Show I I I I NEW NE YORK CHURCH ADOPTS NOVEL WAY NAY I Of SAVING SOULS 1 Parade Through h Streets Under Light of Illuminated Illuminated Cross NEW YORK Dec The S. 8 The old oM and amI fa fashionable St. St Georges George's es e's Episcopal church of this thus city has established a precedent in in the manner of calling sinners to be saved fa Through the crowded cron streets of the tho cast east side hlo last Jast night tho the rector the Rev Hugh Birckhead Birckhead Birck- Birck head accompanied by hy staid vestrymen vestry vestry- men an and members of the congregation marched like Salvationists under the light of an electrically electrical illuminated I cross Two policemen led lell the way 3 while whilo the strains of ot Onward Christian Christian Chris tian Han Soldiers JJ rang out in the tho night air The Thc i idea c was to go out into the tho I highways and md byways to call can whosoever whosoever whoso whoso- ever would follow Many there were who did follow the majority of them however attracted b by the tho novelty of oi the situation When the pro procession had bad returned to tho the church an and tho those o who had followed were gente seated tho the rector mo mounted the thc pulpit an and said We have havo marched through the streets and adopted this extraordinary method to prove provo to ourselves our our- selves and to you that we wo exi exist t for the benefit of tb the community 1 Wo Ve a have havo gone gono ono outside of the church walls and into tho streets to prove provo this |