Public Uses of the Bible; a Study in Biblical Elocution
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Nothing THE STA TUTES OF EXPRESSION. 59 indeed could be more offensive than an excess in this direction. No devout believer would welcome even a tendency toward a revival of the " Passion Play," an example of which still lingers at Ober-Ammergau iii Bavaria, where, once in ten years, the mysteries of Christ's suffering and death, are represented by several hundred performers after the mediasval style. The Bible, however, is an oriental book, and in some of its scenes full of activity. Where it ...is possible to represent this feature justly, by the varied tones of the human voice, and the facial lines of the human face, other actions may be unnecessary. This result in many cases will be found to be practicable, where the spirit of the most vigorous passages has come, by conscientious study, to interfuse itself through the mental conceptions of the reader, and thus to possess his soul. Of Whitefield it was said ' ' his face was like a canvas, upon it he painted every passion that stirs the human breast.
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