Indiana daily times., 1922-04-29
TO
GRADUATE AT
LOCALCOLLEGE
Members Are Assigned to Mis-
sionary Fields in Distant
Countries.

The twelfth annual commencement OF
the College of Missions will be celebrated
in Irvington on Wednesday, June 7.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for brilliant pageant entitled The
High Altar of Asia to be given on the
campus, preceding the graduation exer-
cises The pageant will represent the
Christian approach to Tibet, the roof Of
the world" 1t will consist of three cpl
sodes. viz.-(1) the coming of the Fran
ciscans to Lhasa in the eighteenth CEN
fury and their expulsion; (2) the pioneer
work of Petrus and DR.. Susie Rttnhart
between 1890 and 1898, at the great
lamasery of Kumbum, on the northeast
ern China -Ttbetan frontier (3) the mis-
sion Of DR.. Albert L. Shelton In eastern
Tibet, eliminating in his recent martyr
dom at the hands of nomadic brigands
In the mountain passes of Batang.
In portrayal of the religious life Of the
Tibetans the weird gold tiled temples OF
Lhasa will rise from the campus green;
there will be professions Of brilliantly
robed lamas spinning their prayer
wheels, a masked devil dance to drive
out the foreigners. Caravans Of Buddhist
pilgrims going up to the Butter God
festival" Of Amdo, incantations from the
sacred books, and relic worship at the
mountain shrines. There will be ga1ly
clad groups representing all phases OF
the strange Kaleidoscope population Of
Asia's most inaccessible land. Christian
mission work will be vividly revealed
through the pioneers who have made the
supreme sacrifice IN their attempts TO
carry the gospel to the mountain guarded
lama cspital, Lhasa, the City OF the
Gods"
The text of the pageant has been
written by President Charles T. Paul OF
the College of Missions, a close student
of Tibet and friend of the Rijnharts.
Accuracy Of detail will be further as
sured by the presence of the Rev. and
Mrs. James c. Ogden, who with their
son and daughter, have just arrived from
the Tibetan border. They have spent
sixteen years IN eastern Tibet as the
close associates of the late DR.. Shelton
They will superintend the practices and
will them selves take part in the spectacle
Gorgeous robes of Tibetan manufacture
will be the feature of the professions.
Churches from many towns in Indiana
and other States are planning to send
delegations.
DR. MACKENZIE
TO DELIVER ADDRESS.
At the graduation exercises proper. ths
commencement address will be delivered
by Dr.. W. Douglas Mackenzie, president
Of the Hartford Seminary Foundation Of
Hartford. Conn.
The graduating class, consisting Of
twenty-six members, Will receive their
diplomas and also their commissions for
foreign missionary service as follows:
China-Mr. and Mrs. o. j. Coulter, Miss
Bertha Park
Japan-Mr and Mrs. 1. D. Crewdson,
Miss Lois Lehman.
Philippines-Mss Margaret W. Conk-
right
India-Mrs. Nell Sloan. Miss Leta May
Brown. Mr. and Mrs. ]. E. Moody
Belgian Congo-David Watts Miss
Hattie Mitchell. Miss Tessie Williams.
Mexico-Miss Irene Dodd, Miss Emma
Reeder
South America-Howard Holroyd, Mr..
and Mrs Abner Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Nell Baxter, Miss Ruth E. Fish.
Jamaica--Miss Lora Arms, Miss Jennie
Hoover.
porto Rico-Miss consuelO Perez,
Guerra.
William f. Davis will take a full
medical course before going abroad. He
has not yet been assigned TO q mission
field.
valedictory exercises will be conducted
by the students in the afternoon, follow
ing the annual service of ordination.
The board Of trustees Of the college
and the executive committee Of the Unit
ed Christian Missionary Society, st.
Louis, Mo, will take part IN the days
proceedings. About thirty returned mis-
sionaries from Asia, Africa and Latin
America will also be present.
To PRESENT
COMEDY SUNDAY.
The St Cecilia Players Of Sacred
Heart Church will give the comedy, "A
Tailor Made Man." next Sunday at the
st. Cecilia hall, Union and Palmer
streets This closes the forty-fourth
season of plays at this parish. Members
Of the cast are: Frank Lauck Raymond
Stefsen, Albert Hoereth, Charles Schlu-
decker, F. A Ohleyer. y. P. Hermann.
julia Boehm, Joe Seibold. Helen Moeslein,
Frances Eschenbach, Helen Semensky.
Frank Mckinney, C. W. Stegman. Edna
Wilhelm. Edward Stenen. Alphonse
Vending, Bertha Roereth, Ortrud
Aukenbrock, Fred Strack, Henry
Brinkman, Helen Hermann. Walter Metz
Ter. Joe -Foltzenlogel, Carl Strack, Leo
Herbertz and Ollie Bach. Mr.. Seibold in
. ha