Thread: Titanic museum tour

Very interesting and very well done. It includes actual Titanic artifacts as well as a passenger's photos taken at the beginning of Titanic's voyage.

If that had happened today we would have more cell phone videos of the whole incident including sinking and lifeboats and floating on stuff and everything than we would know what to do with. Somebody would have been floating in the water with their cell phone above their head filming.

Originally Posted by fuego

If that had happened today we would have more cell phone videos of the whole incident including sinking and lifeboats and floating on stuff and everything than we would know what to do with. Somebody would have been floating in the water with their cell phone above their head filming.

For sure.


Here's a short clip of the story of Father Browne with a few of his Titanic photos.

There is that story about the preacher that kept calling out for people to be saved while in the water. I can't remember the details though.

Originally Posted by fuego

There is that story about the preacher that kept calling out for people to be saved while in the water. I can't remember the details though.

I found the story.

As Titanic sank, he pleaded, 'believe in the Lord Jesus!' | Baptist Press

Originally Posted by fuego

I found the story.

As Titanic sank, he pleaded, 'believe in the Lord Jesus!' | Baptist Press

When the Titanic hit the iceberg, Harper successfully led his daughter to a lifeboat. Being a widower he may have been allowed to join her but instead forsook his own rescue, choosing to provide the masses with one more chance to know Christ. Harper ran person to person, passionately telling others about Christ. As the water began to submerge the "unsinkable" ship, Harper was heard shouting, "women, children, and the unsaved into the lifeboats." Rebuffed by a certain man at the offer of salvation Harper gave him his own life vest, saying, "you need this more than I do." Up until the last moment on the ship Harper pleaded with people to give their lives to Jesus.

The ship disappeared beneath the deep frigid waters leaving hundreds floundering in its wake with no realistic chance for rescue. Harper struggled through hyperthermia to swim to as many people as he could, still sharing the Gospel. Harper evidentially would lose his battle with hypothermia but not before giving many people one last glorious Gospel witness.

Four years after the tragedy at a Titanic survivor's meeting in Ontario, Canada, one survivor recounted his interaction with Harper in the middle of the icy waters of the Atlantic. He testified he was clinging to ship debris when Harper swam up to him, twice challenging him with a biblical invitation to "believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." He rejected the offer once. Yet given the second chance and with miles of water beneath his feet, the man gave his life to Christ. Then as Harper succumbed to his watery grave, this new believer was rescued by a returning lifeboat. As he concluded his remarks at the Ontario meeting of survivors he simply stated, "I am the last convert of John Harper."

Just an excerpt. More of the story at the link.

That is flat out glorious