The Madisonian., 1840-01-28
WHOLE NO. BOG.


wheel. The remaining boats are rapidly filled
yet even ere they are launched they are over
whclmed by the panic OF escape, and the I'M
happy yoyagers are precptated into the feez,
ing waters, on night when even by our shell
tered liresldes we shivercd. Us il an inpro-
prety. here. to commit myself to the graphic
description Of magnificent, albeit licentious
poetD
Then rose from sea 10 sky the wild flrewell-
Then shriek'd the tmid AMI stood still the brave
Then some leaped overheard with dreadful yell,
As eager 10 anticipate their grave;
And The sea yawn'd around them like a hell
And down they suckd with them the whiflins
wave,
Like one who grappes with his enemy
And strives 10 strangle him before he die.
And first one universal shrek there ruShd
Louder than the loud ocean like crash
OF fcchoing thunder aud then all was hushd,
Save the wild wind aud the remorseless dash
OF billows but al intervals there gush'd
Accompanied with convu usive splash
A solitary shrek, the bubbling cry
OF some strong swimmer in his agony"
The voyage was ended Their earthly
hopes and fears their earthly joys and sor-
rows and all that concern which, but the
moment before, they had in earthly things,
were forever quashed.
Thus perished, in that dreadful, unexpected
hour, sixty or seventy immortal beings, the
whole ships company commander, and crew
and passengers-save only some four or FIVE,
who were spared by the remorseless pillows
who, with but slight chance of reaching
any shore were, after many hours, thrown
up frozen and almost peechless-snatched.
By the hand Of Providence from the common
death, and left almost alone TO tell the tale
All the rest perished What were their sul-
lerings what their thoughts what the
emotions Of their hearts, ere they slept in the
icy death, and found their winding sheet in
the winry wave! And to-day, there is
mourning in many habitations. /" In such an
hour as We think not, the Son of Man come,h."
Which Of these dead-even of the pious
and thoughtful among them-which of them
thought one week ago that then was their last
Sabbath on earth Some of them, il may be,
worshipped God, and, though they knew not
Of the desolations of the coming morrow,
they met them with the preparation of faith
and hope. But others, perhaps, wasted in
sin their last days Of holy time, and scorned
the sound Of the church-going bell'---and
they knew not, as the sun of that Sabbath
went down, that their day of grace was end
ad. Perhaps others sat in the house of God
to hear their last sermon, and yet forgot lis
admoniions as an idle tale. And others still
were thoughtful, and even ''tremble," when
they were told Of :" righteousness, temperance
and judgment to come"--but they had not yet
been saliated with the pleasures Of sin, and
with the beggarly elements Of this world"
and accordingly they dismissed the heavenly
doctrine, and said g Go Thy way for this time;
when have a convenient season | will send
for thee PA las -alas 1t may be there
were those who cried unto God sooner than
they purposed and yet, if the Bible be tue,
called too lale.f And were these sinners
above all others !! al tell you nay but ex-
cept ye repent ye shall all likewise perish u
But, Man gveih up the ghost, and where is
he 7"
- For where are these now
Where are The dead 7 In heaven or hell
Their disembodied spurits dwell 2"
Their stif1encd corpses, buried beneath
!" thick-ribbed ice," still remain in the deep.
But the souls Of all Of hem are in eternity.
Some of them, we trust, are with God but
are they ALL in Heaven? Painful as the
thought may be, cruel as some may deem it,
yet is il not the testimony of " the faithful and
true Witness" that to men who are willingly
ignorant, the day of the Lord cometh as
thief ii the night" insidiously and hostley
I" aud when they cry peace and safety, then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, and
they cannot escape" And "what shall be
the end of them that obey not the gospel of
God - But lorbear | but ask, farther,
+" where shall the wicked and the ungodly APP
pear - They shall give account to him
that is ready TO judge the quick and the dead"
These dead have met their Judge, and they
are in his hand.
As the days of Noe were, 80 shall also the
coming Of the Son of Man be. For as in the |
days that were before the flood, they were
alng and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until tie day that Noe entered the
ark, and kaew not, until the flood came and
took them all away: so shall also the coming
OF the Son Of Man be-" "Watch,
therefore, for ye know not now what hour
your Lord doth come"
;" Therefore, be yc also ready, for in such
an hour as ye think not. the Son oi Man
cometh.' Matthew, "a, SO, 80, AZ, Al.
Isaiah, 3, d. "a man eminent in counienance"
Mdrgm.
Proverbs, l, 2i-32. Luke, 10, l-5.
Quantity Of Blood in The Human Frame T ie
following account Of he quantity Ut blood in The
human frame at different stages Of existence, is |