Once a group of women were strolling by a rushing river. They heard a cry from the river and saw the head of a small child bobbing about in the waves.
"We must save him!" one exclaimed."But the river runs swiftly there," someone else said.
"Look there comes another!"
Without another thought they clasped hands and walked out as far as they could in the rushing water, grabbing each child as they drifted by and passing the child back down the line to the safety of the shore.
More and more children were caught up in the current. Their numbers grew until they could not save them all. The women's shoes got lost in the flood as they frantically passed one child after another back to the safety of the shore. Others joined them and vast numbers strove to save the children cast into the dangerous waters.
Finally one woman broke away from the human chain and turned barefoot to head back up the river.
"Where are you going," the others demanded. "There are more coming down the river that must be saved."
"I am going back upstream to find out who is throwing them in!" she responded.
