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SYNOPSIS
At private view of the Chatworth
personal estate to be eold at auction the
Crew Idol mysteriously disappears Harry
Cresey who was present describes the
ring to his fiancee Flora GUsey and her
chaperon Mrs' Clara Britton as being
like a heathen god with a beautiful sap
Ire set In the head Flora meets Mr
rr an Englishman In discussing the
appearance of the ring the exploits of
English thief Farrefl Wand are re-
Silled Kerr tells Flora that he has met
ai
Si
CO
An xquitte sapphire set In n hoop o t
brass Is selected Harry urges her not to
Wear It until It Is rsaet The possession
of the ring seems to cast a spell over
Flora She becomes uneasy and appre-
hensive Flora la startled by the effect
on Kerr when he gets a glimpse of the
sapphire The possibility that the stone
le part of the Crew Idol causes Flora
much anxiety Unseen Flora discovers
Clara ransacking her dressing room
Flora refuses to give or sell the stone to
Kerr and suspects him of being the
thief She decides to return the ring to
Harry but ho tells her to keep It for a
day or two Ella Sutler tells Flora that
Clara Is setting her cap for her father
Judge Buller Flora believes Harry sus-
pects Kerr and Is waiting to make sure
of the reward before unmasking the thief
Kerr and Clara confess their love for
'each other Clara Is followed by a China-
man Harry admits to Flora that he
knew the ring was stolen He attempts
to take it from her Fli—a goes to the
San Mateo place with Ms Herrick and
writes Kerr and Clara to come Ella Bul-
ler bribes Clara to leave the Judge alone
by giving her a picture of Farrell Wand
Kerr and Harry unexpectedly arrive at
San Mateo
CHAPTER XXi I— -Continued '
"Good morning” she said and
pushing up her little misty veil sat
down with her back to the deserted
breakfast table and waited meekly
like one who has been summoned
“I am very glad you've come” Flora
aid Her wits were still all a-flutter
from the appearance of that little
heap of gold She came forward ahd-
tood In Harry’s place 8he was face
to face with the person and the ques-
tion but before the great Import of It
and before the marble front of Clara’s
patience she felt helpless There was
Hence In the room perfect silence In
the garden but moving along the
hedged walk all at once she saw the
flutter of Mrs Herrick’s gown and
then In profile Kerr beside her The
eight of him gave her her proper In-
spiration - She turned upon Clara
i "What are you going to do with the
picture of Farrell Wand?”
For the first time she saw Clara
startled Her lips parted and the
breath that came and went between
them was audible But she was her-
self again before she spoke "Do with
ItT Why I don’t know” Her fingers
drummed the table
"Whatever you do” Flor& began
"please oh please don’t do anything
Immediately"
Clara’s eyebrows rose like graceful
wallows “You seem to anticipate pret-
ty clearly what I am going to do” '
' "1 suppose you're going to do what
any one would who bad a clew and
could bring a person to Justice" Flora
candidly responded “But If ever I
have made anything easy for you
Clara won't you this time make it
easy for met I’m not asking you to
give up the picture I’m only asking
you to ’watt”
Clara nodded toward the window
through which Kerr could attll be
seen with Mrs Herrick “On account
f him?”
"On account of him'
' For the first time Clara smiled It
crept out upon her face aa It were
involuntarily but she sat there smil-
ing In contemplation for quite ten
seconds At last "You want me to
suppress my Information? My dear
Flora don't you think you want me
to do more than Is honest?”
"Honest!” Flora cried The words
sounded hideous to her on Clara's
tongue and yet what right had she
she thought with shame to judge of
Clara’s honesty when she herself was
leagued with a tSlef? "Clara” she
said humbly before this upholder of
the right "I can't pretend I’m not
suppressing things I've only asked
you to see me before you do anything
more Now you’ve come WU1 you
tell me one thing— did you bring the
picture with you?”
