A RELIGIOUS SERVICE IN A LONDON SEWER

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1580, 9 June 1887, Page 3

A RELIGIOUS SERVICE IN A LONDON SEWER

The London oor respondent of tl<o " Bristol Tf Toea " writes — 4 One has hwd of sermons m all sorts of out-of-the«wr.y places, not to speak of the sermons i.i stones of which we have all read ; b I who before ever heard of a sermon ie aewer ? When the great ma'a drains ; ftjstem of the metropolis w<t« opened, 11 them Boa ds of Works, with their gnes f „ dlred and lunched m the n> fi onlf ' sewer, 100 whtab, fortanatet^, no c tome' 1 on ibe eewa^e to spoii the for V ; bat it bri been renrrved to the P v Marcus Ra'aford, an energetic Evangelical curate of North London, to literally I go down m o the sewera to hold a service. The Board of Works are oon> ■tinoUng a newer sewer down the fiolloway Road, and a portion of toe , works are In t v e parish of Mr Washington, the vicar of St Ger^e's Tafnell Park, whose curate Mr Kainsford le>, acd m order to provide fort y e workmen oepiritaal this service was held inside the new ■ewer. Who ahail now a»y the clergy »t© not f ell-denylag when they g^ 4oWtt Into the sewers to find worshippers,'