The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 April 1923 — Page 3

THE CROSS-BEARER, SIMON OF CYRENE j (Frederick Hascal Cremean) (Concluded) The garments which Jesus had worn, were divided among the goldiers who had charge of the central cross. When they came to the seamless garment, they decided not to rend it. So they Cast lots to see who should get it. It fell to the lot of a rough liurly soldier who held it up and looked at it intently. Then, he laughted coarsely making some impure remarks. It was then that Simon remembered the words of the Psalms. 'They part my garments among them. And upon my vesture do they cast lots. Simon awoke from his own thoughts by hearing words other than cursing from the malefactors. He had heard so much of scorching and biting invective ihat he had steeled his mind against hearing it. But these words caused him to listen. One of the malefactors that were hanged tailed on him, saying, "Art not thou the Christ? Save thyself and us.” But the other answered, and rebuking him and said, ‘ Dost thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss." How Simon’s heart lighted at this! Here at least, was a mar who had a just conception of Jesus. This man was not the great criminal he was thought to be. “Jesus,” the malefactor con tinued addressing Jesus, "remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom." Jesus heard when he "was called. With the slightest of a smile and the turning of the eyes in the direction of the man calling on him, he said, “Verily I say unto you! To-day, shalt thoi be with me in Paradise.” Simon was irresistibly drawr to look at the man who was th< recipient of such a blessing. Ht saw no longer the face of a male factor, but it had changed. Ir. his eyes there glowed an un earthly light. A peace had already settled on his countenance "Blessed art thou, 0 man! Who could not die heroically with such words ringing in his ears, and a companion like Jesus?’ Simon muttered to himself. Many of those who had beer, cursing and defaming Jesus had departed and others were arriving. Among these newcomer? were the friends of Jesus. How they would have comforted him had they come sooner! Those, whom he learned to know, were Mary, the mother of Jesus, his mother’s sister, Mary, the wife Os Cleopas, Mary Magdalene, and John and others. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he saith to. his mother, "Behold thy son! Then he said to the disciple. "Behold your mother!" The grief of his mother was so great

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that she was almost overcome. John supported her in his arms. The great sorrow of the stricken mother, caused Simon to turn away. He had lost all sense of time. It was not until then that he noticed that it was growing dark. This was something unheard of. People were hurrying away to the city. Just a little group was left along with the soldiers, shortly, it became so dark that no one could distinguish objects at an arm’s length. The soldiers procured torches. These served only to cast a wierd, lurid, dancing light, of little value. In a voice, Jesus cried out. There came an awful stillness. Jesus was dead.

Simon thought of his home. It was not until the light came that he found his abode. Alexander and Ruf Cis came running to him. Elizabeth, he found had been crying. Fear stains showed on her checks. "O Simon,” she cried, "how glad we are that you have come! We were so afraid in the darkness. It seemed to me that something terrible had happened to you." Putting one arm around his wife, while the boys clung to the other, they went to the house. The terrible experience of the day had changed Simon. He would never be the same. The carrying of the cross and the death of Jesus wrought on him a deep impression of the eternal verities and gave him a new glimpse of God. Even his wife and boys looked different. “What has befallen you, Simon’’ You seem so different.” Elizabeth saw that he was not the same. “1 have lived much to-day,” he began seating himself on a divan and motioned for Elizabeth tc sit by him. The boys curled up on the floor at their feet. "The voung Galilean, whom we loved so much, was crucified on Goljotha. His body is still there.” "Do you mean that he was lead?" cried Elizabeth. "Why should he die? What did he do?’ "Oh, Father! Father!” ex•laimed Alexander and Rufus in me breath. “When I arrived at the city rates," Simon explained, "I met the Romans coming out with him and two others to be crucified. Jesus was too exhausted to go farther. He fell and lay beneath the heavy cross. I could not stand to see him lying there in that condition, so I tried to help him up." The faces of his wife and children were white and ghastly. They waited breathlessly for him to continue. “It was then that the Roman soldiers impressed me to carry the cross the remainder of the way.” "Simon, did you carry the cross? What a disgrace has fallen on us! To the Romans, you will be a marked man." Elizabeth sobbed w’hile her body trembled with emotion. Big tears followed one another down the cheeks of the boys at their feet. • . "I feared something terrible had happened when it grew so dark. Now I am sure of it!"

