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lAMERICAN MISTOfeY
April 7
1818— Jackson took St. Marks, Fla., from the 8pan
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BIBL ETHOUGHT
Physician, heal thyself.—Luke 4:23.
* * *
A wise physician, skilled our wounds to
heal,
:> I* than armies to the public weal.—
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Pope.
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He Saved Others;
Himself He Cannot Save
Matt. 27:42—
BY DR. WILLIAM E. GILROY, D. D.
Editor of The Con(re(»tion»lixt
A few weeks ago a ship with many passen
ger* running between New York-and Boston,
ran Onto the Massachusetts coast rocks in a
storm. Fear was entertained for the safety
of tl£ passengers, bUJ A^fHAtely cvefy ’ one
of the nearly three hundred on the ship was
brought to land in safety. But there was a
tragic aspect to this happy issue for the pa»~
sengers. Three members of the coastguard
who put to the . rescue of the vessel in a boat
that was capsized, sacrificed their lives.
’’ The incident is typical of that, in some
form or other, are constantly happening in the
world today, and that have happenecf all
through history. Can one sense something
of the strange destiny that brings some to
safety where others, whose lives have never
before stood in relationship to those whom
they have died to save, are called to danger
sacrifice? It is a law of life that in
ordinary circumstances reminds us of that
deeper law in, obedience to which Christ
his life a sacrifice.
Those who spoke the word* of my text
•poke the mwith irony and contempt. They
were scornful and implacable even in the Four
of the agony of one whom they had done
to death Yet spoken even with such scorn
and ihate, these words expressed a truth
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which those who uttered them little realized,
and which has come through theages to mark
the glory and the tragic beauty of the Christ
who died upon the cross.
It is only as we survey the facts of life
in relation to the cross of Christ that we
come to understand the universality and sig
nificance of the law of sacrifice, through the
full meaning of the mystery is never quite
made plain.
Yet these mysteries take on a new meaning.
and life itself has a changed significance when
we see the one who was wholly and alto
gether pure submitting himself to this same
law <ff life, going the way of the cross that
be might fulfill, even to the last, the will of
his Father, and through sacrifice bring light
and salvation to men.
There is no theory of the anointment that
has ever quite satisfied either the human heart
or the human mind.
So much do we feel tfie inadequacy of all
ihqpzje* 4 pd explanations that most of us have
come today to rest upon the sublime fact.
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<< He saved others; himself he cannot save.
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The alternative was very real for Christ.
|i«' As he approached the last hour of sacrifice,
the fulness of his humanity was evident in hi s
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shrinking from cross. Yet with the
weakness and trial and temptation of the man,
there was the triumph of that spirit which the
Father had given “not by measure" unto him.
The divine lived and triumphed in the
human, and the prayer that the cup might pass
ended in sublime resignation to the Will, of
God, “Nevertheless, not my will but ihine he
done,”
Jesus himself had reminded his dsciples
that in saving his life a man might lose it,
and in losing his life he might find it. Now
in this, ns in many things, his teaching, even
to the very last requirement, was being ful
filled in his own experience and example.
The law that enabled Christ to fulfill his
mission through sacrifice is the law that effects
our lives. There are times when we must
choose between saving ourselves and saving
others, In the crucial and determined choice
that governs life itself we have to decide
whether we are going to seek wealth, happi
ness, fame, ease, or some form of selfish
satisfaction, or whether our lives are going
to be given supremely to the realization of
God's purpose of love and righteousness.
It is easy to sing, "Nearer my God to thee,
nearer to thee. E'en tho' it be a cross that
raiseth me." But it is very difficult to face
the cross and bear the cross and perchance
be crucified upon it in fulfillment of God a
purpose. Yet nothing is so true in life a*
that God’s, purposes are brought to light
through sacrifice and suffering.
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“MOTHER TONGUE »»
(By Wightman F. Melton)
People sometimes wonder why we use the
termi, “Mother Tongue," and "Fatherland.
