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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 June 1936, Page 3

HOMES WITH NO BIBLES

“SEMI-HEATHENDOM” IN BRITAIN

LONDON. April 19

Vast areas of the country, according to the Rev. T. G. Mohan, are lapsing into semi-heathendom; little more than 10 per cent, of the population of London attends public worship regularly; in the provinces the percentages is about 25. Mr. Mohan, assistant secretary of .the Church Pastoral Aid Society, was addressing the Oxford Conference of Evangelical Churchmen, which concluded at Oxford yesterday. “Many of our young people.” he said, “though better educated than their forefathers, are scarcely conversant with the main facts of Hie New Testament, and there is little hope that their children will know even as much.

“Seventy-live per cent, of the children in a Sunday School in Oxford were stated to be without a Bible in their homes.”

VILLAGE CHURCH WIRELESS

CHICHESTER. April 19

Music from Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's is to be heard in the old church of West Dean, about five miles from here. The vicar, the Rev. H. E. Lyne, has had a radio gramophone permanently installed.

“The wireless has made people ap predate good music.” Mr. Lyne told me.

“IL is very difficult fur us to do justice to a nice anthem so I am going to get some really good records to put on.

“The congregation will then be able to enjoy the music of Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral. We will also be able to turn on to the services of certain other London churches and join in with them. The idea will also be useful for mid-week services when it is hard to get our organist.”