Book V - Snyder Bible

Book VI
The Preaching of Simeon Kefa 203
Chapter I: Diligence in Study
But as soon as day began to advance the dawn upon the retiring
darkness, Kefa having gone into the garden to pray, and
returning thence and coming to us, by way of excuse for awak-
that the springtime has lengthened the day, of course the night
is shorter. If, therefore, one desires to occupy some portion of
the night in study, he must not keep the same hours for waking
at all seasons, but should spend the same length of time in
sleeping, whether the night be longer or shorter, and be exceedingly
careful that he do not cut off from the period which
he habitually keeps for study, and so add to his sleep and lessen
his time of keeping awake. And this also is to be observed,
or else, if sleep be interrupted while the food is still undigested,
the undigested mass lead the mind, and by the exhalation
of crude spirits render the inner sense confused and
disturbed. It is right, therefore, that that part also be cherished
with sufficient rest, so that, those things being sufficiently accomplished
which are due to it, the body may be able in other
Chapter II: Much to Be Done in a Little Time
When he had said this, as very many had already assembled
in the accustomed place of the garden to hear him, Kefa
went forth; and having saluted the crowds in his usual man-
glected
by the cultivator necessarily produces thorns and
thistles, so your sense, by long neglect, has produced a plentiful
crop of noxious opinions of things and dogmas of false
science; there is need now of much care in cultivating the field
of your mind, that the word of truth, which is the true and diligent
husbandman of the heart, may cultivate it with continual
instructions. It is therefore your part to render obedience to it,
and to lop off superfluous occupations and anxieties, lest a
noxious growth choke the good seed of the word. For it may