That is what the Denver Post, Thursday, April 18, 1912, said about J. Bruce Ismay, a surviving passenger aboard the Titanic. There were not enough lifeboats to ferry all the passengers off of the Titanic. However, J. Bruce Ismay was saved. It was not only that Mr. Ismay ended up on a lifeboat along with women and children, while over 1,800 faced a watery death. It was not even the fact that Bruce Ismay was a millionaire who survived, for it was not his money or wealth that gave him a position on that lifeboat. It was Ismay's position that promoted such an indictment and therefore, the Denver Post clearly stated its reason for assigning Ismay with such a title.

Regardless of the fact that brave men, noble women and helpless children all around him were doomed to death because the liner upon which they were prisoners had not furnished enough life boats to save them, there was enough room for this one MAN. His name was -- Bruce Ismay - the Reason, he was the millionaire owner of the ship that to make big profits for him failed to protect the lives of the passengers.

The Post was even so enraged that it suggested that he become a man without a country, that England refuse him entrance into his homeland country.

He could ride the seas for the rest of his life in the boats he owns that are not safe in time of peril and every time the gale whistles through the rigging or an iceberg looms up in the dark he will see the ghastly forms of the dead at the boom of the sea, victims of his greed, crooking the forefinger at him and bidding his "Come."

It was the fact that J. Bruce Ismay personally profited from a ship that was inadequately equipped to save the lives of others, and that he not only jeopardized the lives of others, but saw to it that he himself was not the victim of such greed, that inflamed many Americans!

The Denver Post not only labeled Ismay as the Benedict Arnold of the sea, but also printed these words in an area on the lower left hand side of the same front page. The words were the recorded words of Jesus, "Greater love hath no man than this - that a man lay down his life for his friends - John XV:XIII"

The Denver Post was contrasting the love of Jesus with such a man as millionaire, owner, and passenger J. Bruce Ismay. It was Ismay, who out of a desire to save his own life, was one of the first to escape from the Titanic, along with women and children and leaving behind many other women and children. The contrast was to the life and love of the Lord Jesus, who stepped forward, out of the throne room of heaven, and offered Himself as our sacrifice for sin. Jesus never created the disaster that faces humanity. He never profited from the cross which was designed to offer eternal hope to all men. Rather, He paid for the "lifeboats" that could deliver all men, while He alone died at the hands of sinful men! Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. . . . I lay down my life for the sheep."