The Great Physician (1913)
A little smiled played about the physician's mouth as he walked down the street. The smile passed away and his face grew tenderly grave as he stopped before a house. On the door there flamed a cross in white dazzling light. Within the house a mother knelt beside her sick child. She looked up as the physician came to her side. "You will cure my child?" she asked eagerly. "I win cure her," said the physician, ''but she must come with me. I have a garden filled with laughing children, where white flowers bloom and thrushes sing. Let her come with me, and she shall play there happily forever." A frightened look crossed the mother's face, and she flung her arms about the child. "No, no," she cried, "I will not part with her." The child moaned because of the fever and the pain, and the mother wept. "Why must she suffer so?" she cried, "Can no one soothe her torment?" Then she sank back in affright, for a tall figure in a black cowl stood beside her. "I will give her surcease of pain," spoke the cold voice, "In my arms she shall sleep without dreaming. Give me your child, oh mother, I am Death!" The mother shrieked, and flung herself protectingly across the child's body. Then suddenly the room was filled with unearthly radiance, and the mother, looking up, was afraid, for a Shepherd stood beside the bed. "Twice have I called," said the Shepherd in a sweet deep voice, "and twice have you refused me. This time I will not be gainsaid. Weep not, oh mother, I, who am Life and Death, am also immortality." Then he lifted the child in his arms and carried her away, although the mother's arms still held the little shape on the bed, now growing so cold.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Richard Ridgely | Director |
| Bannister Merwin | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Charles Ogle | |
| Mabel Trunnelle | |
| Robert Brower | |
| Helen Coughlin |
