The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-09-21
VOLUME 23-NUMBER 4g
Bad Air rs. Religion.

Many q farmer and housekeeper
wonder why it is they must needs
take a nap every Sunday in sermon
time. When the parsOn gets CON-
fOrtably into the second or third head
Of his discourse, and his congregation
Z nave settled into the easiest position
to listen, gentle sleep begins to stea,
/ over their faculties, and the good man
B IS surprised at finding his argument
/ less cOgent than it seemed when pre-
I pared in the solitude Of his study. At
! home, the busy matron never thinks
Of mapping ct eleven O'Clock in the
! morning, and the man of business
would consider his sanity or common
sense sadly called in question should
a friend propose a half hours nap at
that hour OF the day. Nevertheless,
they both sleep like kittens in their
pews, and logic, rhetoric, eIOQuenee.
are alike wasted in the vain attempt
to rouse their sluggish souls. The
question Of the poet, 50 often sung in
| our assemblies, ....-.f-.
"My drOwsy powers, why sleep >"
is exactly in point, and we propose as
an answer, because we are all BREATH
ing earbonic acid gas,-deadly poison;
because the sexton didn't let the foul
air Of last Sundays congregation out
Of the doors and windows, and let the
fresh, pure air Of heaven fn.U
Look round at the audience; that
feverish flush on the face isn't heat, it
is poison. The lady nodding over
there, her nose and cheeks like a seaI-
let rose, is not too warm, for the ther-
mOmetOF doesn't stand over 20 de
grees; she is partially suffOeated; what
she wants is fresh air. The hard
working mechanic farmer doesn't
sleep because he watched with a sick
child last night, but simply for want
of oxygen to keep the flame of intel
lectual and physical activity brightly
burning.
Nobody can rise on wings of faith in
q poisonous atmosphere. Oxygen and
religion can not be separated in this
unrighteOus way. We cannot live in
conformity to spiritual law while i'm
open violation of the physical.
Is your sexton man Ofintelligence
sufficient TO understand the necessity
and reason of ample ventilation /?
Does heknOw that every human being
vitiates, at the least estimation, four
cubic feet of air every minute2 Lin
ger when the congregation leaves, and
see if he shuts every door and window
tight to keep in all the heat till eve-
ming service. Then see how thin the
lamps burn in the vitiated air; how
hard the minister tries To raise him
self and his listeners to the hight of
some argument, and how stupid they
but bad air.
Now for the remedy, which costs
labor and money, for the ventilation
is a question Of dollars and cents
the sexton should be in
to open all the doors and |
windows to let out all the dead and /
foul air, and let in such as is fresh. 1t !
takes no more coal on Sunday morn |
ing to heat the church to 20 degrees !
because of the publication. Sunday !
noon, let the openings of the church |
be again thrown wide, warmth and !
bad air will alike disappear, and, |
though extra coal may be required To |
raise the Temperatures the minister !
will preach much better in. oOnse-
lUence, and the hearers will listen !
with increased interest to the Sdcred /
Word that the loss of the pocket will |
be infinitely compensated by,the gain !
1f the soul. ul.-EOluedtiOH MORthlU.