The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-05-14 00:00:00

A SHIPDIATE'S TOKEN
_OF AFFECTION

AND RESPECT.

There have been -n-ian;-less-Cin-einl rhymes thrown
upon the public than those which follow. They are
printed aa they were written, and the tenderly
affectionate way in which they are dictated ought to
make allowance for any rhymetical deficienoes.
Linea o,mpoeed by B. LAWSIT on the death of his
beloved shipmate, William Roberta, who was lost at
sea on February 7th, 1878, from the ship Fareenoth.
It was a dark and dismal night, our ship was homeward

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bound,
And from aloft and fore and aft rang forth that fearful
sound—
Men overboard r was the err, went ringing on the wave.
And sir we could assistance ore he found • watery grave.
Our henry yards we hove aback, we triad to save in vain
Use happy face we'll see no more, he sank beneath the
main.
And our ship sailed on as she soiled before oh no, that
cannot be,
Alas I we've left our shipmate dear 'Death the waves of
the tossing sea.
He once stood on our proud ship's deck, joy lit hi, beaming
eye,
For the homeward bound wu nearing home as each day
paaati by,
He thought of his loving mother, brother, and sisters dear,
When last they parted on the shore they parted with a

tear.
How oft we've aeon his radiant face, tanned by • southern
clime,
When be thought of his cottage late awe', and the "KT
coining time,
When mother, brother, and sisters dear would meet at him
at the door
Of his happy home far far away on his dear old English
shore.
And our statelye ship, with her trusty keel, is hearing the
sad, sad tal,
How the boy sha loved, with his pleasant face, was lost in
the midnight gale,
Her loving heart will be desolate, she will miss her sailor
boy,
Whose smile she always loved toss., which filled her hurt
with joy.
On sack
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brave face that fearful night might he seen the
And. down the bronzed cheek of each trickled the silent

tear;
And fairer feces grew deadly pale, end the tears ran down
each cheek,
As they sought their cabins in stlemt 'prayer. • Place alone
to weep.
A gloom reigns o'er our gallant ship, as she ploughs
through the misty ware,
When we think of the bright eye, the cheerful inert, now
stilled in • sailor's grave:
Well done in all thou bast to do, rest, rest within the less.
How glorious spreads the eparkling Mee. • kingly Pali for
thee.

MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.
The Bishop of Gloucester and Mattel presided at the
anneal meeting of the Mission to Seamen Socesty„ 11
Rockingham Street, Strand, W.C. at Willis.Barak
8.W., on Wednesday afternoon. The report stingy that,
since the beginning of last year, three now stations has
been opened, and lour honorary chaplains, four clinpishis
end seri pture•readers, and two lay-helpme have bent added
to the staff labu
bargemen on tatjealairiskaseindithriegaialratisionind
cutter and two bans were Insaf=ihrill—ko the work-
The society has. therefore, air se esepora at
home and &brad, toeamsegan with he ementlinas Is the
Royal and Mercentileisffer4mseslllehermage and
bergamot armed our Id chaulaias, 55
! mission clergy and sit ,psid
helpers best... of the batmen are furnished with
minima yachts In epee readanda. with boat+ in harbours
with churches mod elhaeheldpe in rivers and docks, end
with nthwieweems for waterekla The Gospel of Christ
end the uslaistretlens of oar holy religion are thug
cotiveyed to the aiming in 13 roadsteads, in an weathers,
and sometimes at greet personal risk. to the great bensfit
of seamen, who are ever most grateful for the boon.
Whilst the shipping in I harbours, rivers, and docks are
under systemwide daily visitation. One evident result of
these personal ministrations is • large Merman in the
ottendamm of me going men on the public means of gram.
The income for len exceeded that of any termer year,
amounting to Lllll3ll 17. DI The thanks of the
are dea doe 1.0 NM clergymen who testified their
appreciation of the religious needs of seamen by haring
collections in their several churches in aid of our fund&
Thanks to the efforts of 970 donors, in placing our wall
books and IDIWIIiiIIOII, ite., from their neighbours and
friends, the chaplaias and readers were raibled to place
on board Attu solar to sea upwards of a quarter of a
million of second-hand Bibles, Testaments, wilier-books,
hymn-books, library book, sad moraines, pictorial
periodicals tracts as
Though Convocation do not intimate the spiritual pro-
vision needed for British seaman in foreign Soria the,
gate that ten additional churches, with about thirty-
sine additional mission chapati's and about fifty-nine
more aci ••-readers. are required in home perk'. Thus
additional Cll.OOO a you, which would more than
double mu income, would be amatory to provide the
livlngMimi which Couvengien esa is urgently seeded.
! That Ude eetisnate Is whet below *a above the wee-
! shim of the case..az,he melt by mmtregleg the living
Teethe* soma for the sga aat man-
,of -war's MIS in such =ll"met. 51 Perbeneuth and
! Dewar; with thatprepsL by Oen +walks for wr-
angle sespage. The raPed eliagine to the fatal einem
ajt oregared in the IVA) Navy le .is clergyman
to every 1101 are. which would amount to about 181
candles for the mercantile marine, or toga the sten..
fry spiritual province made for =swot-war', men whirls
repeated sanest entries into Port:math es eatt elapfein
Reg &IMO 'strife end ow scripture-readerzalutestaies
gde wield be equivalent to about end ff
=reefers far the port of Load= •• half
bee for the germ, and about Id alualains and
scripture-readen each for the port of Hull, For Bristol. ,
for the Tyne. 1
Leek on the ~ine made daisy the lest
tweety-two yearn la the tsaikssidiitael
for &Web 1111•01110 at be.. end abated, the Bac=iia
Well thank God and tele women LaMar fonl
wager, to what= 211mt.the way
ad Wham In arewitheetreg= !
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mew an urgent nil far raewedue. Is 'side
al the Clawed= we& wed week
ban been done, sad I. to toe
advantage of oar swam, is few pegs ere
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thag el tanz = gria.
Witil dub% lige—Mbisse to= .•
Mad foal.