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Ne» York K609 USA (716) 482 - 0300 - Phone (716) 288 - 5989 - Fa, w '^ ^"^'BM :'-/■- MS^^ PRIZE OF LIFE ^vv:; ^T^ '""^t^pn^^iM ?'^Vi'- I ; THE PRIZE OF LIFE BY ^^™^I> T. GRE^TELL, M.D. THE PILGRIM PRESS BOSTON NEWYOHK CHICAGO '-J'Vb^^^v:?.'^' S Ca/ "^'■^■'^"-fD^^ 1^ I i0 'j--y^y-: •^r4 ^^':^ COPYRIGHT, I914 BY WltHEED T. GBENFELL ^-V TBB.PLIMPTON.rRBSS MOaW00I>.MASt>V«>A ^Sf^^^^M^^k^'^'^^ ^^^>^i^ t.'i--'^. ^% L THE PRIZE OF LIFE ^ii^m ??n. J ' iU^/-\ -", .,-1 .. THE PRIZE OF LIFE k'';>^ I- .'/Aj f^ h;;sh2rh 7 """'"^^^^^^^ hundred ^i #« "™ * P""" '"""grant. ^ f V.' ;^ askeT'^.S ^°" "*' «■<' ride?" I 'M C ''A \' "^ ""* 'Ml, i -v^^^^s'-itiit^et"^: i '■*-' - d. "W L xi — """""«=* my eyes." jv,y>5 Was he the only man in the water?" fe -^ MI ^ ^^"^ *°^^ °^« there was anX. ^^ 1^^' felJow forward." anotner .^^ 1^ ;;Didn't anybody go after him?" »»» If r^'^'P^^edtohimthen?" Wi sideoni; ^f.^^^^^^hed against the ^^^ |E side of the ship and killed." I'v 'y ■A'>'A: jj''-^^! .■S:y^ ^A-v.. THE PRIZE OF LIFE >n^ .^ .j/.."^!! "Couldn't anybody else swim?" "Yes, but I suppose they hadn't time." "How long were you in the water before they got you?" "Just half an hour. You see the man in the water grabbed me two or three times, and tried to drown me. Then we were washed off the ladder twice." "They say you were nearly drowned." "That's true all right." , "Did he pay for his life?" "Not a cent. He hadn't a penny." "Would you do it again if you had the chance?" %. "Of course I wou.d." Why? That is the question. Why? Why take so tremendous a risk "for nothing" ? After the fierce struggle was ^-^ , over, and the awful suspense relieved, 1^, and the common sailor was again on board, they told me that the men who had been watching cheered themselves hoarse, while the women v^ept for joy. Why? Again that is the question. The very cynic dare not challenge the act. Yet science did not insist on it, &?:■ it J t.^ t^w &p^ -iA}l THE PRIZE OP LIPE w or earthly philosophy inspire it. Politi- cal and social economy might not even approve it. But every one knows it was right, and the man himself who risked his life actually wanted more such chances. For my part he made me feel jealous. I wish that his prize might have been mine. '■m ^"* ^^** ^^^ *^« Pnze? Not the P,f opportunity, nor the immigrant's life j ;.',^ nor any material reward. They are all l . J, passmg things. The prize was his reali- ^: zation that he was needed, and the :^., supplying of that need. That is the i>^ S greatest prize in the worid. It is eternal. '^^^! ^ ^^ t:\.^ Uur own souls consent that the mere mechanical doing of our absolute duty can give us no satisfaction that we are s:-^ divme. The Master pronounced such ^, lives as unprofitable. In such demon- '^ strations that our souls, that we, are other and greater than our material bodies, we gain a glimpse of the un- speakable value of life. This is a prize . that we can always and everywhere ^ carry with us, once we have caught the ^ *^^ vision. The prize comes with the pos- session of the character. It does not [9] ^ %*'>; ""H 'k'i 'I l''M'i ''Xn THE PRIZE OF LIFE come in a lump at the end. It is the continuous joy of having character. Captain Scott's expedition brought back from the South Pole valuable specimens of minerals, many collections of great worth, much new information. But are those the durable prizes he won? Disappointed bitterly, suffering cruelly, his companions dead, and the hand of death already on his own shoulder, alone, in that awful cold and isolation which he knew only too well must soon rob him of his life, he was thinking and writing of what? Just words of com- fort to the loved ones of his lost com- rades. Nothing on earth that we know of can rival the beauty of our heavens lit by the matchless aurora. Even its glories, however, just because they are material, pale before such a spiritual triumph over physical death. That splendid action will remain a priceless heirloom for all time for those who loved him, and a prize that shall make every man that is a man ever love him for achieving. It gave him in that terrible time the only possible joy. The prize is the greater because all [10] ^h: V^'^1 l-f n^. ^? . . >, t^. H> THE PRIZE OP LIFE '1 -■ft. ■•x'5; &^ oin win It. The great "Titanic," her sides gored by the soulless mountain of ice plunged