A would-be humorist tried to explain it by
saying, "The women do all the talking and
the men own all the land."
No, that is not it. So far as we who speak
English are concerned, ours is the "Mother
Tongue" because it was the English mothers
who kept our language alive after the Nor
man conquest. The Normans wiped out
England language and literature just .as a
schoolboy would wipe the figures from his
slate with a wet sponge.
In England, our "Mother Country," for p
long while after the coming of the Normans.
Latin was the language of the church and
French was the language of the court, com
merce arid society. It was during this time
that the English mothers—the humble women
of the middle and lower classes—kept oui
native speech alive in the home—in legend
and lullaby, ^ tli
”t It may have' been because esc mothers
were not always grammatical in their speech
that the term, “The King’s English," was coined
to designate correct English usage. The
queens of old times—even the queens of
England—were often poorly educated . In the
Library of Johns Hopkins University, there ic
a Bible which once belonged to an English
Queen; and in it she wrote, "Presented to my
father and 1 by
Strictly speaking, "Mother Tongue" means
that a child will talk as his mother talks: for
she is the one whom he hears otfenest in his
impressionistic years.
The Alabama girl, who, years ago, said
to Walter Weaver, "l taken a ride last Sunday
with Walter Robinson," may have learned
at school—but I doubt it. When her mother
had company for Sunday dinner, she' an-.
nounced, "I taken up the turnip greens as
as they were did."
Why does'an Irishman talk like his mother?
Because she was an Irishman, of course.
Here's rin example of an Irish lawyer's “Mother
Tongue," is a speech on behalf of a client
whose cow ha d- Be e n killed by a trains "Gen
tlemen of the Jury, if the train had been run
as it should have been rah, and if the bell
had been rung as it should have been rang,
or if the whistle had been blown as °d!ti
have been blew, both of which they
neither, the cow would , . not have . been , . . ,
when she was killed."
The Irish readers of The Griffin
must not think I am poking fun at the Irish;
for 1 am a Scotch—Irish—English—Dutchman
myself.
And, now. friends, what is sweeter in fill
the world than mothers words, spoken, sun}
or written. 1 know a university professor o <
English whose mother was deprived of an
education, but he prefers her letters to the
plays of Shakespeare and the essays of Car
lyle and Emerson —OF COURSE I •3
———"Invest In And Around Griffin’’———
Scientists have weighed the earth and found
it weighed six saxtillion tons. We have a
sneaking hunch that the iceman could do
better than that. ;
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Roy Wardle of Desplains. 111., wan fined !
for stealing an apple, though he pleaded I,
needed it for - his health and couldn't afford
to buy it.
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“Then cometh Jesus with them
unto a place called Geth-sem
a -ne, and salth unto the disciples,
Sit ye here, while I ,go and pray
yonder.
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For' a long time thoic was tense :
silence. Then- weaver spoke.
"I've got to think this thing out.” j
Markham waited patiently. After !
several minutes Cleaver drew him
self together and squared his shoul
ders. 1
“I’m going to tell you what I did i
that night, and you can take it or;
leave it."
Again he was the cold, self-con- i
tained gambler. "I don’t care how j
many witnesses you've got* it’s the
only story you'll ever get out of me.
I should have told you in the first
place, but X didn't see any sense of
stepping into hot water if I wasn’t
pushed in. You'might have believ
ed me last Tuesday, but now you’ve
got something in your head, and you
want to make an arrest to shut up
the newspapers--" .
“Tell your story,” ordered Mark
ham. “and if it's straight you needn’t
ivory about the newspapers.”
Cleaver knew in his heart that
this was true, No one—not even
his bitterest political enemies—had
ever accused Markham of buying
praise with any act of injus
tice however small.
“There’s not much tp tell, as a
matter of fact,” the man began. “1
went to Miss Odell's house a little
before midnight, but I didn’t enter
her apartment; I didn’t even ring
her ben.”
