Connecticut western news., 1921-11-17
SLEEP IN CHURCH
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 of Conditions.
able Force to Writer in Louis vile Courier-JournaI.

Cool, cavernous, well-ventilated ! cushioned churches are fine places in which to snatch 40 Winks of sleep. But for the disposition of mean-na- tured persons to speak unkindly of one who sleeps in church the invita- tiOn of a Louisville minister to sleep in his church during his sermons might jam the building Sunday morn fngs, making sleeping in a pew as comfortless as sleeping three in a 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, dog-tired human being, declares a writer in the Louisville Courier-Journal. It pro- vides all of the refreshment of the bath without the labor of tubbing and rubbing. Sleep is more recOnstruc- tive than a drink, and 1t Is an anti toxin, whereas the drink may be, now adays cold poison procured by bribery.
 The poets, many-voiced, silver tongued, 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 disillu- stoned, the ''poppied ways of sleep"
 Sleep paroles the prisoner whose days are spent in penal servitude and whose nights are spent in a cell, mak- ing him as free and as light-footed as Ariel.
 Sleep suspends the life sentence of the man who Is in the clutches of in- curable 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 ences the dignity and the power that wealth showers with barbaric hand upon the merchant princes of the gor- geous west, along with pearl and gold.
 The widow, gray, bent, old, child less, victim of poverty and loneli- ness, sleeps and Is again the bride whose slippered feet are at the gates of Elysium.
 "Sleep" is found, in any book of fa' milar quotations, between islander and slavery" from both of which il provides respite, and next to smiles near "solitude" and "song," and "sun shine" But 1t is found nowhere 1T happier circumstances than in church somewhere between the announce ment of the text and the pronounce ment of the benediction, for sleeps caress upon the eyelids of the weary falls more softly and sweetly when i comes "like Diana's kiss, unasked, un sought" than when 1t responds to sucI advances as getting into night-clothe! and into bed.
 Sleep in church Is at its best wher the church is made of logs and stands in a wood. The preacher Is long { winded. The squirrel barks, the blue jay chides, the leaves rustic outsid, the windows. AS the parson thunder out damnatiOn in mid-discourse tn meat of the argument goes to you wakeful neighbor while you "eat il dreams the custard." Even in town with the dangling noises of the street invading the edif1ce, there are rar sweetness and solace in the nature o a minister who invites the weary t come to the church and enjoy a naE for which he promises generously, t. provide the lullaby.