New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-02
THEY"ABODE IN THE SHIP

In his letter to the Grant Club at Albany on
the occasion Of tire dinner recently given them
selves by that organization, ex-senator Conkling
wildly recalls to the reader of the New
Testament the circumstances under which the
great Apostle to the Gentlles made his first land
ing at Malta. Standing In the presence OF
a. everses and grieyng for events which seem
mot good for our country" wrote the ex-
Senator, @the Grant Club and its members
can say We abode in the ship )" and that Is
what the centurion and the soldiers who were
with St. Paul might have said as they stood
around the fire for which the apostle had
gathered bundle of sticks for 1t Is recorded
that Paul said to the centurion and to the
"soldiers, except these abide IN the ship, ye
cannot be saved"
And they abodein tho ship. OF those who
landed at Malta It is written there were two
hundred and threescOre and sixteen souls"
Just thirty less than the three hundred and six
immortas who landed at Chicago, but 1t will
occur al once to the thoughtful reader that the
"bunde of sticks" which the apostle gathered
may have amounted to thirty, and these added
to the two hundred and seyenty-six souls
make the analogy complete. 1t may be
doabted if the ex-senator In this figure runs on
all-fOurs In every particular with the apostle,
but In the respect that each told tho centurion
and soldiers that they could not be saved ex-
cept they abode In the ship, tho resemblance is
perfect.
II is written of the early part of the voyage
which ended SO disastrousy ut Malta, that they
"saied slowly many days" and the same might
be said with truth of the voyage Of those who
under ex-senator Conkling's advice abode in
the ship" But when much time was spent, and
when sailing was now dangerous "a point cor
responding in the voyage Of the three hundred
and SIX TO that just preceding the arrival of
the other centurion from his trip around the
world" Paul admOnished them (and here Is
where the paraleism between Senator and
Saint halts for moment), and said unto them,
q" Sirs, perceive that this voyage will be with
"hurt and much damage, not only CT the ladlng
"and ship, but also Of our lives" The Senator
did not perceive this. TIE TRIBUNE did, how
ever, and spoke words Of corresponding import
to the centurion and the three hundred and six.
The centurion of Paul's time wiutered in "a
haven of Crete" which licth toward the
southwest and northwest" In the correspond
ing season in ex-senator Conklngs time the
haIbor 1t lay toward the southwest and
northwest Then the elder record reads that
"when the south wind blew softly, supposing
"that they had obtained their purpose, loOsing
athence, they sailed close by Crete" How
aptly this runs with the period when Colonel
Thomas Ochtree and others were engaged in
"scooping in" Southern delegations, when
"tbe south wind blew softly" ald the three
hundred and six supposed that they had OBJ
tanned their purpose"
Following the soft south wind, however, it
will he remembered that there came from
Pennsylvania and New-York breeze CORE
spending to what is described as happening to
the ship Of the centurion and his fellow-voy-
ayers. " Not long after thee arose against it a
tempestnous wind, called Euroclydon." The
succeeding passage in the narrative of the CEN
turon's shipwreck describes precisely the pro-
ceedings OF the ex-Senator's crew. "And when
"the ship was caught, and could not bear up
"into the wind, we let her driye.n The student
of current political history does not need to be
reminded how, when the tempestuous wind
called Eurocydon came up from Pennsylva-
MIA and New-YOrk in the emily spring of 1880,
the gentlemen who afterward "abode In the
ship" at the command of ex-senator Conklng,
"lct her drive.' 1t related that they who were
with the apostle used helps, undergirding the
" ship and, fearing lest they should fall In the