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Show PBEACHING TO THE DEAF. . He that hath ears, let him hear, and he that is deaf can now hear by telephone, tele-phone, and has no excuse for staying away from church. A clergyman in Stratford. Conn., has a number of deaf persons In his congregation. He found that, curiously enough, they, could understand un-derstand what was said to them by telephone. Bo he set up a telephone apparatus ap-paratus on bis pulpit desk and ran wires to a pew near the rear of the church. There sit the deaf, holding receivers re-ceivers with a light handle like that of a lorgnette. This deaf pew, however', is not necessary. Telephone connection will be made between the pulpit and any pew. A great boon to the really deaf, but rather vexatious, perhaps, to the persons Who are so deaf that they can bear all the jokes at- the theater perfectly well, but cannnot follow the sermon. "With the ITocession," Everybody's Ev-erybody's Magaifne. |