Sowing and Reaping [Annotated, Updated]: Whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. – Galatians 6:7

by Dwight L. Moody

There was a man living near one of the main highways a number of years ago, who one night saw that a landside had obstructed the train track. He saw by the clock that he didn’t have time to reach the telegraph office to stop the night express, so he grabbed a lantern and started up the track, thinking he might be in time to stop the train. As he was running, he fell, and the light in his lantern went out. He didn’t have another match, and he could hear the train coming in the distance. He didn’t know what to do. As a last resort he stood on the bank, and the moment the train came near enough to him, he hurled the lantern with all his might at the engineer. The engineer saw that something must be wrong, took the warning, applied the brakes, and stopped the train within a few yards of the obstruction.