The Crowning of the Sunday-School Angel.
MUSICAL DIALOGUE WITH TABLEAU.
CHARACTERS.
| The Guard, | Gentleman. | ||
| The Angel of Order, | ⎫ | Ladies. | |
| The Angel of Literature, | ⎪ | ||
| The Angel of Music, | ⎬ | ||
| The Angel of Love, | ⎪ | ||
| The Angel of the Word of God. | ⎭ | ||
| ⎫ | A small boy. | ||
| Two Ragged Children, | ⎬ | ||
| ⎭ | A little girl. | ||
| A Chorus of Sunday-school Scholars. | |||
Preparations.—A large Gothic chair raised one step or more from the floor of the pulpit for a throne. A crown (made of pasteboard and covered with gold paper will answer), placed on
the top of the chair. A scepter is needed. The ladies taking the parts should be dressed in white; they may each wear a long flowing veil of illusion or other light material, with star on the forehead. The veil should not cover the face, but fall back over the shoulders.
The Guard should wear a Knight Templar or other suitable uniform, and should take charge of and guard the throne before ORDER presents herself.
The Angel of Order (comes up the aisle, with a bell or some emblem of order in her hand, and ascending the pulpit advances towards the throne and addresses the Guard as follows):
I am the Angel of Order; “Order is heaven’s first law,”—a glorious law, seen in those beauteous isles of light that come and go, as circling months fulfil their high behest. Nor less on earth discerned mid rocks snow-clad or wastes of herbless sand.
Throughout all climes, beneath all varying skies, fixing for e’en the smallest flower that blooms, its place of growth.