2 Sermon Illustrations on Sleep

2 illustrations

2 sermon illustrations on sleep — stories, anecdotes and meditations from classic illustration collections, each credited to the book it came from.

Sleep

A dozing deacon misunderstands a preacher's question, humorously answering about merchandise price.

Inopportune. In a town not far from Boston, as the clergyman was holding forth, one of the deacons fell into a doze. The preacher happening to use the words, "What is the price of all earthly pleasures?" the good deacon, who kept a small store, thinking the inquiry respecting some kind of merchandise, immediately answered, "Seven and sixpence a dozen."

Sleep, Unusual

Herodotus reports a tribe that supposedly sleeps six months continuously each year.

Herodotus alludes incredulously to a race of Scythians or Tartars who were reported to sleep six months continuously in a year.