Mr. Cowdery couldn’t believe his eyes. As he glanced up from his work, he saw train #634 slowly leaving the Caterham Station south of London. “It’s a runaway!” he thought. “I’m sure there’s no one aboard that train!” He rushed to the telephone and got in touch with the signal man. Soon the alarm had been passed from station to station down the track.
At the next station, they decided to try to jump on the moving train and stop it. But when the train reached the station, it was going at least 20 miles an hour. The train thundered past, but an attempt to jump onto it was just too dangerous!
Ahead, train after train was turned off onto sidings to allow the runaway to pass safely through on the main line. The driverless train hurtled for nine miles at speeds up to 40 miles per hour through the south London suburbs. At one point, it rushed along the busiest line in the country at the beginning of the rush hour. Everywhere in its course there was confusion and a frantic attempt to clear other trains out of the way.
The train was going too fast for anyone to jump on. No other trains were close enough behind to catch up with it. What could be done? Finally they switched the train onto a siding at Norwood. There it smashed into the buffers and was derailed.
A train without an engineer is like a boy or a girl who does not have an “engineer” in their lives. And who is the Engineer? The Engineer is the Lord Jesus Christ. A boy or a girl who does not have the Lord Jesus in his or her life is bound to end up with a wrecked life. The Bible says, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:1212There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. (Proverbs 14:12)). We may think that we know the best way, but if our way is not God’s way, it is the way of death.
ML-12/23/2018