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lost in a blizzard near the equator by captain henry mansfield were we ever able to figure out actuated by a desire to see the nor world and an innate love of all things j what was their purpose liaa it been eavoring of prehistoric times i en- 1 our friends from the inn attempting 1 n katffn- have watt- had it been prehistoric iduation iwui w our columbia college as assistant to prof sd for us to approach and assured our listed shortly after graduation from to rob us thmitto jj columbia college as assistant to prof ed for to marshall saville head of the george defeat by meeting us unuer a fc e heye exploration expedition to of friendancss ecuador the purpose of the expedi- tte course of uie path we were on tion was to study the archaeology of f of to mis bo- the inca and preinca periods of f te horses ization in ecuador and peru the first part of our traveling was and turned in to sleep prosaic and uneventful enough wo trails we had been told led to shep- left new york in may 1910 arriving herds huts near the snow line and at guayaquil peru some weeks later wo had reckoned on leaving the horses there wo were joined by manuel at one of these stations gamio of mexico city who made the early in the morning we continued fourth member of the party a young higher and about noon arrived at a fellow called willie buskey having accompanied us from new york after a few days in the unhealthy our angers violently and shook our hands from the wrist joints trying to revive the cluggiah circulation tho meal was very sparse for we did not care to be left with nothing to eat wo were both thoroughly frightened though i do not think that even then we fully realized the gravity of our situation all the whiie it was getting darker and i do not know whether night was near or whether the clouds were pil ing up thicker and thicker over the sun probably the latter for darkness follows very quickly after light in the tropics at last with even less warning than usual tho worst came the darkness small abin crouched among the rocks j cf night added lo am we were near the snow line and anxious to start the ascent as our the horses what with the natural gloom and the blinding wrestling swirl of snow we could actually speaking scarce see a guayaquil district we struck off into j time was getting short the forests of riobamba where we for w j forht meas d allthivvfthin a few miles of a time made our headquarters began the earths equator somewhere in the earthing many relics of prehistoric cfimb at flirfollowed an al- same latitude sunburned and heat- military and domestic life we of w which wa3 t6m lost tired people were seeking the cool of course employed the usual cavalcade most hidd tentra thepcak pla7 and the cafes as the wel- a to ascend was directly beco gamio had begun to weaken percep- of pack mules horses mozos and two j j wa direc be- j come relief of night came to them guides and the work in riobamba was shec to a cend ji m0r jflzfjlw 1 i fng wewere all right for a time tibly i do not know whether i stag slept long and comfortably the alti- tude at which we lived making it ccol and endured few hardships skirting northward wo visited quito tho city on the equator and were entertained royally by president alvarez of ecuador as this was the last stage of our journey before plung ing into the real wilderness where we were to almost fight for our living i remember the banquet tendered us by the president very distinctly and later had cause to remember it even more vividly and more gratefully leaving quito we followed the highways to salino salinas a town in tho northermost part of the province of bolivar then began the real work of tho expedition we set out through the chimborageo mountains to cross the province from north to south with chillanes as our goal two or three days journey from our starting point gamio and i ob tained permission from professor sa- ville to explore and climb cotapaxi probably the largest volcano in the world we expected to take two or three days for the feat and besides heavy blankets we carried provisions to last us that length of time the first night we came to a little adobe hut called by courtesy an inn at lata- cuiga under the very foot of the mountain while wo were eating sup per two or three illappearing fellows entered the room and ordered drinks gamio being a mexican spoke per fect spanish and i have always been rs familiar with the language as i am now you get up or ill shoot you sent from one country to the other gamio reached toward his- hip though to what purpose i could neve thats enough i said ill take understand your gun and i reached down and no need to dwell on the inconven- lifted it from its bolster it was only lence we suffered we at least had the warmth that lad suffused my body good food and a warm place to sleep from the extra effort of dragging though we were bolted into a little gamio which made it possible for me room about fifteen feet square reason to hold the weapons or use my fingers as we could with oar captor we could at all i net show him the folly of suspecting oh i aay stammered gamio i two men in that desolate forsaken quit your kidding will you i dont region of being spies we could tell feel like fooling i el gcbenuulor he said im not kidding i almost