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Hurtling Death
By FLOYD GIBBONS
E RNIE SMITH claims he’s the only man that has ever done
it. Way back in 1895 Ernie took a ride and he doesn’t think
it has ever been duplicated. Since that day people have learned
to cruise around in automobiles, and airplanes, and subma
rines and whatnot, but Ernie professes to be the only man in
the world who ever took a ride on—a rock!
Ernie lives in Waltham. He’s reached the age of discretion now,
and he doesn’t go whooping around in the country on rocks anymore,
but when he was sixteen years old—well—it seems he didn't much care
what he traveled on.
In those days be lived in the little town of Vinalhaven, Maine,
and had a job working for a fellow named Coombs who ran a
small boat building establishment down by the water front.
Blasting Solid Rock to Make a Cellar.
Coombs was just building his shop at the time this all happened. He
had the foundation laid and was nailing down the floor. Just across the
street, a fellow named Carnes was conducting some building operations
too.
Carnes was digging a cellar—blasting it out of solid rock. And
Ernie and Coombs, plugging away on their own carpenter job, worked
to the tune of intermittent thunder as Carnes set off one blast after
another.
Carnes set off several blasts without giving them a word of fore
warning, but one fine summer day he yelled across the street: “Hey,
you boys better get out of the way. I’ve got a little more powder in
here this time.” So Ernie and Coombs lay down their tools and began
taking around for a place where they would be under cover.
The water front at Vinalhayen started with a high sandbank.
Below that was a narrow beach, and beyond the beach, mud
flats stretched far out into the water.
Took Shelter in a Little Shack.
It was low tide and the mud flats were almost bare. At the edge of
the bank was a fish house—a .flimsy little shack ten feet long by eight
feet wide—and a few feet away from that was a big, solid wood pile
20 or 30 feet long and Well over six feet high.
« Coombs and Ernie ^lectecl to stand in the shelter of the fish house.
There, they thought, they wtnlld 'be out of the way of flying stones
and bits of rubble that Carries’ blast might kick up. They gave
Carnes the signal that they were under cover.
Coombs was sitting behiricl the little shed, but Ernie, who wanted
to see the fire^ftSHS; was stahding at the corner, where he could get
a full view PYpincmn ^ Carnes lit the fuse and ducked for cover
himself. ^ aited * Then, suddenly,' the air was shat
tered with a terrj^jrbjjgj- ,
“I was wijgbptli eyes,” says Ernie, “and I thought
the heavensilktr^klfln jw The very air itself seemed to rock
back and IocUumSOP was filled with stones—millions of
them, of all sizes and shapes. ’ But what struck terror into my
heart was a great boulder that had shot up out of that pit and
was coming str'diglR for our shelter!”
Carried on a Huge Boulder.
That rock was a monster. When they measured it later they found
it was four feet long two feet wide and more than two feet thick. But
Ernie didn’t need any measurements to see it was big—didn’t need any
one to tell him that if it ever struck that flimsy shed behind which he
and Coombs were standing it would splinter it to matchwood and
knock the very tar out of the man and the boy behind it.
Ernie let out a cry and started to move. A few steps away was the
woodpile, high and solid, and he started to run for that.
“But I never made it,” he says. “Instead, the rock made me.
It landed on a stone ledge beside our half completed boat shop,
bounced off at an angle and came rocketing straight at me.”
The next thing Ernie knew the rock was landing for its second bounce
RIGHT AT HIS FEET. Ernie had presence of mind enough to jump,
but the jump did him no good. Suddenly he felt the rock come up
under him and he was being carried through the air.
After that, Ernie couldn’t tell you exactly what happened. And small
blame to Ernie for that. Coombs was standing behind the fish shed
watching the whole business. He had his eyes glued on Ernie all the
time, and he couldn’t tell you exactly what happened either. All he
knows is that he saw Ernie carried for THIRTY-TWO FEET out into the
mud flats—they measured the distance afterward—and then the rock
went on over the flats leaving Ernie behind flat on his back in the muck.
When Ernie got his bearings again he was in the mud. The rock was
still rolling, twenty or thirty feet farther out. He saw it stop, and then
le heard somebody on the bank cry out, “Carnes has killed the Smith boy!”
Not Dead “By a Darn Sight.” f
“But I lay there in the mud,” says Ernie, “saying, ’Not by a
darn sight be hasn’t.’ It took me a* few moments to work my feet
and hands clear of the mud, and then, to the surprise of a dyzen
people I got up and walked over the flats toward the sand liU i r
. “Not a man offered me a hand as I started to climb the bank. They
just stood there petrified, looking as if a ghost was coming f at them.;-.
But when I did get up they asked me what happened. No one seemed
to know except Mr. Coombs, who had been watching me, and he wasn’t
any too sure himself.”
Two doctors had just landed from a boat at a wharf close by, and
they looked Ernie over. Except that his clothes were practically torn
to ribbons and his right side had a few black and blue spots, they
couldn’t find anything the matter at all.
The next day Ernie went back to work again, and his first job was
juggling ROCKS—clearing away about two tons of them that had
come out of Carnes’ excavation and showered all over Coombs’ half-laid
boat-shop floor. . .
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. Lesson for February 21
THE POWER OF JESUS OVER
DEATH
LESSON TEXT — John 11:23-28. 32-44.
GOLDEN TEXT—I am the resurrec
tion, and the life. John 11:25.
PRIMARY TOPIC — When Jesus' Friends
Stopped Crying.
JUNIOR TOPIC — With Jesus at Lazarus’
Tomb.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
The Power of Jesus *over Death.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADUI.T TOPI r *—
The Power of Jesus over Death.
