As I understand it, a pageant is a sort o$
circus parade, with the white-horse
in front, and the stump-tailed elephant iii
the rear. Or, a pageant may be an inaugural
affair, when the King prances through tho
streets on his way to the Abbey to be crowned*
Or, it may be a Durbar, like they have id
India. Or, it may be a Carnival celebration)
with brass-bands, and gorgeous floats, and
flow’er-displays. Or, it may be a Suffragett|
and Prepardness exhibition, with all the
lunatics loose at one time, and eaclf lunatic
doing his or her best to make more fuss thaij
any other.
Pageantry is synonymous with pomp,
splendor, brilliant spectacle, elaborate anc|
costly ceremonial, big show, magnificent dis«
play.
What I want to know is this: How did a
pageant become a fixed Baptist observance?
Where do they pull it off, and when? 1$
Alec Bealer at the head of it? Who rides iii
the white-horse chariot? Who leads the
stump-tailed elephant?
But consider that other statement made b$
the Index:
“And $1,037.40 for the publication of Bap*
tist Missions of the South.
What did I tell you?
The fact now reveals itself: they take
sion funds to support mission editors, print*
ers and papers, instead of sending it abroad
for the conversion of the heathen.
Our Methodist friends swiped $363,000
from the heathen fund, last year, and gave it
to mission editors in this country.
And the Baptists are doing the same thing<
Your churches give millions of dollars fog.
the heathen of foreign lands, and the custo*
dians of the money use a large part of it to
finance the interlocking mission machines,
here at home.
