SATIE IN THE PULPIT

Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 4

SATIE IN THE PULPIT

mode! ideas of heaven PREACHi’S FORCIBLE PHRASES. Gentle hfhter rippled tlu'ough the congregation f the King’s Weigh House Church, D G street, Grosvenor square, London, of recent Sunday morning, when Dr W. Iprchard satirised some modern ideas of pwen. Dr Orfrd is a preacher gifted with a sense of amour, says Mr. James Dunn in a Loil n newspaper. _ He can sparkle with op? 1 ’? 3 , thrill with eloquent passages, ai disturb with biting phrases. A handsenman, with the face of a scholar and the™ of a fighter, ho makes an im-prcssivdsm-0 hi the pulpit; a preacher dressedodrely in black, standing before a carvi crucifix, He preaches with voice and id s - graceful hands that are never still. Thdmnie of Dr Orchard’s sermon was the P'gp of worldliness made against the fistian religion, a charge sharpened by t! doctrine that tho idea of Heaven was ly P ure illusion, a sheer' deception t 0 Ri the poor quiet by the promise of a g i time hereafter. “ t promise of mansions in the sky was castul b}’ the provision of cottages on carl an d ; celestial cities were replaced by fden suburbs,” said Dr Orchard. He inclined that the conception of Heaven wajeyqnd human imagination, “ though thcj’omise in the Book of Rovelations’of g o T,streets, gates of pearl, and walls of prius stone may have excited the C uity of some collectors on earth. ur Lord’s disquieting negative that thj were no marriages nor giving in nJago in Heaven ought to be attractive lijis generation,’’ the preacher remarked, y} the congregation tittered. “Many pie’s idea of Heaven is one of a blank donee, a state of mental stagnation. But,” Dr Orchard declared, his jls eloquent in gesture, his voice filing with sincerity, “ tho other life ntirely dependent on how this life is d. As a man sows so shall ho reap. lis not mocked. It is impossible to ke any sense out of this life without (assurance of some life to come.”