The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-17
MOTION PICTURES To
SHOW THE creation
Bible Students Board Is Financing
Worldwide Educational

| Creation" the photo-drama which
has been exhibited in New York. Boston
and several other cities. is now al
Belasco's Theater.
The expenses incidental to the Tomlin-
san hall program and all other exhibit
lions under their auspices are to be de.
frayed from the general tract fund OF
the association which Is unsectarian and
maintained entirely by voluntary con-
triburions.
For several years. Pastor Russell. presi-
dent Of the International Bible Students
Association, has had in course OF pre-
paration a moving picture program eluci-
dating Bible history and philosophy.
Recently, while in China, Japan. the
Philippine Islands. India, and Africa. he
gathered much valuable data and secured
many interesting pictures for his drama
of Creation" The Holy Land. Greece,
Turkey. Russia. and all European coun-
tries, as well as our own, were secured
for everything that would contribute a
lesson or throw light on the Scriptures,
until now Creation has been declared
by critics to be the finest selection of
scientific, historical. and Biblical pictures
ever assembled for exhibition purposes.
In describing the opening exhibition
in New York, the Times said: Five
thousand saw and 5000 were turned
away"
5000 See Exhibition Daily.
In Cincinnati. at Music Hail. an aver
age of more than 5000 daily witnessed
Creation" and, according to press re-
ports, ST. Louis Cleveland, Boston. and
other cities have heartily welcomed the
fascinating and winning drama.
The pictures begin with the creation of
our planet, showing how it was formed
and prepared for man and pictures the
development Of plant and animal life,
and then the creation Of Adam in Eden.
and then depicts all important subse-
quent political. social. and religious
events to the present
Here one may see. moving on the can
vas with every semblance of reality, the
outstanding figures with whom reading
and reflection have made US familiar.
Philosophers. statesmen. warriors. princes
and potentates, scholars. and artists, pass
IN fascinating succession across the
screen, acting the parts which they
played when they were on the earthly
stage in the flesh. We see the Garden
of Eden as an ingenious and inventive
imagination figures 1t for us. We see
the stately cities of antiquity and their
modern successors.
We sweep over the world with ever in
creasing interest. the film and the phono-
graphic record taking US back to the
times of our remotest ancestors, carrying
us on. ever onward as the scroll Of his
tory unrolls. And when We rise from
our seats, satisfied with the intellectual
banquet and know that history has been
made for us living reality instead of the
dried bones Of historical chronicle.
Lecture Given by Talking Machine.
So through the eras of Scripture We
pass until We come to the days of the
Saviour. when He walked in meek hu-
mility on earth and worked the miracles
which attested His power. We enter with
Him triumphantly into Jerusalem. We
see Him lonely in Gethsemane. We suffer
with Him on Golgotha's HILL and stand
vigil with His mother at the tomb 1t is
all most fascinating. thrilling. and salts
flying TO the religious sense; for il is in
part a realization of our desires 10 stand
where He stood and to behold Him as He
was on earth.
A lecture is given with each exhibition
by a talking machine which has been ac-
curately geared to accompany the repre-
sentation on the screen. The apparatus
sings and talks with remarkable precision
and so well are the tones and the films
synchronized that many who witness the
exhibition believe the discourse is being
delivered by some orator of rare ability.
The projectors of this new method of
reaching every man with religion are
confident that II will prove of the creates:
efficiency in spreading the great truths of
religion.
The International Bible Students Asso-
citation holds its meetings in public audi
forums, opera houses, etc, where per-
sons of all nationalities and creeds. as
well as skeptics. may assemble without
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