SAXOPHONE IN CHURCH

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 December 1935, Page 10

SAXOPHONE IN CHURCH

WOMAN BISHOP LEADS SECT. LONDON, October 20. English girls know better than the girls of any other nation how to dress quietly and “with a proper regard for good taste,” according to Bishop Alma White, the 73-year-olcl founder of th.e American sect known as the “Pillar of Fire” society, who is claimed W be the only woman bishop in the world. That was’what she told an interviewer- at the English headquarters of her movement in Brent Green, Hendon, on arriving from New York. Bishop Alma has crossed the Atlantic 51 times to study conditions in this country since she founded the society 34 years ago. “The girls here are like a breath of fresh air after some of those I see in American towns,” she declared. The bishop believes in bringing religion to the people by infusing more life into the services and she said that in the United States they even had a brass band to help them. “I have brought my 16-year-pld grandson to England with me. He plays the saxophone at services. You see the idea. More life' more pep! Only the other day I was speaking on a platform when a clergyman from New Jersey whom I had never seen before walked up and kisesd me. He said, ‘You deserve kissing. You are doing the right sort of work.’ ”