BRIGHT CHURCH SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21224, 2 July 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

BRIGHT CHURCH SERVICE

BREAKFAST FOR THE FLOCK.

TENRIS AND BOWLS.

TWO RECTORS* CAMPAIGNS. Breakfast at the rectory for early communicants is one of the inducements offered by the Rov. T. G. Devitt, rector »f Fleet, South'' Lincolnshire, who has been conducting a vigorous campaign to popularise church services. "It has been suggested that some of ttose who come to the nine o'clock Encharift and -breakfast," Mr. Devitt writes in his parish magazine, " would like to coine on to the rectory for a •ouple of hours of lawn tennis. " Surely," Mr. Devitt adds, " to come to the Lord's service, to sit down afterwards to a social meal, to join in healthy, bodily exercise, and to meet again at Evensong i:s the ideal way to spend Sunfyv- No one who has not attended the church service will be welcomed on the tennis court."

The Rev. Man by Lloyd—a cousin of L>rd Lloyd— rector of the tiny twin waytide villages of Callow and Dewsall, near Hereford, has also been conducting an advertising " drive." " Come to Callow Church and picnic under the Tulip Tree, onl .V hnlf-a mile from the Angel Inn," his •dvei'tisenmnt reads. % motorist could resist this prominently, displayed appeal at Callow Church, many motorists, cyclists and "ikers attended'on a recent Sunday. "If N> e car won't stop at the placo where y°ur mother used to worship—then sell it!"

Two hundred motor-cyclists had camped in specially-provided tents, in barns, and the r jctory itself. They were hold'"Kjheir annual rally and board meetlnK in th e rectory grounds yesterday. ■A'ter the service were played bowls, clock B°lf and croquet in the rectory grounds, • tho vicar supervised the cooking hundreds of appetising ham md egg *" e akfasts.

'lf you do it ill (he right spirit there m °re leal worship in playing bowls an ' n attending church services," said "' r Manly Lloyd. This man, who has " la( ' e the whole country his parish, was "■friend of that great padre, " Woodbine Millie, ' jjq i>eeri. in turn, a- banker, " Canadian trapper, and a clergyman. " Christianity," Mr. Lloyd savs, "is. n ° t,lin g to do* with what a man ents br drinks. Whatever else I find in pub'Jic ** ous es, there arc always some of tho p 6 l elements of huma.i nature there. The z 1 r °h Cf England, owing chiefly to its parochial system, is static, not dynamic.