Article November 14, 1908 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from A. William Lewis

[The Congregationalist and Christian World.]

Cannot the theater be made as wholesome as the library, when it is admitted to be an influence not second to the library? Has not the time come for the Church to consider whether it may not wisely use and influence the theater as it uses and influences the library? An illustration of what may be done by such an alliance has been given in London this year, which would have seemed incredible a dozen years ago. The London Missionary Society has put on the stage a play, which it called a pageant, that in one season has interested more people in foreign missions and given them more information about the work of these missions than the Congregational churches of England and Wales, who are responsible for that society, have been able to do in a score of years; and all these churches, after the experiment, approve of this use which has been made of the theater. The time is surely ripe for further inquiry into this matter.

[A. William Lewis in the Christian Work and Evangelist.]

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