p. 16 | A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE by Dudley Marvin Canright

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 23, 1868

A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

I know a good brother, now serving God, who, while he was a wicked man, and without God and without hope in the world, was wonderfully preserved in great danger. He, with others, was driving logs on the river. They had to pass some dangerous falls, where two men had been killed not long before. Just above these falls he accidentally fell into the water. The current was strong, and it took him down stream without any possibility of his saving himself. As his companions saw him thus swiftly going to destruction, it struck them with horror, but they were powerless, they could do nothing to help him. As soon as he should go over the falls, a score of heavy logs would come rushing down upon him, and crush him to atoms. It was awful thus to stand powerless and see a fellow-man go into the jaws of death. But it happened that, just on the edge of the falls, a sharp rock arose a little above the water. As he fell into the water he caught hold of the back end of a long log, as it was going down stream endways. As it came to the falls the front end of this log hit square against that rock and stayed there. Then the other end, to which he was holding, swung round across the stream and just reached the bank! This, of course, landed him safely ashore! An eye witness told me that probably there was not one log in a thousand, of that lot, that was long enough to reach from the rock to the shore! Surely God's angel was there to save that man. "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"

D. M. CANRIGHT.