Actors Reading Church Lessons by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 17, 1888

Actors Reading Church Lessons

By Editor

It is stated that in two London churches actors have been invited to read the lessons for several successive Sundays, lately, and have given great satisfaction to the audiences. We see no reason why they should not; as a general thing actors can read better than ministers can, and when the service consists merely of music, and the reading of a set "lesson," the best reader must give the best satisfaction. From this little circumstance anybody ought to be able to see how a liturgical service naturally tends to make moral character and biblical knowledge minor qualifications for a minister.