“Is th&t your customary way of
paying visits?”
“Sounds fishy, doesn’t it? But it's
the truth, nevertheless, I intend
ed to see her—that is I wanted to—
but when I reached her door, some
thing made me change my mind—"
."Just a moment.—How did
catarmeTKoiise?
“By the side door—the one
0,r ,lie alk TF' a y- I always used it
when it was open. Mivs Odell rc
quested me to, so the telephone op
erator wouldn’t see me coming so
often.”
“And the door was unlocked at
thnt tlme ^ onciay nlf{hl? ”
“How else could X have got in by
it? A key wouldn't have done me
any good,even if I'd had one. for it
locks by a bolt on the inside. I
say this, though; that’s the first time
I ever remember finding the door
unlocked at ntght.”
- “All right. You went In the’ side
entrance. Then whst?"
T walked down'the rear hall ana !
listened at the door of Miss Odell’s
«t»rtment for a mriiute. I thought,
there might, bo some one else with I
her and 1 didn’t want to ring g un- | :
less she was alone-- 1
“Pardon my Interrupting; Mr
Cleaver.” interposed Vance, “But 1
what made you think some one else j J
was there? '
Tlie man hesitated. (
"Was it,” prompted Vance ."be- I
cause you had telephoned to Miss
Odeli a little while before, and had
beca answered by a man’s voice?”
<31ea\er nodded slowly. "I can’t
see any particular |x>int in deny*
it il.- Yes that’s the reason.”
"What did this man ray to you?'
“Damn little. He said ‘hello,’, and
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and the two sons of Zeb-e-dee,
and began to be sorrowful and
very heavy.
Then saith he unto them, My
soul is exceeding sorrowful, even
unto death: tarry ye here, and
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1* Well, they ain't said anything about stoppin’ it.
when I asked to speak to Miss Odell
he informed me she wasn't in. and
“That, I think, explains Jessup’s
tenort of the brief phone call to the
SM at twenty minutes to twelve. •'
“Probably.” Markham spoke
out interest. He was intent on
account of what happened later, and
he took up the interrogation at the
point where Vance had interrupted,
“You say you listened at the door,
What caused you to refrain from
ringing?
“I heard a man s voice inside.”
Markham straightened up.
"A man's voice? You’re sure?"
"That’s what I said. “ Cleaver was
matter of fact about it. “A man’s
voice. Otherwise I’d have rung the
hell.”
‘ Could you identify the voice?”
“Hardly. It was very indistinct;
arid it sounded a little hoarse II
wasn't any one’s voice I was familiar
with; but I'd be inclined to say it
was the same one that answered me
over the phone.
"Could you make out anything oi
wr>at was said?”
Cleaver frowned and looked
Merkham through the open win
"I know what the words sounded
like," lie said slowly. "I didn’t
think anything of them at the time,
But after reading the papers the
i-t xt <br those word^^tme o.i'.'i. 1 to
ne—
• What were the words”" Marknara
at ten minutes to twleve. Va ice, by ,
h»s question, had, without reveal-1
in;. Us own knowledge, created a |
-ate of uncertainty in the other s j
-o ina. Afraid to commit himself too j
er.ipnet'cally, Cleaver re; >reted t0
f o tv; sion.
It’s possible, is it not, that I could
have phoned someone after leaving
the subway and before I walked the
block to Miss Odell’s house?’
“Oh, quite, murmured Vance.
-Still looking at it mathematically
if you phoned Miss Ode!l at twenty
minutes to twelve, and then enter
ec 1 the subway, rode to 72nd and
walked a block to 71st, went into the
building, listened at her door, and
departed at five minutes of
making the total time consumed only
fifteen minutes—you’d scarcely have
sufficient lee-way to stop en route
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But I’d really like to know whet you
did between eleven o’clock and
twenty minutes to twelve, when you
phoned Miss Odell.
