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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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80 and1890, now the figurehead of a band who might wellbe styled, from their past services in this Play andthein venerable age, the Old Testament prophets.Erect of bearing, of noble mien, with flowing whitebeard, he seemed to be an Elijah of old, a Seer intothe gates of the future, a weary-worn, indomitableearthly King on his way to the Heavenly City. Exceptthat a younger man must needs represent the Christ,whose whole brief earthly ministry was spent in theflower of early mairheod, Mayr would no doubt havecontinued to be to the day of his death the only personthought of in Oberammergau for the character of theDivine One. As this could not be, it was a happythought which placed him at the head of the singersas the Choragus, where he could speak. He alone ofall the singers was permitted to have a voice exceptin song. He, alone, could proclaim, as one crying inthe wilderness: Behold the Lamb of God! Hespoke, as soon as ever>T>ne was in position, with com-manding voice, as follows:
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Anton Lang as Christus, in Passion Play of jgoo. THE PASSION PLAY OF 1900 289 *0 human race! by sin and shame laid low,Adore thy God: bend down and kiss the dust.Peace then shall come, and grace from Zion flow;Nor ever spurns HeThe OflFended One—although His wrath is just! I will, the Lord doth say,Not that the sinner die; forgiveWill I his guilt, and he shall live!My Sons own blood for him shall now atone.Praise, wonder, tears of joy to Thee, Eternal One! This was followed by the first tableau, Adam andEve driven out of the Garden of Eden by the angelwith the flaming sword; and, as the audience lookedupon it, the Chorus sang in the stately manner of theGerman choral. Each one of the eighteen Acts,which made up the days drama, was thus introducedby Mayr, the leader and Choragus, who gave in verse adescription, or forecast, of the scene about to bepresented; and each time, when his voice died awayand a tableaux appeared, the Chorus took up thethought, and the rhythm of their song fil

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