Show RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN A TELEPHONE OFFICE SERMON AND musio MUSIC distinctly HEARD THE FIRST BATTERY introduced INTO A CHURCH IN ims ima COUNTRY lorrell Lo citizen 3 there were 12 of us 9 assembled in the central telephone office y yesterday esterday morningan mornin gat the invitation aitto 11 of the he genial manager mr glidden we went there with the express purpose of hearing religious services per telephone bone and never did services pass off more quickly and piew plew antly the office was waa connected d with the freewill baptist church where one of prof bells beils transmitting batteries bad been arranged out of sight eight behind the pui pit and the minister and the choir and the congregation preached and sang bang and read lead the responses seem beem for our special benefit the minister and them cho ir were aware of their unseen listeners 1 but the congregation was entirely oblivious of an outside congregation the services commenced on time ve vve knorr kno that for we were a trifle late the organ voluntary of mr george E metcalf rang out clear and sweet swe ethen then the grand old doxology by c choir hoir ari ali abo abd d sung with the zeal of an interested congregation gre gation every word of the invocation even oven the lowest spoken wa words r da came to us in the central office with great distinctness and in the anthem which followed Mrs thompsons Thomp sons rich soprana and the mellow contralto of mrs harriman haniman were of richest sweetness though the choir were full fall seventy five feet away from the battery the softest sot notes of the organ were heard by all probably no preacher in the city had a more more devout or more interested congregation than rev bev mr porters central omee office hearers but we help smiling audibly more than once in the iong long prayer when some irreverent one broke the train of thought of the prayer to us by calling amr mr glidden look herel that talking aud and where Is he any way now john shouts man ager glidden if you dont stop atop talking I 1 shall have to cut out you off listen but dont say a word and just then a ringi ringing ng laugh was heard over the wire and in a second a rather meek voice called out for other information manager gaid den a trifle provoked a sort of mental way that a woman again when he knew all our other interruptions came cam e from john and his hia kind but the interrupt inter rup were very few the scripture reading by minister and congregation WAS distinguished word for word and then came the voice of the min later lster orve we will sing the hymn 11 dmn omitting the third verse y and a after f ter a brief interlude by the organist the voices of the the congregation came to us in pleasing melody after reading a bateh batch of notices the text was announced as a portion of matthew xvi 3 but can you not discern the signs of the times time 01 it was a discourse written evidently for the occasion and went to establish the truth proclaimed by sir brewster that science ever hw hai been and ever must be va the safeguard of religion what science had already accomplished for the world and nd what religion owed to it were dwelt upon with peculiar force before concluding he spoke orsome of some rome af the wonderful inventions of the day das and made special reference to the phonograph and telephone the discourse disco ures urea wa had the tho least difficulty in distin the remarks of the preacher when his bis earnestness in his subject impelled him bim to em emphatic sentences the moderate tores tones were all plainly aaril heard beard we heard beard the cobie concluding ding organ selection as the congregation passed out nud aud caught the muffled monotonous meno tones of the retiring worshipers mr cardell called the sunday school to order the children bang sang hold the fort and after a brief lull deacon ij ghowe was waa presented by superintendent cardell with a basket of finely arranged wax flowers the gift of his sunday school class Ther the response espouse was not beard if any was made in the afternoon the church choir bang eang many of their best selections select fonis ionis to foxboro Fox boro by way of boston distance 60 mile mlle and the choir there responded altogether it was a wonderful performance when professor bell introduced his telephone it was laughingly said suld that people need not go to church they could take in the cervices vices at their own homes that is now an accomplished fact for many heard the eer services vices yesterday by their own telephones at home quite as distinctly as though they were at church what convenience the invention can be made to serve in the near future think of the enjoyment to be derived in this way by bv those fashionable flora mc me elim Flim bys who have nothing to wear or those others whom the dilatory milliners have cheated out of new now bonnets for sunday or those who are belated for church by refractory frac tory back hair or curls that absolutely sol refuse to stay where pull think of the invention may prove to the tired newspaper man who assigned to take services at a certain church simply turns on his wire connection with said church and after taking the desired notes falis falls off again to refreshing slum berj beiJ truly 11 wonders wa will wiil 11 never it is a matter matler 0 of some bome local pride that the battery introduced into the freewill baptist church yesterday was the tho first put into a church Inthis in this country tho credit efthia of this belongs belo beio ilga to the enterprise of manager glidden of this city whose efforts were seconded by mr cardell of the paige street church |