In this masterpiece of pathos we find hunger, thirst, homelessness, garments parted, betrayal, desertion by dis ciples, the solitary struggle in Gethsemane, all the incidents of passion week and of the " stations " on the way to Cal vary, all cumulative and more effective than in any of the great dramatic unities.

Every item is a pathogenic pity- fetish.

Many young converts in our returns are chiefly affected, e.

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, by the nails, some almost to the point of stig- matization.