down in the darkness of night through the frigid water to the fathomless abyss of the ocean, but a half-dozen musicians snatched the prize from the very jaws of death, as they played to encourage and comfort others Death could only silence their earthly music. They had won that which shall nng out through all the ages, a prize they could gain in no other way. Nor will the world soon forget the superb self-abnegation of those engineers who remained voluntarily imprisoned in the bowels of the dnking ship, that she might go down, as she did, with her lights burning. The simple statement, Ihe lights went on to the end," is the best evidence of how they too robbed physical death of its sting and victory. For our comfort we may remember, however, that the prize is not created by such extreme physical circumstances Booker Washington, a ragged boy cleamng and recleaning and cleaning agam the room into which he was turned [11] m .r^\ :r^'-4fe , ^'lA/\:. .^. THE PRIZE OF LIFE i to test his good faith, persisting long after he had done all that the world would demand as his duty, marked out one way to win it. It is nol the ex- traordinary circumstance which makes the hero. That only points out the hero for a moment. The prize of life is to be won every day. The winner is always a hero; just as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was a heroine. A lawyer wins it who sees he can go and does go beyond merely convicting or freeing his client; who, like Judge Lindsey, takes further steps to help him to a new manhood. The judge wins it who seeks so to ad- minister justice as not to revenge but to redeem; the doctor wins it who works not for his fees but for ais patient, and who seeks by his teachings to eliminate the need for his own services. The banker wins it who tries to safeguard, not his personal gain, but his client's confidence; the merchant wins it who rejoices not in his profits, but in his utility and the good values he gives; the educator who seeks to develop not scholarship primarily, but character; [12] t^ixc U>?(VS ^v-^-m: W I- THE PRIZE OF LIFE the housewife who hVes. not for personal adornment, but for the grace and beauty o her home; the don.estic who cares first of all for the loyal service she renders, and not for the wages «he earns. To every class, in every rank of life there comes the call. The prize iJ obtamed m the act of answering that Wealth an^'^ers it by acknowledging i^s responsibility in earnest distribution effort. The athlete answers it. not in star plays, but in team work; the scholar not in the conceit of leanung. but ,n skill and eagerness to impart h^ knowledge; the teacher of religion, not by tears and texts," but in "life abundant." ® It is a veo' riot of joy, a triumph that w eternal, this prize of life. It has no dependence on material things, but it needs and uses every one of them. Ihe moments when you really live." said Drummond, "are the moments ,oj!^.^°"^«.*^^°g«/° the spirit of iove. This IS exactly the Master's way, the way of giving and being given [13] II u ""''i-i^'V »--'f.. THE PRIZE OF LIFE Men have tried to make it the way of getting things material, of submitting to dogmas, of practising barren asceti- cism; often seeking it by the way of cruelty and selfishness and bloodshed; while all the time it is the way of Uught in the Book of life, by the Bread of life and the Water of life, that we on earth might have Life aboundii^. Perhaps the most pathetic comment ever ut -d was made by that very human man who loved and was loved by the Master, to the worid which was rejecting the prize, "You have killed the Prince of Life." .' ■) iH=*: W [14] ^ '> I ii /■;ti THE JRIZE OF LIFE only because we have tried them and not found them wanting. It is still practically an uncharted coast which I navigate from the time the sea opens up in the spring, till it finally closes in the irresistible bords of winter, and I have struck many shoals, and I have suffered not a little in mind and pocket. But if I had waited for absolute knowl- edge, I should never have started, and my chance for the prize would have been lost. Moreover, others in other ways have been winning out at the same time in the same water. I re- member a boy at school who never would enter a race if he did not feel sure he would win. He lost the love and respect of us all, besides many material prizes. He was a "poor sport," in our English parlance. It is manful and natural to love sport. This is partly what made me hate the painted windows in our church. It made Paul dress up like a woman, he who had "fought a good fight"; and I wanted my Christ to be the captain of the foot- ball team, and "on the eleven." I just could not love Him if He would only 116] ¥^Vi if m m m % K ml:-- 7 .IT-XJ '''^^> m '-i--i>t'-ii^ %5 '/J AV/ >.