The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1921-10-19
SLEEP IN CHURCH
Forty Wlnks" Under Happiest
of Conditions.
Idea Seems to Appeal With Consider
able Force to Writer In Louis
v!lIo courier-Iournal.

Cool cavernous, well-ventilated,
cushioned churches are fine places in
witch to snatch 40 winks of sleep.
But for the disposition Of mean.na-
turcd persons to speak unkindly Of
one who sleeps In church the invita-
ton OF a Louisville minister to sleep
IN his church during his sermons
might jam the building Sunday morn
insS. making sleeping In pew AS
comfortlcSs rs sleeping three in
bed.
Those who are not sensitive to un-
kind, un-Christian, criticism can en-
JOY sleeping in church and going home,
as the pastor says, refreshed and
declaring the sermon and the theology
fine"
Sleep In itself is the supreme
realized experience Of the average
work-ridden, worry bitten, og-tired
human being, declares writer In the
louisville Courier-J Journal. 1t pro,
vides all Of the refreshment Of the
bath without the labor of Tubing and
rubbing. Sleep Is more reconstruc-
tive than drink, and 1t Is an anti
toxin, whereas the drink may be, now
adaya cold poison procured by
bribery.
The poets, many-yoiced, silver
tongucd, have smItten the Tyre and
sung the delights, the uses, the magic
of sleep. The philosophers have point
ed out to the weary, to the dlsllu-
stoned, the popped ways Of sleep"
Sleep paroles the prisoner whose
days are spent in penal seryitude and
whose nights are spent In n cell, max
Ing him as free and as llght-footed as
Ariel.
Sleep suspcnds the life sentence of
the man who is in the clutches Of in
durable illness and beckons him to
the ruddy experience Of youth and
health.
The Tilted lover sleeps and knows
the happiness of love requited.
The bankrupt sleeps and expert
enccs the dignity and the power that
wealth showers with barbarlc hand
upon the merchant princes Of the gor-
gcous west, along with pearl and
gold
The widow, gray, bent, old, child
less, Il victim OF poverty and loncll-
ness, sleeps and Is again the bride
whose slIppered feet are at the gates
of Elyslum
sleep" Is found. In any book Of fa.
milnr quotations, between ISLANDER"
and slavery" from both Of which 1t
provides respite, and next to Smiles"
ln, -
shine" But it is found nowhere in
happier circumstances than In church,
somewhere between the announce
mcnt of the text and the pronounce
mcnt of the bcncdiction, for sleeps
careSS upon the eyelids Of the weary
rails more softly and sweetly when 1t
comes like Diana's kiss, unasked, un-
sought" than when 1t responds to such
advances as getting into nght-clothcs
and into bed
Sleep in church Is at ,ts best when
the church Is made OF logs and stands
in n wood. The preacher is long
windcd. The squirrel barks, the blue
jay chldcs, the leaves rustic outside
the windows AS the parson thundcrs
out damnaton in mid-discoursc the
meat Of the argument goes to your
Wakcful ncighbor while YOU "eat in
dreams the custard." Even In town,
with the Jangling noises OF the streets
invading the edilicc, there are rare
sweetness and solacc in Tie nature OF
Il minister who invites the weary to
come 10 the church ana enjoy nap,
for which he promises, generously, to
provide the lullaby