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A temporary wireless aerial constructed by means of clothes-props on the roof of a London church last evening received a "broadcast" sermon.

The Peckham Christian Union organized the experiment, and the sermon of the President of the Union (Dr. J. Boon) spoken into a microphone at the Burdette Aerial Works at Blackheath, was received at Christ Church, McDermott Road, Peckham. The sermon was heard by "listeners-in" within a radius of one hundred miles from Blackheath. At Christ Church a three-valve receiving and amplifying set was installed and fixed to a table in front of the pulpit rails, and the words were heard clearly all over the building. The church was crowded.—The Times.

A temporary wireless aerial constructed by means of a clothes prop on the roof of a London church this evening received what was stated to be the first "broadcast" sermon. The Peckham Christian Union organised the innovation, and the sermon of the president of the Union (Dr. J. Boon), spoken into a microphone at the Burdette Aerial Works at Blackheath, was received at Christ Church. Peckham. The sermon could have been, and indeed from messages received after was, in fact, heard by "listeners in" within a radius of 100 miles from Blackheath. At Christ Church a three-valve receiving set was installed and fixed to a table in front of the pulpit rails, and the words were heard with remarkable clearness all over the building. The church was filled to overflowing, and points in the sermon, which was preached from John iii., verse 16, were emphasised with extraordinary clarity. In the phrase, "I believe in the Bible from cover to cover," the preacher's expressiveness was conveyed, and when he dwelt on the great faith of Christianity in the fact of God, the fact of Christ, and the fact of the future life,"