-V'\l THE PRIZE OP LIPE wear petticoats, and gaudy ones all bejewe ed at that. All my^T^e'e of real men ready for contest Thl books I loved were "The Men nV a *• Series" TK^k ^ '^^ ^^^n of Action viBlanS " J- * ™«P" ""durance, mSte^' ''''*"'^^- "''""y: »^^ -^-^-wV'i^ went wild with the fever. They called it "Mafeking" instead of "Tango." The prize is the "Mafeking" in the jT^| real fight of life. W ^ the winning. Only direst necessity v/^^ drives men to turn into cash a trophy Mf once won. Anyhow, you couldn't cash ^-m laurel leaves. The "Pots"on our shelves ^^ do not give us joy because of their avoir- .^^^ dupois of rare metals, but for the flood- '^ gates of memories they open up. The world and General Gordon are the richer because love was the necessity t;^ that made him send to the melting-pot his great Memorial Gold Medal, to f)'M m all just "toe the line," and keep. step with the Leader. But if it is all so help out in the Chinese famine fund. That is Christ's way. To win we must c.7.f-:i joyful, and its satisfactions are so durable, why isn't Fis service already universal, why hasn't His Kingdom yet come? 118] THK DAI LY JO V OF HONKST. HAUD-WOX VI CT OHY I ii; THE PRIZE OF LIFE x}^ , Why? Why? Whv? Sf.-n *u family went into the Church." On« tJ^ttheM^te'dl^de^^-^-M i? ^s^oZ^^h^ P-e of Ufe d^ ^ iM, Sf? ""^^ ''= ■•»«^e that the prSdoTI ^ W\ 7„ "' r-:?. '^ "ndet.tanding'^ ""^ ^ ^■^ cC't^^fr'^''^°with t \<% r .^^ o. suon Willie axro with give it UD? Tf ,•« V-n- ^ ° * ^'°" Ji'Js ill ri! ,'^^'- He had been temhlv V'" |« wth aleoholic deUriun.. H^^ |f! i.'i V^ — ^^vife;^ iX/ THE PRIZE OF LIFE • '> suffered untold physical agonies by having drunk methyl alcohol, because he was unable to get at whisky for the moment. "I've done with it forever," he replied. "Wild horses would not I make me touch it again. I know it is killing me." "You will? If you will let me, I will stand by and help you. Here's my hand," I replied. But he returned to it. Why? Why? Is that what you ask? Because he had ruined his own will power. But surely he must have seen what he was losing? ■^^ He must have realized that everything which makes the world sweet and beauti- ful and desirable and tolerable and not a^^ Ty '^,^ a miserable mockery of the devil, hung in the balance? No, that is just what he could not do. Wisdom had vanished; the man had gone blind and could not see. One of my first patients in Labrador was a man who could not see. A lancet, a few drops of cocaine, a day or two in a dark room, and he saw again. I can see him now as he sat writing. He literally followed in the footsteps of Bartimseus. He got up and he walked. But who [20] '>>'■ .v>^- ^^mi -:jv; THE PRIZE OP LIFE i-^- 'A ^'^:'- \ ^.?^ could make this other man with soul- bhndness see? That sight comes from above. Another poor lad was brought to me with both eyes injured by L both irretrievably ruined. There are cases of blindness of the physical eye Which no man can cure. After he left our hospital, this poor fellow painfully begged and worked his way all the long journey to the shrine of St. Anne de Beaupre^ But he did not get his sight there. God allows incurable blindnfss. But spiritual blindness is wilful Per haps the physically blind receive in c^pensation more of the prize of life. Who has a right to pity Helen Keller whose sweet soul, barred into its cages of deafness, dumbness and blindness, flows over with the real things of life and IS conscious of the prize of being a blessing to the world? Why do not all men get that vision? Well we know now that we comprehend so httle, that we are not even staggered by this great eternal question. We are at least humbly grateful that it has not pleased God to make us automata, or condemn us to the perpetual resentment [ 21 ] Mi .;y mSmm^^ r, Mf'. (,<- 'iJ^^r^'^b^^'l' "^ * >? t4*"f: i'-^lb-!