Hands Reveal Character
Anyone who sits with hands
loosely clasped in the lap is of a
quiet, well-balanced mind, while the
nervous person tries to control nerv
ousness by tightly gripping the
hands together, states a writer in
Pearson’s London Weekly. One who
has a habit of clasping hands with
fingers entwined is not keeping
strictly to the truth, while one who
partially covers the mouth with a
hand while talking has certain knowl
edge, but is trying desperately not
to reveal it. A person who remains
seated while conversing with an
other who is standing finds it very
difficult to tell an untruth and apy
attempt to do so is easily detected
by the person standing.
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The yield of oil varies from year
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arid the age of the bushes. The
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The oil has to be stored from
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Saint Bernard of Mastiff Family
Unlike many other breeds, the
origin of the Saint Bernard is a
bit hazy, but early historians have
agreed this type of dog belongs to
the Mastiff family. The ancient rec
ords produce evidence that Mastiff
dogs were brought from Asia, and
used by the Romans as herders of
sheep, besides being kept as watch
dogs at army outposts. It has also
been established that Roman sol
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over the mountain passes, one of
which was called the Saint Bernard
Pass, no more than a pack mule
path. A hostile tribe destroyed this,
path and cut off travel over the
mountains around 950 A. D.
Life, even to the follower of Jesus
Christ, has its hours of sorrow, suf
fering, and bereavement. While the
Christian is not “of the world,” he
is “in the world,” and here he must
meet the problems of life, including
the evils to which the flesh is heir
because of sin.
The fact that Jesus is our friend
and our Saviour does not exempt
us from human sorrow, but it does
assure us of the needed grace to
bear the trial and to trust Him even
in life’s darkest hour.
Lazarus, the friend of Jesus, was
sick. The home in which Jesus had
found rest and fellowship was in
deep trouble. Jesus was no longer
in Judea. In haste word is sent to
him of his friend’s illness. But he
does not come. • ’
Why does he delay? Such is the
heart-cry of thousands today who
call on him in their hour of trouble.
The purposes of God are beyond
our ability fully ta-understand. We
need but to trust him and abide his
time. Notice ^that his failure to re
spond at once to the message, of
Lazarus’ sisters did not mean that
he had deserted them (11:4-6). Nor
did it mean that Jie had denied
them his help (11:7). Lazarus may
have been dead before the word
reached him. He may also have
delayed in order that there might
be no question about the resurrec
tion miracle. And he may have
tarried in order that their * faith
might be strengthened.
Above aHv do nqt fail to notice
that he came. He always does. Jesus
has never failed any child of his.
The time and the mariner of his,
answer to our prayers may not con
form to our opinion of what should
have been done, but let us‘rerriehv-
ber that we know only in part, he
knows ah> .Let us trust him. Jpb
in his darkest hour said, “Though
he slay nje, yet will I trust in him.”
(Job 13:15).
It is suggested that the lesson for
today be studied and- taught by
considering three pairs of words
giving cause and effect.
I. Death—Sorrow (vv. 32-35; also
vy. 19-21).
Try as we may to temper its
cruel blow, the fact remains that
death is the enemy of man. It came
into the world as the result of sin
(Rom. 5:12), and only in Christ is
it “swallowed up in victory” (I Cor.
15:54). Until the glorious day of
Christ’s returning when the redemp
tion of the body yrill be complete
(Rom. 8:23), death will still be the
enemy which brings sorrow to the
heart and tears to the eyes.
But let us not fail to notice that
as the friends of Jesus we do not
sorrow alone. He is with us. “Jesus
wept” (v. 35) with Martha and
Mary. He weeps with us in our
trying hour. He is the “friend that
sticketh closer than a brother.”
j; IL -Faith—Hope (vv. 23-28).
* Tliose who believe in Christ have
more than the comfort of his sym
pathizing presence—they have a
sure hope. -Read I Thessalonians
4:14-18. 1 Sorrow and unbelief would
becloud our faith and thus rob us
of our hope. Martha needed to have
her faith stimulated by the gracious
wordsr of the Lord, and then she
triumphantly puts her hope in him
as “the Christ of God.” Once we
recognize him as God, we have no
hesitation in believing in his mi
raculous power.
III. Christ—Resurrection (vv. 25,
26, 38-44).
Majestic and authoritative are the
words of Christ, “I am the resur
rection and the life.” He it was who
gave life, for was he not “in the
beginning with God”? And is it not
said of him that “all things were
made by him”? And Paul tells us
that “by him all things consist.”
He is the only one who could say,
“I lay down my life. I have power
to lay it down and I have power to
take it up again.” (John 10:17, 18.)
So it can rightly be said that if we
have Christ we have everything—
both in this world and in the world
to come. But if we do not have
Christ we have nothing. We are
without God and without hope.
* One can sense the urgency of the
soul-winner’s task, when this truth
is known and realized.
Fen Eagles
Fen eagles were famous in the
Eighteenth century for the quanti
ties of fish they devoured off the
Norfolk coast. One of them, shot
down in Suffolk in 1810, measured
nine feet across the wings. The
high rewards given for their cap
ture played a great part in their
extermination. One hundred years
ago, says the Montreal Herald, any
body who destroyed an eagle in the
Orkneys was entitled to the gift of
a hen from every household in the
nearest village.
Happiness and Love
Happiness is the legitimate fruit
age of love and service. It never
comes and never can come by mak
ing it an end, and it is because so
many persons mistake here and
seek for it directly, instead of loving
and serving God, and thus obtain
ing it, that there is so much dis
satisfaction and sorrow.
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