Show I I r Church Chur h and Theatre Again II The theatre often complains that the church does docs not do it Il justice Clergymen who make sweeping Ill considered attacks upon the tho stage spread the Impression that the church falls to lo appreciate the groat power of the theatre aj as a moral agent and educator It Is all the tho more inter interesting Interesting esting therefore when hen a clergyman writes In praise of ora a play pill as Rev Rov Ro Dr Parkhurst has written about Francis Frauds comedy The Bachelors Baby Bab Most Mont people who attend church he says sas go prepared to have an amount of o moral truth told lold Into them undisguised anything of the tha th sort dealt to tho the average lion thoa tre ham hots to bo smuggled In I The fhe seriousness that there Is In The Bachelors Baby Is Js welcomed Ilse causo caUSa It is s so su Inimitably presented II and anI If I people did but hut know it H it la Is Just Juet its Ils earnest feature that has won for It so so large a 3 popular regard The Time story Is fascinatingly told and performed It Is a telling Illustration of the tho fact that a thread of love lose It if I it only has the purity sweet sweetness sweetness ness and Innocence of or child lovo Is like the Xray l ray which penetrates to J the quick regardless of oC natural ob oh obstructions If It thoro there ivero more such I expressions of or praise from the pulpit where they thoy tho can bo ho conscientiously imade I Imade made thero there would be more respect res for far too tho denunciations of o bad plays from torn the same sarno source |