Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-21
szIMETHOD|sTs OF WORLD
!. J. !. ARE GATHERING IN OHIO
500
Big Centennial Celebration Opens
With Great Variety OF
Attractions.
BRING PEOPLES
TOGETHER
Afxhibits Show What Church Has
Done for Inhabitants From Alasla
to .Africa-Nillages and Scenery
Reproduced.
Especial to The Times.Dispatch.

time the MetnOn1St denomination is
literally bringing the entire world to
Ohio. The centenary celebration open
cd tonight. and Will continue until
July IS.
- The denomination has brought co.
ye,hcr people Of many races reproduc-
InS the scenery of their lands. their
villages. homes. habits and customs
OF living. giving glimpses OF parts,o;
the globe from Alaska TO Africa, not
iust to show the strange places of the
earth 10 untraveied eyes. but TO dem
cnstrate the march Of the church
around the world
Leave Western World Behind.
AS a visitor passes through the gray
wall Of kWane CITY INTO Chinese
behind and forgotten. In Africa he
Will contemplate a l[aitir Kraal with
grass hatched hu,s and watch the
can village.
Further in his travels he Will pause
BY wishing bridge in q Japanese
garden. and all around him is Japan.
Inviting him TO walk through Japa-
nese homes with shrine in every
toom. while his mind reverts 20 stories
he has read like The Lady OF the
Caldwell Macau!ey, OF Louisville, viii
re Just around the corner in personal
charge OF an eNhibi; showins the kim
derGarten work of Japan.
He Viii hear tho temple bells calling
>ehind him as he views Ganses river
scene, and a visit to the Hindu temple
.trip through India. for after passing
through narrow stree, lined with
s saSars he vii. stop a, the foot Of
Iin call 10 prayers IS sounded from
the turrct.
VIII Visit Esquimnux.
Those Will be only carly hish-liehts
Welt the homes Of the Esauimaux Re
will have 10 stand on the rier-head
At Ellis island and look down a
Statue .: Liberty whilc pageantry
around him brings a realization OF the
work prepared for the church to do
through the gateway which is faith-
tully reproduced. even TO the ferry
= ruined French caihedral to look
through its shattered windows at scenic
Iegrodluri'9ns Of the battered fields
plstures. And even chen Ss'i he %ill VI" se
only part way through his journey.
..-Ih,s is something more nearly re-
said y. W Griffin, film producer. when
he visited the grounds to promise that
episodes would be best adapted for pic
toriai Representation. Whatever he
does. Mr.. Grirrith will do in memory OF
MS mother. who was devoted Metho-
DIST. and will have no commercial con-
nection with the celebration, he an
n0uRCed Wnlle nero.
Hns Three-FoId Mission.
This centennial has a three-fold sig
n;icance to Methodism. In the first
place. II is 4 celebration OF the one
hnndredth ann!versary OF the begin
movement. which had it's start when
an Ohio man went from Marietta in
+, lSls to Upper. Sandusky and there in
cabin established mission for the
Wyandot Indians.
Secondly. i, celebrates the success
ful recent canvass OF Methodists North
and South in America to raise $780,
ooo,oo0 for world wide church and re-
construction work. III This is involved
the third phase Of the meaning of the
centenary, in that the financial canvass
IL WAS combined effort by the Mctho-
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
II was said 10 be the first great CO.
i operative endeavor since the church
North and South divided some seventy
years a co. and ead,nE men In the de-
the beginning OF an anna ssamation
movement
Piles OF distant places is only part OF
the celebration to be staged az the
STATE Fair Grounds. Two things have
been uadTr,aken on scale never be
Largest Picture Screen.
-. The largest stercopticon picture
.screen in the world is nearing com
pietion IN the center OF what. for the
!s designated the oval" but which
persons who have attended State fairs
: VIII recognize as the race track The
! many times by the addition of stand
& after stand around the curve Of the
oval either w.g from the orisna
!. the ground in front. that the sigh
Il presented from IN" opposite side Of tn,
i stood when it is, explained tina, hi
" ainphitheater is planned 10 seat $4,000
y The picture screen OF wooden con
y seats viii face, viii SHOW v.ews IL!
y feat by -. It's surface Is something
:. is.ger than ih $50. difnen :h ions \ spo
Z. OF that size the necessary distance
T: when tried out in New York. pro
=. blocks The screen and lantern ar
I. 40 be used, 10 show views made in a
= ofnissinuary survey.
The second unique construction fea
s. which has been ,I conver;ed into ltoe' a
- auditorium 70 seat 5000 or more. I
Ms,sG E@%S'o PIP ors ~ has ,, EGe
s The larees, stage in America has bee
s son, EI. of'eials a, nc sFound
I than the New York Hippodrome stag
4 Marvellous Arch Built.
', BACK over the stage is the uniqu
Z Piece OF construction referred To-
q concrete surfaced arch. which in shaI
is quarter o! a sphere the radii
OF which. up ana down, is the heisi
OK the stage, and the diameter
- Thicn IL tho width Of the stage Til
:. ~ built on e theory OF resonance tn;
has been trlcd recently in pari
y There is said TO be nothing like il
this country. and nothing Of its kir
as large anywhere
In the Coliseum The enicr pagaa,
x o. the celebration. The Wayfsrer
VII De shown The theme OK II
pageant. as explained uv rev i
lfst.. Crowthsr. OF Seattle it's ant no
z who is assistant dicector-rencraI =
The celebration, Is Emmanucl--God
THE two lssdaY Characters are
woman called Understanding" Al
a,4man, the "Waytarcr" reDrescn
ms an c!emcn, lu modern Soclc
and the church. VINO is 20 Lnwt,..r
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