AMID the loud applause of a crowded audience, an infidel lecturer was laboring to prove the folly of believing in a living God.
When an opportunity was given for discussion, a man stepped forward, and narrated how he had once witnessed from a river's bank, a boat borne down the current towards a dangerous rapid. In it was a man struggling to make the shore.
All his efforts failing, frantically he cast away the oar, and cried to God for mercy. Marvelously he was rescued from the very brink of death.
Imagine the confusion of the infidel when the finger of the speaker was pointed at him, and amid breathless silence he said, " And that was the man, who is now before you, attempting to prove that there is neither God nor eternity, neither judgment to come nor the need of salvation."
The pretended infidel withdrew, while in solemn silence the audience dispersed.