Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 07:56:19 -0400
From: CK Bannister <>
To: christia listserv <>

Years ago a wealthy English family was entertaining friends at their
home. As the children swam, one ventured into the deep water and began
to drown. The gardener heard the other children screaming and jumped
into the water and saved the child. The youngsters name was Winston
Churchill. Deeply grateful to the gardener, the parents asked how they
could ever repay him. He hesitated, but then said, “I wish my son could
go to college someday to be a doctor.” “He will,” said Churchill’s
parents. “We will pay his way.” Years later when Sir Winston was Prime
Minister, he became ill with pneumonia. The best physician the king
could find was called to the bedside of the ailing leader. His name: Sir
Alexander Flemming, the developer of penicillin and the son of that
gardener who long ago saved a drowning Winston. Churchill later said,
“Rarely has a man owed his life twice to the same person.” As believers
we owe a debt of gratitude and service to the Lord because He made us
and He saved us.

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