PIANO IN ST. PAUL'S.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 309, 30 December 1940, Page 5

PIANO IN ST. PAUL'S.

FAMOUS FANE CARRIES ON. (Special.) LONDON November 10. In St. Paul's Cathedral this week the congregation sang hymns to the accompaniment of a piano. It was played by Dr. Marchant, a former organist. Though the high altar has been destroyed by a bomb St. Paul's is carrying on. All the dignity of a cathedral service was there, minus its aloofness.

The preacher, Prebendary J. H. J.l Ellisson, rector of St. Michael, CornhillJ E.C., speaking, he said, in his office of chaplain Lord Mayor of London, chose as text a verse from the story of the conversion of St. Paul, "Go I into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."

"It has always been the glory of the iCity of London to carry high the banner of freedom," he said. "Just now the city has suffered a blow in the mutilation of her central church which is rebounding throughout Christendom. Don't rfet us resent it overmuch, but see it as a wound a knight might receive. It puts the cathedral in line with the poor, wrecked homes. "I like to think of our city life as the bridge between the present and the future. . We cannot tell what lies over the bridge, bnt maybe the tmion of all English-speaking peoples to preserve the pqace of the world."