^- y^' it ^A't rfR- ,'/ «f, THE PRIZE OF LIFE of a conscript people. He has left his athletes some little rags of dignity. We dont run naked to our shame. What prize would there be if every man were forced to win it? Think of the piteous satisfaction of carrying off a trophy which we had been driven against our wishes to strive for. Faith being then the prize winner, will and wishes have more to do with this matter than many will allow. For we have learnt that there is a "will to believe." If there is ever such a phe- nomenon as a soul claiming never to have had a chance, I should like to see it; and I should not sorrow for it. For that is God's chance, and I know what His will is on a question like that — that every man should win. There is an old tale which will bear repetition. Man had conceived a most damnable lie. He conceived that his God of love had created some men on purpose to make them "lost souls." It puzzled the poor native, and he could not and would not consent to such a revolt of his reason. "It is easy to understand," said his friend, with that 122] -^?^t;--'«< •■^' -^ .--^ ■ « 'TTvi- fv>^ pi S' w .■•■<' <* ( >^:^ ^^^' w ^ ii ■ ; / /■ THE PRIZE OF LIFE wisdom which is from on hi«h " WI, p.; J ,. " ^^ candidates The ballot i:c:j,:f,-^^^^^ way will you vote? " ^''"^- ^^ich The question as fn "u "How late" tK • . ^°^ ^*>on or only answer men of We f^I" " "" accept as adequate T > ™° ^"^ ««atest n>isS in Z ^ ""^ "' «>« be than ^i' ^"^ - .be. «la«vely in the field -1 IL'M'''"^ <'"«btt„,.,„,,,^^-<'wb.eh^^e [23 J W^MS^M^^"^^^.^ 7S^' r'.i '-^% m v.^if^v-^A ;v^ ;.;«^Si^ 'v-''1:('■*-■ THE PRIZE OP liPE on the "TiUnio" aT' '"^ P"P'e out into ,LX*T«:"'';°«*' fortable. Some, even ^iT,!, f""" we ha4 eS n" hT''™ '""' """ needs. wTS' 1 "" ^""°'" '"^ :i kV' f25J ■ -» -- V,.: PART III The How of Life EjNOUGH of the vision may be ours, both as joncerns our intellects or our real selves, to enable us to abandon our querulous "Whys?" and busy ourselves with the more practical "How?" The stage of asking "why?" is like the man who takes the field, and kicks off the ball. The real players in the game are those who are entirely concerned with "How?" Why should we care so much to win in physical fields, seeing that often enough it is our own brother who is the captain of the opposing team? When first we introduced football into Labrador, it had to be mutually agreed before the game that neither side should win; and we saw the unusual spectacle of the side which had been scored against, solemnly allowed to walk across the field and kick a goal to save them the feeling of being beaten. Of course Tre want to win, and we do not want to be beaten, and therefore [26J V-J rvti THE PRIZE OF LIFE H must be more than worth while to be concerned with H... i„ * . "How?" Th; • ^"^ question. For U is no ", ' f':''^'"^ ^"*"'*'«"- 'or It IS no gooil ask ng it whi-n ♦!.« «h.p is taking her last dive, when ^^^^ it Lra^oir^'"^ "'^' ^^^^ *^- Here is the problem tumbhng about my knees ,. I write. God has en inisted me with the hVes of two bo^; Of course I want them to win. Yes to w,n everything that it is possible for Th!7 - Z' * " ^^^^'^^^^ I Jove them i^'t this .ne'.:::;, ; "v;?;.:^"- ■ ' man, «hat sort of citLn r»n I k E5 r-' -- -^'^^^ I can .ec why that should not bH" \^ii>^o^J^ II -•T^'r\>Vl-'V- _.*_* vu '--t^ /v^: .\ r^ yT'-?^ ' THE PRIZE OF LIFE desirable between horses as between men, and both of my hands go up for- ever for clean competition. For that's one answer to the question "How?" "Corpus sanum" has always been ad- mitted to be an important step on the road to "mens sana"; just as we are sure that it is the road which Christ trod, and would have us tread too, if we are to gain Heaven's gate. The attitude which is despicable is that of the man who recognizes amoral danger or evil, and does not at once seek to try and stop it. That man must be branded a coward. A young missionary doctor, working in an isolated mountain village in Persia, was surrounded by twenty thousand Kurdish rifles. He had been instru- mental in saving the life of the Chief's son by a skilful surgical operation. He was safe enough personally, but he knew that worse than extinction awaited his neighbors. He owed them no debt according to ordinary standards, but he realized their danger, and rode through a shower of lead to the Kurdish head- quarters, pleaded for the village, and saved their lives and property. The [28] ^,'^^r/)v r,'- Is THE PRIZE OP LIFE