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Pulling Power. In Wampsville, N.Y., attendance at the Presbyterian Church tripled after someone unknown to the church elders placed an ad in the Oneida Dispatch: "Wanted: men, women and children to sit in slightly used pews, Sunday mornings, Wampsville Presbyterian Church."
Times have changed for the brick building at 207 East 30th Street. Manhattan, that was once the Adams Memorial Presbyterian Church. The stained-glass windows are bricked up, the pews are gone, and in place of the organ there is a glass-fronted control room which bristles with switches, plugs...
The Black Carriages. Week in & week out, though, the rector held services. Each Sunday he unlocked the church doors, robed himself and preached two services to the bare 13th century walls. He sang the hymns himself, and composed his sermons with care. Occasionally curious visitors would drop in to hear...
Except for a few reserved pews, all seats will be open. Stevenson will sit in the minister's pew with his two sons.
London audiences and critics, pinned to hard pews without intermission for an hour and a half, tended to be cool or puzzled, or both. Churchmen tended to be pleased at the fresh evidence of a partnership between godliness and grease paint. Said St. Thomas's vicar, the Rev. Patrick...