The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17
DRAMATIC ART.
.age Gives His Views of
the Theater. &
Drama, Rightly Directed,
INnrce OF GOoa-snOuia me
Ned, Not Suppressed-
d bod and had Plays.
xht, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,

he theater, and some plays
arrested by the police, and
being patronized by Chris
snle, this sermon of DIR. Tai
I. of much interest. The text
rIhthians viii, 81: "They that
World as not abusing it,"
thson for preaching this dis
4 that | have been kindly invited
d the leading newspapers of
.Itry to inspect and report on
6Ee popular plays of the day
,nH e weeks ago to Chicago and
Rama "Quo Vadis" and criti-
It'll respect to its moral eff
ID to go to New York and see
La "Ben-Hur" and write my
of it for public use. Instead
M that I propose in a sermon
~ what we shall do with the
|Ie element which God has i'm
h many of our natures, not
" loo or 1000, but in the vast
|N of the human race. Some
Nbeak of the drama as though
( something built up outside
lives by the Congreves and the
tbs and the Shakespeares and
adams of literature and that
rs attune our tastes to corre-
18th human inventions. Not
The drama is an echo from the
which God has implanted in
Mortal souls. 1t is seen first
1bmestic circle among the chill
Zee or four years of age play
.b their dolls and their cradles
~ carts, seen ten years after
8layhouses of wood, ten years
the parlor charades, after
the elaborate representations
academies of music. Thespis
$chylus and Sophocles and Eu-
merely dramatized what was
Greek heart. Terence and
& and Seneca merely drama
hat was in the Roman heart.
Ne and Farquhar merely dram
Mat was in the English heart.
Corneille and Alfieri only
led what was in the French
liam heart. Shakespeare only
HE'D what was in the great
heart. The dithyrambic and
drama, the sentimental drama,
mantle drama, were merely
bf the human soul.
not speak of the drama on
|Stic shelf, nor of the drama
playhouse, but I speak of the
Iic element in your soul and
We make men responsible for
~ are not responsible. They
'ponsible for the perversion of
hot for the original implanta-
BOD did that work. and l sup
q knew what He was about
He made us. We are nearly
fed by the spectacular. When
snksgiving day we decorate our
ts with the cotton and the rice
Ae apples and the wheat and
and the oats, our gratitude
Il is stirred. When on Easter
x we see written in letters of
the inscription: HE Is
four emotions are stirred. Ev-
TENT likes to go to the school
Ion with it's recitations and its
les and it's droll costumes. The
kht procession of the political
Egn is merely the dramatiza-
principles involved. No intel
Imam can look in any secular
kious direction without finding
fanatic element revealing, I'M
demonstrating itself. What
Fe do with it?
we suppress it? You can as
Suppress it's Creator. You may
it, you may educate it, you may
BIT, you may harness it to muNi-
usefulness, and that it is your
b do. Just as we cultivate the
Dr the beautiful and the sublime
d-haunted glen and FOSTERING
and cataracts let down in DIP
Ter the messed rocks, and the day
its banner of victory in the east,
en- setting everything on fire as
eats through the gates of the
md the Austerlitz and Waterloo
August thunderstorm blazing
arteries into a sultry afternoon,
lie round, glittering tear OF a
wet on the cheek of the night
his way we cultivate our taste for
autiful and sublime, SO in every
way we are to cultivate the Ora
element in our nature, by every
70 passage in literature, by an
S and synthesis, by every tragic
g in human life.
/ have to tell you not only that
rs implanted this dramatic ele-
Ii our natures, but I have to tell
the Scriptures He cultivates it,
,eals to it, He develops it. l do
re where you open the Bible,
We will fall upon a drama. Here
the book of Judges, the fir tree,
lie, the olive tree, the bramble--
II make speeches. Then at the
+ the scene there lisa coronation,
lie bramble is proclaimed king.
5 a political drama. Here it is i'll
ok of Job: Enter Eliphaz, Bill
,phar, EIihu and Job. The open
of the drama, all darkness; the
; act of the drama, all sunshine.
icent drama is tbs book of Job!
it is in Solomon's Song: The
, an oriental region-vineyards,
mountain of myrrh,
+ sheep, garden of spices, a WOO
bride, a bridegroom, dialogue
:, gorgeous, all suggestive drama
book of Solomon's Song. Here it
lie book of Luke: Costly mansion
night All the windows bright
Illumination. The floor a quake
he dance. Returned son in costly
nts whish do not very well fit
arhaDsI for they were not made