A Letter from Uncle Leo

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 49, 19 June 1931, Page 5

A Letter from Uncle Leo

Mission Work in Engiand > . . yN @ personal letter to Mr. A. Rt. Harris, the Rev. Lionel Fletcher, of Beresford. Street Congregational Church, and well known to 1YA listeners as "Uncle Leo," writes from Becrlford, England, under date April 28:"YT have never ever seen such a cuinpaign as the London Youth Byangelistie Campaign; and neither has any other living man. From the .start on November 1 we have never been able to accommodate the crowds of young people who have come. No building would hold them, and often I have been speaking by means of loudspeakers in three buildings at once, My experience before the microphone at YA has stood me in great stead, and

when I spoke in the Royal Albert Halt on two nights of our great Thanksgiving Service to 16,000 people, I was told that my volee came through clearer than anyone else’s. That was simply becduse I stood in front of the microphone and did not turn my head to either side. "More than 350,000 attended our meetings and 11,000 professed conversion. "T am making a short tour of the provinces, and here again I am talking to overflowing crowds. There is certainly a more serious atmosphere in England than eight years ago. I spoke over the air several times in Canada and America, but there the churches pay the companies to have the right to broadcast, and no good would have been done by me_interviewing the companies, but the churches who had ‘the right to broadcast used me when they had the opportunity. "When £ veturn I can relate my impressions.. Meanwhile let me assure you that New Zealand is not behind in broadcasting. I have yet to hear anything better than much that we get there, and I have not yet heard better children’s hours than some of ours are. I leave on May 29, and hope to reach Auckland on July 13.- # P.