A Few Thing's seen from the Headland.

Southland Times, Issue 19185, 24 October 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

A Few Thing's seen from the Headland.

A Religious Service Without Sound In London thero is a church which hap f Sarvlcfl for tho deaf and dumb. It is St Bavlour's. nonr the Mnvble Arch, the iectoi tit which Ih Rev. F. W. Gilby. No bell sum men** tho congregation ; no organ welcome; it on arrival ; no anthem swells its note o< praise, At oleven o'clock the congregatior aßßembles, and the service begins. It it usually conducted by two clergymen simultaneously, who intone the prayers and con fession in the manual signs, the congregation repeating them. When the hymn is

given out the people stand up ns in other churches, and the versus aye ** sung " in a chorus of mo\ing tiugeis. h\ the lea.a'ir.g of the Lessons nnd the delivery of the set mon the sign language is reinforced by imitative and exp'n'.i. story gestures, each sentence being th *l >pe:led out in the manna! sign-

and then illustrated by npp. op/into pantomime, and the use of ceilain eouveir.i-mnl signs, winch, like the " gaamui.. levies '' of the sho. than. l writer, o.ve >s c. rtain words or ;•!'•:-..- of fte.*:vut ccvim; m-e. T.'ie smice at Sf ouvioui's has been eoriTcih uesxiibed as ono of the strangest iv the world.