Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 4, 14 November 1912 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM i.D SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY XOVE3IBER 14, 1912.
MORMON CHURCH TO RULE GOVERNMENT Mrs. F. F. McCrea Holds that Mormon Leaders Have This Step in View. The Wednesday night's meeting in the interest of Home Missions, was held under the auspices of the affiliated women's societies at the First Presbyterian church, Mrs. F. F. McCrea, of Indianapolis, being the speaker. She took as her subject, "Mormonism as it is Today," and treated her topic as suggesting a home mission problem. Mrs. S. W. Traum had charge of the devotional period, Mrs. F. W. Krueger and Mrs. Fred J. Bartel furnished special musical numbers, and Mrs. Li. H. Bunyan presided.
The meetings tonight will be held :in the several churches instead of un'ion, this being the regular prayermeeting night. The general topic, which each meeting may adapt to its iown needs is home missions. Mrs. McCrea prefaced her lecture with the remark that man Is a very 'credulous creature, which accounts for his accepting a religion whose claims are as preposterous as those of Mormonism. She cited the successive steps of the development of the cult, taking up in cder the early history of the Smith family, the finding of the golden plates from which, it is alleged, the Book of Mormon was translated, the migrations of the early Mormons from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Missouri, to Illinois, and Anally to Utah. j ; To Control Government, i "The time Is coming when the i Mormon church will hold the reins of ; government," was one of the alarmling statements made by the speaker. This she quoted from a Mormon authority, and gave it as her conviction that the Mormon priesthood keeps objective steadily before it. She quoted figures showing the membership in the West, especially In the great "Inland Empire," aggregating approximately one-half million persons. Considering their missionary activity, and their diligence in pressing their claims, she held Mormonism to be a menace. The question of polygamy was dealt with at some length. It was contended that despite the claims to the contrary polygamy still flourishes among these people. Mrs. McCrea having lived In the West claimed to speak adiVlsedly in preferring such charges 'against the' leaders of that church. She dalled attention to the fact disclosed in the congressional investigation of a few years ago, that Joseph F. Smith, president of the church, was at that time the husband of five wives and the father of forty-two children. As to the remedy, it is twofold: First, an amendment to the constitution of the United States forbidding polygamy, and second, the taking of the gospel to these people.
WONDERS SURROUND US
But We're So Used to Them We Don't Think Anything About Them and Go on Our Unheedings Way. Too Much Talking in the Offing.
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. We don't realize it. The fact that we live in the midst of wonders. Here we are sending wireless messages from coast to coast, cleaving ing the air and talking over a wire to New York or San Francisco. We push a button and on goes the light. We turn a crank and off we go careening o'er hill and dale. If this had happened fifty years ago or, rather, if anybody would have told us it could happen we'd have laughed at 'em. Now we accept it as a matter of course. This column referred to "The Sign at Six" yesterday a new novel by Stewart Edward White. That has for its motif this obliviousness to the marvels among which we live.
j And upon which we are so accusjtomed to depending that consterna
tion auenas tneir nuinty. One of these wonders is the moving picture. Last week in the presentation of the dramatization of a classic "Undine and the Knight" it was brought
jto the attention more forcibly than usual.
Or, rather, not than "usual" since we take the moving picture drama as a matter of course. "Undine," as every one knows, was a water sprite who, enamored of a mortal, was permitted to live on the eartn for an interval. The story is beautifully presented. "Undine" herself was convincing
since the actress who took the role was canny enough to depict the emotions of a being not mortal in her first contact with the earth denizens. It was one of the best bits of dramatic interpretation the writer has ever seen in a picture play. Undine's shyness the shyness of a wild thing of the woods not inured to human habitats her delicate and elusive love-making, her inability to cope with the feminine sophistication
of a human woman, her ariel-like re- . venge all these were charmingly interpreted. But it was the. mechanics of the
thing that took the writer's attention and fixed her fancy. The melting in and out of "Undine" and the "Spirit of the Brook," the latter Impersonated by an old man, was an exquisite mystery. These beings, like - fairies and ghosts, are v supposed to take on human shape or elusively shuffle it off,
as the occasion demands.
