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Hold to the Rock Years ago, two children were seen on the track when an old Union Pacific train pulled by two powerful, mogul engines went winding through countrysides and climbing mountains. The engineer signaled, threw on the brakes, and reversed the engine, but the momentum was too great. As they rolled on, the old veteran engineer shouted to his firemen, “Great heaven, I have run over two children.”Soon, the train was brought to a standstill. The word flashed back, and all the passengers heard, “We have killed two children.” The engineer, fireman, brakeman, conductor, and some passengers started back up the track. Their hearts melted within them. Women fainted before they got there. As they approached the place, they heard the little, eight-year-old girl shouting to her little brother at the top of her voice, “Hold to the rock, brother. Hold to the rock. Hold to the rock.”What had she done? When she saw death was on them, with that peculiar intuition womankind is endowed with, she snatched that little six-year-old brother, threw him in a crevice of the rocks, held him tight in the broken rock, and saved their lives.Oh, my friends, this world is amid terrible tragedies. God grant you, my unsaved friend, that you thrust your life and trust mightily in the safety of the Rock of Ages, the Lord Jesus Christ. Death is thundering on and there is no safety, but in that Rock.