I The Moving I Pictures I Are Teaching Bible This title Is the heading of or one of tho the New Tork York leading Sunday Sunda n newspaper ne mf ga magazines Notice of ot It Is recorded here because of or tho the positive nature of Its declaration dec ec- ec that moving pictures picture are teachIng teaching teach teach- ing lag tho the Bible DIble The question as 08 to the u use e of the In religious lous and biblical teaching was as an open one for some romo time now no however the ma magazine referred to to declares ministers school schoolteachers schoolteachers teachers eaches and others Interested In religious education aro arc awakening to the imp Importance importance Import import- rt- rt ance of motion pictures as an an effective e method metho of familiarizing both old and young oung with ith the great en e events of biblical hi history 6 Such remarkable progress Is be beIng being being be- be ing made by all aU the th leading film manufacturers manufacturers manu manu- ID iu tho the reverent portrayal of or of orre re religious re- re subjects that a motion picture projection machine and a wide assortment of films will soon be he considered an es essential essential essential es- es part of the equipment of every church and Sunday school Turning tho the Bible Into scenarios for tor motion motton mo mo- tion picture plays began long before there was any Idea that tho the flint film would take Its Us place aJon alongside the catechism and the pulpit This was when the industry was In Its Us Infancy long infancy long lone before all tho the famous novelists and playwrights had begun writing for tor the films film II ae as the they are doing today With the public demand for pictures growing b by leaps leas bounds It was as but bu natural that thc tho producers In their search for tor material should turn to the Bible The The scriptures are ri and their pages abound In plots powerful to stir the ambitions of the tho most capable actors am and the most skilful stage tas-e directors The Pictures Picture Serving a Doubly Educational Educational Purpose Interesting Ameri Americans ns and educating the mixed natives of or tho the Philippine islands isi- isi ands Is ono one of the tho latest double accomplishments of the Dean Worcester for some time lime secretary secre seers taT tary of or the Interior of the Philippines Is at the present time interesting interesting- Americans b by a a. series of ot illustrated illus trat d lectures on the man many and varied problems of ot tho those e Islan islands An n elaborate number of ot films film taken In all parts of or the Islands are arc proving very el helpful In bringIng bringing bringing bring bring- ing to the American government gO and peo- peo plo pIc a thorough knowledge of ot the tho conditions conditions conditions condi condi- with which they have to deal In those far off ort and much scattered lands The greatest Interest however er centers in the graphic descriptions of how ho the various tribes are being lifted from savagery say sav agery os-er to civilization b by means of the moving pictures Professor Worcester says Wonderful results have been achieved among a n number of or wild Philippin Philippine Philip Philip- pine pin tribes b by the use of the motion motton pic pie ture It has always been diC difficult to coney convey convey con con- vey ey the desired lessons by word of or mouth alone It Is also difficult to put the principles prin of ot sanitary science Into the language lan Jan guage of wild nd peoples and here the movIng moving ing lag pictures have han pro ed of oC greatest value val val- val ue The natives of ot the non Christian tribes 1130 hax-e hax lived In appalling squalor but when shown shonn the this pictures s of or better conditions condi condi- tlona contrasted with the old have manifested mani mant- fe ted a most encouraging disposition to profit b by the lesson Naturally the tho pictures pictures pic plc- tures are not devoted entirely to those matters scenes se-enes from tram foreign life lite are aro shown shot conditions In America are shown and arouse the keenest Inter Interest l and arc arcery very ery en effective In helping to impress them with with our ideas Idea