Clara weighed It “Well If I did—”
This was the considering Clara and
Flora realized whatever she could ex-
pect from her she couldn’t expect
mercy It was another thing she must
appeal to r
"Clara” she urged "watt three
days and you shall have the whole
of It You have only the picture now
You shall have the Jewel too Then
you can get the reward and still be—
honest”
She let the word fall Into the al-
ienee fearfully as if she were afraid
Clara might detect lta sneer But
this time Clara neither snilled nor
frowned
“It Isn’t the reward I’m thinking
about That’s really very little con-
sidering” "Twenty thousand dollars!”
“Would that be much to you?"
“No” Flora admitted “at least I
mean I could pay It”
“Well then" Clara triumphed “why
the picture alone If It’s worth any-
thing is worth more than that" With
a blrd-Uke lifting of the head she gave
a sidelong Interrogative glance
Flora for a moment steadily re-
turned the look It was coming over
her what Clara meant a meaning so
simple It was absurd she had not
thought of It before — so hateful that
it was all she could do to face It She
felt a tightness In her throat that was
not tears Shame and anger contended
In her Oh for the power to have re-
fused that shameful bargain — to have
scorned It! She turned away She
closed Jier eyes In her mind she
saw the figure of Kerr moving quietly
about the winding walks with Mrs
Herrick She faced sharply about
“What la It worth to you?”
Clara put her oft with the last
sweet meekness of her cleverness
"Whatever It’s worth to you—
and him”
Flora was in command of herself
now ’’There are some things I can-
not set a price on If this Is what
you have come down for we are sim-
ply waiting for you to name It” She
looked over Clara’s bead She had
stood abashed when Clara had put
on the majesty of right but now It
was Clara herself who was abashed
not at the thing Itself but at the fact
of having to utter It She sat grasp-
ing one of her gloves In her doubled
fist and leaning forward with her
eyes like Jewels in her little pale face
and the white aura of her veil waited
aa if she thought that by some si-
lent agency of understanding Flora
would presently take up a pen and
write the desired figure In her check-
book ‘
But Flora stood Inexorably straight
and black crowned with her helmet
of gleaming hair and with her hands
behind her looked over Clara’s head
through the window Into the garden
She would not help Clara gloss over
this ugly fact
A curious grimace distorted Clara’s
features as If with an' effort she
gulped something bitter and then Into
the silence her voice fell — a gasp a
breath — "Fifty thousand"
All sums had become the same to
Flora even her year's income As if
she were verily afraid Clara might
take It back she turned precipitately
to a writing-table But Clara had
risen and though still pale in a meas-
ure she seemed to have recovered her-
self “Walt I can't give It to( you now
I will meet you here in two hours and
bring the picture You can let me
have It then"
"Oh two hours!” Flora objected
But Clara was firm "No I can't
bring It sooner It will make no differ-
ence in your affair” She was panting
in her excitement - "In two hours you
shall have thexplcture here ' I prom-
ise you" '
Flora wondered Depth below depth!
