A PIOUS BRASS BAND.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1396, 24 May 1923, Page 2

A PIOUS BRASS BAND.

The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, of Sydney, is a clergyman with small / faith in the ordinary methods of the cloth. He was a temperance agitator, who believed the movement was more retarded than helped by the ac tions of his fellow clergymen, and held that there would be no real progress till the parsons were frozen out or until they adopted an altogether different line of action. Now Mr Hammond, finding his congregation dwindling at St. Barnabas'. George Street has engaged not a cinema plant, but a brass band to play the people into ehurch. He holds that a pastor i.justiiied in adopting any reasonable and respectable method of getting I people into the pews, and a brass band is highly respectable, if a trifle loud. It is a champion band he has ; employed. People will come to hear the band play, and will remain to ' pray. Sounding brass and tinkling j cymbal play a great part in Bible , ceremonial, so why not pound the j drum ecclesiastic to-day in a goon ! cause? Perhaps the vails ot* indifference and unbelief will fall before the blaring of the Sydney trumpets.—Melbourne Sun. I