Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-02-11
SLEEP IN CHURCH
"Forty Winks" Under Happlest
Of Conditions.
Ides Seems 70 Appeal With Consider
able Force TO Writer in Louis
Vile courieF-JoUrnsi

Cool, cayernOus. well-YentiIated,
cushioned chul4hes are fine places Ia
which 10 snatch 40 wiuks % sleep.
But for the disposition Of mean.na-
tured persons 10 speak unkudIy u
one who sleeps IN church the invita-
ton vi d Louisville minister 10 sleep
81 bis church during his sermons
might jam Tie building Sunday morn
iugs, making sleeping IN pew as
comf0rtless as s. eeping three In a
bed
Those who are not sensitive to I'M
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
nVork-ridden, worry-bitten, dOgtlred
human being, declares writer In the
Louisville Courier Journal II pro-
yides all Of the refreshment Of the
bath without The labor Of Tubing and
rubbing. Sleep Is more reeonsruc-
tive than q drink, and It Is an anti
toxin, whereas the drink may be- now
adays cold poison procured by
bribery
The poets, many-yoIced, silver
tongued, have smitten the Tyre and
sung the delights, the uses. the magic
OF sleep. The philosophers have point
90 out 10 the weary. to the disillu-
stoned, the POPPED ways Of sleep"
Sleep paroles the prisoner whose
days are spent in penal seryltude and
whose nights are spent In cell, maxi
ing him as free ana as light-footed as
Ariel.
Sleep suspends the life sentence OF
the man who Is In the clutches Of in
durable Illness and beck0ns him 70
the ruddy experience Of youth aud
health
The fitted lover sleeps and knows
the happiness Of love reQuited
Tie bankrupt sleeps and expert
euces the dignity and the power that
wealth showers with barbarc 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 aud Is again tie bride
whose slippered feet are at the gates
Of Elysium.
Sleep is found. IN any book OF ia
milbr quotations. between SANDER"
aud slavery" from both OF which II
provides respite, aud next 10 Smiles e.
near solitude and song" and sun
shine" But # Is found nowhere In
happier circumstances than in church,
somewhere between the announce
ment Of the text ana the pronounce
ment Of the beuedictlon. for sleeps
caress upon the eyelids Of the weary
fills more softly ana sweetly when It
comes like Danas kiss, unasked. un-
sought" than when 1t responds TO such
advances as getting into night-clothes
and into bed
Sleep IN church IS at It's best when
the church Is made Of logs and stands
in wood The preacher Is long
winded The squirrel banks. the blue
jay chides. Che leaves rustic outside
the windows As the parson thunders
out damnaton in mid-discourse the
meat Of the argument goes to your
Wakefu neighbor while You "eal IN
dreams the eustard Even Ia town,
with the jangling noises of The streets
invading the edihce. there are rurc
sweetness Bud solace in the nature of
a minister who invites The weary TO
coue TO the church and enjoy q nap.
for which he promises. generously 10
provide The lullaby.