SERMONS IN ETHER.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1397, 1 November 1932, Page 3

SERMONS IN ETHER.

• i CLERGYMAN USES RADIO. - } -AMATEURS /ANNOYED. 5 For "many years .retired from offis oial church work, Rev. J. N. Martins, *. of Johannesburg-, at the age" 1 of 73 has e undertaken the biggest task of His k life, and has begun- the work of e creating a wireless congregation n which he hopes will ,soon cover the n globe. ' S " During- his years of retirement he lS has devoted himself to the study of divine healing, and, following Bible research in the ~ British Museum, Cairo and Palestine, now claims to have scientific proof " of the remark- » able results of healing by - prayer. i-e He has compiled a Bible of his own ?" whicli he 'calls the Bi'ble of Adam. In order to disseminate his teachings, he* has installed in his lit^e hall 11- in a Johannesburg suburb an - expener- give radio broadcasting set. Working 1 ive on a short wave-length of 42.2 metres, and an output bf 600 watts, he hopes to be able to reach every •ity corner of the globe.. He has started ing full of vigour and enthusiasm, and delivers his radio addresses alter-

lately in Afrikaans and .English." 'But Mf- Martins has reckoned without the wireless amateurs of the world,-and after' his,first day before the microphone the^ air }ias been seething with protest from Johannesburg, to Honolulu and from Sydney to Alaska. As a-beginning, 300 South * African amateur ,wireless experimenters found their, work interfered with—and said so loudly in Morse:' But with"" 500 watts at his beck and call, Mr ;Martins/ carried the day e'asily-Mpr amateurs are limited fr> a maximum of 50 watti. • So the" amateurs have delivered an ultimatum. They declare that, unlesß Mr Martins-limits, his talks to 1 two minutes he will find 300 sets loaded with 50 watts each shrieking Morse at him in . unison. Besides that \ ethereal pandemonium he will be i muted, the amateurs claim. But if I he is not, then they will organise L other amateur transmitters , through- » out the world s and ring, the globe with a' babel of dots and dashes ahd stab his addresses -on" divine healing to death. - r e The casus belli.is that Mr. Martins is operating on a 42.2 metres wave--0 length and well within the V 4l au'd .. i3 metres band assigned .to amateui transmitters all over the world b} n the Washington Conference aboui four years ago. On that little stretel all the^ thousands of "fans" in ..ever: n country have to be accommodated. II J ——J—— —— >-0T — «HBJ '