GO ON, GOING ON
In 1934 in Northfield, Massachusetts, Elliott Speer, headmaster of Mt. Hermon School, had been shot and killed one night by an unknown person and the mysterious murder has never yet been solved. Mr. Speer was the son of Dr. Robert E. Speer, the apostle of world missions in the Northern Presbyterian Church. This proved to be the greatest test of his Christian faith and character. Concerning it, he wrote to a friend: “One’s only and adequate light is to think of what God allowed to happen in the life of His own dear Son and to be sure that even out of the deepest evil He can bring good.” Some years later, during the war, Dr. Speer was preaching to a congregation one Sunday morning. His text was the Psalmist’s question: “If the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?” In that church there were parents whose sons had been lost in the war, and I’m sure they were…
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