SPEECH IN CHURCH
THE “CLERICAL BLEAT” LONDON, July 10. Canon T. P. Stevens, vicar of St. Paul’s, Wimbledon Common, has made 'a proposal which he thinks will lift Anglican services from what he described as “their present languid, dismal character.” It is that actors and broadcasters should be invited to read the lessons as frequently as possible, sc that both congregation and clergy may realise the true dramatic qualities of great Scriptural passages. Canon Stevens is critical of the “clerical voice or parson’s bleat” which, he says, is simply a mannerism, and nothing to do with the voice itself. He believes that the best way of combating it is to determine to say prayers and preach sermons in an ordinary speaking voice.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1945, Page 6
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