Revival Fire Ministries

A most striking example of the urge to win souls triumphing over even imminent death, is that of John Harper, a Baptist minister of London, who was lost with the TITANIC.  At a conference held in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, a man rose and gave the following testimony:  “Four years ago, when I left England on board the TITANIC, I was a careless, godless sinner.  I was in this condition on the night when the terrible catastrophe took place.  Very soon, with hundreds more, I found myself struggling in the cold, dark waters of the Atlantic.  I caught hold of something and clung to it for dear life. The wail of awful distress from the perishing all around was ringing in my ears, when there floated near by me a man who, too, seemed to be clinging to something.  He called to me: ‘Is your soul saved?’ I replied: ‘No, it is not.’ ‘Then,’ said he, ‘Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.’  We drifted apart for a few minutes, then we seemed to be driven together once more.  ’Is your soul saved?’    again he cried out.  ’I fear it is not,’  I replied.  ’Then if you will but believe on the Lord Jesus Christ your soul shall be saved,’  was his further message of intense appeal to me.  But again we were separated by the rolling currents.  I heard him call out this message to others as they sank beneath the waters into eternity. There and then, with two miles of water beneath me, in my desperation I cried unto Christ to save me.  I believed upon Him and I was saved.  In a few minutes I heard this man of God say: ‘I’m going down, I’m going down’ then: ‘No, no, I’m going UP.’  That man was John Harper.”