“Look unto Me,
and be ye saved, all the ends
of the earth: for I am God,
and there is none else.”
John Harper of Glasgow was crossing the Atlantic to conduct services in the United States and was a passenger on the Titanic on her first—last—and tragic voyage.
Three or four years after the wreck, a young Scotsman rose in a meeting in Hamilton, Canada, and said, “I was on the Titanic when she sank. Drifting alone on a spar in the icy water on that awful night, a wave brought John Harper near to me. He also was holding on to a piece of the wreck.
“ ‘Man, are you saved?’ he shouted.
“ ‘No, I am not!’ I answered.
“The waves bore him away, but a little later he was washed back alongside of me.
“ ‘Are you saved now?’
“ ‘No, I can’t say that I am.’
“Once more he repeated the verse, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’
“Then, losing his hold, he sank. And there, alone in the night and with two miles of water under me, I believed. I am John Harper’s last convert!”
But few get saved at such an “eleventh hour” as this. Do not wait until death and eternity are staring you in the face. Even if you do get saved on a deathbed, you will have missed the joy of serving the One who died for you. Believe on Him now!