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
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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
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