p. 127 | Railroad Piety

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 19, 1865

Railroad Piety.

WHILE riding, recently, on a railroad, a serious accident happened to the engine, which might easily have resulted in great injury to the whole train, and loss of life to the passengers. As the crowd gathered around to look at the wreck, one of them exclaimed, "That's just the luck of this road. On any other, that accident would have cost two or three cars, and ten or a dozen passengers' lives. Just the luck of this road; never hurts its passengers." The next day, mentioning the accident to a friend, and repeating the remark, he told us that he could say something better about it than that. "That train," said he, "has a consistent and praying Christian engineer, fireman, and conductor. I have had some happy evenings with them myself. They used to meet, and perhaps may yet, every morn in the upper room of the repair shop, for prayer."

A railroad train, with three of its chief operators daily in prayer for God's care and his blessing on their work! "The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in." Be sure of that care, and they may trust luck that please.—Sower.