P"''' y,"' I"'^- How? He was awake to see the danger, and he wa. faithfullv 'earless. He caught the vision of tt opportunity and aeted upon it. Ve the man who sees an evil and doe- no.' what I heard h,ra ealled the other day a traitor and an anarchist. " I had mo"r:tVrT"«™"'''"»Bau' more to hear Graham Taylor of the Chicago Vice Commission speak before the Baltimore Civic Club He weM on to say. " Vice must not be rec^g„T^^' rted-'^wfri;' ^'"-"-eaS ated. What he said appealed to the sense of chivaliy i„ that roimful o men a chivalry which the centuries are „„"" eeing extinguished because we wear gauntlets and greaves and coats of mail On the contrary, the Christ-breezT s fenmng the spark into flame, and the things that wm not stand fire are be guimng to be consumed Tl,.. and bloodshed and CttoJot^Zl men should be the symbol of g,o^™;^ greatness we r«^niV. now as be7ngtag to the period of the soul's infanev t. I li *^r'^' .y>i'i:-^'^.-'^^:^^'7fiu. v^>■X'l-"'^■■•A■'■•■^ THE PRIZE OF LIFE A short while ago I was standing opposite the statue of Kosciuszko in Washington. My friend of the Supreme Judicial Court who was with me sud- denly remarked, "We are just beginning to be sorry that all these statues of fighting men should monopolize this beautiful square. We want diflferent ideals nowadays with which to sur- round our children. We want them to learn to appreciate the victories of the men of peace, and to learn to covet their ideals and achievements." It is natural for the young to love contest and victory, but how shall they be directed towards winning the real prize of life? Christ's way again. Let the young drink in from their infancy the idea that fighting is right, so long as it is a battle to raise up, and not to knock down; fighting not for self, or against another man, but for another man. Christ's call is just that splendid call which, like that of the Jodeler in the Alps, brings forth the clearest and sweetest echoes. It is not the "call of the wild," nor is it the call of the tame and uninteresting, as some people pre- [30] vVv W^^/ '%M--'A n-- - r--^ ', -• THE PRIZE OP LIPE tend to think it. It is the disi met, clear call of the world to its service «f '^!;^Vr^'*^^^' ''^''^^' '*" the range of the CQ.D and the S.O.S. calls o the penshmg "Titanic " But not all answered. A while ago I was asked to r^'Th° ^^^^ «f/tudents at a dinner on The Choice of a Calling." Words seem sometimes to have so selected themselves that they force the users of them to stop and think. These men had to admit that the world is calling each of us. and that our answer is a matter of choice. Here then is another "How " at sea her wireless calls for help brought a fleet of vessels round her. Not one withm hearing distance failed to answer. The lesson of the "Titanic" had , n learned. They were awake to vigilant to see. How is the young soul to be awakened? vvhat IS the message that shall reach the ear or the magic wand which shall reveal to the eye the prize in its beauty so that youth shall long to make every sacnfiee to gain it.P Words, sermons andhomihes? What vision of the value (sij :->r -.r^^'YT^^f^f ^^ THE PRIZE OF LIFE of purity can he bear whose own life is impure? Wliat conviction of the truth of the blessedness of giving can he bring whose every act is mean and sordid? Can any combination of sounds ; and signs induce self-sacrifice, if it is known that the utterer of these is him- self cruel and vile? We do not expect a refreshing draught from a poisoned stream. What shall we do then? How then can the soul be reached? Christ's way. "If ye will not believe me (for my word's sake), believe me then for the very work's sake;" "Ye that have seen me, have seen the Father, and ye shall be one, even as the Father and I are one." The Christ living in us, working in us, till he looks out from our eyes, and shines in our faces, and men take knowl- edge of us that we have been with Jesus and learned of Him. That is "how." The "Why?" must be answered by Faith; the "When?" by Hope, and the " How? " by Love. Thus is Christ " the way " and thus Faith, Hope, and Love the triune prize of life -truly the greatest of all its wondrous gifts. [321 I y 5^-' le is ruth 1 he and unds it IS him- xpect ioned then way. r my ir the e seen ; shall I are orking ;s, and linowl- i Jesus 'how." ed by ,nd the 5t "the d Love ily the ts. f ".^>i,^>'i ^^m. MMH m J