The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-04-27
TO USE RADIO
IN CHURCH WORK
Bishop of Episcopal Church
Sees Religious Use for
Wireless.
FOR FAR MISSIONS.


no excuse for not attending service if
the plans of Rt. Rev. Nathaniel Sey-
mour Thomas, D. D., Episcopal mis-
sionary bishop of Wyoming, mature
for Bishop Thomas proposes to carry
the service to the church-goers. Bish
OPP Thomas presides over that wide
expanse of territory where the wild
bison formerly roamed and Buffalo Bill
battled with the hostile Indians; and
which is now given up to the sheep
herder and the cowboy. Churches and
missionary stations in many cases are
two and three hundred miles apart
and with the bishops staff of mission
aries SO limited that not much more
than a monthly service is possible, ex-
cuses for mons attendance take on a
hue of sweet reasonableness. This is
what Bishop Thomas proposes to
change. The bishop arrived at the
Church Missions House, New York,
with an appeal for radio outfit.
Good for Far West.
"I am convinced" said he, "that
through the medium of the radio we
shall be able to revolutionize mission
airy methods in regions of magnificent
distances like our state of Wyoming
Under present methods with our com
municants widely scattered and mis-
sion stations few and far between, the
church finds it impossible to reach all
of our people more than about once a
month. Radio is just the thing to
remedy this situation. I had my first
demonstration of the radio in a Bos-
ton hotel the other night and was
greatly impressed.
The only drawback I noticed was the
constant interruption by amateur OPP,
orators and others who cut in on the
circuit. / was told this was difficult
to avoid in such a crowded section Of
the country, but that in those parts
of the world where there was less con-
fusion the radio was a most wonderful
means of communication.
"Now," continued the bishop, "that's
where I live-in part of the country
where there is no confusion at all
comparatively speaking, where there
are great waste spaces and solitudes
and men find it possible to meet to-
gether and worship only at infrequeni
intervals.
Start Message at Cathedral.
"What l want, therefore, is radio
outfit which will carry 800 or four
hundred miles. I will install it in the
cathedral at Laramie and make week
ly business of sending to the small
scattered missions throughout the
state the full service and sermon which
we have there each Sunday. With
such an outfit the possibilities are, OF
course, unlimited as regards the sec
ton affected. 1t will be possible to
send to our widely dispersed people
then, not only the full service or Sun
day, but speeches, concerts, news
items, etc., throughout the week. The
value of such service to the thou
sands of people who are living lonely
lives in our sparsely settled regions is
incalcuable. The church viii! make a
great mistake not to take immediate
advantage Of this new advance of sci
ence."
Bishop Thomas eyes twinkled at this
stage.
Money is Thing Needed.
"The trouble about taking advantage
Of the advance of science" said he.
sis that it costs money; and being, sc
to speak, a pioneer with this sugges-
ton, l am looking for some Eastern