TEACHING TO PREACH.

Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1911, Page 5

TEACHING TO PREACH.

LIFGIiKSKXKSS IN THE CHURCH. 1.1 iiv. \V. 1). Ward, who was recently instituted and inducted as vicar of St. Oswald's, Fulhatn, in the presence of the Lord .Mayor and Sheriffs of London, the patrons of the living, has strong view.- on the preaching and reading of services by the clergy >;md one of his great aims is tlie teaching of clergymen and young men preparing for ordi\u*tion to preach and to use their voices. Mr Ward, who has heen four y<'ars curate of- St. Matthew's, Brixton, is also attached to the Bishop of Winchester's Theological College at KarnMam, tcudiing the principles of voice production as applied to work in cTiurch. "Before a man goes up into the pulpit." said Mr Ward in an interview, "lie ought to know what he has got to say and how to say it, and when he ha.*. :-ani it he should stop. The dramatic pMs.siliilitie> <>l the Bible are tremendous. Before 1 read a lesson 1 get a on-iiire or it in n.y mind, and then if I ;.i:i;iot put that picture before th" people I am reading to I have fali -d. i: i> i)«*;.ti i to be ever-dramatic than monotonous.

i! "1 st.irt my instruction,'' he 'on- , tinned. "in teaching men liow to , In fat he properly. I divide mv mui'.v ! ii; 111 departim ut.s. Intoning is .! Thou ih I would do away with it mi ;i

••jrosu Many cliuri lios as umireess.nv. tiny: and intelligent r« :><lu:<r of t!t• It .-.Mills is another. liMdi'i;; (•ravels a third, and general t-l.t'-ti-j tion ul! nurposes, e?|<eially |,~ j inu. is .me mI ine most important fid-s j f>t tlie '.vork. Liielt'ssnes.s is driving men <nt nl elmrclu's." Mr Ward advoeates a reasonalile hut real t.v>t in ivadi'ijr and speaking far all t i.indiilates t< 11- ordination.