In His Steps: A Dramatic Adaptation of the Story1917 - 44 pages |
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... answering that question is concerned . CLARK — What do you think will be the outcome ? NORMAN . — I believe we can succeed and succeed better than ever . ( turns to desk as though terminating interview . ) CLARK .- ( Starts to go ...
... answering that question is concerned . CLARK — What do you think will be the outcome ? NORMAN . — I believe we can succeed and succeed better than ever . ( turns to desk as though terminating interview . ) CLARK .- ( Starts to go ...
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... answered my question . Will you stay with me ? CLARK .— ( Hesitates . ) I can't leave you as long as you need me , Mr. Norman . I will stay ( Holds out his hand . ) NORMAN .— ( Taking it . ) Thank you , Clark . I would be sorry to lose ...
... answered my question . Will you stay with me ? CLARK .— ( Hesitates . ) I can't leave you as long as you need me , Mr. Norman . I will stay ( Holds out his hand . ) NORMAN .— ( Taking it . ) Thank you , Clark . I would be sorry to lose ...
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... answer for another . I am powerless to help you there . ( Powers drops his hands and sinks into a chair . ) Believe ... answered me . a look of understanding , and long hand clasp they separate . Exit Powers , B. E. Norman stands at desk ...
... answer for another . I am powerless to help you there . ( Powers drops his hands and sinks into a chair . ) Believe ... answered me . a look of understanding , and long hand clasp they separate . Exit Powers , B. E. Norman stands at desk ...
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... answer as soon as pos- sible . VIRGINIA . — You have often talked of doing something like that , haven't you , Rachel ? RACHEL . — Yes , I know . But now I cannot reconcile it with my judgment of what Jesus would do . I have a feeling ...
... answer as soon as pos- sible . VIRGINIA . — You have often talked of doing something like that , haven't you , Rachel ? RACHEL . — Yes , I know . But now I cannot reconcile it with my judgment of what Jesus would do . I have a feeling ...
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... answer . ) Will you tell me why ? RACHEL . — I do not feel towards you as a woman ought to feel towards the man she ... answering one . ) They have al- ways been great friends . MRS . PAGE . — Yes , and to tell the truth , Mrs. Winslow ...
... answer . ) Will you tell me why ? RACHEL . — I do not feel towards you as a woman ought to feel towards the man she ... answering one . ) They have al- ways been great friends . MRS . PAGE . — Yes , and to tell the truth , Mrs. Winslow ...
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Page 9 - JESUS, I my cross have taken, All to leave and follow Thee ; Naked, poor, despised, forsaken, Thou, from hence, my All shalt be.
Page 10 - It seems to me there's an awful lot of trouble in the world that somehow wouldn't exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out. I suppose I don't understand. But what would Jesus do?
Page 9 - Do you mean that you are suffering and denying yourselves and trying to save lost suffering humanity just as I understand Jesus did? What do you mean by it? I see the ragged edge of things a good deal. I understand there are more than five hundred men in this city in my case.
Page 10 - ... the churches, thousands of them, I mean, die in tenements and walk the streets for jobs, and never have a piano or a picture in the house, and grow up in misery and drunkenness and sin...
Page 9 - I've tramped through this city for three days trying to find a job; and in all that time I've not had a word of sympathy or comfort except from your minister here, who said he was sorry for me and hoped I would find a job somewhere. I suppose it is because you get so imposed on by the professional tramp that you have lost your interest in any other sort.
Page 9 - I'm not complaining, am I? Just stating facts. But I was wondering, as I sat there under- the gallery, if what you call following Jesus is the same thing as what he taught. What die1 he mean when he said, 'Follow me?
Page 9 - The minister said," here the man turned about and looked up at the pulpit, "that it is necessary for the disciple of Jesus to follow His steps, and he said the steps are 'obedience, faith, love and imitation.' But I did not hear him tell you just what he meant that to mean, especially the last step. What do you Christians mean by following the steps of Jesus? "I've tramped through this city for three days trying to find a job; and in all that time I've not had a word of sympathy or comfort except...
Page 9 - He put the question as naturally as if the whole congregation had been a small Bible class. He paused just a moment and coughed painfully. Then he went on. "I lost my job ten months ago. I am a printer by trade. The new linotype machines are beautiful specimens of invention, but I know six men who have killed themselves inside of the year just on account of those machines. Of course I don't blame the newspapers for getting the machines. Meanwhile, what can a man do? I know I never learned but the...
Page 22 - ... good many of the tenements. A member of a church was the owner of the one where my wife died, and I have wondered if following Jesus all the way was true in his case. I heard some people singing at a church prayer meeting the other night, 'All for Jesus, all for Jesus; All my being's ransomed powers; All my thoughts and all my doings, All my days and all my hours;' and I kept wondering as I sat on the steps outside just what they meant by it.