NOVEL RELIGIOUS SERVICE
A young vicar at Newcastle-on-Tyne has found a new way of keeping his flock in touch with the Gospel—he takes the church to them. Most of the parishioners of St. Jude's cannot afford Sunday clothes to attend service, so the Rev. Ralph Rumney decided to hold services iu their homes. With a band of_ willing workers, Mr Runiney initiated his movement in a tworoomed tenement —the home of an 87-year-old widow. Members of the church choir attended the bouse service, and the widow's neighbours, many of them wearing shawls, joined in the hymns led bv Mr Rumney, his choirboys and church workers. • It ie understood that this is the first time any clergyman has held such a service, but Mr Rumney intends, if there is sufficient demand, to hold them regularly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 15
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134NOVEL RELIGIOUS SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22632, 25 July 1935, Page 15
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