The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-04-09

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fine PROGRAM
!. Annual Business Meeting Of the Den
ison Baptist Church Held Thursday
WIZ Evening $500 Raised
PAGEANT ENTITLED "ouR TASK
Especially Written by Mesdames Pear
son, Carpenter and PIimpton-Ap-
propriaSe Music, Effective Tabieau
4 The regular annual business meet
Ing OF the Baptist church at Denisor
was held on last Thursday evening
April Sd. Over one hundred members
responded to roll call and many Of
their friends were present to help en-
Joy the occasion. During the bust
ness meeting, the church called fol
Mr.. Chas. Bartcher to take the plat
form and finish raising the $4,000
for needed repairs and redecoration
of the church property. About hall
OF this sum had already been secured
and under Mr.. Bartcher's genial lea
dership the full amount was subscrib.
ed in the next twenty minutes. The
church is now working in earnest for
the Victory Campaign and under the
efficient and inspiring leadership OF
our layman, Mr.. Cassaday, and minis
ter, Rev. c. e. Hamilton, we expect
to be lover the top" very soon.
Preceding the business meeting, q
very unique program was ENJOYED Dy
those present. This was in the form
OF pageant, entitled Cur Task,
written for the occasion by Mesdames
Pearson, Carpenter and PHmpton.
They took for the theme Of the little
play, the three main objects OF the
Victory campaign as outlined by the
general committee Christian Ameri-
( cariization, World Reconstruction and
Worldwide Evangelism. Each act
was preceded by appropriate music
and an effective tableau which re-
manned in position throughout the en-
tire act.
Act / displayed the Goddess Of Ii
berry, posing between Uncle Sam and
Columbia, while the strains OF the
Holy City were rendered as piano
and cornet duet by Miss Dorothy
Jones and Fred Holman. Christianity
opened the pageant with prologue
setting forth the objects of the Vic
tory campaign. The Baptist church
somewhat shabbily clad, entered and
of her dress. She gave as an explain
alton that she had spent her money on
others, but Christianity held that each
church should be beautifully decora-
ted in honor Of the Master. The church
agreed to this and then sought to
know how she might make the most
OF herself as a church. At this,
Christianity invited her to be seated
and see and hear the things an ideal
church should do and be. Immigrants
in costume entered and were greeted
by Miss Columbia and Uncle Sam,
who left their positions in the tab
leau to take speaking part. The
immigrants were reresented as seek
ing wealth, education and a home,
which Uncle Sam commended. But
Miss Columbia insisted that. Ameri-
jcanization is not enough-what we
need is Christian Americanization.
The act closed with Uncle Sam and
Miss Columbia, standing side by side
holding aloft the Christian flag and
the Stars and Stripes, thus typifying
Christian Americanization.
AK Act III had as its tableau, camp
fire scene, about which the lads IN
Khaki we're grouped. A beautiful
whistling solo of patriotic airs, by Mrs.
Klinker proceeded this, also the reci-
tations In Flanders Field" and
stAmerica's Spiritual Reply" by two
soldier boys, George Locke and Bry-
an Weberg, and the old hymn, "The
Son of God Goes Forth to War" by the
Male Chorus. The group Of fathers
and mothers who entered selling Ii
berty Bonds and doing Red Cross
work represented the second idea OF
the campaign, that those over there
and thoseSat home were working to-
gether for World Reconstruction.
Act Ill opened with a beautiful tab
Ieau OF the Cross, behind which stood
the Spirit Of Missions. AS the strains
of ''In the Cross Of Christ, ] Glory"
ended, Christianity summoned her
daughter, the Spirit OF Missions, who
quoted SCRIPTURE and showed more
specifically the work of the Baptist
church in many scenes acted in pam
tomine. The work OF the Tithers'
League, the Ministers and Mission
aries BENEFIT Board, Christian Auca-
ton, the caring for widows and or
phans and the sending Of missionaries
to both home and foreign fields were
shown.
The climax of the pageant was
reached when two young people offer-
ed their lives as missionaries. As the
beautiful hymn, I'll Go Where You
Want Me to Go, Dear Lord" was sung
they rose from their places in the
congregation and passed up to the
platform and knelt at the foot Of the
Cross. The scene closed with Chris
tianity standing with her hand upon
the Cross, the two young people kneel-
ing at its foot, and natives OF our mis-
sion fields. kneeling on either side.
This act brought out the whole idea
OF the churcl's place in Kingdom Elk
tension
The pageant certainly brought be-
fore us very forcibly and beautifully,
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