She could never seem to get to the
bottom of this business There was
only one thing she could count on
and that was Clara’s Impeccable hon-
or In living up to a bargain Flora
sealed that bargain now She held out
her fluttering slip of paper still wet
with Ink
"Very well In two hours — but take
this now I would rather you did" -
Clara reached the tips of her fin-
gers touched the paper — and then It
was no longer In! Flora’s hand and
Clara waa-walking from her across
the room
1’ '
CHAPTER XXIII'
Touche
Left alone Flora glanced rapidly
around her Now for a sally now for
a dash straight for Kerr The short-
est way was what she wanted Open-
ing doors lately had led to too many
surprises She pushed aside the long
curtains and stepped out through the
French window upon the veranda
Rapidly her eyes swept the garden
Far down between the gray slim
branches of willows at last she made
out the flutter of a skirt She sighed
relief to think Mrs Herrick still at
her post and began to hurry down
the broad unshaded drive Her steps
sounded loud on the gravel and pres-
ently to her excited ears they sound-
ed double Then she realized the
truth Some one else was walking
behind her She thought by not look-
ing over her shoulder she could avoid
stopping but In a moment Harry’s
voice balled her It was still far
enough behind for her to hope she
could Ignore it She swept on as It
she had not heard Once around the
turn of the drive she would be in
sight of succor She could trust to
Mrs Herrick to manage Harry She
made a little rush around the loop
and looked down the long vista of the
willows
A hundred yards distant she saw
the two standing Kerr presented his
back and with his head a little canted
forward seemed to listen absorbed in
his companion But that companion
was a smaller figure than Mra Her-
rick’s and her veil made an aura of
filmy white around her face The
sight of her was enough to stop Flora
short and in that Instant Harry mak-
ing a cut across ' the - flower-beds
caught up with her He stopped as
abruptly as she and gazed with a
dismay that surpassed her own For
an Instant she thought he was about
to make a dash down the walk for
them ' Then he caught Flora's hand
and pulled her back There was no
help for it she thought Her other
hand crept downward stealthily and
gathered up her swinging pouch of
gold Trembling she let him drag her
back but when they faced each other
behind the plumes and swords of a
great pampas clump she was shocked
at the emotion In his face and as if
what he had just seen had given the
last touch his voice had risen a key
and between every half-dozen words It
broke for breath
"Look here Flora” he began "I
know you’ve been trying to give me
the slip ever since night before laBt
I frightened you then ' I didn’t mean
to but you had no business to keep
the ring after what I told you No
I’m not going to touch you” aa she
shrank back against the pampas
swords "but I want you to give It to
me yourself’ right here and now"
She looked up Into his face burning
fiery In the sun beating Own on his
bare head "No no Harry I shan’t
give It to you Last time I said I
would give It to you for a good rea-
son but now I wouldn't give it to you
for Anything"
“You don’t know what you're do-
ing” he cried
"I do I know as well as you that
this is a part of the Crew Idol I’ve
known It all along and when the time
comeg I’m going to give It myself to
Mr Furdle but not until that time”
Harry passed his hand over his face
with an Inarticulate sound Then
‘‘You will ruin us!” he choked
"I shall tell the truth whatever
comes” she exulted To tell the truth
and keep on telling it — that in her
passion of relief at speaking out at
last was all she wanted! ' But Harry
fell back He changed countenance
He recovered himself
"Look here Flora If you do I’m go-
ing to leave you I’m going to leave
you to what you've chosen”
She met it steadily "I’m glad yon
say ao I've been thinking for days
that It would be better ao”
"Have you?' he said In a low voice
looking at her earnestly "Of course
I know the reason of that I meant
It to be different but now there’s no
help I—”
With a motion too quick for her to
escape he stooped and kissed her
lightly To that moment she had
pitied him but his touch she loathed
She thrust him away with both hands'
He' turned Without speaking with-
out looking Bt her again be walked
away She watched him with a des-
perate feeling of being abandoned of
losing something powerful and valu-
able The faint thin screech of a lo-
comotive from a station far down the
line made him pause and turn and
gase under his hand in the strong
sun So for a moment ehe saw him
a lowering peering figure moving
away from her over the lawn between
broad flower-beds Then he disap-
peared among the shrubbery
' This eni ounter that had stopped
her In full open field bad not been
the fatal thing she had feared It
had been a peril met that nerved her
to a1 higher courage Npw she could
walk gallantly to the most uncertain
moment of her life Between the glim-
mering willows down the long avenue
she - passed ’ her flowing draperies
borne backwards as by triumphant
alra The wind of her approach
seemed to reach the two still far In
front of her
They turned and watched her draw-
ing nearer and before she had quite
reached them Kerr stretched out his
hand as If to help her over a last
rough place and drew her toward him
and hld tior beside him with his fin
gers lightly clasped around her wrist
She saw that be looked pale worn aa
he bad not been last night and what
struck her most strangely angry The
band that held hers shook with the
violent pulse that was beating In it
Ha turned to Clara
"Will you pardon us Mrs Britton?”
