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A Father's Sacrifice for Many Lives

Once there was a man named John Griffith who worked as a bridge controller for the railroad. One day, while operating the draw bridge, John saw his young son Greg climbing on the gears of the bridge as a train approached. John realized he could not save Greg and stop the train, so he made the horrible decision to sacrifice his son by closing the bridge to save the 400 people aboard the train. The story portrays the greatest love of a father sacrificing his son to save others, similar to God sacrificing Jesus to save humanity from eternal destruction, as summarized in John 3:16.

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A Father's Sacrifice for Many Lives

Once there was a man named John Griffith who worked as a bridge controller for the railroad. One day, while operating the draw bridge, John saw his young son Greg climbing on the gears of the bridge as a train approached. John realized he could not save Greg and stop the train, so he made the horrible decision to sacrifice his son by closing the bridge to save the 400 people aboard the train. The story portrays the greatest love of a father sacrificing his son to save others, similar to God sacrificing Jesus to save humanity from eternal destruction, as summarized in John 3:16.

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A Father's Love

Once there was a man by the name of John Griffith who had a son he loved very much. The
man worked as a bridge controller for the railroad. His 8 year old son, Greg, loved to watch the
trains and the people who traveled on them. People who were lonely, angry, selfish, hurting,
and addicted.

One day, while Greg was fishing in the river, a ship was coming past, so John had to open up
the draw bridge to let the ship go past. He then went to check on the other equipment. Just as
the ship went past, John saw the smoke of an oncoming train and ran back to the operating
room to lower the bridge, but when he looked outside he could not see his son. His son wasn’t
in the river fishing anymore and as he looked around, to his horror, John saw his son climbing
around on the gears of the draw bridge.

He hurried outside to rescue his son but he realised that he could not outrun the passenger
train, the Memphis Express, filled with 400 people. He yelled to his son, but the noise of the now
clearing ship and the oncoming train made it impossible for the boy to hear him.

All of a sudden John Griffith realized his horrible dilemma. If he took the time to rescue his son
the train would crash killing all aboard, but if he closed the bridge, the boy would be crushed in
the gears.

John would sacrifice his son. He made the horrible decision, pulled the lever, and closed the
bridge. He had to sacrifice the life of one to save the lives of many.

It is said, as the train went by he could see the faces of the passengers, some reading, some
even waving, all of them unaware of the sacrifice that had just been made for them.

The beautiful story portrays the greatest love of a human father who sacrificed his only son to
save passengers on a train all unknown to him.

It portrays very similar to the amazing sacrifice made by God the Father when He sent His son
to die for us while we were on our journey headed for eternal destruction. John 3:16
summarizes the cornerstone of Christian belief that God sacrificed his son for the salvation of
humanity.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life."

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