
The Miracle Woman
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1931
- 90 min
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][BELLS CHIMING]
[CHOIR SINGING HYMN]
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
You wouldn't be in a hurry either
if you'd been fired, would you?
The Reverend Fallon
was not fired.
Look, here comes
his daughter.
This morning my father was to have
delivered his farewell sermon to you,
but he has been ill,
as you all know,
and today he cannot be with you.
But he dictated his sermon to me,
as he has done for so many years.
I have it here,
and I'm going to read it to you.
"Friends, I leave you today after
a score of years in this church
as a servant of the Lord,
to whom I pray
that he may let
words of my mouth
and troubled meditations of my
heart be acceptable in his sight.
I have baptized many of you
in the Lord's grace,
a few of you I have joined
together in marriage,
and over the bodies
of some of your loved ones,
I have spoken the beautiful,
triumphant victory
that comes
with the Lord's salvation.
I would dearly love to stay as your
pastor for the rest of my years,
for I had hoped to live
and die at this pulpit.
But you have seen fit
to call another,
a younger man to guide
and serve you.
I do not leave the Lord.
Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the house
of the Lord forever.
When the heart is thirsty,
there is drink in the Testaments:
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down
in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside
the still waters.
He restoreth..."
That's as far as he got.
This is his farewell message to you.
You see that he stopped
in the middle of a sentence.
My father is dead.
He died in my arms
five minutes ago,
before he could
finish his message to you,
but I'm gonna finish it for him.
Miss Fallon,
the news you bring is painful,
but I hardly think it proper...
You're the head deacon of
this church, Mr. Simpson,
and I want you to listen
to what I have to say,
because it's your clique
that started all this trouble.
Leave if you like.
My father preached to empty hearts.
I don't mind talking to empty pews.
My father is dead,
and you killed him!
You crucified him just as
surely as he was crucified.
He died of disappointment,
of heartbreak, of ingratitude.
He gave his life to serve you
and when he was old and worn
you threw him out.
You all came to this church in
automobiles. He always had to walk.
He didn't even leave enough money,
after 20 years of service to you,
to buy a burial in a decent cemetery.
There, there.
This is not the time nor place
to speak of such things,
and I must ask you to remember
you are in the house of God...
What God? Whose God? Yours?
This isn't the house of God,
this is a meeting place for hypocrites.
You're out of your head, and I,
for one, will not listen to such...
Well, go on, get out!
You've been running this church,
but I'm gonna run it for the next hour.
my father should have preached.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
The Bible says the labourer
is worthy of his hire.
But you wouldn't pay your pastor
what you pay your chauffeurs.
I've worked for you too,
without pay.
I've served you by helping him,
and you've got to listen to me.
I don't have to make
any notes either.
I was brought up on the Bible,
and I know it by heart.
I'm gonna take my text this morning
from chapter 23
of the Gospel of Matthew.
And I say unto you as Christ
said to the scribes and Pharisees,
"Woe unto you hypocrites,
for you devour widows' homes,
and for a pretence
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