HOLD THE ROPE
Throughout the quiet streets of a fishing village that lay at the mouth of a turbulent river, a cry rang out: “Boy overboard!” Quickly a crowd gathered and anxious eyes looked out over the rushing water to the figure of the drowning boy. A rope was brought, and the strongest swimmer in the village volunteered to rescue the lad. Tying one end of the rope around his waist, he threw the other end to the crowd and plunged into the river. Anxiously the crowd watched him breast the tide with strong sure strokes; a cheer went up when he reached the boy and grasped him safely in his powerful arms. “Pull in the rope!” he shouted over the swirling waters. The villagers looked from one to another. “Who is holding the rope?” they asked. No one was holding the rope. In the excitement of watching the rescue, the crowd had let the end of the rope slip into the water. Powerless…
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