Show i i- i I Humility With a I Purpose I IBy By Dy DR FRANK CRANE True humility is shown In acta acts that have hlL a a. pur put pose It Is raid Bald that a a. cardinal in the tho middle ag ages al allowed nl- nl lowed lowel vermin to bite tite him saying ying We Ve s shall abail all have heaven hoo to reward us for tor our suffering suf sut- suf- suf fering but these poor creatures ha e nothing have nothing but the tho enjoyment of ot this present life That Tha-t is one kind of ot humility During the Civil Il war President Lincoln had been tre treated with scant courtesy by his g general Mc- Mc 1 V f When someone remonstrated with him for tor not asserting his hla power to punish the he replied re replied replied re- re V VI plied I would gladly hold General McClellan's horse for tor him If It he would only bring us s victory That is another kind of ot humility One Ono of ot the tho early Christians who who thought he was following follo the tho teachings of ot Christ slept in a marsh for six ix months and exposed his hI body naked to the stings KIngs of ot venomous Insects lie Ife did this to show the humility of ot his spirit Many centuries later a doctor in the yellow fever fe ward of ot the tho Las Animas hospital in Havana ana saw a mosquito light on his hand It seemed certain that It had bitten patients in the ward The doctor dodo could have brushed it away with a wave of ot hi his hand handS but ho di did not He let it bite bito d deeply Five ve days later he was vas seized by a chill the precursor r of ot the deadly jellow ellow fever and and in less than a n. week w was ws s dead But Dut by his a b th h he he- gave final proof that the germs of ot tho the disease were carried by the Insects This paved the way for tor the complete conquest of ot the plague Commemorating this act of ot self abnegating hero- hero ism inn a bronze tablet t in In Johns Johna Hopkins hospital carries car car- ties ries the words Dr Lazear died that his fellow men might live JIve in comfort and h happiness One of ot these men let the In Insects bite him merely to show the world his lack of oC valuation self the theother theother theother other did cUd it with a spirit of true humility that a great benefit benent might r result sult Acts of ot humility which have been done merely to prove the Individual humble have done little forthe for forthe forthe the world orId The highest humility has always been the kind which demonstrated a meekness of oC spirit In conjunction conJunction conjunction con con- junction with a great purpose Copyright 1926 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate S Jo |