Monologue

Ulrich Michaelis Monologue from The Faith Healer: A Play in Three Acts

From The Faith Healer: A Play in Three Acts by William Vaughn Moody

male · inspirational · 57 sec

(Points again, gazing fixedly.) It seems to me to be written in fire. (RHODA: What seems written?) What I have been doing, all these five years. (RHODA: Since your work began?) It has never begun. Many times I have thought, "Now," and some man or woman has risen up healed, and looked at me with eyes of prophecy. But a Voice would cry, "On, on!" and I would go forward, driven by a force and a will not my own.--I didn't know what it all meant, but I know now. He points at the map, his manner transformed with excitement and exaltation. It is written there. It is written in letters of fire. My eyes are opened, and I see!

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