From the picture on Google Street View, it appears that the Herron Avenue Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a vacant building today. And a hundred years ago, the pulpit was apparently vacant.

Undaunted, the members figured out a way to fill the pulpit, in the form of the radio receiver shown here. In the absence of a regular pastor, the pulpit was fitted with a radio receiver, and the service was received by radio from the Calvary Episcopal Church some ten miles away. According to the account in the September 1921 issue of Wireless Age, the service was received with unmistakable distinctness. “Interest was so well sustained throughout the religious services, that the proverbial sleeping brother in the amen corner was conspicuously absent.”