332 THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



ones are parting to meet no more; there where 

 heart-broken mothers, choking with sobs, plead 

 against fate; there where cruel Justice, blinding her 

 eyes, closes the Day of Probation and places the 

 Seal of Death upon every impenitent soul ; there 

 where angels weep and the pitying, pleading 

 Christ begs to drink once more the Cup of Death 

 and endure the passion of Golgotha's cross that 

 erring man may be forgiven ; there, in scenes like 

 these, reckon the consequences of the social glass 

 and settle the plea for <{ personal liberty!" . . 



