The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-03-11
BAD AIR Z. RELIGION.

Many a farmer and housckeeper won.
der why 1t Is that they must needs take q
nap every Sunday In sermon time. When
the parsOn gets comfortably into the sec.
ond or third head Of his discourse and his
congregation have settled into the easiest
position 10 listen, gentle sleep begins to
steal over the faculties, and the man Is
surprised OF finding his argument less
cogent than 1t seemed when prepared in
the solitudoot his study At home, the
busy matron neyer thinks Of mapping at
II O'clock in the morning, the man Of bus
iness would consider his sanity or common
sense sadly called in question should a
friend propose q half hours nap at that
hour Of the day. Nevertheless they both
sleep like kittens in their pewS, and logic,
rhetoric, cloquenCe, arc alike wasted IN
the vain attempt 10 rouse their sluggish
souls. The question Of the poet, 80 often
sung in our public assemblies, NJ
my drowSy powers why sleep you so:"
Is exactly in point, and we propose as an
answer, Because we are, all breathing
cafbonic acid gas-deadly poison; be.
cause tho sexton didn't lot the foul air Of
last Sundays congregation out at the
doors and windows, and the fresh, pure
air of heaven In" Look round at the al.
dlence; that fsYerlsH flush on tho lace isn't
heat, 1t Is poison; the lady nodding over
there, her cheeks and nose like q scarlet
rose, Is hot too warm, for the thermometer
doesn't stand over 10 deg.-she Is partial
10 nj, ffNo0 tod NJ pha Iuartn Ia fnnah nir
That Woodworking mechanic and farmer
doesn't sleep because he watched with q
sick child last night, but simply for want
otoxygen to keep the flame Of intellectual
and physical activity brightly burning
Nobody can rise on wings OF faith in q
poisonous atmosphere; oxygen and reli.
gion cannot be separated In this upright.
eous manner. We cannot live in contor.
nifty to spiritual laws while In open VIC.
latl0n Of the physical is your sexton a
man OF intelligence sufficient 10 under.
stand the necessity and reason OF ample
ventilation? Does no know that every
human being yiliateS, at the least est.
mate, four cubic feet Of air every minute?
Linger when the congregation leaves, and
set IL ITO suuS otcLI uuOE huu WIuuO"
tight, to keepin all the heat till evening
service. Then see how thin the lamps
burn In tho vitiated air; how hard the
minister tries to raise himself and listeners
to the height otsome great argument, and
how stupid they ar0-hothing but bad
air. Now for the remedy, which costs
labor and money both, ventilation is o
question Of dollars and cents. Saturday,
the sexton should be instructed to open
all the doors and the windows, to let all
the dead and foul air out, and to let in
such as Is fresh. 1t takes no more coal
on Sunday morning to heat the church TO
10 degrees, because Of this publication.
Sunday noon let the openings Of the
church be again thrown open wide
warmth and bad air will alike disappear,
and though extra coal may DO required TO
raise the temperature, the minister will
preach so much better In consequence,
and the hearers will listen with such in.
creased relish to the sacred word, that the
loss OF the pocket will DO infinitely com.
pensated by the gain Of the soul.