Rescued in Peril

“With my brother I was once climbing the Cirrha diJazze, one of the mountains in the chain of Mount Rosa. When nearly at the top, we entered a dense fog. Presently ouj guides faced right about and grounded their axes on the frozen snowed slope. My brother, seeing the slope still beyond, and not knowing it was merely the cornice overhanging a precipice of several thousand feet, rushed onward. I shall never forget their cry of agonized warning. He stood a moment on the very summit, and then, the snow yielding, he began to fall through. One of the guides, at great risk, had rushed after him, and seizing him by the coat, drew him down to a place of safety.

“No one could be nearer death and yet escape. On his return home, an invalid member of his congregation told him that she had been much in prayer for his safety, and mentioned a special time when she was particularly earnest, as if imploring deliverance from soma great peril. The times corresponded. His life was saved in answer to her prayer.