SERMONS BY TELEPHONE.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2895, 27 May 1878, Page 2

SERMONS BY TELEPHONE.

: A remarkable application of tbe tele* phone is, according to the Now York Herald, about to be tried. It is proposed to erect a marble 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 mid rile of the chancel. A popular preacher will be placed in the rcarble retreat with Hn 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 projecJ'on in the chancel with all the various of the proacher's voicer Church music will be done on the same principle by means of the " pyrophone," an organ with copper pipes, whoso notes . can be distinctly heard over-the whole' city. This latter invention will enable the people to sit in thek own houses and listen to a sacred concept, or gather on l^heir *'front stoop 3 " aud unite in a con* gregational hymn, while a precenter up in a balloon (" wind and weather permitting ',') beats the time.

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