Hearing a Cry for Help
Poem★★★★Someone asked a lifesaver at Newport, R. I., “How can you tell when anyone is in need of help, when there are thousands of bathers on the beach and in the water, making a tremendous hubbub?” ‘To which he answered, “No matter how great the noise and confusion, there has never been a single time when I could not distinguish the cry of distress above it all. I can always tell it.’’ And that is exactly what God can do. He never fails to hear the soul that cries out to Him for help amid the breakers and storms of life.
The point
Illustration comparing lifesaver's ability to distinguish cries of distress amid noise to God's attentiveness to prayers in life's turmoil.
Alternate wording
GOD HEARS114 words
A friend of mine said to a life-saver at Newport, R. L:
“How can you tell when anyone is in need of help when
there are thousands of bathers on the beach and in the
water making a perfect hub-bub of noises?” To which he
answered: “No matter how great the noise and confusion,
there has never been a single time when I could not dis-
tinguish the cry of distress above them all. I can always
tell it.” And that is exactly like God. In the midst of the
babel and confusion he never fails to hear the soul that cries
out to Him for help amid the breakers and storms of life.