Engine Simply Stopped

A sergeant-major, converted some time ago in a Salvation Army hut while on duty in the Middle East, had charge of the locomotive which ran between Cairo and Haifa. After his conversion he made it a practice, before starting on each journey, to pray for the safety of the train and of his passengers. On one journey the engine suddenly stopped, for no apparent reason. A civil engineer on the train, as well as the engine staff tried in vain to discover the cause of the breakdown which took place at 3 o’clock on a wet morning.

As dawn approached, two workmen came running further down the line with the news that a rainstorm had made a hole in the permanent way large enough to engulf the whole train had it proceeded. “What luck!” the passengers said. But the driver quietly gave his witness and spoke of the prayer he offered for their safety every time he took his place on the foot-plate.

Strangely enough, as it seemed to the passengers, the engine started without a hitch when the track had been repaired after a fourteen-hour holdup.
~ Alliance Weekly