Cleaver studied Vancg. intently
a moment.
watch with me.
And he went a little farther,
and fell on his face, and prayed,
saying, O my Father, if it be
possible, let this cup pass from
me: nevertheless not as I will,
but as thou wilt.”—Matt. 26:36-40.
Tut in impatiently,
“Well as near as I could make
.....they were: Uri my God! Oh,
tn y God!’—repeated two or three
times.
This statement seemed to bring a
office—a horror all the more potent
sense of horror into the dreary old
because of the casual, phlegmatic
way in which Cleaver repeated that
cry of anguish. After a brief pause
.Markham asked:
< ' When you heard This man's
”0:ce, what did you do? ’
'X walked softly back down the
rear hall and went out again thru
the side door. Then I wen: home.”
A short silence ensued. Cleaver’s
testimony had been in the nature of
a surprise; but it fitted pertectly
with. Mannix's statement,
Presently Vance lifted himself
ol the depths of his chair.
“I say Mr. Cleaver, what were
you doing between twentv minutes
to Iwelve-when you nhoneU Miss
Odell—and five minutes to twelve
whin you entered the side door of
•’er apartment house?”
‘ I was riding in the subway from
Mrd sheet,’ 1 came the answer, af-
1°.’» - hurt pause.
“Strange—very strange, Vance
iaspec ed the tip of las clgarct.
” t ven you couldn’t pos» V> have
rhoned to any one during tnat fit
i.en ir mutes,—eh what?”
1 Suddenly remember xt Alys L'
osse’S statement that 2' • ,vei had
f kphoned to her on Monday night
y sATUR DAYr ' A i’ R 1L "tfr~
so here's
He gave a soft mlrthles l-mgri
• • I went to Miss Odell’s house a
t«>f 0r e half past eleven—I be
_ j might find her home by
that Ume There I ran into Doctor
Lindquist standing in the entrance
to the alleyway. He spoke to me, *
and told me some one was with tow
Odell in her her apartment.
"Then I walked round the cor
ner to the Ansonia Hotel. After ten
minutes or so T teleph ortedMiss
odell, and as I said a man an
j SW ered the phone. I waited anoth
; er ten minutes and phoned a friend
i 0 { Miss Odell’s hoping to arrange
: a party; but failing, I walked back
t0 the house,
(To Be Continued.) ■'T
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“To tell you the truth, I was up
set that night. I knew Miss Odell
was out with another man—she d l
broken an appointment with me- i I
and 1 walked the streets for an
hour or more fuming and fretting.”
“Walked the streets?" Vance said
frowning.
vThitfcls 'what I sai,d’" Cleaver
spoke with animus. Than, turning
to Markham a long calculating look.
“You remember I once suggested
that you might learn something from
Doctor Lindqiiist. Did you ever get
after him?”
Before Markham couid answer,
Vance broke it.
“Ah! That’s it—Doctor Lindquist!
Well, well—of course. So Mr. Clca
ver you were walking the streets?
The streets, mind you! Precisely
you state the fact, and X echo the
word streets. And you—apparent
ly out of, a clear sky— ask about
Doctor Lindquist.
‘Why Doctor Lindquist? No one
has mentioned him. But" tTrat
word—streets—that’s the conection.
The one same as Paris andI spring,
time are one. Neat, very neat—And
now I ye got .another piece of the
puzzle.
Markham and Heath looked at
him as if he had sudenly gone mad.
He calmly selected a Regie from his
case and proceeded to light it.
Then he smiled bcguilihgiy at Clea
vre. -f
‘The time has come my de sir
for you to tell us when and There
you met the doctor while you
were roaming the streets on Mon
day night. If you don’t I’ll come
pretty close to doing it for you.”
A full minute passed befpre Clea
ver spoke: and during that t;me
his cold staring eyes never moved
from the district attorney’s fucr.
“I’ve already told most of t
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