Why not this new splendor?
The Cathedral of St.John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, should establish in its crypt motion pictures as thoroughly considered as the lines of that building, if possible designed by the architects thereof, with the same sense of permanency.
This chapter does not advocate that the Church lay hold of the photoplays as one more medium for reillustrating the stories of the Bible as they are given in the Sunday-school papers.

It is not pietistic simpering that will feed the spirit of Christendom, but a steady church-patronage of the most skilful and original motion picture artists.

Let the Church follow the precedent which finally gave us Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Andrea del Sarto, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Correggio, Titian, Paul Veronese, Tintoretto, and the rest.
Who will endow the successors of the present woman's suffrage film, and other great crusading films?
Who will see that the public documents and university researches take on the form of motion pictures?
Who will endow the local photoplay and the Imagist photoplay?
Who will take the first great measures to insure motion picture splendors in the church?
Things such as these come on the winds of to-morrow.

But let the crusader look about him, and where it is possible, put in the diplomatic word, and cooeperate with the Gray Norns..