Jonah
To whom will you preach?
By Pastor Kevin Draper - Posted on August 30th, 2009
Based on: Jonah 4:5-11
Edward Spencer was a Bible student in Illinois in 1860. He was planning to be a minister of the Gospel, but a shipwreck in the fall of 1860 changed his life. The steam boat, “Lady Elgin” collided with another boat on Lake Michigan near Evanston, Illinois. Edward Spencer was not on the boat. He was on the shore. When he saw some of the passengers struggling for shore he tied a rope around his waist and swam out to help them. Sixteen times in a six hour period he went out into the frigid water of Lake Michigan and rescued a total of seventeen people. The exposure and exhaustion left Spencer in poor health the rest of his life.
