Where Love isjhere God is Also
Adapted from Tolstoi's beautiful story of Russian Peasant life
Written by HETTIE GRAY BAKER. Produced by OSCAR EAGLE.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
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A POOR BOY..
THE principal scenes of Tolstoi's touching story are laid in the basement home of an old Russian
shoemaker. Having recently lost his wife and child, he is wailing and cursing at God for having
deprived him of his dear ones. His friend, Ivan comes along and consoles him, telling him that it
is all for the best and that wherever Love is there God is also. When he leaves, Martuin, the shoemaker, is in a better state of mind and he thinks constantly of the lesson that his friend Ivan has taught
him. He begins life anew and does good to everybody whom he meets. He has been told that some
day "The Stranger" will visit him. He prepares for "The Stranger" little realizing that "The Stranger"
means God, and that He will come not in the flesh but rather in the spirit. A poor exhausted street
shoveler falls at his door and is brought in and fed on the meal that lies prepared for "The Stranger."
So on for many years, this kind treatment to others is administered by the old shoemaker. Finally,
one day he hears a voice saying "Put your house in order, for tomorrow
I shall visit thee." He spends many nights thereafter waiting, watching, praying for the appearance of "The Stranger." Finally it dawns
upon him that "The Stranger" is God, and that God comes not in the flesh
but in the spirit. He falls on his knees and thanks God that at last he
has seen the light and understands.
SELIG
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I FROM THE COLLECTION OF
CHARLES 6. CLARKE
Copyright, 1912, by The Selig Polyscope Co.
