What would you do if the following situation was you....would you do the same as Dirk Willens or would you do something different?
In sixteenth-century Holland, the Mennonites were outlawed and, when caught, often executed. One of them, Dirk Willens, was being chased across an icefield when his pursurer broke through and fell in. In response to his cries for help, Willens returned and saved him from the waters. The pursurer was grateful and astonished that he would do such a thing but nevertheless arrested him, as he thought it was his duty to do. A few days later Willens was executed by being burned at the stake in the town of Asperen.
Would you have saved the man that was going to take your own life?
