Wy Woo er, or vo 4 The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, March 31, 1961 Jim Bishop, Reporter 1X SOE MIN Si wr MDP Nw ee ee Saviour Himself to Die The head hung. The eyes closed. The muscles relaxed. Jesus had willed himself to ee sn aay die. It was the ninth hour — 3 pm — and a suppressed sound went through the air. A breath of air bent the wild flowers. The earth ee trembled, and Mr. Bishop a smal crack split the big rock on which he was crucified and went east, splitting the earth beneath the Gate of Gennath and across Jerusalem and under the temple, Sen 0 + Da Ametian-Dellen Cycle Warns On Threat Of Hepatitis It seems that everyone has liver trouble. We hear this stat t = Oa & O frequently, t Willed and although it is not true, the number of eases of infectious heptatitis has increased. There . were where veil. . it tore the big inner The wind grew. The sky darkened. The birds be: came silent. “Assuredly,’”’ said the centurion, “this man was the Son of God.” He looked up at the body. The centurion had seen many of these. In There were no jails. There were no other penalties for lawbreakers. : The face, somehow, was composed. 4 IT RETAINED the expres‘sion of compassion he had seen when they had nailed his wrists to the crossbeam -and had raised him on ropes until the mortise in the crossupright. ae es : The centurion had held the right foot over the left until the iron spike had been driven in. They didn’t this quickly. usually die He had bent this man Jesus forward over a broken column and had thrust his wrists through iron rings. Then, slowly and by count, working down. - THE ROMAN heard the Weeping and, in the gloom, he looked back and saw the dittle knot of people around the mother of this man. They were trying to console her, but they needed eonsolation too. Where were they when is man carried the crossbeam a half-mile from the pretorium to Golgotha? If they believed in him, why } more than 41,000 cases last year, apiS proximately 77 Dr. per cent. more than were reVan Dellen ported in 1959. ; The peak year was 1954, when 50.093 persons developed the disease. Infectious hepatitis seems to move didn’t they rescue him? in eycles of six or seven Cowards. years. We may have had it Be 1960 but the spurt ocHe ordered the crurifraW curred late in the year and guim applied to the thief ' there is evidence that the and murderer who hung NG epidemic will continue into beside Jesus. = 1961. It is a board and it was The condition is easily | diagnosed when the used to break both legs at n ® _ turns ye. (jaundice) but the shinbone to hasten death. ; obvious © The criminals s "in son sign do y Ee The liver may be inflame and the individual feels achy _and tired, and has no appe“tite. But, because his skin does not look yellow, hepa& titis is not suspected.. As a result, sanitary pre| cautions are neglected and the causative microorganisms could spread throughout the community. IN ADDITION, the virus remains alive in the blood for at least a year. Should ‘the victim: donate blood after recovery, the recipient could develop the sister disease— serum hepatitis. This sequence is avoided if blood and liver tests are suggested whenever these flulike symptoms do not disappear within a week or tenderness is noted over the liver. The appearance of jaundice solves the problem be' cause it means something | is amiss with the liver. Most victims of acute hepatitis recover completely. Oldsters and those with pre-existing liver disturbances are most likely to have a rough time. There is no specific remedy, although steroids such as cortisone are helpful in the more sevére cases. Bed rest until cured is the best treatment because ac_ tivity seems to stir up in- _ flammation. While the victim must liver by avoiding hol, barbiturates, medications, i Be ~-thereetyne resting, spare the fats, alcoand other patient — ‘speed cure. By George Clark opped scream _ Last night, twelve apostles had fought over who loved Jesus the most. Only John was at the cross; a boy barely old enough to grow a beard. All of the believers Jesus were Jews. in There were thousands of ‘them up and down the Joran valley, . Where were they? A stranger buried him. He was a high priest, a Sadducee, a member of the Great Sanhea His named is Joseph of Arimathea. For love, he donated his own tomb. Alone, he had gone to Pontius Pilate, the procurator, and asked for the body. IT WAS AN act of humility for a high priest to ask a favor ofa Roman. Joseph, had asked. And Pilate had! nodded. On the way back, JoSeph had met Nicodemus, a Pharisee. | e Nicodemus had sent for a hundred pounds of spices with which to anoint the body. Joseph bought wide bands of linen as shrouds, They hurried, because. at sundown the sabbath and the _ Passover would begin. At Golgotha, John stood before the body. He searched the faces of the - Strangers and saw love. The rennin young man bippia would help to take 1 said he , down. Jo eph and Nicodemus: accorded John the courtesy one would extend to grown men. No, they said, it would be better if he remained at the side of the mother. John in- : sisted. The men took the body down and laid it on a flat rock. They bathed it, . THEY % ‘1 ing and HEARD looked up murmur- to see Mary of Alpheus and Mary Magdalen trying to dissuade the mother of Jesus from approaching, They couldn’t. She came close, weeping. Mary sat on the rock with her son. The men finished their work hastily, John and Nicodemus lifted the body, and Joseph rolled the linen underneath. The body was carried into Joseph’s tomb. It had a small rough entrance and was 15 feet deep, with a vestibule and a room for the dead. The men lit tapers and set them in the walls. Joseph placed a feather under the nose of Jesus. It did not move. They left. The rolling _ Stone was set in place. | If he was dead, then we are dead. oro