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.

CHAPTER XVIII

ARCHITECTS AS CRUSADERS

Many a worker sees his future America as a Utopia, in which his own
profession, achieving dictatorship, alleviates the ills of men. The
militarist grows dithyrambic in showing how war makes for the blessings
of peace. The economic teacher argues that if we follow his political
economy, none of us will have to economize. The church-fanatic says if
all churches will merge with his organization, none of them will have to
try to behave again. They will just naturally be good. The physician
hopes to abolish the devil by sanitation. We have our Utopias. Despite
levity, the present writer thinks that such hopes are among the most
useful things the earth possesses.

A normal man in the full tide of his activities finds that a
world-machinery could logically be built up by his profession. At least
in the heyday of his working hours his vocation satisfies his heart. So
he wants the entire human race to taste that satisfaction. Approximate
Utopias have been built from the beginning. Many civilizations have had
some dominant craft to carry them the major part of the way. The priests
have made India. The classical student has preserved Old China to its
present hour of new life. The samurai knights have made Japan. Sailors
have evolved the British Empire. One of the enticing future Americas is
that of the architect. Let the architect a