Personal Savior

Many years ago a wealthy English family took their children to the country for a holiday their host turned over his estate to them for a weekend. The children went swimming in the pool. One of the boys began to drown and the other boys screamed for help. The son of the gardener jumped in and rescued the boy. Later the grateful parents asked the gardener what they could do for the youthful hero. The gardener said this son wanted to go to college. "He wants to be a doctor". he said.

The visitors shook hand of that. "We'll be gladly to pay his way," they told him.

Years later Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia and the king of England instructed that the best doctor to be found to save Prime Minister Churchill. The doctor turned out to be Dr Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.

After he was well again, Churchill said to Fleming, "Rarely has one man owed his life twice to same rescuer."

It was Flemin who had saved Churchill in that swimming pool.

~ Tony Castle