It was in the month of May as I recall and doctor Williams had the floor at the little country store. Doctor Williams owned one of the few telephones in South Lubec and he told us about a phone call he had just received from one of his relatives way over in Dickey, Maine.

  �It seems they had a big problem in Dickey this spring. The Black River swelled and overflowed its banks because of an early thaw and at the same time they had the worst rain storms they had seen for the last hundred years.

Henry Greene was a part time preacher at the First Baptist Church and a full time potato grower. He had a hundred acres planted and was worried that too much water would spoil his crop, but Henry was a man of great faith. There wasn�t anything he and God couldn�t do.   Henry stood on the porch to his house and looked out across his potato field to where the water was starting to approach his field.    �Please, Lord,� he prayed, �be with me in my time of great trouble. As you guided Noah and the ark in days of old, guide me now.

   Less than an hour had passed and the water was almost up to his back door. Henry's next door neighbor pulled up in front of Henry's house with an ox cart.

   �You had better get in Henry it looks like we�re in for a big flood,�his next door neighbor said.

   �Don�t worry about me friend. I�ve said my prayers and everything will be all right.�

   As the water got closer to his porch a Model T Ford from the police department drove up.

   �You had better get out of here, Pastor,� the driver said. �It looks like we�re in for a bad time.�

  �Don�t worry about me, Chief Young,� Henry told the police chief. �I�ve said my prayers and I know I�ll be safe.�

   Henry watched as the water came up over his porch and started to enter his house. He was getting ready to go up stairs to a higher floor when another neighbor rowed by in his fishing boat.

   �You had better join me, Preacher, and get out of here while you still can.�

   �Thanks for your nice thoughts but I�ve said my prayers and I know I�ll be safe,� Henry said as he climbed the stairs to his bedroom. When the water started to cover the bedroom floor he climbed out on the roof and eventually he ended up standing on the chimney. It didn�t take long for the chimney to crumble and poor Henry was washed away and drowned.

   When he met St. Peter at the pearly gates the keeper of the books said,    �Welcome, Henry, I knew we�d see you here one of these days.�

   Henry was more than a little confused.    �I don�t understand what happened,� Henry said, �I prayed and prayed that you�d help me.�

   �We tried hard to help, Henry,� St. Peter said, �we did our very best. We sent an ox cart, a Model T Ford, and a boat. What more would you have us do?