Jennie Carey is only ten years old, but she has saved the lives of hundreds of people. Perhaps you wonder how a little girl like that could do such a wonderful thing.
In one of the Western States. Jennie lives with her father and mother. One day, as she was out playing in the fields, she saw smoke in the distance. She hurried over to see what the trouble might be, and there she found that the railway bridge, which carried the train high over a river, was burning slowly. She could see that parts of the wooden framework had already fallen away, and she knew the bridge would not bear the weight of the train. Quickly she took off her little red coat and ran down the track, for she knew that a fast train was soon to come along.
Presently she heard the whistle as the train came round the bend. She stood right in the middle of the track and waved her red coat. She shouted too, but I’m sure the engineer couldn’t hear her for the noise of his big locomotive. Just at the last minute she jumped off the track but kept waving as the train roared past. Then she heard the grinding of the wheels and she knew that her warning had been seen and the engineer was stopping the train. It was stopped in time, just before it would have started out over the burning and weakened bridge. The many hundreds of passengers climbed out of the coaches to see why the train had stopped so suddenly, and when they saw how near they had been to a terrible wreck, they thanked brave Jennie Carey.
There are many thousands today in the “world’s express,” hurrying on toward eternity. They close their eyes and their ears to all thoughts of danger, and turn away from anyone who warns them of what lies ahead.
Are you prudent, or simple? The Lord Jesus Christ is the Hiding Place, and if you are not safe in Christ, you are rushing on to destruction.
ML 08/06/1950