A sea captain related the following thrilling incident in his own experience:
I was sailing by the Island of Cuba, when the cry ran through the ship, “Man overboard.”
I instantly seized a rope, and threw it over the side of the ship, crying out to die man to grasp it. The sailor caught the rope, just as the ship was passing him. Immediately I took another rope, and making a slip noose with it, attached it to the other, and slid it down to the struggling man, directing him to pass it over his shoulders and under his arms. He obeyed, and was rescued, but he had grasped the rope with such firmness,— with such a death grip,—that it took some time, before his hold relaxed. With such eagerness, indeed, he had clutched the object that was to save him, that the strands of the rope became imbedded in the flesh of his hands.
Poor unsaved soul, you are in the same position as this drowning sailor, but he was obedient to the captain’s word, and was saved.
“He that heareth my word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.” John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).
ML 01/26/1941