NEED OF VARIETY IN REST.
The "Golden Rule" asks: After the Sunday dinner what ? Well, it all depends. A person whose brain is wearied with intellectual work during tho week, or whose nervous system is exposed to the strain of business or professional life, ought to sleep within an hour or two after his Sunday dinner, if ha can. It is surprising how much like a seven-day clock the brain will ■work, if the habit of a "Sunday nap" be once formed. Nature will take advantage of it as regularly and gratefully as she does of the nightly sleep, and do her best to make up lost time. People on tho other Land, whose week of toil is chiefly physical, may well give their minds activity while the body is resting. Two sermons and three or four hours of solid reading are a real rest to some on Sunday, while to others such a course amounts to positive Sabbath-breaking. Sunday is a day of rest, not work, religious or otherwise. It is a day of repose, not for exhaustion. But what the dogmatists on one side and the illiberal liberals on the other are apt to .overlook is the fact that all men do not rest alike any more than they labour alike, and what may help one may kill another.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3252, 3 December 1881, Page 4
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