(Edith Storey impersonates Mary the Virgin.) "I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps" and "They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps"-- for these are given symbolic pageants of the Holy Sepulchre crusaders.
Then there is a visible parable, showing a marketplace in some wicked capital, neither Babylon, Tyre, nor Nineveh, but all of them in essential character.

First come spectacles of rejoicing, cruelty, and waste.

Then from Heaven descend flood and fire, brimstone and lightning.

It is like the judgment of the Cities of the Plain.

Just before the overthrow, the line is projected upon the screen: "He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword." Then the heavenly host becomes gradually visible upon the air, marching toward the audience, almost crossing the footlights, and blowing their solemn trumpets.