The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-05-27

thO uCPiCtAoh anu uCoSiiPtiOh VI phciA
cal scenes. We tremble with Isaac in
fear as we behold his father Abraham
about to sacrifice him, an offering to
the Most High; we stand with Moses
at the court of Pharaoh and see the
rod changed into the serpent; we look
with the prophets longing eyes at the
Promised Land, and we enter therein
with Joshua and his warriors.
So through the eras of Scripture we
pass until we come to the days of the
| Savior, when He walked in meek hui
mility on earth and worked the miri-
! cles which attested His power. We
see Him lonely in Gethsemane and
enter with Him triumphsntly into
Jerusalem. We suffer with Him on
Golgotha's hill and stand vigil with
His mother at the tomb. 1t is all most
fascinating, thrilling and satisfying to
the religious sense, for it is in part a
realization of our desires to stand
where He stood and to behold Him as
He was on earth.
Whoever will may see Creation"
without the payment of money. The
necessary expenses are betrayed by
the International Bible Students Asso-
citation in an effort to interest man.
kind in the story of its stay on earth
and its ultimate destination. Religion
and religious effort are the foundation
of the representations. 1t is not cold
Journalism and theology, but the living,
breathing religion which reaches, en-
frances and uplifts the soul. "The
devil need not have all the good
times" sail Wesley, and he took some
of the tunes and set words of hymns
to them. So the International Bible
Students Association has taken the
moving picture film and the phono-
graph record and has enlisted them in
the service of righteousness.
The production of Creation" which
takes eight hours to exhibit, is run in
sections and changed each week that
very one may see it in it's entirety.
The pictures show the state of the
Universe in its nebulous form gradual
y evolving in READINGS for the crea-
ion of life. Then follows the Bible
history, Old and New Testaments, af-
er which the progress of mankind is
raced through the middle ages down
% the present time.
AS the films tell the story of the
beginning Of things, the uplift of re-
igion comes from the swiftly revolv-
ng reels of celluloid. n
The International Bible Students
uses the screen and the
Ugh power light to tell the stories of
he Old Testament and the New. The
'ictures are accompanied by voices
volved from a monograph attach
1ent keeping exact time with the &C
affording lecture and a
ervice of song.
Nothing short of magic would such
erfbrmance have seemed in days
( old. Nebuchadnezzar, reading his
Dom on the walls in letters of fire,
new no greater miracle than this
hich has been wrought by divine in !,
diligence working on the receptive
rain of man.
Religion has adapted itself in past
yes to the manners and customs of
sople. and SO in the present 1t
awaiting itself OF the habits of q
odern race as modified by many In
,ntions. 1t has been said that much
udy Is a WEAKNESS to the flesh and
the making OF many books there is
, end.
The preparation Of the films used In
9 exhibitions have evolved a con-
expense and activities con-
Icted in all parts Of the world. The
meras have been carried into the
oily Land. and there on the Mount
!