Emphasis Preaching Journal

Many of us remember reading about an Air Florida jetliner that crashed into the icy Potomac River in Washington, D.C. in January 1982. There were seventy-nine persons on board the plane, but only five of them survived the crash. These five people owe a great debt to an unknown person referred to by rescuers as "the sixth man." They reported that this man repeatedly gave his lifeline to the five other people floating in the cold water. By the time the rescue team returned for him, he had slipped beneath the water. The helicopter pilot said, "He was a brave and good man. Imagine!