Then after another patient moment
"Miss Gilsey has something to say
to me” 'Still he made no motion to
move away and at last Clara seemed
to understand what' waa expected of
her She flushed and In the middle
of that color her eyea flashed double
steel For the first time In Flora’s
memory she waa at a loss She passed
them without a word
Kerr looked after the little brilliant
figure moving daintily away through
sun and shadow with deep disgust In
his face But when he turned to
Flora disgust lifted to high severity
“Why didn’t you come last night?”
"I couldn’t He was there Harry
outside my door”
"In God’s name! ' What did you tell
him?”
"Nothing We did not speak — but I
couldn’t get past him!” The suspic-
ion in his face was more than she
could bear "You must believe me—
for If you don’t we’re both lost!”
He had her by both wrists now and
gently made her face him "I have
believed In you to the extent of com-
ing alone to a place I know nothing
of because you wanted me Now that
I am here what is It you have to say
to me?”
"Oh nothing more than I have said
before” she pleaded "only that ten
times more earnestly”
"You extraordinary child!” At first
he was pure amazement ‘‘You’ve
brought me so far you've come so far
yourself — you’ve got us both here In
such danger to tell me only this?
How could you be so mad — so cruel?”
She had locked her hands In front
of her until the nails showed white
with the pressure "It was more dan-
gerous there than here You don’t
know what has happened since I saw
you And I thought if you and I could
only be alone together without the
fear of them always between us I
could show you I could persuade
you — ” Before his look she broke
down "Well — you see they followed
us — they are here”
"Grant it they are’’ He seemed to
laugh at them "You have still your
chance Give everythlpg to me and
I can save you still”
'“Save me?’ Oh nothing could hap-
pen to me ao terrible as having you
break my heart like this! If I should
give 'the sapphire to you I should
lose you — even the thought of you —
for ever Nothing could ever be right
with us again! Won't you — ” ahe
pleaded "won't you go?” and lifting
her hands taking his face between
them "Won’t you because I love
you?”
He stood steady to this assault and
smiled down upon her "Without you
and without It I will not budge Come
now this Is the end I never meant
to do another thing”
She covered her face with her
bands
"Come come” His voice was urg-
ing her now very gentle "It’s more
for your sake than for the jewel now”
And his arm around her shoulder was
gently forcing her to walk beside him
not toward the drive but away Into
the tree-grown sheltered wing of the
garden By Interlacing paths from
the tremulous gray willows under the
somber clashing eucalyptus spears
under dark wings of cypress they
were moving She waa braolng in
every nerve against the unnerving of
his presence
It had been always so Even across
the distance of a room the mere sight
of him had had for her the power to
summon those wild spirits of the soul
and body that turn reason to a va-
por And now so close with his arm
around her that same power she had
felt when she saw him first the power
that had made her come out and be
herself then the power that had over-
whelmed her In the little restaurant
waa leagued against her again to make
her do this one more thing which she
wouldn’t do Never never! Despair-
ing she wondered that such an evil
motive could have such strength
"Where have you got It now?” she
heard him asking and she pointed
downward toward where the pouch
at her knee wag swinging to and fro
“Take It up then” and like a hlpno-
tized creature she gathered It Into her
hand But once she had it she held
It clenched agalnBt him
“You’re going to give it to me” he
prompted "aren’t you? — aren't you?”
