. Drama in religious service . ritual, in which it con-tinued to figure uiitil the perversion of the dramain the hands of the laity brought it under churchban. As late as the last half of the sixteenth cen-tury, the church wardens books in many Englishparishes will be found to contain interesting re-cords, with such items as: Payde for making the sepulter los. For peynting the same 3s. To the sexton for meat and drink and watching thesepulter, according to custom 22d. A Quern Quaeritis of the Christmas season wasone of the first and most notable developmentsof the original Easter liturgical dr
. Drama in religious service . ritual, in which it con-tinued to figure uiitil the perversion of the dramain the hands of the laity brought it under churchban. As late as the last half of the sixteenth cen-tury, the church wardens books in many Englishparishes will be found to contain interesting re-cords, with such items as: Payde for making the sepulter los. For peynting the same 3s. To the sexton for meat and drink and watching thesepulter, according to custom 22d. A Quern Quaeritis of the Christmas season wasone of the first and most notable developmentsof the original Easter liturgical drama,—a QuernQuaeritis in Praecepe (Whom Seekest Thou inthe Crib?) From it as a central theme, anEpiphany drama embracing the events of thetwelve days of Christmas, was evolved. From itsearliest form we still have, in all Catholic coun-tries, the manger scene set up at one side of thechancel during this season. In fact, it is a famil-iar survival in both Protestant and Catholicchurches in America to-day. According to an [144]. JOSEPH, AS PLAYED PV A YOUNG ITALIAN PoMFRET Nativity EARLIEST CHRISTIAN DRAMA early French record, canons or vicars, represent-ing the shepherds, originally approached the greatwest door of the choir. A boy in similitudinemangeli perched in excelso sang the good tidings ofgreat joy, the curtain was drawn from the man-ger disclosing Joseph and Mary with the InfantJesus, an ox and an ass. So familiar has every detail of the Nativitybeen to us as individuals from our earliest child-hood that there is no shock of surprise in seeingthe living representation of these things replacethe set tableaux. Perhaps then it was notstrange to hear the exclamation of a child of threelast year in a Methodist church where the dramaof the Nativity was being presented. The man-ger scene had been reproduced upon the platformwith the merest suggestion of detail. The lightwas dim and bluish to suggest a night scene, withonly the radiance from the Christ-Childs crib toilluminate
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