07.02.21. Nearly Killed

21. NEARLY KILLED

One day when Todd was drinking he went down to a depot in a town near his home to buy a ticket to the next town. They told him the train had just gone. A red ball freight was passing through, running fast, and Todd tried to catch it; only a crazy or half drunk person would ever have attempted it. When he caught the rod his feet slipped and he was dragged some distance along the track, then miraculously rolled out of the way of the wheels escaping unhurt. Those who saw the incident said they would not have given a feather for his life, yet God spared him, and spoke to him that day as he walked back up town saying, "If that had been fatal, where would your soul be?" Not long after that one night at the close of a dance, he would have been killed had not a friend intervened and when he realized the next day how near eternity he had been, God again seemed to say, "Where would your soul be now?" But flinging these suggestions aside he drifted on in sin.