and looking steadily In her face bis
band shut softly on her wrist and
held out her clenched hand In front of
her And still they walked slowly
Like a pendulum the long gold chain
swung from her clenched fingers To
the tree-top birds they seemed si
quiet as two lovers speaking of their
wedding-day 8he felt her tension
give way In this quiet — her hand re-
lax "Dearest” The word brought up
her eyes to his with a start of tender-
ness "Open It” he said and her
hand Involuntarily sprung the pouch
wide They stared together into It
The little hollow golden shell was
empty
For a moment It held her Incred-
ulous Then faint and sick all the
foundations of her faith reeling ehe
slowly raised her eyes to him In ac-
cusation She was not ready for the
terrible sternness In bis
“Have you lied to me?” be asked
In a low voice “Have you given It to
Cressy?” -
“No no no” she cried in horror
“It was there) 1 put It there myself
this morning!” - They looked at eact
other now equally sincere and aghast
i "But you have seen him you’ve
been near him?" he demanded -She
gasped out the whole truth
“This morntngl He left me He
kissed me”
"Then my God where Is he?" Ha
gave a wide glance around him Then
raising hla voice “Stay where you
are!” be commanded and began to
run from her through the trees
She stood with her hand to her
breast with the empty pouch spin-
ning In troat of her hearing him
crashing in the shrubbery Then In
sudden panto at finding herself alone
she fled back down the willow avenue
and burst out on the broad drive In
full view of the house
Kerr was not in sight hut there
was a tremor of disturbance where
all had been still Clara's face ap-
peared at one of the upper windows
and looked down into the garden
Then Mra Herrick came down the
stairs and showing aa anxious pro-
file as she passed the door hurried
away along the lower hall There was
a flutter In the servants’ quarter and
from a side door the coachman ap-
peared hatless In his shirt sleeves
and ran toward the stable All the
people pf the house seemed to be run-
ning to and fro but she didn’t see
Harry This struck her with unrea-
soning terror She fled up the drive
and Clara's small face at the window
watched her
As she came Into the hall she heard
Kerr’s voice He was at the tele-
phone speaking names she had never
heard in sentences whose meaning
was too much for her stunned senses
to take In but none the lees while
Bhe listened the feeling crept over her
that there was some strange revo-
lution taking place In him It might
be transformation it might be only
a swift Increase of his original power
Whatever it was he Beamed to her
superhuman The house was full of
him — full of his rapid movement his
ringing orders If he knew that the
sapphire was gone what was the
meaning of this bold command? Was
he knowing all lost plunging gallant-
ly into the clutches of his enemies? Or
was this only a blind a splendid piece
of effrontery to cover his too long de-
layed retreat? She sat like a joint-
less thing on the fauteuil In the large
hall and all at once she saw him in
front of her 1
She looked at his hat hla overcoat
his slim glittering stick — all symbols
of departure
“Wait here" he said and turned
away
She watched hla shadow dance
across the flagging and as It slipped
over the threshold she thought dully
that now the sapphire was gone every
one was going from her
CHAPTER XXIV
Ths Comlo Mask
' She listened to the sound of wheels
first rattling loud on the gravel
slowly growing fainter Then stillness
was with her again and inanition
She looked around and up and had
no start at seeing Clara's small face
watching her over the gallery of the
rotunda It seemed to her that ap-
pearance was natural to her existence
now like her shadow- She looked
away When ahe raised her eyes
again Clara waa coming down the
stairs and even at that distance Flora
saw ahe carried something in her
She Caught at ths
Poor Little Gordon
Gordon's parents have worked hard
to teach him pure English but he
hears the hired girl's talk as much as
his mother's The other day he de-
clared “Mamma I seen a dogfight to-
day" “You saw a dogfight dear” his
mother corrocted him "Never say T
seen' again” ‘ '
In the kitchen a little later Gor-
don said carefully to the girl "I saw
a dogfight to-day Mary”
"Shame on you" cried Mary “There
you go again saying ‘I saw’ when
your mother's just been telling you
how wrong It Is Say ‘I seen a dog-
fight' you naughty boy”
i ‘ ' Ironical i ‘
"Slues 1 have lived In New York”
said tbs Philadelphia woman "I have
dona nothing but eat In Philadelphia
