CHURCH SERVICES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 5, 30 January 1909, Page 6

CHURCH SERVICES

SI lOC LI) TUKY BE ADVERTISED J The following clipping from an English exchange is interesting : Those ministers and church workers who think the cause of religion is best sen eil by " blushing unseen" should have heard the debate at the Sphinx Club on " What Can Publicity do for Keligion V General lloolh had "promised to attend, but was indisposed and sent Colonel I'nsworlh to say how much the General was indebted to the press for making known the work of the Salvation Army, and seeing that it had fair play. l'relicndary Carlile, head of the Church Army, who advertises every week topical lilies of his Sunday evening addresses, and packs his church in Eastcheap, testilicd to the value of advertising. Three other clergymen urged the necessity, as the llev. (.'. 11. Grundy put it, of "blowing up the trumpet," in these days. Of course (eoninieiils the Christian World), if churches are to be considered '•little gardens walled aroud," for the cultivation of a few select souls, the old "little gardens walled around/' for the it is ol'te.i found that the "select souls ' dwindle to siek.y shrubs.