| Show ALL BY PHONE what may be expected in a not distant future as an a result of appliances ances can be inferred from the be fact that telephone service on an ext extended ended scale Is in now utilized in birmingham england for the he purpose of distributing religious sermons in various ports pans of the city and that a proposition has hao been considered to connect in a similar manner the main auditorium of a philadelphia church with the room below so as to enable two eions to hear bear the exercises in the upper room simultaneously christ church in birmingham to is connected by means of loud speaking telephones with the principal hoe has wale and the jail fall not only ID birmingham but in seven large cities at a distance varying from one hundred to two hundred and fifty miles oo 00 I 1 led says say 8 the san frao ChrOn tOM the telephones are attached to the reading desk to the pulpit of the preacher and to the place reserved for the organ and choir by this thin con i tr ivance the whole of the service may be heard by thousands not present the suggested by this arrangement ran gement are innumerable it would for instances instance enable a number of small churches to club together and support one popular minister wb who 0 might preach to them all io in a central telephone church thus rendering the servi services ser vloe oes of a number of ministers who might do better in other callings superfluous and in the same way the musical exercises of on one congregation might be utilized in several places simultaneously central choirs would be formed of the best talent obtainable tai tal Dable and their harmonious melo meio dies would be heard over the whole circuit for bun reds of miles mile it may as a yet sound irrational to say any that vast audiences were assembled in ogden in prove in logan in mantl in st george etc to listen to the musical entertainment given by the world renowned salt gait lake choir in the tabernacle er on such and such an evening and that the various r umbers on the program were enthusiastically applauded all over the territory yet that to is evidently within the possibilities of the future in the same way when electricity shall have been identified with the interests of politics on a larger scale than hitherto people will no do longer depend on abbreviated reports of campaign speeches or debates in legislative assemblies biles the wisdom patriotism and eloquence of politicians will be had on tap as an it were the idea of utilizing the telephone tor for such purposes has often been dis cussed and imaginative writers have dwelt dwell upon it as a materialized fact la in the commonwealth of the next kontu ries but to the birmingham preacher probably is credit due for having taken the initiatory practical stop step in this thie direction the won jere to come by the aid of electricity are no doubt numer out OUR still if signs are not deceiving much greater wonders are to in store for another generation it if john W keeles theory of the law of sympathetic vibration PP be correct it will some time be possible to utilize for social and commercial seii i the forces that bind the u universe diverse together beyond that even imagination at present refuses to go |
