Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-05
Mr.. ALLIN TELLSOF
WORLD IN CHICAGO
Representative of Exposition
Addresses Missionary Social
Union at Central Church.

well attended and most interesting |
yesterday afternoon at $3.50
o'clock at Central Presbyterian church,
Mrs. William Mclean Stewart, the
president of the union, presiding. The
program opened with an organ prelude
by Miss Lille Cervin. A hymn by the
congregation was followed with prayer
led by Miss Ella Taylor and a quar-
tet composed of Mr. and Mrs. II. J.
Dawson, Miss Esther Malmrose and ].
G. Hazard sang the anthem, 20, Sing
Unto the Lord"
AS this was the semi-annual meet
ing of the union Mrs. Stewart read
tee that will report at the annual
meeting in November. The commit
tee is as follows: Broadway Presby-
tartan church, Mrs. A. H. McCandless;
First Methodist church, Mrs. Sadie
ladders; Memorial Christian church,
Mrs. P. H Edwards; First Baptist
church, Mrs. H. C. Kingsbury; United
Presbyterian church, Miss Mildred
Warnock; Central Presbyterian
Memorial Methodist church, Mrs.
Alex Quist and South Park Presby-
terrain church, Mrs. Charles Boehnne.
Mrs. Stewart introduced the speak
er of the afternoon, Benjamin Allin,
of Chicago, a representative of The
World in Chicago exhibition. Mr.. Allin
in the government employ spent sew
eral years abroad and has visited
many of the countries represented in
the exposition. He said THE World
in Chicago, the great missionary ex-
position which opened Saturday in
Chicago by President Wilson touching
the electric button in Washington, is
not a commercial scheme, although
Chicago business men of the highest
| standing raised a guarantee fund of
100000 to finance the undertaking.
/ 1t is for education and inspiration
alone. The World in Chicago answers
the challenge DO Missions Pay?'
While many will visit the exposition
for the purpose of studying missions,
hundreds of others will go for sight
seeing and will not be disappointed,
but delighted beyond expectation. The
exposition occupies the entire Coli
scum and the Auditorium theatre
from May to June T., the longest
time any exposition has ever occupied
the Coliseum at one time and the
Auditorium as well with the excep
ton of the grand opera. Those at
tending should plan for at least q
weeks stay to get any satisfactory
visit of the exhibition. To try tc
see it in two or three days would be
like attempting a trip around the
world in six weeks. In the Coliseum
the exposition will represent the con
dition that obtain on the mission fields
today, and the work being done by
mission workers now. One moment
the visitor to The World in Chicago j!
in the busy streets of the great city
of Chicago; and in the next has en-
tered a world of strange and beautiful
contrasts and stands enchanted will
the spectacle spread out before him
Here peoples from the four quar-
tiers of the earth are summoned as by
some magic spell under one grea
roof. Turk, Tartar, Bedouin, Per
!
Hadji and shaven Bonze, blanketeC
Indian and Eskimo in furs; people o
the American mountains and the PEG
pie of the prairies; negroes from thu
southland, the dwellers on the islandl
of the southern seas-they are al
there, not as a great conglomeratiOn
but each in his place with his fellows
; living his life, going about his &C
customed tasks with a realism tina
holds the visitor spell bound. TIL
missionaries are there, some in on
section, some in another, using vast
ly different methods of approach AM
appeal, but each suited to the PAL
ticular needs.
in the Auditorium a pageant o
darkness and light will be show
simultaneously twice day. AS tn
exposition in the Coliseum will rel
resent the conditions that obtain o
the mission fields today and the wor
being done by mission workers, so tn
pageant of darkness and light wi
reproduce great trilmphs of Christian
ity in the past. The pageant is
masque oraterio, based upon histori
missionary episodes. 1t is made up {
five dramatic episodes representa-
the north, south, east and west wit
final possessional episode in whic
nearly a thousand people will tax
part. In each episode from 100 to 20
parsons take part. The music is thrill
ing, its cadences being characteristic
of the music of the four quarters {
the earth represented"
At the close of the address at I'll
request of Mrs. Stewart, a large nuL
Der arose expressing a desire to a
tend the exposition. Upon motto
being carried by the union that ii
chairman appoint a committee to So
about getting up an excursion fro
this city to the exposition, the follo7
ing committee was appointed: Rev.
L. Vance, William Mclean StewaI
Mrs. n. P. Tucker, Mrs. W. Z. Hi
and Miss Mildred Warnock.
Rev. ]. L. Vance closed the meetiI
with the benediction.