sleep because they
were infused by overwork in some time of
domestic or poiitieal or religious exigency.
Mothers who, after taking a whole family
of ehildren through the disorders that are
sare to strike the nursery, have been left
physical wreeks, and ons entire night of
slumber is to them a rarity, if not an im.
Jossibiiiey. The attorney at Jaw, who
hrongh a long trial in poorly ventilated
courtroom, kas stood for weeks battling
for the rights of widows and orphans of
for the life of a client in whose nnocence
he is confident, though all the eircum-
stances are unfavorable, his room he
tries the case all night long and every night
when he would like to be slumbering. The
physician, in tims of epldemie, worn out In
saving the lives of whols fumiiies and fall-
fog in bis attempts to sleep at ht be.
tween tive janglings of lis doorbell, The
merchant who has experienced panies,
when the banks went down and Wall street
became a pandemonium and there was a
possibility that the nexi day be would be
pantie that night with no more ie
Jey of gaining than if such a bless.
never
our
smark the fourth: Insomnin is no sign
divin Martin Luther had
stead of the almost perpsinal sleep of the
babe and tho nine hours requisite in mid
life six hours will do for the aged, and “he
shall rise up at tae voles of the bird.” Let
all nged men and women remember tha'
they have been permitted to do a great
deal of sleeping in their time aod that |
they do not sleep so well now as they used
to it is because they do uot require so mack
sleep,
Remark thie seventh: Insomnia is prob
ably n waraiug that you hal better mod-
erate your work, Most of those sngaged
in employments that pull on nerve and
brain are tempted to omit necessary rest
and sleeplessness calls a balt, Even theh
pleasaring turas to work, As Sir Joshaa
Reyuolds, the great paloter, takiog a walk
with a friend, met a sun browned peasant
boy and sald, “I mn<«t go home and deepen
the coloring of my iafant Hercules.” Whe
sun browned boy suggested an im
provemont in a great pletare, Dy
the time most people have reached
midlife, it they Lave behaved
well more doors of
fore thom than ought to
Power to decline, power lo say
they should now caltivate, When a
is determined to be useful and satan can.
pol dissuade him from that courses, the
great decelver indaces him to overwors
We have
thermometers to tell the heat, and barome.
etars to tell the alr, and ometers haog ia
angine rooms to tell the pressure of steam,
and ometers to gauge and measurs almost
everything. Would that some
would favent an ometer whish,
around the nek and
heart aod lang, would by the p
tion and respicntion, tall whether
fs under too great pressure or might carr
mors, All brala workers would want sae
an ometer and want it right away. For
the inck of it how many are dylag and how
many have died of overwork? A prominest
financier who receatiy departed this jife
was an offiser In over 100 financial and
charitable institutions Thousands
editors, of lawyers, of physicians, of
merchants, of clergyman, are now dying
of overwork. Do not be in the board ol
directors of more than three banks aad
two trust companies and five (ila and
fire insurance establishments, Do not
as pastor preach more than three ser.
mons a Sanday and saperiniend your
own Sabbathschool and eondact a
Bibie class the same day. Do not edit
a paper and write for threes magazines
they anter,
“No tt
man
being hauag
dropped over
1984
ine
will be called to make a speech mors than
four times a week, Do not go so desp in.
to the real estate business that
faet long and threes feet wide,
somuoia i= the voice of nature, ths voise of
God, saying, “Better slow us!” Stop that
long, swift train, the wheels of which are
taking fire from thes velocity and smoking
with the hot box. Do not burn the candle
at both ends, Do nol under too many
burdens sweat like a camel tradging from
Alappe to Damascus, Do not commit sui
efde,
Remark the eighth: All the vietims of
insompin ought to bo consoled with the
fact that they will have a good, loag sleep
after a while, Sacred and profane litera.
ture again and again speak of that last
sisep. God knew that the human race
would be disposed to make a great ado
aboat exit from this world, and so He in.
spires Job and David and Daniel and Joun
and Paul to eall that condition “‘sleap.”
When at Dethany the brother who was the
support of his sisters alter their father and
mother wore gone bad himsell expired,
Christ cried out in regard 15 him,
“Ho is not dead, but slespeth.” Cheer.
ing thought to all poor sleepers, for
that will be a pleasant sleep, ine
duced oy no narcotie, disturbed by no
frightfal dream, ioterrapted by no Barsh
sound, Better than any sleep you ever
took, O ehild of God, will be the last sisep,
in your sinmbers your home may be iu.
vaded by burglars and your treasures cuar-
ried off, but while here and there, in one
case out of millions, the resurrectionist
may disturb the plilow of dast the last
siesp is almost sure to be kept from inva.
sion, There will be no burglary of the tomb,
And it will be a refreshing sleep. You have
sometimes risen in the morning more wenry
than when yon lald down at might, but
waking from the sleep of which I speak
the last fatigue, the last ache, the last
worriment, will be foraver gone. Ob, what
n refreshing sleep!
Ho my hearer, my reader, “Good night!”
May God give you such sleap to-night aw
is beat for Jou. and if you wake too soon
may Ho fill your soul with reminiscences
and expectations that will be Letter than
slamber, Good night! Having in prayer,
knealing at the side, committed your.
soit and all yours to the keeping of the
siamberiess God, fear nothing. The
pestilence that walketh in darkness wil
not eross your doorstill, and you need not
be afraid of evil tidings, Good night!
May Jos have no such aiperisnes as
Job when ho sald, “Thou searest
me with dreams and terrifies me through
visions,” If you dream at all, may it boa
vision of reunions and congratulations,
and, waking, may you find some of them
tras, Good night! And when you come
10 the best #! , the blissful sleep, the last
sleep, may A able to turn and say to
nll the cares and fatigues and ve.
ments and pangs of a Ifetime, “Good
night!” and yoar kindred, standing around
Jout filamined plilow. give you hopslal
ugh sorrowlu Toca son as yon move out
irom thelr loving embrace into the bosom
of u welcoming God. Good night! Good
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