SERMONS BY TELEPHONE.
A remarkable application of the telephone is, according to the New York Herald, about to bo tried. It is proposed to erect amaiblc retreat in Union-square New York, with tubes connecting every church in the city. On Sunday the congregations will assemble as usual, but instead of gazing into the minister’s face they will look at a huge funnel-shaped projection in the middle of the chancel. A popular preacher will be placed in the marble retreat with an eloquent and stirring sermon. He will preach at about 500 open tubes, and his eloquence will be transmitted to as many congregations, and emerge from the bell-shaped projection in the chancel with all the various modulations of the preacher’s voice. Church music will be done ou the same principle by means ol the “ pyroplioue, an organ with copper pipes, whose notes can be distinctly heard over the whole city. This latter invention will enable the people to sit in there own houses and listen to a sacred concert, or gather on their “ front stoops ” and unite in a congregational hymn, while a pveccnter up in a balloon (“ wind and weather permitting ”) beats the time.
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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 330, 15 June 1878, Page 4
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195SERMONS BY TELEPHONE. Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 330, 15 June 1878, Page 4
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