Show preach ng to the deaf he that hath ears let him hear ana he that Is deaf can now hear by 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 what was said to them by telephone so he set up a telephone tel ephon e apparatus on his pulpit desk and ran wires to a pew near the front of the church there sit tho deaf holding receivers 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 rath er vexatious perhaps to the persons who are so deaf that they can hear all the jokes at a theater perfectly well but cannot follow the sermon with the procession everybody s magazine |