they don’t seem to pay half as much
attention to eating as they do In New
York They have but one restaurant
whers you can go and dine and sit
about talking Here In New York you
seem to have such a restaurant Ital-
ian Uhls d’hotei Greek restaurants
hand — something flat and small and
wrapped In a filmy bit of paper
Out of the chaos of her feeling rose
the solitary thought — the picture
which she had bought that morning
the picture of Farrell Wand She
watched it drawlnr near her with
wonder She sat up trembling She
had a great longing and a horror to
tear away the filmy paper and sea
Kerr at last brutally revealed She
could not have told afterward whether
Clara spoke to her She waa con-
scious of her pausing conscious of
the faint rustle of her skirt passing
consclousi finally that the small
swathed square was In her hand
She tore the tissue paper through
She held a photograph a mounted ko-
dak print She made out the back-
ground to be aky and water and the
rail of a ship with silhouettes of
heads and shoulders a Jungle of
black and In the middle distance
caught In full motion the single figure
of a man back turned and bead In
profile He was moving from her out
of the picture and with the first look
ehe knew It was not Kerr
Her first thought was that there
had been a trick played on her! But
no— across the bottom of the picture
in Judge Buller’s full round hand was
written “Farrell Wand boarding the
Loch Ettlve" She held It high to the
light Clara had been faithful to her
bargain It was the picture that had
deceived her She ' studied It with
passionate earnestness She did not
know the bearded profile but In the
burly shoulders In the set and awing
of the body In motion more than all
In the lowering peering aspect of the
whole figure she began to see a fa-
miliar something She held It away
from her by both thin edges and that
aspect swelled and swelled in her
startled eyes until suddenly the fig-
ure In the picture seemed to be mov-
ing from her not up a gang-plank but
through a glare of sun over grass be-
tween broad beds of flowers
She was faint She was going to
fall She caught at the chair to save
herself and still she was dropping
down down into a gulf of spinning
darkness “Oh Harry!" she whisper-
ed and let her head roll back against
the arm of the fauteuil
With a dim sense of rising through
immeasurable distances back to light
ahe opened her dyes She saw Mra
Herrick's face and as this was con-
nected In her mind with protection
she smiled
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Chair to 8dve Herself
French restaurants Dutch restaurants
restaurants and cafes at every corner
1 never saw anything like It You do
nothing but eat In New York”
"Yes we do one other thing” said
the man who sat near her "We drink
a little”
“A little!” cried the woman who
Was with him
! New Indian Woman f
Glare-in-the-Sun a member of the
Spokane tribe whose forebears hunted
and flBhed and smoked as they were
Inclined while their faithful squaws
did menial tasks without a word of
complaint created a sensation among
old tlmera in Spokane when she ap-
peared In Riverside avenue carrying a
papoose with an ease and lndlfferenos
seemingly born of practloe
Hla squaw gowned lu a bright dress
and shawl walked by his side appar-
ently unconscious of any Irregularity
Glare-ln-the-Sun Is a wealthy Indian
end owns several traots of land on ths
Columbia river— Spokane correspond-
ence Minneapolis Journal
JESUS IN
GETHSEMANE
Sudiy ScIumI Umsb far Nv 20 1010
Specially Arranged for This Paper
Lesson Text— Matthew 88:86-66 Memory
verses 88-89
Golden Text— "The Son of man la bo
frayed Into the hands of sinners’’— Matt
86:46
Time— Between midnight and 1 o'clock
Friday morning April 7 The morning of
the day of the Crucifixion
Place— The garden of Oethsemane' on
the lower elope of the Mount of OMvea
oppoelte Jerusalem
This lesson la full of sweet solem-
nity When we enter the garden of
Oethsemane we hear the voice that
came to Moses at the burning bush:
“Put off thy shoes from off thy feet
for the place whereon thou standest
la holy ground”
We trace the walk of Jesus from 1
the upper room to Oethsemane 1 the '
route of the officers and soldiers from
Castle Antonia and ths return with
Jesus as a captive
The word “GethBemane” signifies -“an
oil press” of which there were
certain to be several in a locality then
covered aa Mount Olivet was with -olive
trees John calls It a garden
“An eastern garden differs from ours
in that It la chiefly filled with fruit
trees and fragrant shrubs rather than
with flower beds and shade not or- '
