Show I I SLEEPING IN MEETING I H There is iR solace for both pulpit and andpew 4 1 iI I pew P fn in a new explanation of why wh pea peo people plc go to i sleep lillI In church says SYR ay the 1 Literary IDI Digest The Ilio man mn m n who 41 J I In se docs o because be of self i JJ to a J ench writ writer fr 1 j I er whose hose words convoyed conveyed from a mt the are given in n the Sl St StLouis t 4 Louis Advocate l Ordinary j observers who aro not scientists or orf f philosophers havo formerly fO thought l people slept because thoy tho failed lo to 1 r find anything of Interest In the tho th ser sermon er erl ermon l mon and so became Inattentive In then L drowsy and finally yielded elded to the deadening effect upon n the tho senses se ns s and amI 1 l slept But Bul the Iho scientific Frenchman f r Is 13 thus reported I 1 Tho llio true explanation of the cause f I I of BO so many heads In a pub J r I lie place e of worship in iu his opinion j II due clue to tho the members of the Ule congregation I I lion tion concentrating their gaze for a along ai aI I i long l ng time timo on a single j the countenance of tho preacher or 61 orthe i the pulpit and thus unconsciously hyp hypnotizing h p I nb himself or If the writ writers ers contention is correct those who I sleep during the sermon are arc conse consequently conse consequently the very members of the tho con congregation conI I who 10 are arc to t 9 the high highest hight J t I est praise for fOl their conscientious conscientious ef of effort e I f ft fort to Lo follow ollow the words of the t I preacher This Is borne out by br the fact that j during the tho tI preliminary prel portion of tI th I church services the point of attention t t constantly consta changes and no sign of 11 drowsiness ss Is lo 10 be seen among the tho 7 members oC otho tho congregation But Bul IC ICi ICis i Is on when tIle Uio sermon commences j j J with the head h a and anti body bol in ono one i position and with the eye eo 5 n no nol by b resting on the tho bright space of DI a window or 01 tho the preachers lighted l lace laco or 01 some somo other source of illumination lion Hon In the tho pulpit or 0 I the tho body of the t tj j hurch tho the will fall Into Inlo a I I condition The character if f tho the discourse or tho the tono tone of the II I rolco of the th thea speaker fp a t does docs not seem cem to the result re lt In the slightest de do doree iree ree 1 ha nOl 60 I mortification it is s said that lint the tho I most devout hearers are aie occasionally I with wILh the Ui same sim drowsiness V s p tIu tI d godless o cs j d lo Ic of o the venerable or j 1 deacon sound asleep a in lit the amen cor corner corner cornor ner nor is fat far fatis I but t less 1688 I GO 60 Is the tho mortifying b who sta watch with keen r attention ev iy movement and d n I to tu every cory c ry word of or the tho arc are of ofton 0 ofT 1 T ton found pa Ill ii later Inlet examination to lo I leno know no nothing thin of what was said sUld by the th pulpit orator The rhe charitable french frenchman Fr Fren n h hI I man however has an excellent ex ox excuse ex 1 cuse for this delinquent nC al atho o oi i Slumber however Is ls not nou always ala s by influence ot o close to sermons Some Sometimes S Sometimes me times tile the listener is plunged Into a rI Tho oyos are arc ar directed straight 1 to t the face lace of the clergyman In tho the thoi i I pulpit The facial expression is one I of or strained ln d attention the tho kind k Iud de L ell tho as a breathless I I and lili re attention and oI ono o u j word is Ios Josso o lor r as a the tte cn o of hearing Is Iii concerned But of all that tha t i was said a hud iu beard eard during this trance p I I b I the auditor au llor retains no recollection j Hence we C have nye tho the reason reMon why h so 80 soL L I ninny return from church without t the th St notion of o the d oC ot tho tho sermon sor on They lher have hae concentrated concentrated their at too closely upon the tho words word of 01 the tue Tho only ouy cure fo for this is h ye should from time limo to lo time limo during drIng th the sermon bermon n over ocr the church chuich taking In the thep f and of other Othor persons ons In p tho ho congregation Any An slight distraction tion lon during luring the lie service would awake many auditors from trance tranco or slum slumber bor ber and arid enable tho the v whole hole con lega ion to follow tIm the sermon more Intel The fhe experienced clergyman knows how bow to make his hearers relax from time to Ume tho the attention they thoy tho follow his lils words t t The Tho Advocate cate recapitulates Thus does docs science como come to the aid aI of f thc he sleeper and of tho the man who can an not remember the lie text or aught of f the sermon seimon Henceforth ho Is 15 not noto notto notto to o be he stigmatized as a a dullard or stupid follow fellow who listens without He Tie IB Is hypnotized b or luis has worked himself Into a trance tranco and sleepiness and Inability to tell what the he preacher has said must not be he considered as evidence of or a close at atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere or of the relaxation which comes on Sunday Sundar after a n week of o mid vork but as Indications om of o a aplet piety that has passed pass cd beyond boond tho the con coi control trot rol of o its iL possessor or of attention bo so acute that It concentrates Itself on ho tho words and face of o the tho speaker to o tho iio disregard of tho the thought ex cx prest pret by tho the words The Tue sleepy old brother In lit tho the side pew pe must no long longor longer or er bo he laughed Inu at but held up to lo the tho admiration of o the godless The man manlio wh lio knows Im s naught nought of either text or orser ser ion is no longer to he vilified lil ell but exalted as a marvel manol of attention Science ence once has its ls curious but among them all few are oro greater than this Ulis laud laudable able abl attempt to explain a phenomenon which has occasionally proved tho the chagrin of even the most gifted pulpit orator when soaring in his highest lights of eloquence |