Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-06

minister. there should be In spain
Protestant churches and even svns-
gogs which ought to be able to bear
upon their walls the insignia denoting
the character or their creed And
against this, clericallsm, in the full
flush OF the twentieth century, objects.
But Prime Minister Canalejas, accord
Ing to the Paris Temps liz inexact
What the Vatican objects to is not the
display of the emblems but the Lam
ugage of the edlct authorizing them.
which, by Implication, denies that the
national church OF Spain Is holy, Ro-
man Catholic and Apostollc.-Ctirren
Literature (AugusD.
Europe's The world has done its
Passion best 10 Introduce the
PLAY. commercial element The
great cities OF Europe
have tried to tempt the players TO bring
their great play TO them, and America
mas We'd with them IN her offers but
the people OF Oberammergau have re-
NAMED steadfastly faithful TO their
religious ideals. To them their play is
stil their great act OF worship and de.
Votion, not at all a mere form OF enter
tainment based on a desire for gain.
Those who attend are supposed TO be
deVout pilgrims, not curious sight seers
and SO religious is the atmosphere
with which all the villagers have sur
rounded themselves and their play
that the curious soon become sincere
worshlpers and those who attend with
serious doubts concerning the proprlety
OF presenting sacred things in dramatic
form. return with their doubts COM
pletely dissolved. The people OF OBJ
eramergau spend heir lives in devotion
to their great Passion Play. 1t is their
life and their religion. All hope and
plan 20 take part in II some day; and
n live Hfa rtffI
sible TO take the part OF Christus is
their ideal After the parts have final
~ been impartially decided upon by a
great council meeting for that pur-
pose. at least a year before the play
IL TO be given. tho different ones chosen
are supposed not only to allow their
hair and boards to grow so that they
VIII look their parts, but TO actually
live tho parts that have been given
them. From childhood they are trained
In the technique Of acting and singing.
both by the Church and BY the schools.
Smaller religious dramas are being
constantly given. Their life Is one
long preparation for the great work
ahead OF them, and they take u
seriously and rnestly.-Harper's
Bazaar
Passion The oberammergau Pas
PLAY An sion Play Is rightly re-
as rene OF
ancient days; out OF the
Middle Ages 1t has come. bearing
upon its surface much of the naivite
Of the old religious drama But the
explanation why Il has survived its
kind lies deeply embedded I'm tho faith
and simple superstition of about two
thousand villagers In cluster OF
homes among the Bavarian hills.
Their lives are bound up in the full
flment OF their vow; their actions
are largely prompted by pure resolve.
Tradition II passed from family To-
family. from decade to decade. and
every boy born to these simple folks
Is brought into the world with the
possibility Of some time playing the
Christ From THE Passion Play I'm
the June Metropolitan Magazine.
Money At tho corner Of the Rue
Paid for Bcauvergor and the Rue dc
Freedom. la Halle In the city of Ha-
Vre stands three storied
house of gray stone, with sloping
slate roof and high chimneys. topped |
by picturesque pots of clay, dlscolored !
by time, smoke, and the elements In |
this now dilapdated structure of slate |
and granite were. from 1776 to 1892, the I
offices Of Pierre Augustin Caron de |
Beaumarchais. who spent a fortune |
during our Revolutionary war IN pro-
yiding the Americans with guns, am. |
scription. Indeed, 10 Is safe to say that |
without his aid the coionists could not |
have carried on the conflict. Rocham- /
beau and lafayette lent their swords 90 |
the United states; Beaumarchals sent |
supplies to the value OF 100000 francs.
II IS true that these material and me-
talic slnews Of war were not a gift. |
for Beaumarchais was a merchant, and |
sent them 10 the United States with the
that they should be paid
for In time. That he was far from
pressing I'm regard 10 his bill Is proved |
by the fact that II was never paid
during his life. After the conclusion |
Of the war Bcauma rchais repeatedly |
claimed from the United States the
/, 100000 francs which his books and
received hopeful assurances and offers
NJ n compromise In turn, until AleNan-
der Hamilton. who had been authorized
by Congress TO arrange a settlement,
on n basis OF 2, 100000 francs.
Il IN probable that Beaumarchais would
have accepted this could he have OBJ
tanned Il. but he died in 1899 without
ever having received penny. -Four
years before his decease, chagrinod by
repeated disappointments and blasted
hopes. exiied by the French revolution.
and living alone IN a Hamburg garrett.
he wrote the following letter 20 the
American people;
Hamburg. April 10. 1895.
"Americans.-I have served you with
A zeal that has been unswerving. !
have received in rcturTi-nothing 1
am today your creditor.
Permit mo, before dying. TO leave
my daughter 20 your care and consid-
ration, with the request that you give
her for n dover what YOU owe her
'ather Perhaps, after | can no longer
lefend her against the bitter injustice
II the world. she will be left penniless,
md perhaps the hand Of Providence,
this. has wished. by repeat
.dly retarding the discharge of your
ndbtedness TO me, to provide for her
lfter I am gone"
t. 1901 aud ara IN N IopG fbta laprS,