deror bright colors is what Is chiefly
studied in Its construction” The gar-'
den was nearer the Kldron which ran -between
Jerusalem and the Mount of s
Olives
From the fact that “Jesus ofttlmes
resorted thither with hla disciples” '
(John 18:2) It la probable that It waa -'
a suburban pleasure ground or be- ‘
longed to some friend of Jesus who
gave him the free use of It during hla 1 -stay
-
He took with him Peter and the two
sons of Zebedee James and John
These were the three who had seen ' 1
hla glory on the Mount of Transfigura-
tion and were beat prepared to sym-
pathize with him These were to
watch and pray They were to watoh - '
with him in sympathy with him and ' '
against the same temptations
In this hour Jeaua needed human
sympathy even while he “must tread "
the wlnepreas alone” Three times he -f
went to them during this season of
prayer The more loving the heart
the more helpful la fellowship and
sympathy Every wise person accepts
of all the sympathy and help he can
get To throw this away Is to reject
one of the best aids God has given us 1
“Jesus was In the prime of man-
hood life waa just opening before -him
his soul was eager tor work and
conscious of rare capability to per- ’ '
form it his death was the end of all
human hope of achievement” Hla
earthly career In this dark hour may '
have seemed to be a failure If the fu-
ture was veiled from his vision Only -a
few disciples Instead of a glorious
kingdom and these few about to for-
sake him! Where were the fruits of
his life? It was his hour of dark-
ness with the future veiled from his
eyes with its resurrection and ascen-
sion and himself King of Kings and
Lord of Lords This required the ut-
most heroism of 'faith
Nevertheless not as I will Not as
seems desirable now But aa thou
wilt What In your loving wisdom you
Bee to be wise and best This Is my
prayer and desire I do not merely
submit to your will but desire It pray
for It “Underneath that awfnl agony
there lay millions of fathoms deep
unmoved and Immovable the Intense
desire that hla Father's wish and will
should be done” — Morlson This
prayer “Thy will be done” contains t
the essence of faith a faith that ex-
pects an answer and calmly trusts
God as to the kind of answer
“Thy will be done” means far morn
than merely enduring the Buffering 14
God sends It means doing his will
In our business In our homes every- -where
living according to God's laws
and principles It means carrying out
hla plans for the redemption of men
The prayer waa answered through '
the strength given him to drink the
cup and change It Into a cup of bless-
ing It waa answered In the same way
that God answers our prayers as God
answered Paul's prayer that the thorn
in his flesh might be removed The
angel strengthening him (Luke) was n
direct answer There are two ways of '
answering a prayer for the removal of ”
a burden In one the burden is taken
away and we remain the same In -the
other we are made ao strong that
the burden la no longer a burden to
us aa what would crush a child !
but aport to a man The latter la by f
far the beat way of receiving an an-
ewer Paul kept the thorn In his
flesh but God’s grace was made suffl- -clent
for him
God answered Jesus' prayer by glw
Ing In a better form than the one In
which the petition was stated the
soul of hla prayer the things that In '
bis deepest heart he wanted If clear-
ly before the vision of Jeaua there hadl
appeared two choices the one of es-
cape from the cross but with that
also the failure of his mission the
triumph or evil the loss of unnnm- '
bered souls no crown no glory no
abiding on the right hand of God and
the other choice that of the cross and
Its agony but with It also the red amp-
tion of the world thd Ineffable glory
of Ood the joys of millions of tho
saved the crown of triumph over
evil — who doubts which would hsvet
been his real Innermost prayer? Hie
prayer was answered for the arose
was changed to a crown Gethsemanei
Into paradise death Into Immortal
glory
Lo Judas one of thf twelve came
He Wow where he would be likely to
find Jesus because Jesus waa accua
tomed to resort to this garden with
hla disciples And with him a grant
multitude Including a band of Rpman
soldiers Jewish officers captains of
the temple polloe chief priests and
elders and their attendants such aa
MalrhUB followed by a multitude of
people with sworda and staves lan-
terns and torches and weapons Ju-
day betrayed Jesus with s kiss Th
Groek means “kiss again anfl again”
“kiss tenderly" A little tutor Judas
was overwhelmed with remorse and:
ended hla life by suicide