SUNDAY SERMONS BY TELEPHONE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 279, 6 August 1889, Page 4

SUNDAY SERMONS BY TELEPHONE.

A Coriespdncferif/.o'f; the Standard writes. *' jTljankß to the energy of the South df TSfi'glatid Telephone Company, we have been able to hare the morning and evening services at one of the Congregational churches sw tehed on to our houses. An invalid lady, who has ,not r attended church jf&r has beei| able for several months to regularly attend (in spirit) tbe services of her church. Doctors and. chemists' assistants on duty in orafiou6 parts of the town, members of a "club on tlie Pantiles, peple at Toubridge (fiven miles distant), and many other subscribers to the Exchange, have b^eh enabl d to attend service in their own residences. The organ voluntaries, singing^ead^rejrmop, aioall most clearly./rq,nstnitted to tbe distant worshipers, in aclditiou to the many little noi-ea necessarily caused by tbe movements of a larger gathering of people. Last Sunday some sixteen wires were connected to the church, and the preacher was hea^rd mas many different places.' /Wire! '"are now being laid to Maidstone, and when th^fe, , arjßj-upoujpleted v aubsoribers living in Maid tone, Rochester Btrood, and Chatham, will also be able to join in these se. vices. "