yelled i after o day and a half of captivity and if you dont get up out of there jour host entered early in the morning iii pick a nice little- round hole in j l you dont you know you plagued fool that it only the numb warmth before freezing that you feel oh rot said gamio i will count ten i told him one two three he thought i meant it and stagger ed groaning to his feet feebly he tottered before me looking back from time to time with an ugly gleam in his eyes a man in his senses would have known that tl chances of my hitting anything with my hand trembling so were negligible at last wo had mounted the spur and started once moro downward i had lost hope and it would be our last descent unes3 indeed we both drop ped ard died at the bottom suddenly a fresh horror began to creep into my brain the frightful warmth which hid already seized upon gamio was treacherously stealing upon mo the very worst had come and i believe i prayed i still had sense enough to know what it meant and nofto think like gamio that the feeling was real i struggled against it but it grew even stronger as we staggered down the mountain time did not exist for me and i do not know how long wo had descended when i began to dream of hot coffee from time to time gamio looked the wind was bitter cold and dejgered or not but it seemed that i spite tho efforts of climbing we shiv- could not put one foot before the ered some after the sun became ob- j other each time i lifted my shoe it j back over his shoulder and cursed me scured behind a heavy blanket of j was as heavy as though the weight of j then he pleaded groaning protesting gray by the middle of tho afternoon a whole drift was attached to it i maudlin childlike sentences against we were as high as we cared to go tried to support my companion but and after eating sparingly started my hands were so numbed that his to descend this we had calculated arm slipped from my grasp and he would not take us more than two- staggered about like one drunk wild- thirds the time of the ascent but we ly plunging and picking ourselves up chose to keep the greater part of our as best we could when we fell which provisions for a remote case of emerj was often we slid and careened ever my cruelty but i held the pistol as steady as might bo and forced him onward finally while we were de scending in a zigzag senseless course he turned with a particularly vicious curse and said look here jack im not going a gency the tracks we had made in ascend ing were easily followed for a time but soon after we had started back it began to snow very gently at first but developfng rapidly into a swirling raging blizzard the tracks fast be- long into the snow it felt welcomely came obscure and it was with great warm on wrists and hands and even difficulty that wo made them out the face until at last they became so wind hurled the stinging cold flakes numb that we felt absolutely nothing into our eyes so that at times we i gamio groaned monotonously for min- could scarcely hold them open but we utes at a time then was silent no were not alarmed thinking that we doubt i did the same but i did not could find our way from memory i realize it at the time even when the snow enveloped us j they say it is comfortable to freeze like a blanket and made it impossible to death and so i believe it is at the to see a rod in any direction we re- last but the pain at first is almost downward only to find ourselves at j step further go on now shoot if you last in a hollow or chasm where it i like was necessary to climb weary heights i will i whispered hoarsely just again before we could descend once j as sure as there is a god in heaven more i ill shoot you if you dont turn round when we stumbled and fell head- and walk the one idea to keep him moving had sole possession of my conscious ness and i think i really believed what i said i knew that i was losing my grasp on my sanity i had thrown one pistol away it was such an effort to carry it the one i held i steadied by grasping my wrist with my free hand gamio laughed horribly ycu havo ten seconds i told him then began to count one two and menacing us with some kind of pistol of ancient origin but daunting in size told us that we were to be bound and taken to the city a woman hard looking and masculine brought some coiis of rope and while she cov ered us with the deadly weapon the man bound us we were loaded into something which i suppose was a cart and to which a decrepit mule was attached and while the woman mounted guard behind tho man led and drovo the mule over somo of the rockiest worst roads which i think exist at a small army post at tho foot of the moun tains we were turned over to the mili tary and the commander being deaf to argument we gave our parole and were conducted on horseback to guar- nnda the capital of bolivar province there the governor leon do herrara had us cast into prison and foul enough it was he was swollen with his own importance nnd would not let us telegraph he had never heard of tho george e heye expedition he said our protest that we had been re ceived and entertained by the presi dent of ecuador he considered mere bravado and announced a court mar tial for the morrow that night we bribed a goldloving guard to telegraph to president al varez in our names and also to prof saville whom we thought might