SAXOPHONE IN CHURCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22744, 3 December 1935, Page 9

SAXOPHONE IN CHURCH

BRIGHTER SERVICES WOMAN BISHOP LEADS SECT LONDON, October 20. English girls know better than the girls of any other nation how to dress quietly and “with a proper _ regard for good taste,” according to Bishop Alma White, the 73-year-old founder of the American sect known os the “ Pillar of Fire” society, who is claimed to be the only woman bishop in the world. That was what she told an interviewer at the English headquarters of her movement in Brent Green, Hendon, N.W., on arriving from New York. Bishop Alma has crossed the Atlantic 51 times to study conditions in this country since she founded the society 34 years ago. “ The girls here are like a breath of fresh air after some of those I see in American towns,” she declared. The bishop believes in bringing religion to -the people by infusing more life into the services, and she said that in the United States they even had a brass band to help them. “ I have brought my Ifi-year-old grandson to England with me. He plays the saxophone at services. You see the idea. More life, more pep! “ Only the other day T was speaking on a platform, when a clergyman 'rom New Jersey whom I had never seen before walked up and kissed me. He said. ‘ Yon deserve kissing. Yon are doing the right sort of work.’”