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Sister McPherson Broadcasting Salvation
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Edith M. Borkgren
INTRO DUCING Aimee Semple I McPherson, Angelus Temple and KFSG — if they need any introduction.
Springing up almost over night nearly eight and a half years ago, Angelus Temple was one of the first churches to step into the world of radio. But then, who could deny that this is one of the most astoundingly progressive churches of the twentieth century!
Angelus Temple, with its pale amber walls gleaming in the sunlight, and its silver radio towers flinging the message of its gospel to the world, stands beside beautiful Echo Park Lake which shimmers in prismatic glory among feathery palms and trailing weeping willows. Upon entering one of its crystal doors one steps into an immense auditorium seating 5300 people.
Yet with all its vastness, beauty and restful ease have not been sacrificed. Comfortable opera chairs, luxurious carpeted aisles, a great organ rising eighty feet above the proscenium arch, myriad concealed lights, accommodations for two large choirs on either side of the platform with room for band and orchestra just in front, enable one to realize the extent of this, the largest fireproof church in
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America, and the comprehensive lines on which it is operated. Impressive is the great blue cloudflecked dome and the eight world famed stained glass windows depicting scenes in the life of Christ.
• KFSG, the "Glory Station of the Pacific Coast," as it is sometimes called, is supported entirely by gifts of the people who donate a day in memory of a member of their family or an important event in their lives, such as a birthday, wedding anniversary or the like. Roderick Dhue Morrison is station manager and announcer. Esther Fricke, the Temple organist, has broadcast 1 ,528 organ recitals and is a pioneer artist in the technique of organ broadcasting. There are two broadcasting pipe organs and William Eugene Collins is assistant organist. On the air forty-one hours during the week, there are three studios from which they broadcast aside from the main auditorium.
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• Music plays an intensely important part in the activities of this versatile church. It has three bands, four choirs, and three orchestras, all of which have a certain time during the week to play and sing. There is a Foursquare Conservatory of Music, founded two years ago, by Aimee Semple McPherson, that teaches everything from a harmonica and musical saw to pipe organ and harp.
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