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Show r Church Movies CONSERVATIVE folks shake their heads when they hear of the adoption of the movie by various churches. In some churches the movie is Used as an aid to the Sunday sermon. In others It Is employed In Sunday school work. , In hese churches it is realized that people will go to moviev often at the expense of church attendance and that, therefore, the church well can jnake use of films for its own good ends. But, after all, there is nothing new in the use of pictures fqr religious Instruction. - Jesus spoke in parables story-pictures of the lessons he desired to convey. Tha New Testa ment is a series of such stories appealing as much to the Imaginations of modern men as they did to the primitive folks of Jesus' time. Sculpture and painting were the handmaidens of the church from earliest times. In fact, the old Imasters scarcely employed their, art for any purpose other than to exalt the faith. In accepting the movie, churches ar.e merely adopting the newest form of pictorial art to an age-old purpose. And approval of movies by churches should make tor better and cleaner pictures. |