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


Cool, cayernous. Bell-yentilated,
Cushioned churches are fine places In
which u snatch ~ wluks Of sleep
But for the disposition Of mean-na-
tured persons 10 speak unkindly II
one who sleeps In church the invita-
ton Of d Louisville minister 10 sleep
ia his church during his sermons
might jam the building Sunday morn
ings, making sleeping In pew as
cOnf0rtleSs as sleeping three Ia a
bed.
Those who are not sensitive TO IN
kind, un-Christian. criticism can en-
Joy sleeping Ia 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 COurierJournal Il pro-
yides oil Of the refreshment Of the
bath without the labor Of Tubing aud
rubbing Sleep Is more reconstruc-
tive than "a drink and It is an anti
toxin, whereas the drink may be, now
adayS cold poison procured by
bribery
The poets, many-volced, silver
t0ngued, 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 disilu-
stoned, the POPPED ways Of sleep"
Sleep paroles the prisoner whose
days are spent in penai seryltude and
whose nights are spent In Il cell max
ing hin as free ana as light-footed as
Ariel.
Sleep suspends the life sentence Of
the man who Is Ia the clutches OF in
durable Illness and beckons him 10
the rudy experience Of youth aud
health.
The Tilted lover sleeps and knows
the happiness Of love requIted
The bankrupt sleeps aud expert
enees the dignity and the power that
wealth showers with barbarlc hand
upon the merchant princes Of the gor-
eeous west, along with pearl and
gold.
The widow, gray, bent. old, child
less. victim VI poverty and lOneli-
ness. sleeps aud is again the bride
whose siippered feet are at the gates
of Elysium
Sleep" Is found, IN any book Of ia.
milnr quotations. between Islander"
aud slavery" from both of which 1t
provides respite, ana next to smiles"
near solitude and song and "sun-
shine" But If is found nowhere IN
happier circumstances than IN church.
somewhere between the announce
ment OF the text ana the pronounce
ment of the beuediction. for sleeps
Caress upon the eyelids OF the weary
fills more softly ana sweetly when 1t
comes like DHna's kiss unasked. un-
sought" than when il responds to such
advances as getting into nlghtclothes
md into bed
Sleep ia chdrch 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, The leaves rustic outside
the windows As the parSnn thuuders
out damnatiou in mid-dl~course the
meat of the argument goes to your
Wakeful neighbor while you cat IN
dreams the cusArd" Even in town.
with the janglIng noises of the streets
invading the edidce there are rare
sweetness 0nd Soace in the nature of
minister who invites The weary TO
come to the church aud enjoy a nap.
for which he PROMISES. generously. TO
provide the lullaby.