THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 29, 1900, THE DRAMATIC ART. Dr. Talmage Gives His Views of the Theater. Says the Drama, Rightly Directed, Is a Source of Good-Should Ive Purified, Not Geuod and Bad Plays. Suppressed [Copyright At a ti when the whole countr is in controve Sy 08 me never before cerning the ater, and } are being arrested by the police others are being patronized by tian people, this sermon of Dr mage is of much ir The text is 1 Corinthians vii use this My course world as ne for pr is that have been kin reason by two of the leading newspapers this country to inspect and report ox two of the popular plays of to go some weeks ago to see the drama "Q cise it with respec fect and t go to the dram New York “Ben-Hur” and wr opinion of doin to di dran dran wor CIASS the of a er t th their and t) world en into as in t} the Ix ! lawful way we a: ' ’ val matic ele staccato passage in tithesis and synthe by BO IND eYers the by every dra ment in r nature literature, by an every tragie passage in human life Now lv that God has implanted this dramatic ele ment in our natures, but | have to tell you in the Scriptures He cultivates it, He appeals to it, He develops it Ido not care where the Bible, your eye will fall upon a drama, Here ft is in the book of Judges, the fir tree, the vine, the olive tree, the bramble they all make speeches. Then at the close of the scene there ina coronation, and the bramble Is proclaimed king. That is a political drama, Here it in in the book of Job: Enter Eliphaz, Bil dad, Zophar, Elihu and Job. The open ing act of the drama, all darkness; the closing set of the drama, all sunshine, Magnificent drama is the book of Job! Here it is in Bolomon's Bong: The region, an oriental region vineyards, pomegranates, mountain of myrrh, flock of sheep, garden of splices, a woo- Ing, a bride, a bridegroom, dialogue intense, gorgeous, all suggestive drama is the book of Solomon's Song. Here it fo in the book of Luke: Costly mansion fn the night! All the windows bright with ilumination. The floor a quake I have to tell vou not or you open | they are making such a f cheek at the story { sob or | river coronts | tury, with the dance, Returned son in costly gurments which do not very well fit him perhaps, for they were not made for him, but he must swiftly leave off | his old garb and prepare for this ex- temporized levee! TPouting son at the because Fears of sympathy running down the old man’s back door, too mad to go in f der at his When you hes | Iraoch of his vou did not know whether to of } son's wat ffering and te ing and su return! cite “The readings, hout, Reviva res Prodigal Son" in nt started soul revolut Prodigal S Here Crystallin (RAL ining the in mvth or of the oldest ty] he people or he w the dramatic clement in } an opport iy ! of gratifieat out compromise and without the thing of 1} and the tides of such at tion we Goes n gl tient cen 1 fostitu d rise as the Atlantic rises at Liverpoc | docks, There Christian are tens of the homes where the sons and daughtersare beld back from dramatic entertainment for reasons which some of you would say are good reasons and others would say are poor reasons, but still held back. But on the establish ment of such an institution they would feel the arrest of thelr anxieties and would say on the establishment of this new institution which I have called the spectacular: “Thank God, this is what we have all been walting for.” Now, as I believe that | make sug. gestion of an Institution which wiser men will develop, I want to give some characteristion of this new Institution this spectacular, if it is to be a grand social and moral success. In the first place, its entertainments must be com. pressed within an hour and three-quar- tern, What kills sermons, prayers and lectures and entertainments of all sorts In prolixity., At a reasonable hour every night every curtain of public en. tertainment ought to drop, every ehureh service ought to cease, the in mands of struments of orchestras ought to be unstrung. What comes more than this comes too late, On the platform of this new instity- there will be forerendering haw been read, expurgat vd, abbreviated and passed tion a drama which be upon by a this on If there be in a drama a ntence sug it. If board of trustees connected with ? reformed amusement associat | will be Is gesting evi ieken « there be in a Shake word with two mean and a bad me: inother word it t an honest ing ‘ wordad an nastiness You I's tochange Dv oe I'he board « amu king down | and worthy of try, hoping for our throw us a garland parents, with on. Gallery of ng down the Poly ) R Theban legion and the Scoteh of the FADS Bar and ‘ dleys and the McKalls (Covenanters they Brussels crying “God gave us and market place and of Piedmont down fron the give it you" Gallery of angels looking down bie, seraphic, clapping their wingaat every advantage we guin, Gallery of the King, from which there waves a scarred hand and from which there comes a eympathetie volee say ing “Be thou faithful unto death and 1 will give thee a crown of life.) Oh, the spectacle in which you and [ are the actors! Oh, the pitied up galleries Yooking down! Beene: The last day rocking earth. Enter kings, beggars, clowns tinge! cries victor He will chern archangelic Stage: The Duke a, lords Nosword, No For footlights: The kindling flames of a world Foror chestra: The trumpets that awake the dead For applause: The clapping floods of the sen. For curtain: The Heavens rolled together as a soroll. For tragedy: “The Doomof the Proflignte * For the last scene of the fifth net: The tramp of nations neross the stage, wme to the right, others to the left. en the bell of the last thunder will g. and the curtain will drop! No erown { All Public Sale Bills Printed at This Office THURSDAY, MARCH 26 | FRipay SALE REGISTER. band, Babula, Clearfield, Co., Pa; Lose, Nittany, Centre Co, Va Take notice that In pursuance to an order of the Orphans Court of Centre County, Fenn { sylvania, a writ in partition has been issued returnable on Monday, Zird day of April, 1% and that an inquest be held for the purpose of making partition of the real estate of said de cedent on SATURDAY AVRIL 21st, 1A At the late residence of the ded Hime and place you ean be pre Balle will be Inserted in this Column Free. Wm. H, Long, 8r., will offer at public sale at his residence at Jack | sonville, 1 cow, household goods and otner articles at lo o'clock MARCH 30 Emanuel Musser 0 east of State College work horses cows, 6 helfers and farm YEOLE o'clock, Wi. Goheen, auet wpe ain tract of SATURDAY, Marcu 31-J, P “r ley W entre Count Ww of Bellefonte, in in Ben 1 ’ ‘ ilu 1% fo Ww F. Humes farm . road farmimplements and househ nt nds of Ja 108. m West LN per | AEE west | nds of B, ¥.'} perches toa np and M. J » ches Lo stones mile edent daulry sent Implements at 10 LEGAL NOTICES, oh thence by land Mechtiey ms hes Lo a stones perches A DITOKS NOTICE e Orphat ter of the Ferguson eased I'he undersigned an d court, to make distr) s hands of Samuel Ralston decedent “lo, wi urpose of his appol lefoute, on Monday at IU o'oloek In 1} went i y and pPeErenes to \ nth to ship tom nshiy { degree snd ag meet | he TORS NOTICH Lar Nag Pa y poeRaTe Frees 8. PATERY Orme ens Li Lh A Pamper ey - A &nd horeyg tru ‘C.A.SNOW& CO ’ £ Ore Pareny Ormce, WASHINGTON, D C. # AAA VARA AAAAAARAAA A AAAA NS RENEE > ~ ) ' ’ _ Nat | he hus WAIT FOR THE um GRAND OPENING of Lieberman's Cash Clothing House, «ON APRIL 7th, 1900.... in the Bush Arcade, High St., Bellefonte, where Men's, Boys’ and Children's Clothing & Gent's Furnishing Goods will be SOLD CHEAPER than was ever heard of in Centre county. EVERYBODY INVITED. A Souvenir given to every purchaser RAILROAD SCHEDULES PESNSYLYANIA RATLROAD BRANCHES In effect on and after Noy 20, 18% ARD VIA. 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