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Can you watch this without tears? I couldn't.
Reverend John Harper died 100 years ago today.
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4 comments:
It's a great story isn't it?! Reminds me, in a funny sort of way, of Horatio Spafford.
Start the day in a sobbing way...
That's what I say.
Thanks. I think. I started crying when he put his daughter in the life boat and kept on from there.
Off to have a shower and recover. Love to think of meeting him in Heaven.
Pam
This is totally unrelated, but I have found two Japanese books (well books by japanese) Totto-Chan: the Little Girl in the Window, by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, and One Man's Justice, by Akira Yoshimura.
Interested?
pm me at AHS :-)
Yes - interested in both! I'll try pm-ing you!
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