CHURCH AND RADIO.
CONTROL OF EXPRESSION.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Friday.
The possibility that through ite control of broadcasting the State might eventually control the expression of religion was a comment made by Mr. H. Sturge, chairman at the annual assembly of the Congregation Union of New Zealand, which is being held in Christchurch. Mr. Sturge said many people held that the advance of broadcasting would finally do away with church-going and that the microphone would replace the pulpit. If that ever did occur, the State might control religion, or at least the expression of it. Mr. Sturge added, however, that he himself did not hold the view that people would give up church-going to listen to broadcast services. There would always be an impulse for people to assemble to worship. Only by the assembling of people in churches could the Church grow, and failure by the people to assemble could lead only to spiritual atrophy, decay and death.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 11
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