be searching for us in and near lata- cuiga about midnight tho governor him self opened the door to our cell and with profuse apologies invited us to a banquet and offered us the hospital si lesson march 14 lat words of jesus with his disciples john chs 1417 golden text i am the way the truth and the life john 14 6 analysis l jesus tells of the heavenly home 14 ii the question of thomas 67 iii the hfiquest of phillip 811 iv further consolations 1224 introduction these four chapters contain the sublimest teaching on re ligion and have been the inspiration and comfort of countless christian- they tell of the continual presence of christ with the believers and they give encouragement to all his suffer ing followers that a future of infinite glory awaits them the fourteenth chapter gives answers to three ques tions put by thomas philip and judas i jesus tells of the heavenly home 14 v 1 let not your heart be troubled the little group is overwhelmed with confusion and sorrow especially by the statement of jesus thnt ho is to leave them immediately while in addition there is tho prophecy that their most distinguished member will fail in the hour of trial ch 1338 these condi tions appeal to the compassionate love of jesus and the sad silence is at last broken by these words which for the first time open heaven to faith believe in god believe in me faith is tho only possible attitude in which the christian can successfully meet confusion nnd sorrow to be lieve in god and in christ is the anchor that will hold in every storm v 2 in my fathers house jesus had spoken of the temple in these terms ch 216 but the earthly temple was only a copy of the heaven ly home the emphasis is to be laid on father heaven depends not on its buildings but on him who dwells there god is all its life and glory many mansions this house will be spacious there will be room for every worthy human activity thought or affection i would have told you jesus had freely told them of the darker side and can they imagine that he is any less sincere in speaking of this brighter hope his departure is not final he is going to prepare a lace where all their best hopes will e realized the language is bor- ity of his palace we refused and told him some of the things which we had i p been saying about him even then hep bowed and apologized but we went tolliz the inn and remained there for the night it appears that the president in the unendurable we were toiling and three- with my native tongue we had soon been induced into a conversation with j he would take them and they seemed to bo not at all pa rati vc rest bad company so we must have trudged and drag- before our acquaintance had ad- ged ourselves through the ever deep- vanced very far they had told us of ening blanket of snow for about an a hidden treasure gold and jewels of i hour when suddenly while i was lead- tho inca which was buried not far ing gamio broughtus to a halt with from tho town about two miles up the a tug at my shoulders mountain this story is one which the traveler meets in almost every town of the vast territory which once comprised the peru known to pizzarro as usual in this case there was a ghost which guarded tho treasure and with all tho cupidity of tho natives they had never mado any very determined effort to unearth it we of course took no stock in the story of the treasure but our curiosity to sea one of theso dreaded spots for ourselves was strong after some talk we decided to ride out to the place after supper and as tho inn was likely to bo possessed of all the things which make life miserable in those coun tries ave planned to carry our provi sions and blankets with us to sleep in the open this we arranged in english being not altogether willing to trust our new friends too far tho description of the treasure spot given us by our friends of the inn had led us to believe we would find an excellent camping ground and we were in a hurry to sleep noaring the place where the gold nnd jewels were supposed to be hidden we saw three men apparently digging and there were two more sitting on the ground as soon as we were within hailing distance gamio asked them what they were doing the diggers dropped their spades anil others jumped to their feet and 1 number of thots wore fired tho fusillade came as a shock and we were nearly unseated by the rear ing of our horses which frightened wheeled and ran taking to a path which led at on angle off from the one we had com on this i must ad mit caved us the trouble of changing the hovsss ourselves for we certainly would not have lingered in that local ity gnmios pistol had caught in his volsior bat i had managed to dis charge my automatic in the direction ti ha- mci who had attacked us vfhjjhsr it vr effective i do not garded the experience more light of a frolic dragging ourselves up an especially to protect ourselves as much as steep and wicked spur when gamio possible from the bitter weather and i began to lag behind i helped him as because we continually became sepjhest i could which i fear was little arated- from each other wo began to mid ho seemed unable or else unwill- walk lockstep fashion first gamio ing to make any effort on his own ac- would take the lead and iwould pace count my patience was short and it i irritated me to have him lag so what is the matter with you