The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-10-12

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and for the week day evening lee
ture.
The whole upper story of this
large building will be well lighted
and ventilated, and occupied wholly
as a play-room for the children of
the church, and it will stand open
and welcome k5 them through all
the weekdays. They can fill it with
their playthings if they choose, and,
1esides, it will be furnished with
lumb-bells, swings, rocking-horsPs,
md all such matters as children de-
light in. The idea is to make a
child look upon a church as only an
other home, and a sunny one, rather
than as dismal exile or a prison.
The third building will be less
lofty than the second; it will adjoin
the rear of the second and communi-
cate with it by door or doors. 1t
will consist of three stories. Like
the other two buildings, it will GOV
r considerable ground. On the first
floor will be the "church parlors,"
where the usual social gatherings Of
modern congregations are held. On
the same floor, and opening into the
parlors, will be a reception room,
and also a circulating library; a;tree
library; not simply free to the
church membership, but to every
body, just as is the present library
Eof Mr.. Beecher's church (and few IL
Oraries are more extensively and
more diligently and gratefully used
than this OnP). Also ON this fnor,
and communicating with the par
IOrs, will be--(tell it not in Gath,
publish it not in Askalon-six both
rooms hot and cold water-free
tickets issued to any applicant
lamong the unclean of the congrega
lion! The idea is sound and sensi-
ole, for this reason: Many members
Of all congregations have no good
bathing facilities, and are not able to
pay for them at the barber-shops
without feeling the expense; and
yet luxurious bath is thing that
all civilized beings greatly enjoy and
derive hpalthful benefit from. The
church buildings are to be heated by
steam, and consequently the waste
steam can be very judiciously util-
lied in the proposed bathrooms. In
speaking of this bath room project, l
have revealed a state secret-but
never could keep one of any kind
state or otherwise. Even the con
grpgatiOn were not to know of this
matter; the building committee
were not to mention it in their re-
port; but l got hold of it-and from
a member of that committee, too
and / had rather part with enc OF
my hind legs than to keep still about
it. The bathrooms are unquestiOn-
ably to be built, and so why not tell
it?
In the second story of this third
I. building will be the permanent
home of the "Church Missionary" j
lady who constantly looks after the
, poor and sick Of the church; also &
, set of lodging and living-rooms fol
the janitors-Or janitresses (2), fol
they will be women, Mr.. Beechpl
holding that women are tidier anC
more efficient in such a position thar
men, and that they ought to dwell
upon the premises and give then
, their undivided care. Also, on thi,
second floor are to be six rooms Il
: do duty as a church infirmary fo
: the sick and poor of the congrega
} tiOn, this Church having always sup
ported and taken care of its own un
r fortunates, instead of leaving then
: to the public charity. In the in
= frmary will be kept.One or two Wa
. ter beds (for invalids whose pain
= will not allow them to lie on a les
yielding substance; and half doz l
reclining invalid chairs on whe,ls
The water beds and invalid chair
, at present belonging to the ehurcE
are always in demand, and neve
. out of service. Part of the appur
tenances of the new church will b.
a horse and an easy vehicle, to b,
= kept and driven by a jdnitor, ant
: used wholly for giving the church.,
} INDECENT invalids air and exercise
1t is found that such an establish
. ment is daily needed-so much so
indeed, as to almost amount to
church necessity.
/, The third story of this third build
? ing is to be occupied as the churcl
: kitchen, and it is sensibly placed
f aloft, so that the ascending noise.
p and boarding-house' smells shall e
r up and aggravate the birds instead
I of the saints-excrpt such of thr
{ latter as are above the clouds, ant
D they can easily keep out of the wa!
[ of it, no doubt. Dumb. walters will
: carry the food down to the churcl
/. parlor5 instead of up Why is
that no body has thought of tn
simple wisdom of this arrangement
, before? Is it for a church to stpl
+ forward and tell Us how to get rid q
/ ketchen smells and noises F.? If
1 be asked why the new church vii
t need kitchen, l remind the reade
= of the infrmary occupants, &c
= They must eat; and, beside, socia
}. gatherings of members of this con
h gregation meet at the church parIor
) as often as three and four evenings
= week and sew, drink tea, and g