IN BEACH COSTUMES
ATTENDANCE AT CHURCH MINISTER’S SUGGESTIONS MELBOURNE, May 14. A church service presenting religious plays and films to a congregation dressed in beach costumes, tennis flannels, or hiking kit, was envisaged by the Rev. P. J. Rothwell, of Bendigo, in an address to the assembly of the Congregational Union to-day.' Mr. Botbwell was speaking on “Church methods and modern needs.”
* The church, he said, had a dual purpose to reach the unheeding and to strengthen the belief of those who already heeded. To this end anything and everything was admissible in the type of religious service. It did not matter if some methods savoured of revolution. The times demanded new methods. Mr. Bothwell said that the hours of worship should be changed to 8.30 for the morning service and 9 o’clock for the evening service. This would enable worshippers to attend church services and also have time on Sunday for recreation. "Worshippers should lie allowed to'come to church in beacli clothes, tennis; attire, or hiking shorts. They worshipped with their hearts, lie said, not with their clothes, and the important thing was that they should be gathered in church.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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191IN BEACH COSTUMES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19024, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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