i demanded nothing said gamio and he actu ally smiled i feared he was going mad his eyes were brighter than they had been but he seemed weaker cant you get along a little fast er i asked whats the use ho said thun der but it feels good doesnt it what feels good said l this is no time to joke and if youd buck up and make a little more effort to do behind him both hands on his shoul ders my face hidden behind his back then we would reverse the order and few moments com- we had just plunged and slid to tho bottom of a gulch and the forma tion of the range made it possible to take either of two courses in skirting a line of cliffs which we could not your own walking id bo better pleas- have hoped to scalo and which i rejed i added rather brutally for the complacency of the man maddened me why jack he added dont you begin to feel warmer im getting about as comfortable as thoy make em but it was bitter while it lasted sure enough i thought he was crazed by the suffering its snowing harder than ever i said ho looked around him peering into tho whitelike darkness yes i know it is jack you think membered we had not descended di rectly i had just turned to the east when gamio brought me to tho sud den halt thats the wrong way ho said a little irritably are you suro said i i am quite positive we came from this di rection i was utill positive that i was right but if there were any landmarks in the way of rocks or such thoy were either covered by the snow or we were im crazy hey well im not im unable to see them through tho driving fully aware that wero lost i know storm ilss black as the styx and that its i at last argued gamio around to my still snowing but i tell you its getting way of thinking and wo continued on warmer im almost comfortable our way as i had started this was with all the frenzied power of my gamio was staring me in the eyes four five six seven without causing a sensation in my hand the pistol dropped from it and tumbled into the snow gamio laughed insanely sank to the ground it was useless to try to pick the weapon up i could not control my fingers with the last of tho feeble strength that was in me i tried to drag gamio to his feet i could not do it so i started to haul him through the snow i sup pose i had tugged him not more than forty feet when my arms refused to hold my hands were useless i staggered a few paces off to rest remembering us had telegraphed for particulars and a full description of us this had convinced him of our identity and he had ordered our im mediate release reprimanding the officious governor prof saville when we did not re turn had sought us in latacuiga and had found the hut where we left our horses he had concluded we were lost in tho storm but waited for messenger in front to secure proper quarters v 3 i will come again his de parture is the condition of his return this coming of jesus is manysided at his resurrection he will come also in the acent of the holy spirit in tho great events of the christian church at the death of each believer and in the final glorious return at tho end of the world v 4 the way ye kw the dis ciples might not be able to see tho distant scene but they had been with jesus long enough to learn his ideals i i- 1 t i r u few days in the little town meanwhile and to recognize the direction of his sending men to search the mountains i thoughts and actions in the immediate j ii i present that if they would only folow him tho road would be clearly re- notified the american consul at quito who in turn took the matter up withj the president but we had by then the wbstion of thomas 57 been realeased altogether wo had iv- 5 how can we know the way come off with more than we had ex- ns was by nature a doubter and is honest enough to confess his diffi- pected and were so gad to be aim l the fu is all wrapped in that we did not make any trouble the mystery he has no clear understand- only man i really hod a grudge j j 0 the place to which jesus is go- againct is that el gobernador ing and how therefore can ho know the way until we are aware of our make hotbed do double destination we cannot select our road v 6 i am the waj the truth and ltuy the life jesus replies that he himself a farm without a garden and hot- 1 is the way thomas should have bed is like a family without a mother kn from what he had seen and and really the hotbed is the mother of that the t nf f t w jesus was to return to the rather to the garden it germinates the seeds the divin5 fac td gry jcsus of tender plants and protects them in f a his joy in doing the fathers then my knees began to wabble and cal and delicate stages of will and in this jesus was really re clatter together the mountainside i growth but t fter the hotbed has vealing the way thomas must havo reeled and i did not know whether 1 1 functioned in this way what more can recognized that the presence of jesus was s aggering upward or downward done with it we answered this had been the one great illuminating probably it was m a circle for when tion in a way ome and directing influence in his own life i finally plunged into the snow i was j clean it ou rcad for had he only paused to think it out only a few feet from gamio for al by cieanln out l0 ho could have known that the father second my mind and sight cleared and i spr us a the rl nto rt was the real goal of