: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips 1973: Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series Volume 27 Parts 12-13 by Library Of Congress Copyright Office - Motion pictures Catalogs

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--THE CHILD

Part One A. D. 32

CHAPTER

Part Two A. D. 33

THE COMING OF THE KING

THE CHILD

"The fangs of the she-wolf are whetted keen for Galilean flesh and else the wrath of Jehovah palsy the arm of Rome, Galilean soil will run red with blood from scourged backs ere the noon of a new day."

The speaker, a slender woman wearing the garb of a peasant, lowered a water-jar from her shoulder and stood beside the bench of a workman, who paused at his task to get news from the market place.

"The souls for the cross--are they many?" he asked.

"A score of hundred I hear whispered, but at market place and fountain the spear of the soldier presseth hard against the ribs of those who congregate to exchange a word."

The man, who was fashioning a heavy yoke, lifted his bearded face to that of the woman. "A score of hundred!" he exclaimed. "To-morrow's sun will climb over Tabor to the ring of axes cutting green timber for twenty hundred crosses! The mercy of God on the victims!"

"Yea--and to-morrow's sun will set with the breeze of evening wafting one great groan of agony over the hills and vales of Galilee--one great sob of lamentation--one great curse on the barbarians of the city on the Tiber. And this for no crime save that of poverty!"

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