Elizabeth whispered afraid of; her own voice. “Not as you think, Elizabeth,” Simon answered shaking his head. Then he went on and described the awful darkness about the cross and the terrible anguish of the crucifixion as only one could who had been an eye witness. His great breast Jieaved, the pupils of his eyes were dilated, as his mind looked again on the suffering. “On my way home, Elizabeth, it began to dawn on me that Jesus of Nazareth was more than a teacher. The way he talked to those who were about the cross, and especially to the male factor by his side was more than man. Then, I remembered that the Centurion when he stood in front of the cross and saw he was dead, exclaimed, ‘Truly, this man was the son of God! You know that the Scriptures tell us that our Messiah who shall come, shall be mistreated, just as Jesus was. This makes me think that Jesus was the Messiah and we have put him tc death. If that is so, then he was the only one who could bring deliverance to Israel.” There was no answer to Simon s thoughts. He sat lost in the bewilderment of his own mind. "This makes it more awful than ever,” he continued. “I was forced to help with the crucifixion of my owm hope. We have come all the way from Cyrene to be a helper in this horrible crime.” Simon buried his face in his hands and gave way to his grief. Elizabeth put her arms about the strong man and soothed him by her words. "Simon, you were forced to do it. It was not your will.” Elizabeth talked as a wife ind mother only can talk in an hour like this.

“Simon, I forget that you have not eaten since this morning. I will prepare something at once.” Simon shook his head; he was not hungry. “But you must eat, my love!” After he had eaten, Simon felt better. He retired early for he was exhausted. He slept late the next morning. He was too sorrowful to attend the Passover, or participate in it. The day dragged by and then another night’. Simon was astir early, the morning of the first day of the week. There was a gladness in his heart for which he could not account. He had no desire to go to the city. He remained close to the house all the morning, helping his wife and playing with Alexander and Rufus. It was after the midday, when there was a loud rapping on the door. Simon went at once and threw’ it open. There stood Joses, the son of Cleopas and Mary, with a radiant countenance. “Come in, Joses! How glad we are to see you! This is the first that we have seen you since we came from Cyrene.” "Yes, it is! We have been so worried over Jesus, that we neglected our friends.” At the mention of Jesus, a sorrowful expression came over the face of Simon. Joses saw things, but

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before he could say anything, Simon expressed himself. “I have been so broken up since they put him to death, that I know not what to do. 1 think we have given a death blow to our own hope.” Simon paused when he saw that Joses was smiling and not sad. He could not understand; Jesus was an intimate friend of the family. “Wp were sad, also,” began Joses explaining, “and mourned him as dead.’ “Dead? Joses, he is dead! Did I not see him die on the cross? [ was there!” Simon interrupted him. , , , “Yes, Simon, he was dead. They put him in Joseph of Arimathaca’s new tomb. The tomb was sealed and a Roman guard was placed around it. But early this morning. Jesus was not there; He is risen.” Joses paused a moment. Indeed, the striking news was too great to be comprehended. "Did some one steal away his body?” questioned Simon not understanding. "No, Simon. He is risen from the dead; He is alive!” exclaimed Joses triumphantly. "No, it can not be! He is dead. Simon was more saddened than ever. He knew Joses was mis“Listen, Simon! Mary Magdalene, some other women and Mother went early this morr-ng to the tomb to embalm the body. They did not have time to do that on Friday. Behold, they found the tomb empty! They entered and found a young man an angel, sitting on the right side, arrayed in a white robe. They were astonished and terrified?’ . Ajt . 4 " ’Do not be terrified, he said unto them. ‘lt is Jesus you are looking for—the Nazarene who has been crucified. He has come back to life: He is not here: this is the place where they laid him But go and tell His disciples and Peter that He is going before you into Galilee: , and there you shall see Him as He told you.’ , a j "So they came out and tied from the tomb, for they were greatly agitated and surprised, and they said not a word to any one, for they were afraid. Others went to the tomb. Then Peter and John went It was empty. Mary Magdalene was in the garden weeping. " ‘Why are you weeping? asked a man standing near her. ’Who are you looking for?’

“Mary supposed that he was the gardner, and replied, ‘Sir, if you ’have carried him away, tell me where you have put him and I will remove him.’ “ ‘Mary!’ said Jesus. “She turned to Him, ‘Rabboni!’ she cried in Hebrew. “ ’Do not cling to me,’ said Jesus, ‘for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But take this message to my brethren: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ “Mary came and brought word to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Master,’ she said. "We have been carrying the word all the morning that Jesus is not dead; He is risen from the dead! He lives!" Joses exclaimed Joses, having delivered his message, departed. He must carry the news to others. Simon and Elizabeth sat too amazed by the news to talk. Alexander and Rufus were there. Rufus went to his father and looking into his face so innocently, said, "Jesus isn’t dead, is He? We can go and see Him, can’t we?" Simon looked into those big eyes which had grasped the great truth of the resurrection in a simple trusting faith, and with a great effort, Simon struggled to give expression, “He is not dead;” he uttered. "He is risenl I shall continue to be a cross-bearer for Jesus!" “So will H” exclaimed Elizabear joyfully.

