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And Now the Theater

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 25.

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And Now the Theater.

The Congregationalist tells us that the “Rev. Charles M. Sheldon announces that he will soon set about dramatizing his story, ‘Edward Blake,’ and that he will prepare it for presentation at Washburn College next fall. If successful there, then he will decide about sending it on its way, he having come out openly of late in favor of the drama as an agent for ethical and religious instruction.” We expected it; but it would be pertinent to ask in this connection, “What would Jesus do?” Why did He not dramatize the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the Ten Virgins, the Talents, or His remarkable discourse of Luke 21? What a field opened for John in dramatizing some parts of the Apocalypse and presenting it at Ephesus! But we do not hear of these things. The business of the Master and His loved disciple was to save men from the great theater of the world.