p. 10 | SAVED HIS BROTHER

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 8, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 19.

SAVED HIS BROTHER.

EVERY stormy winter season English papers contain accounts of gallant rescues by the lifeboat crews. The lifeboat men put off into furious seas to save the shipwrecked strangers of whom they know nothing except that they are in need. A few years ago German papers told the story of a rescue, as follows:—

“One cold, stormy morning a ship was sighted on a reef about a mile away. The lifeboat was at once manned, and after many difficulties all the crew were rescued except one, and, the boat being overloaded, he was left. When Harro, the leader of the crew (who was absent on the first journey), arrived, and learned of the solitary man on the wreck, he volunteered to go back, in spite of the pleading of his mother, who reminded him of the loss of his father's and brother's lives. ‘For love of me,’ the mother begged, ‘don’t go.’ ‘But the man on the mast,’ exclaimed Harro, ‘are you sure he has no mother to mourn his death?’ Harro's mother said no more, and her son and four men set out again. The wreck was now quite under water, but at last it was reached, and Harro climbed the still standing mast and fetched the half-frozen man down. He was laid in the bottom of the lifeboat. Harro bent over him, and remained so till the boat was so near the shore that his voice could be heard. Then he waved his cap and shouted to the spectators, ‘Tell my mother that we have saved Uwe.’”