From Life to Life - Illustrations and Anecdotes for the Use of Religious Workers and for Private Meditation #248363

A member of a former charge in the city of New York told me that in the old country he was a con tractor putting up the large buildings which stand in many of the Irish cities. In constructing one of them he noticed that the workmen were building a little out of line, and, stepping back so that he could see the place plainly, he noticed that the workmen were standing in the way of his seeing plainly and so he shouted to them to stand aside on the scaffolding. One of them stepped back and lost his balance. My friend said that he was powerless to help him, but there stood beside him another man who quickly sprung forward with upreaching arms. The falling man struck his hands, bounded off into the sand, and was scarcely injured; but the one who had saved him was terribly hurt. His arms were driven into their sockets his Spine was pushed out of shape; and, when he rose from his bed of suffering, it was to be forever deformed.