Hero of Christ

How shall they hear without a preacher? (Romans 10:14)

John Harper was [crossing the Atlantic when the ship] struck an iceberg and began to sink. Some passengers were able to reach lifeboats, but many, Harper included, were flung into the cold Atlantic..... Harper swam around asking individuals if they knew Jesus. At one point, Harper approached a passenger...and pleaded with him to trust Christ. Just before Harper slipped under the icy waters for the last time, he said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved."

Four years later, at a meeting of survivors of the Titanic, the man testified that he had been saved twice that night. First, he had trusted Christ because of Harper's withness, and second, he had been plucked from the frigid sea.