ICHAELIS.

It was you who held them to their trust!

RHODA.

You will go out to them now.

MICHAELIS.

_As he kisses her._

Until the victory!

_The song rises to a great hymn, of martial and joyous rhythm. They
go together to the threshold. They look at each other in silence.
Rhoda speaks, with suppressed meaning._

RHODA.

Shall it be--on earth?

MICHAELIS.

On the good human earth, which I never possessed till now!

RHODA.

But now--these waiting souls, prisoned in their pain--

MICHAELIS.

By faith all prisoned souls shall be delivered.

RHODA.

By faith.

MICHAELIS.

By faith which makes all things possible, which brings all things to
pass.

_He disappears. Rhoda stands looking after him. The young mother
hurries in._

THE YOUNG MOTHER.

_Ecstatic, breathless._

Come here--My baby! I believe--I do believe--

_She disappears._

RHODA.

_Following her._

I believe. I do believe!

_The music rises into a vast chorus of many mingled strains._

CURTAIN

WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY'S

The Great Divide _Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net_

"This play stands as a noteworthy achievement in the history of
American dramatic literature, not alone as a drama of absorbing
interest and significance, but as a distinct achievement from a
literary point of view. It is a pleasure to read the crisp, admirable
English, a prose at once vigorous, clear, and balanced. In the cold
black and white of print and paper, without the accessories of the
stage or the personality of actors to help illusion or enforce the
story told, the real strength of the drama is most impressive. Mr.
Moody has long been known as a poet of unusual gifts; he has now proven
himself a dramatist of marked ability."--_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._

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"It is a privilege to read at leisure and to examine in detail a play
which, when presented upon the boards, sweeps the auditor along in a
whirlwind of emotion.... The triumph of nature, with its impulse, its
health, its essential sanity and rightness, over the cryptic formulas
of convention and Puritanism, marks the meaning of the play.... Yet
because it is a great drama, it may mean that to one and quite another
thing to another, but meaning this, or meaning that, it must make,
inevitably, an indelible impression upon any one interested in the
vitality and evolution of the