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 · dramatic · 1:06 min

The cross! (RHODA: I--I don't understand.) All those places where the hand was lifted for a moment, and the power flowed into me-- He places his finger at various points on the map; these points lie in two transverse lines, between the Mississippi and the Pacific; one line runs roughly north and south, the other east and west. Look! There was such a place, and there another, and there, and there. And there was one, and there, and there.--Do you see? (RHODA: I see.--It makes a kind of cross.) You see it too! And do you see what it means--this sign that my feet have marked across the length and breadth of a continent? (He begins again to pace the room.) --And that crowd of stricken souls out yonder, raised up as by miracle, their broken bodies crying to be healed,--do you see what they mean?

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