Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Story Magazine
Date:
Feb-Jul 1911
Publisher:
The Motion Picture Story Publishing Co.
Volume:
The Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)
Leaf #:
000332
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Fan Magazines, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 11, 2024
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66 THE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE. could get no word of thee at thy house. Welcome to our feast." "But why this black garb?" queries a bold-faced girl. "Is Mary bound on some pious pilgrimage?" " 'Twere a pious pilgrimage to find us, surely/' laughed Simon, one of the revellers, "and the garb is a clever jest. But now, Saint Mary, your quest is ended, wear this scarlet cloak in token of thy triumph. There ! Now thou lookest like thyself." Faint, exhausted, bewildered by this unexpected turn of events, Mary sank upon the ground and accepted food and drink. The wine brought new life and animation and she began to respond to the jests and laughter, halfforgetting the vision she had followed thruout the day. "Tonight, after our feast," said a fair-haired girl, lifting a slender wine glass, "we shall dance upon yonder platform, where they say the Nazarene hath preached to thousands. Friends, a toast to the Nazarene !" With boisterous laughter they filled their cups, but Mary, dashing her glass to the ground and flinging aside the scarlet cloak, cried out, "I must go on ; I can no longer stay !" and fled swiftly down the hillside, leaving the crowd, silent with amazement, staring after her. "I have wasted precious hours," sobbed Mary, "which way shall I go? Shall I ever find him ?" A faint cry from the roadside attracted her attention. Peering into the bushes, rapidly darkening in the twilight, she saw a young child, weeping bitterly, over a tiny, bruised foot. "I cannot stop," said Mary, hardening her heart to the plaintive appeal, and starting down the road again, "I must delay no more." 'AS SHE DID IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF MY LITTLE ONES.