“For Me”
A vessel on Lake Superior caught fire two miles from shore. The only means of escape was by the boats, but when filled almost to sinking there were still left on board a man, his wife, and little daughter. He looked at the distance to shore and said, “I think I can do it.” He got his wife to hold on to his shoulders with the child, and started to swim. After a while he was exhausted, and said, “I cannot save you both.” Without a word the wife loosened her hold and sank to her death. By tremendous effort he managed to keep the child afloat till they were rescued.
In after years a young woman used to sit and gaze at a large portrait which hung on the wall of her home, and with tears in her eyes she would say, “She gave her life for me.”
Today we have the privilege of remembering the one, “Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works” (Titus 2:14). How wonderful that in remembrance we can echo with the Apostle Paul, “The Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me” (Galatians 2:20).
