Show no greater sermon was ever preached front from the screen clergymen of all denominations are urging their congregations to see tile the ten commandments the reverend dr chester C marshall wrote of it in the educational screen as follows when it was reported many months ago that a commercial company was vlas filming the ten commandments man many y of us felt that this was apt to bs be something of a travesty on one of the sublime st and most epochal events of history when the picture was first produced in a new york theatre at topnotch prices I 1 attended with a group of clergymen as guests of the management expecting to see a great spectacle and also prepared to see violence done to the real spirit of the decalogue and of the method by which the law was given to man frankly I 1 may say we were a critical group two hours and a halt hall later we e merged from the theatre onto the great white way to be suddenly jarred back of realities the evening rush hour was on the floods of humanity was surging by in t two 0 mighty currents and there at the entrance stood a woman selling copies of the athirst At hiest 1 no let us rather say we came from the world of realities as spread before us on an the screen out into a world of un realities god has rarely been more real to us than lie he was for the space of one afternoon if one message above another is needed by our pleasure loving law breaking age this picture brings just that message thanks to a motion picture company a director a scenario writer actors and all others who are bringing this message to millions of people every american owes it to himself to see the worlds greatest and best motion picture there is one question we can not avoid asking why when such sublime and holy things can be presented in such an entertaining and fascinating manner must we have such filth slush trash and stupidity unfolded before our eyes as we have in the average film |