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The average pianist has, in one minute, to read 1500 notes and signs. His fingers make about 2000 movements. The Arctic ocean is said to be getting warmer, with that icebergs are getting scarcer and herrings are being found in the old seal-fishing grounds. Five thousand stars are visible with the naked eye. Through a powerful telescope 50,000,000 can be seen. It is said that there are many more stars in existence which even our most powerful telescopes cannot see. Four original verses written by Robert Bums were discovered in an old volume recently offered for sale in London. Inscribed in pencil, they have been inked carefully over by the first owner of the book, a friend of the national Scottish poet. The deepest mine in the world is at Morro Velho, Brazil. It has reached a vertical depth of 6,426 feet below the surface of tnhe earth. This great depth is attained not by one shaft, but by a series of five, staggered to follow the 45 degree pitch of the lode with which it is connected by crosscuts. An object moving in any horizontal direction strongly tends to turn to the right north of equator and to the left south of it. In the northern hemisphere air pushed north blows east, air pushed east blows south, air pushed south blows west and air pushed west blows north, while in the southern hemisphere it blows exactly

Everything connected with the sun is staggeringly big. Those little dark sunspots which you peer at cautiously through the medium of a smoked glass are. most of them, many thousands of miles across. One was measured and found to have a diameter of 143,000 miles—which means that the earth could have been pitched into it like a golf ball into a large pail of water. Blue is the favorite color of men and women, judginb by experiments conducted at a leading university. Yellow and blue or black is the most popular combination. Children start to school with a preference for red, but after they pass the fifth grade their taste changes in favor of blue. Blue is the color most generally employed in advertising where color is used. It is atao much used in interior decoration.

The National Association of Master Pie Bakers says Chicago is the greatest pie-eating city in the United States. Residents of the Windy City daily consume an average of 75,000 pies. According to the same authority, New York stands second. About 60.000 pies are downed there daily. Philadelphia comes third with 50,000. Fourth place goes to Los Angeles, where 40,000 pies are consumed daily. Boston is a close rival A valuable And for the future of the Belgian Congo is the discovery of large deposits of coal, one on Lake Tanganyika^ the other on the Luena. The Tanganyika deposit contains five veins varying from two feet, six inches to five feet, six inchesjn thickness. It is estimated that these deposits contain over one million tons of coal. The Luena deposit has a total thickness of about twenty-one feet, covers five hundred acres, and is estimated to include more than yi-rteen million tons of coal.

GOVERNMENT’S GREAT COST] The more one studies the situation and tries to reason from cause to effect the more likely he is to be convinced that the most serious ailment this country has is too much government. Roger Babson, the noted economist, recently said: “One hour and twenty minutes of each business day, or one entire day a week, is demanded of every able-bodied person in the United States to maintain government. That is the lesson of the recent analysis showing that one-sixth of our national income goes for taxes, federal, state and local.” The enormous increases in the cost of government in recent years, and especially the last decade, is almost beyond comprehension. During the war anything in the way of cost was understandable and expected. Not a great deal of time can be devoted to the study of economy while a war for existence is in

progress. But the thing that is hard to understand is why there should not be a great reduction of expense after the war ends. Senator Stanley attempted an explanation in a speech recently that is worth considering. He said:

"The cost within the last five years of unnecessary commissions and regulatory concerns, commissions to control and regulate railroads, to regulate every butcher shop and every slaughter house, to regulate the production of fuel and,its sale, to regulate the practice of medicine, to supervise the birth of babies and the burial of the dead—everything which the heart can desire or fancy can conceive, from the setting of a hen to the running of a railway—all this has cost the difference between $232,000,000 in 1916 and $1,115,000,000 in 1922. The cost of the government’s doing things it has no business to do, employing people who ought to be paying taxes instead of eating taxes, regulating matters which should be left to the states and the citizens thereof, is now' more than the cost of operating this government, everything included, from the inauguration of George Washington to the Civil w'ar.” But what is going to be done about it? Everybody knows that .government, from top to bottom, is costing very much more than it should, but it does no good merelv to point out that fact and complain about it. Where is the philosopher, the genius, who can point out a remedy that the people of this country will be.willing td apply? o — DIAMOND FIGURES IN HISTORY

Thomas Pitt, the grandfather of the great English statesman who finally drove Napoleon the Great from power, made the fortune of his house, however, by the sale of the Regent diamond to the regent of France early in the eighteenth century, the prince of Orleans paying more than half a million dollars for it. The stone also made the fortune of Napoleon, as the directory pledged it to the Dutch government in 1800 for 6,000,000 francs, thereby raising the money with which Napoleon conducted the great campaign which won him the battle of Marengo.

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