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Show PREACHES FROM AN AIRPLANE Minister With Many Parishes to Cover Puts Modern Mode of Travel to Good Use. No tolling church bells announce tn the little communities scattered through one section of America's great Northwest the periodic. Sunday, morning morn-ing arrival of the region's most enterprising en-terprising itinerant ' evangelist. Instead, In-stead, they. hear the coughing exhaust of an engine, as his airplane' spirals down upon the village. Drawn irresistibly irre-sistibly by the novelty of (he visit, they flock to the airplane, new at rest in a nearby Held or meadow. They find the preacher on his feet in the pilot's cockpit of the plane "Sky Pilot," ready to begin his discourse. . . - Explanation of this strangest of all the airplane's uses is found in the evangelist's' decision, some months ago, that the time and energy required" for constant travel among distant parishes was seriously curtailing his effectiveness. effective-ness. He decided to. defy all precedent by allying aeronautics and religion. Ho first subjected himself to a rigorous course of training, and became an accomplished ac-complished airman. lie then purchased pur-chased his plane, selecting a fhr'ee-seater fhr'ee-seater of sporting type. The rear cockpit cock-pit seats the pilot, and serves-as his pjilpit when the meetings are held in the open; the forward cockpit accommodating accom-modating his . two assistants, one of them' a song leader. Omaha' Bee. |