Show I COMFORT IN CHURCH A Pennsylvania preacher proposes pro props es a achurch achurch achurch church in which men may smoke while listening to the sermon rmon He thinks he could have a 8 bigger congregation If those who came could be made comfortable com comfortable And one of his clerical brethren suggests as an improvement a dormitory where here the thi men attending service could sleep leep while he is preach preaching preaching ing In Which sounds like satire Assuming that people in general are sinners it is s a matter of question whether a plan to make them uncomfortable u uncomfortable com comfortable would not be more nwe effective The old preachers from to never tried to lull their I auditors into somnolence Sin was a avery avery very ery real thing to them and they so I preached as asIf if one may borrow a aphra phrase phra e coined after their lamented de departure made people sit up and take notice And the only problem for those preachers was to get a II hour houa big enough for their winter audiences In summer they spoke in the and thousands came The Pennsylvania minister is mistaken en The men he would get set into his Ida church with a promise of the liberty to smoke would probably regard his preaching as interfering with their en enjoyment enjoyment enjoyment of a good cigar And a gen gentleman gentleman gentleman who woo admits that he M cant draw drawas as well as a cigar has bas no co business In Inthe inthe n the pulpit |