Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-10-07
A STUPENDOUS ENTERPRISE.
The World in BaItimOre" "A Mis-
siOnary MOvement-Lecture al
First NJ. E. Church Oct. s.

From October 25 to November 80,
Baltimore will be the Mecca for
vast number of people interested IN
Home and Foreign Mission, proceed
ing there to witness the marvellous
exposition and pageant. The World
in Baltimore for the proper produc-
tion of which the most active MEM
bers of $50 Of the city churches, to
the number of $4,000, have b9en
training since last spring
Originating in England. the stupend-
ors enterprise was first shown the
world in the Royal Agricultural Hall,
London, where We're gathered scenes
from many lands to show the customs
of native life in those parts of the
world where Christian Missionaries
are carrying on their labors, to illus
trate the obstacles which the bearers
of the gospel have to overcome, TO
present to eyes most sophisticated in
ways of Christian civilization, views
familiar to the eyes of those people
who still cling to other faiths. In
other words, il is successful at
tempt to show by the visual method,
first, the lands in which and the peo-
pie among whom home and foreign
missionary enterprise is being prose-
cuted second. the conditions under
do their work and how Christian civ
ilization is being spread throughout
the world third. the progress which
is being made towards realizing the
ideal of the Christian world
It's marked success in the capital
city of the old world warranted its
transfer to more western soil, and at
Boston and Cincinnati its triumphs
have been complete. Most of the
scenes are from countries which to-
day are very much in the public eye,
and this furnishes an opportunity to
secure accurate information about
the places, or really, to se1 bits Of
them, whose history is now OCCUPYING
the attention of publicitsts. There
There is the Mohammedin Lands Sec
tions, where one may travel through
India and Arabia and Persia and
Syria and parts of Africa, and learn
of the strength and weakness of the
religion of Mohamet, rendering more
realistic the war being waged today
between Christian and Mohammedan
lin TripCli between Italian and
Turk, in Morocco between Moor and
Frenchman. And the division of
Persia between England and Russia
having but. now been agreed upon,
additional interest is lent to the
scenes from the land from which the
American, Shuster, was driven.
There will be opportunity to see
the famed tents of the Saharan
nomads, the home of the Bedouin
Shiekh, such as Hichens has some
what acquainted US with in his
Garden of Allah, one may stoop
beneath the caves of the grass huts
of Stanley's Africa withouC danger
from the sleeping sickness, one may
see the veiled girls and women of
the mystic east, and, perhaps,
profit by that unusual fortune, peek
in the zenana, the woman's apart
ments in the house of a gentleman
of India.
The China scene is so designed
as to convey striking impression
of walled town in the Chinese en-
pire. Entering through a gate one
will find oneself in an environment
which is typical of Shanghai Jr
Tientsin or sacred Pekin. On one
side are shops bearing the peculiar
stenographic signs characteristic of
laundry tickets and tea boxes
Among the shops is real tea room,
where one may secure a cup of Chi
fa nd ~ - L. al
same environment which one would
enjoy in the Celestial Kingdom, even
to the Christian missionary in an ad-
joining hall, varying on his labors
among the queue-ed natives.
In the pageant, Darkness and
Light" for which the words were
written by the noted English novel
ist, John Oxenham and the music by
Hamish MacCunn, the four parts of
the earth are brought together in
story form. Four Incidents or epi-
sodes, North, South, East and West,
and-a final joint appearance of all
the participants, constitute the pa
geant The North incident tells
story of the American Indian and the
missionary working among them.
In the South, one goes with Stanley
and Livingstone to the interior of
darkest Africa. From the East is
brought the India made familiar to
US by the vivid tales of Kipling, with
the horror of the suttee. and from
the West comes a scene from Ameri-
cans island province, Hawaii, with
priests of Pele and threatening Kill
auea claiming their victims.