PREACHING IN A CIRCUS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 11 (Supplement)

PREACHING IN A CIRCUS.

In Paris, a famous Catholic priest, Father Sanson, the celebrated preacher of Notre Dame, one of the greatest pulpit orators of the time, has found an original way of spreading the tenets of his religion. He appears each night at the Circue d'Hiver. Between two acts, one by Japanese magicians and another by a trained seal, Father Sanson makes his appeal to the crowd. It takes no longer than four minutes, five at the outside. The impression is tremendous. Although one can hardly hear a word the preacher says from the doorway, the sight of the man in the black soutane, gesticulating with earnestness and passion there in the sawdust ring, surrounded by clowns and girls in tights and trapezists is something so utterly novel that the burst of applause .which greets the end of his little speech seems not out of place.