And the manner in which this was done in the picture presentation was
a marvel.
The figures faded gradually away, were instantly blotted out, or were obtruded upon the vision, as the inci
dent of the tale demanded, but however, or whenever or wherever it was
manipulated with the most occult me
chanical art, or artistic mechanics.
whichever way you care to put it.
These are extraordinary things. But we think nothing of them. We regard them as indifferently as we do the marvels of nature the rising and setting of the sun, the blossoming of the flowers, the budding of the trees and the onward sweep of water. And yet we get it all for Ave or ten cents. The fact should be emphasized that last week we had the opportunity of seeing picture drama presentations of two world's classics "Undine and the Knight" at the Murrette, Homer's "Odyssey" at the Palace, and also at the former theater a dramatization of "The Woman in White," one of the most famous novels of the famous English novelist, Wilkie Collins. Neither should it be overlooked at almost all of the picture theatres you will see illustrated "current events" and that their presentation is "timely."
In instance a day or so after Mr. Roosevelt arrived in New York from Milwaukee his descent from the train and greeting were recorded by the film pictures on the screen in a local picture house. These current event pictures are of great educational value. The easiest way to impress a thing on the average mind is through the medium of the pictorial. Humanity is like a great child. It loves a picture.
It is less trouble to absorb through the eye than through the intellect. Hence pictures are always more popular than books, in certain phases and stages of development. That is one reason for the popularity of the film drama. And it is surprising how much can be conveyed without speech. "Songs without words," are as illuminative as those with. We all talk too much. It's the cause of half the nervous prostration in the world. People wrangle and chatter and growl and talk and talk and talk. On and on and on. You've heard 'em many a time.
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j You know you do, but still you keep jit up. i You think to make yourself impresj sive by repetition. When you only : make yourself obnoxious and drive t the other people in the house to mad- ; ness and insanity. j You all know the silent man whose
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the family. The cute little thing that chatters and gabbles. And Aunt Jerusha who can keep it up all day. To say nothing of the neighbors who will stalk you in the back yard and hold a conversation ive miles long over the fence the while you shift from one foot to the other conscious that the dish-water is cooking or the bread burning or the jelly boiling over on the floor. And yet you haven't the courage to so state and wrench yourself away. "And so he. says to me, well, I couldn't explain it because the day before Angle went down town right
! by there and he never noticed a thing i
and old Doc Diddingham told us the same thing when he came In last night to borrow our Cincinnati paper to send to Jack who is in school at Cheltneham, Pennsylvania, going there because his grandfather's aunt lives on Maple street right across from the college and Jack can stay there cheaper than oh, yes, well as he says to me, he says, just as I went along I met Bob and Bob was carrying a curious shaped parcel I noticed it at the time but never thought anything about it no, it hasn't anything to do with the story but It reminded me of something else I wanted to tell you if And so it goes on. Maundering up hill and down dale and over the top of the mountain un-
itil you are ready to shriek and howl
and shake your fists at the zenith.
If all the time wasted in idle talk!
was turned into force many of us t would be riding in automobiles day af- j ter tomorrow.
You know yourself that the person you like to be with best is the one who understands without saying
much. With whom you can walk ten miles without uttering a sound and yet enjoy yourself. Talking, indeed, is a hindrance to walking. Any trained pedestrian will tell you so. And It's a hindrance to a lot of oth
er things. It kills love sometimes. And slaughters companionship. It will depose a candidate and nul
lify a sermon. If everybody would stop talking tot-, one day, let us sly. the doors of the sanitariums would swing outward and the world would have been punched up one notch higher toward the mlllenium. The almost entire uselessness or at least Heedlessness of speech is demonstrated in the picture play. And might be carried out in the legitimate drama with effect.
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