The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-23
Thousands to Topeka for Sun.
day School Feature.
Golden Jubilee Celebration OF
Kansas Early in May.
TWO HUNDRED TRAINED VOICES
Double Choir Will Furnish
Music for Spectacle.
Mammoth Plans to Take Care
of Big Crowds.

Words carry comparatively little
Significance in describing the spectac-
ular feature of the Golden Jubilee Gel
ebration of the Kansas Sunday School
association, coming to Topeka the
first week in May. The feature is
pageant, telling the story of the rise
and progress of religious educatlon
from before history was made-1Vlng
pictures of the first Sunday schools,
showing the quaint costumes, the
queer customs of the people who lived
thousands of years ago.
The pageant begins with an allegor-
ical tableau in three parts, a more or
less mythical conception of religion,
education and youth. The second
epoch takes up the early Hebrew edu-
cation, the first scene of which is
pictures of such households, but prob
ably never before have you had an OPP
portunity of seeing the picture worked
out in real life, showing the costumes
and attitudes of the people. There
follows a scene of Ezra teaching the
people, hundreds of years before
Christ was born, and another of
school in the first century before
Christ Interesting? Well everybody
who has seen just a few parts of the
big whole, says it is. The school does
not resemble in the slightest degree
our modern schools.
Christian Era.
Then comes the Christian era with
scenes depicting the teaching of Tim
otty, a period of the middle ages, and
the period of the reformation. Fol-
lowing is a description of the modern
school, and it's development, including
a scene by Robert Raikes and the boys
of Gloucester, that will interest boys
particularly, and the showing of the
modern school from the cradle roll
birthday to the adult department.
In the intermediate department pro-
gram is a scene depicting the generos-
ity of David, another showing Paul
before Festus and King Agrippa, John
Elliott and the Bible for the Indians,
For God. and Home, and Native
Land" being a temperance scene, and
a scene showing the boy and girl
scouts at camp fire.
ate music adds realism and harmony
to the scenes
Individual Episodes.
Hundreds of boys and girls in To-
peka, members of the various Sunday
schools of the city, are working on
the individual episodes of the big pa
geant, under the direction and super
vision of Mrs. c. A. Musselman. The
work is progressing nicely. Costum-
ing practically has been finished, and
in a few days dress rehearsals- of the
individual episodes will be the order
of the day. But nobody, at least no.
body but Mrs. Musselman, has seen
any considerable number of the cpl
sodes, and nobody has seen them
linked up together in one big whole.
Two hundred trained voices, dou
BILE choir, will have charge of the mu
sic accompanying the pageant. The
whole will be in charge of Professor
H. Augustine Smith of Chicago, spe
cialist in such matters when it is final
ly given at the Auditorium.
In order to accommodate the crowd,
and also to prevent confusion, the
general arrangements committee has
decided that only Topeka people and
those who can come in from Shawnee
county will be admitted to see the
pageant the first night, Monday, May
8. 1t is the first night before the
Golden Jubilee celebration begins.
Then, on Wednesday night, May 5,
the same program will be repeated for
the benefit of out-of-town guests and
at that time nobody who lives in To-
peka will be admitted.
There will be many good things
connected with the celebration, and