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“THE WORLD IN BOSTON”. 
Missionary Exposition to be held in 
Mechanics Building, Boston. 
Apr. 22 to May 20. 
Unusual preparations are being 
made for the presentation of the Pa- 
geant of Darkness and .Light in con- 
nection with “The World in Boston”, 
the Missionary Exposition to be held 
in the Mechanics Building, Boston, 
from April 22 to May 20. Five 
thousand choristers from the churches 
of Boston and vicinity are to be en- 
gaged in the presentation of the Pa- 
geant, serving in relays. The costumes 
used at the presentation of the Pa- 
geant at “The Orient in London” in 
1908, have been sent to the United 
States and are to be used in Boston. 
The Pageant of Darkness and Light 
is a great musical drama, a spectacu- 
lar representation of great historical 
events in the history of missions. 
There are to be five episodes or scenes, 
in each of which about 200 persons 
will participate. The first episode, 
known as the Episode of the North, 
represents a camp of American In- 
dians in the far northwest. The little 
daughter of the chief has been lost 
on the march, ‘The medicine-man 
suggests that a band of trading Eski- 
mos be killed to appease the spirits, 
but just as the Indians are about to 
do this, a missionary enters, bringing 
the little daughter of the chief whom 
he has found in the forest. 
In the episode of the South, which 
is Africa, David Livingstone minis- 
ters to a wounded Arab slave-raider. 
Shortly after Stanley enters, at last 
finding Livingstone. He begs the mis- 
sionary to return to England, but 
Livingstone refuses, saying his work 
is not done. 
The scene of the episode of the 
East India. A child is taken from the 
missionaries in order that she may be 
formally married to the man selected 
as her husband in her babyhood. In 
the second scene, the wife, now a 
woman, is led to the funeral pyre of 
her husband. As the pyre is about to 
be lighted, with the living widow up- 
on it, an official of the English gov- 
ernment arrives with a proclamation 
doing away with the suttee, as this 
rite was called. 
In the episode of the West, Kap- 
iolani, the Christian queen of Hawaii, 
defies Pele, goddess of the Lake of 
Fire in the crater of the Volcano Kil- 
auea. ‘The volcano is in eruption. 
The priest of Pele claims victims to 
appease the wrath of the goddess. He 
chooses a young bridegroom and a 
child, and is leading them to the cra- 
ter to be thrown into the Lake of 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Fire. Queen Kapiolani comes quick- 
ly and.aetes the priest. She ascends 
to the crater, and, alter the fashion 
of Hlijah on Mount Carmel, taunts 
and aenes the goddess and breaks 
tne power of Pele forever. 
in the finishing episode, those who 
have participated in the tour previous 
scenes, march trom the corners of the 
hall towards the platiorm singing, 
and arrange themselves in the iorm 
ot a great star. Ata given signal the 
audience will rise ana everyone will 
sing, to the tune ot Old tiundred, 
“Au people that on earth do dwell.” 
Lhe Pageant is to be given in the 
grand hati ot Mechanics Building, 
which has a seating capacity ot be- 
tween five and six thousand, every 
atternoon and every evening during 
thle iour Weeks Oi Lie Eyxposition, Lilie 
Pageant was presented in Loudon to 
crowds ot people every day. lt was 
regarded there as one of the greatest 
religious spectacles of the century. 
‘here was evidence that a deep spirit- 
ual impression was made upon the 
people who attended. 
At the Beverly Farms Baptist 
church Rev. Clarence Strong Pond, 
pastor, last Sunday evening a very 
interesting service was held in the. 
interest of this great movement to 
educate the public. At other North 
Shore churches similar meetings have 
been held and will be held in the 
coming weeks. 
CARROLL D. WRIGHT ON RE- 
LIGION. 
I cannot assent to the suggestion 
that there is any decadence or lessen- 
ing of a true religious spirit, taking 
our community as a whole. The in- 
fluence of the Church must be ac- 
knowledged, whether people attend it 
in as large numbers as formerly or 
not. 
The public conscience to-day is 
more acute, more sensitive, than at 
any time in the history of mankind. 
We see the evidence of the truth of 
my assertion in the question of crime. 
This new conscience is constantly ele- 
vating misdemeanors that were of- 
fences against individual conscience 
into offences against the public con- 
science, and making them punishable 
as crimes. If the public conscience 
had not been stimulated by high re- 
ligious conception of the rights of 
the community and of the develop- 
ment of the individual, this state of 
affairs would not have occurred. The 
treatment of the labor question offers 
the strongest evidence of the growth 
of a religious spirit. The best men 
are willing to grant to other men what 
they claim for themselves; and this 
is one of the highest conceptions of 
religious action. There is a new pa- 
triotism,—that patriotism which is 
born of a religious spirit. It is de- 
votion to a high principle. It is a 
patriotism which means personal sac- 
rifice' in social service. It is a higher 
type of patriotism than that exempli- 
fied on the battlefield. 
The Church has done all this; and, 
when I say the Church, I mean all 
churches,—I mean religious teach- 
ing, the constant enunciation of the 
highest principles relating to human 
conduct, the endeavor of pulpits 
everywhere to impress upon the peo- 
ple the necessity (not through a sys- 
tem of rewards and punishments, but 
in order to secure the best-results and 
the surest happiness) of dealing with 
all questions on a broad, tolerant basis, 
accepting the precepts of Christ and 
his teaching as the surest guides by 
by which to mould not only individual 
but public conduct. 
The modern Church may fail to 
reach as many people, relatively, 
through its direct ministrations as of 
old; but it is reaching them in another 
way. It is reaching them by the 
preaching of a sane doctrine, which 
means the upbuilding of the character 
of men and of the character of com- 
munity. It is teaching us to recognize 
the rights and the wrongs that sur- 
round us. It is teaching us to be more 
active in our endeavor to suppress or 
to right wrong, and in all ways to 
bring about the establishment of a 
saner and better community spirit. 
This does not come from the cricified 
Christ, nor the dead Christ, nor the. 
Christ of the resurrection, but from 
the living, active Christ, that always 
was, is, and always shall be; and it 
is through this living Christ that we 
find the solution of all social, indus- 
trial, and political problems.—Ad- 
dress at the National Unitarian Con- 
ference, 1903. 
Underwriters’ Meeting. 
The board of underwriters met at 
the Board of Trade rooms, Beverly 
Monday afternoon. Business of im- 
portance was considered, though hav- 
ing no reference to local fire depart- — 
ment matters, as some had stated, it 
being wholly a private matter con- 
cerning the district of Beverly, Man- 
chester, Wenham, Hamilton and Es- 
sex. 
The local board had as _ guests 
Messrs. Hammond of Haverhill, 
Adams of Cambridge and Puffer of 
Brockton, representing the Massa- 
chusetts Association of Local Agents, 
