FILLING CHURCHES
n ?f' £• ?■ £*°, yd ' organist at St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, has ideas about filling churches. One concerns the psychological subject of the limits of human patience. He would like medical comment on how long a situpon can be sat upon. Many hymns, he said, were not fit to be sung by a cow. Ten hymns on a Sunday were too many. Repetition of the few good ones was a great danger to religion. The old routine of the Church, intelligently interpreted, carried enormous powers of attraction and there was no need to dangle other attractions in front of people's noses like ecclesiastical confectioners.
The story was told in a dispatch to the "New York Times."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 94, 21 April 1945, Page 10
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