Editorial

In 1965 during a family reunion in Florida, a grandmother woke everyone at 2.00am, issuing orders to get empty coke bottles, corks and paper. "I've received a message from God", she said. "People must hear his Word". She wrote verses on the paper while the grandchildren bottled and corked them. Then everyone deposited over two hundred bottles into the surf at Cocoa Beach.

People contacted and thanked her for the scriptures throughout the years. She died in November 1974. The next month the last letter arrived from Ohio:

Dear Mrs Gause,

I'm writing this letter by candelight. We no longer have electricity on the farm. My husband was killed in the fall when the tractor overturned. He left eleven young children and myself behind. The bank is foreclosing, there's one loaf of bread left, there's snow on the ground, and Christmas is two weeks away. I prayed for forgiveness before I went to drown myself. The river has been frozen over for weeks, so I didn't think it would take long. When I broke the ice, a coke bottle floated up. I opened it, and with tears and trembling hands, I read about hope.

"But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion" Ecclesiates 9:4

You went on to reference other scriptures Hebrews 7:19; 6:18; John 3:3. I came home and read my Bible and I'm thanking God for the message. We're going to make it now. Please pray for us, but we're all right.

May God bless you and yours.

The word of the Lord is powerful.

Peter Bain

Business Manager