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A Church With a Mighty Congregation
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receiving set has been installed in her bedroom, and daily it will bring to her the voice of her son.
Mrs. Lucy Williams Dodd, the mother of the pastor, Dr. M. E. Dodd, is nearly eighty years old, and for the last two years has grieved because she could not hear his sermons.
in late years has caused her to lose touch with many of the world's developments. But her son reminded her that when telephones first came into general use, she had said she would have none of them in her home.
She consented to a trial, and a radio set was installed in her home. Now she is an enthusias
The pastor's mother, Mrs. Lucy Williams Dodd, eighty years old and an invalid, listening by radiophone at her home in Trenton, Tenn., to her son in Shreveport, La. The broadcasting station was installed in the church primarily so that she
could hear her son's sermons
While Doctor Dodd was visiting her recently, she expressed the fear that she would never hear him preach again. That was the suggestion that lead to the installation of the broadcasting station. He made her a promise that arrangements would be made so that she would hear every service he conducted as plainly as if she were sitting in a pew before him.
For a long time Mrs. Dodd was skeptical. The retired life her illness has forced her to lead
tic radio fan. Daily she listens to concerts and lectures sent out from broadcasting stations, and enthusiastically declares that the newfangled ideas aren't so bad after all, especially for a woman of eighty who can scarcely leave her bed. And now the completion of the station in the Shreveport church has enabled her to listen to the voice of her own son.
Hundreds of churches that have no pastor or that are able to have a preacher only once or