CHURCH BROADCASTS
Sir-As a member of the Church of England I heartily endorse most of Mr, K, Andrews-Baxter’s statertients concerning church broadcasts. Being, dependent on the radio for all servicés, except on "tare occasions, I have ample experience of their yaried qualities from three or four stations,’ and much as I love the Prayer Book Liturgy, I sometimes turn away to a non-Conformist service, owing to the expressionless droning which a few clergymen indulge in, and which, in my humble opinion, is not at all conducive to devotion, nor likely to kindle any enthusiasm for sacred things among those who are indifferent. : If all services were conducted like the ones from the Napier Pro-Cathedral, there could be no complaitit, for Déan Gibson reads and prays bewutifully in a perfectly natural voice. One other point I should like to stress is that some ministers announce only the numbers of the hymns without reading even the first few lines. This sounds very abrupt over the air, and listeners who have different hymn books are quite unable to join in unless the hymn is a verv familiar ane
EGLISE
(Croixelles),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 5
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187CHURCH BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 5
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