Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-07-13
Bad Air VS.. Religion.

Many a farmer and Lousekeeper
wonders why it is that they must
needs take a nap every Sunday in ser
mon time. When the parsen gets
comfortably into the second or third
head of his discourse, and his congre-
CATION have settled into the easiest po
sition to listen, gentle sleep hegins TO
steal over their faculties, and the good
man is surprised at finding his argu-
ment less cogent than it seemed when
prepared in the solitude of his study.
At home the busy matron never thinks
of mapping at eleven o'clock in the
morning, and the man of business
would consider his sanity or common
sense sadly called in question should
friend propose a half-hour's nap at
that hour of the day. Nevertheless,
they both sleep like kittens in their
pews, and logic, rhetoric, eloquence,
are alike wasted in the vain attempt to
rouse their sluggish souls. The ques-
ton Of the poet, so often sung in our
assemblies.
My drowsy powers, why sleep ye SOP"
is exactly in point, and we propose as
an answer, Because we are all breath
ing carbonic acid gas-deadly poison; !;
because the sexton didn't let the foul
air of last Sundays congregation out
of the doors and windows, and the
fresh, pure air of Heaven in -z
Look around at the audience; that
feverish flush on the face isn't heat, it
is poison. The lady nodding over
there, her nose and checks like a scar
let rose, is not too warm, for the
thermometer doesn't stand over 20
degrees; she is partially suffocated ;
what she wants is fresh air. That
hard working mechanic and farmer
doesn't sleep because he watched with
a sick child last night, but simply for
want of oxygen to keep the fame of
intellectual and physical activity
brightly burning.
Nobody can rise on wings of faith
in a poisonous atmosphere. Oxygen
and religion cannot be separated in
this unrighteous manner. We cannot
live in conformity to spiritual laws
whilei open violation ofthe physical
Isyour sexton a man Of intelligence
sufficient to understand the necessity
and. reason ofample ventilation ? Does
he know that every human being
vitiates, at the least estimate, fouI
cubic feet of air every minute Lin
ger when the congregation leaves, anC
see if he shuts every door and window
tight to keep in all the heat till evening
service, Then see how thin the lamp!
burn in the vitiated air; how hard tht
minister tries to raise himself and hi!
listeners to the height of some grea
argument, and how stupid they ar
, nothing but bad air.
Now for the remedy, which cost
labor and money both, for ventilation
is question of dollars and cents
Saturday the sexton should be instruct
l ed to open all the doors and window
| to let out all the dead and four air, an
let in such as is fresh. 1t takes n,
more coal on Sunday morning to hea
the church to 10 degrees because G
F., this publication. Sunday noon let tn
openings of the church be again throw
5 wide-Warmth and bad air will alik
disappear, and though extra coal ma
be required to raise the temperature
the minister will preach so muc
l better in consequence, and the nearer
: will listen with such increased relis
r to the sacred word, that the loss of th
: pocket will be infinitely compensate
: by the gain of the soul Elucattonc
! Monthly.