Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-17
THE MAN WHO DARED
The International Sunday School Les
son for Sept. 20 is. "A Quarterly Ike
view."-Gal. 6.1-lo.
BY William T. Ellis

BY William L. Ellis
Recently | was on fishing trlp
with a Princeton student, an oars
man. and in the quiet exchange OIL
confidence which fishermen know ne
mentioned "a close squeak he once
had on the Hudson River. l elected
the details by questioning. 1t was
winter. and my friends, with COM
paniou, had been duck-shooting. They
we're returning home their small boat
heavily laden with guns and game,
beside themselves. Half way across
the river the waves grew so high that
the tiny craft began to ship water,
In few minutes it would sink, and
there was no help in sight.
4 was the heavier, so it was up
to me to jump said my friend so,
without ado he leaped overheard and,
swimming helped propel the almost
submerged boat. Only those who
have tried to move boat filed with
water. know how difficult is the task.
Shore was half a mile away. A strong
wind was blowing The river was full
of cakes of ice. which hit both swim
mer and boat The water was liter
ally freezing; only one in perfect
physical condition could have sur
vived Again and again it seemed as
if the attempt TO reach land could
not succeed. With one man rowing
and the other pushing while swim
ming, they finally made it; and then
in clothes that creaked and cracked
with the uickly-formed ice, they
trudged mile to the shelter and
warmth and recuperation of home.
Like chorus, the remark of that
Princeton student keeps recurring to
me. at was up to me 10 jump Des-
perate emergencies such as that in
which the world now finds itself, call
for quick and desperate remedies. The
ship of civilization is really imper-
illed. II is up to some of MS to
I jump, and 10 help her reach shore
with all her precious cargo. Unless,
in this grave hour. a sufficient num-
Der of the strong swimmers take to
the water no man can tell what may
befail.
One Man Who Jumped
For three months past most Of .th'
Sunday Schools of the world, with
their thirty million mere Sers. have
been studying about man who dared
10 "jump''. Paul saw the crisis that
had come to his time. The need anG
the remedy were clear to his pene
trating eye. SO be plunged overheard
into the brsvest, biggest task ever at
tempted by mortal. His Jump
carried him over a large part of th'
known world. He saved Chrisfianit,
TO its universal mission. By his au
dacity and Christian imperialism. tbs
Gospel of Christ Was spread 20 tbs
limits of the Roman Empire. I
was proved universal faith. He e.
tablished the Church in Europe, and
occidentalized her teachings.
During the war ". used to stud,
huge maps of the front, displayed be
fore newspaper offices and in stores
and elsewhere, that we nigh, read 'h'
dispatches in the high, of the geo
graphical background. All of oul
reading Of the classics and Of this
New Testament had never burnec
upon our brains the reality Of th'
Hellcsponte as d,o those dread and
dramatic days when We watched th'
news from Gallipoli. There are spots
in France that arc more real TO some
of us than any ranos in our own
homeland, c1ccp. that in which Vt
live. This present course os Sunday
School Lessons give us tine ceccraphi-
cal background of the Epistles which
form SO large part of .he New
Testament. Because we have studied
the places and the people snd the cir.
,cumstances. the letter. addressed to
them by the great missionary Apos-
tie should glow with life and reality
Every one of them Is linked with his
heroic adventures.
Dare We Jump"