M. Labat, a merchant of Bayonne, France, ill in health, had retired in the beginning of the winter, 1803, to a country house on the banks of the Adour River.
One morning, when walking in his bathrobe, on a terrace
elevated a little above the river, he saw a traveler thrown by a furious horse,
from the opposite bank, into the midst of the torrent.
Labat was a good swimmer: he did not stop a moment to
reflect on the danger of the attempt, but, ill as he was, threw off his robe,
leaped into the flood & caught the drowning stranger at the moment when,
having lost all sensation, he must have otherwise inevitably perished.
"Oh, God!" exclaimed Labat, clasping him in his
arms & recognizing with joy the individual he had rescued, "I have
saved my son!"
- (moreillustrations.com)
Js 4:17 (TPT): “So if you know of an opportunity to do the
right thing today, yet you refrain from doing it, you’re guilty of sin.”
“In helping others,
we help ourselves.” - Woodrow Kroll.
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