Ventilation in Churches and Chapels

Cromwell Argus, Volume I, Issue 2, 10 November 1869, Page 2

Ventilation in Churches and Chapels

TlJo Uev. M. 'Taylor, the Celebrated Wesleyan Revivalist best known through* out the Australian colonies as '• Californian Taylor,’* in a work entitled “Christian i Adventures.in South Africa,” speaks his ! mind freely rm this important but much i neglected m it.ter. n r-aril'ist inding ail tilS

; srieiitilic knowledge which the present age jis suppose’l to liave afttitied. .Mr Taylor j being at Clraham’s Toy and liu ling the leading brethren expressing their disappoint meet at the result of his labours, he assured them Halt as soon as they were ready for an advanced moment, the 1 Toly | Cl host would certainly hid them on to I victory ; and concluded by reminding them | that there was at least one serious j physical diilhulty in the way : \ oar 1 beautiful church.” lie said, “ is not cuffciently vantiluted for a large audience, by j one half. The immense amount of carbonic i acid gas thrown out from the lungs of fourteen hundred persons, and the porous, discharge of foetid matter from their bodies, must on each occasion poison the atmos [there in the church in a very short time. This poison being inhaled, corrupts the blood, blunts the nervous sensibilities of the people, and hence produces v igorous mental action, produces headache and drowsiness, and sadly injures their health . and when it comes to that, the best thing is to quit, and go home as quickly as possi ble. We can’t afford to spend our' precious evenings there in poisoning each other, for that is the very stuff that killed the British I soldiers in the ‘black-hole of Calcutta,’ It j is out of the question to have a great work j of salvation without a good supply of oxy i g‘‘ii.”