jesus jesus is i saw him dimly through tho dr iving 6ue1 j n y as were the only true living way by which we white on his feet leaning over and want mld f m come to the assurance of the fatherly ij u- ui i covering them up with straw or leaves love of god apparently holding his hands as for warmth over a fire then blackness tenfold heavier than even the dark ness of the night settled over me and i knew no more how long wo lay there i do not know for i had no idea whaff hour it was when i lost consciousness i returned to myself to realize that to keep out frost last fall however wo hit upon a better way of doing much the same thing and making the contents much moro accessible by nailing strips on opposite sides of the frame about ten inches below tho top we laid a mov able floor of boards which was then i iii the request of philip 811 v 8 shew us the father philip was the great friend of thomas and he finds his difficulty in another direc tion where is god he is so mys terious he hides himself if ho would only reveal himself as he had done in olden times exod 24it isa ch g then they would be satisfied v 9 ho that hath seen me hath seen the father had not jesus been covered with sawdust about four inch- every fibre in my body was throbbing j e deep except for a place in tho and aching that i was in some kind centre about fifteen inches wide thibfi d presence in their lives of a habitation i knew for i was gazj latter is fitted with a board or door did they not realize that when with ing straight up at heavy rough that can readily be removed and when im all was well they had really ba2n wooden beams and a dirty dusty ceil- j place and tho weather has become seeing the father as they looked on ing if my limbs had been numb and cold will bo covered with straw or jesus and they sh ould rest content feelingless the night before they were easily removable mulch in vwinfpsncc almost numb with pain now i triedj tho sash boards and battons are tn these two answers furnish us they placed on top loosely nnd the contents wln christs solution of the great t but in 0 the hotbed which had previously mysterious life nnd they show onmls- well enough for a time but i found will i had to force my cowardly body myself wondering now at every point to do its duty grabbing gamio under to move them but could not whether i was in tho right or not and the shoulders i dragged him inch by j were still powerless i thought out in 0 the hotbed wnicn nau previously mv6 the more i thought of it the more con- inch np the mountain when i was a moment discovered that i was bound been removed is banked around the takably that christ is the hart and fused i became able to i mado him take a few steps hand and foot tho cords seemed to frame down below this false door centre of all our religious iife whin it next became gamios turn o his own accord but it was next to bo drawn tight but they did not pain with its sawdust covering is a moist jv further conspiration 1221 to lead he seemed very downcast useless tho extra effort sent tholme in fact i could not feel thani j frostproof cellar about two feet deep jesus now comforts thcm by asrur- and meanwhile the cold was biting i was unable to diag him further he offered mo nnd i drank it sent jjea came to roost tpl into us with cruel teeth we were almost unable to stand myself j tne blood tingling and i nsked him rqu homo th- need of oreh hungry and thought that a bite to cat get up man i groaned j why i was tied he was indisposed j brmi hanw th nccd of orch rest of the trees come nto you trees increased their i ear by year the r i ive discovered iat one doer rot n to follow directions to tho letter j- 1 in mixing hen mash the big point to it has been proved that the total v lv on cc of use the iiet to strength togother we tugged and but i might as well havo tugged at j the hot toddy between his lips it was 1 1 pulled at it but it was of no use i the mountain itself then iyi idea effective ami my friend soon opened nas finally i took it in my teeth while struck me gamio might be able to his eyes he- was bettor informed on hird popuation i guide them into all truth while h crowns everything with the proiiijis that he will himself return i wli i watch that point keep in mind is that 20 per cent gamio held the sack between his stiff- walk if ho only would nnd if he hadi south amorican affairs and immedi- w- h ened fists and we managed to start the proper mental ttimulus tlv walizid that we ware taken for putting up tnrdnouscs the buckle enough to insert two achj after a deal of fumbling i ma ng fingers in the loop of the trap and aged to loose my pistol from its case i perpetual ately realized that we ware taken for puumg up in- peruvian spies boundary dispute are jp practcaiy al insect nests so perpetual between ecuador and col- tv i it i t- v v the mash needs to l protein i j1 stv nam that i cheapest and es birds feed k and r mini- sheep could ik- purchased cr four- levelling it at my friend with an unjombia on tho north and peru on the vrw 1 hec not for we never heard i ts p levelling it at my friend with an unjombia on tho north anl 1or ctem who had assaulted us againl while we ate we opencj and closed i steady hand i mid coolly and veniy j south and spies are contirua fiuild and put up birdhouse3 pence in england in the twe tury 1 i cen- i