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In anguish and high drama, the boy makes his decision; and the film ends at the eye of life's storm as the pastor reads into the teeth of the police the terrible and holy paradoxes of St. Paul (77 Corinthians) : "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed. Perplexed, but not driven to despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Struck down, but not destroyed ... As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. As poor, yet making many rich. As having nothing, and yet possessing everything . . . For we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal."