The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-21

clone seemed 70 stand on the deck, waving its
wing crying: This ship Is mine! have
captured III Hal hai / win command ~
IL God will permit, will sink IL here and
now. BY Thousand shipwrecks, I swear
the doom OF this vessel.' There was n
luil in the storm; but only that II
might gain additional fury. Crash! went
the lifeboat ON one side. Crash went the
lifebont ON the other side The great booms
got loose, and, rs with the heft OF thunder.
bolt, pounded the deck and beat the mast
the iib boom, studding sail boom, and square
sail boom, with their strong arms. beating
time To the awful march and music OF the
hurricane.
Meanwhile the ocean became phosphores-
cent. The whole scene looked like fire The
water dripping from the rigging there were
ropes of fire; and there were masts Of fire:
and there was deck Of fire. A ship OF fire,
sailing on a sea of fire, through n night OF
fire May never see anything like itagain.
Everybody prayed. a lad Of twelve
Ills mother SG~% sSoud "ns give Prnycd s fSr Sr
said, III do not know what would be-
come OF MOTHER There were men who
think, had not prayed for thirty years,
who then got down on their knees. When a
man who has neglected God all his life
ieels that hc has come 10 his last time, IL
makes a very busy night All of our
sins and shortcomings passed through our
minds. My own life seemed utterly un-
satisfactory. Icould only say: Here Lord
take mo rs | am, | cannot mend matters
now. Lord Jesus Thou didst die for the
rhlct OF sinners. That's me- IL seems,
Lord, as Il my work is done and poorly
done, and upon Thy infinite mercy L cast
myself, and in this hour Of shipwreck and
iarkness commit myself and her whom I
holdb by the hand to Thee. q Lord JeS,isI
praying tnat u may be short struggle In
the water, and that at the same instant we
may both arrive in gloryw Oh. tell you "a
man prays straight 10 the mark when he has
acyclone above him, an ocean beneath him,
and eternity So close to him that he can feel
its breath on his check
The night was long. At last we saw the
dawn looking through the port holes Asin
the olden time, in the fourth watch of the
night, Jesus came walking on the sea from
wave cliff 10 wave cliff: and when He puts
His foot upon n billow. though it may he
tossed up with might II goes down He cried
10 the winds, Hush They knew His voice.
The waves knew His foot They died away.
And in the shining track Of His feet | read
ihcse letters on scrolls Of foam aud fire,
The earth shall be filed with the knowledge
God rs the waters cover
ho sea-" Tho ocean cnlmcd The
ath OF the steamer became more
md more mild; until, on the last morning
but, the sun throw round about us a glory
uch as Levor witnessed before God made
pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon
10 horizon, for all the splendors of earth and
heaven To walk upon-a pavement bright
enough Tor the foot Of n scraph-bright
enough for the wheels Of the nrchnnpprs
>hariot. As n parent embraces a child. and
kisses away its grief, so over that sen that
Dad been writing in agony in the tcmpesL
she morning threw its arms OF beauty and OF
oencdiction, and the lips Of earth and heaven
met.
As came on deck was very early. and
We were nearing the shoroI saw few sails
against the sky. They seemel like the spirits
If the night walking the billows. leaned
,yor the tatrrail of thc vessel. and said Thy
way, God, is IN the sea, and Thy path in
the great waters"
IL grew lighter The clouds were hung in
purple clusters along the sky; and, as If those
purple clusters wore pressed into red wine
and poured out upon the sea, every wave
turned INTO crimson. Nondcr fire cleft
stood opposite 10 fire cleft. and here, n cloud
rent and tingcd with light, seemed like
palace with flames bursting from the win
lows The whole scene lighted up un.
I'll II seemed rs if the angels OF
God were ascending and descending
upon stairs OF fire, and the wavc-crests
changed into jasper. and crystal and anne
thys,, rs they were flung toward the beach,
made mo think of the crowns of heaven cast
before the throne of the great jehovah |
leaned over the talfrail again, and said, with
moro emotion than before: THY way, O
God, is in the sea, and Thy path in the great
watersY
So, | thought will he the going off of the
storm and night of the Christians life The
darkness will fold its tents and away! The
golden feet of the rising morn will come
skipping upon the mountains and all the
wrathful pillows of the worlds woe
brcsk into the splendor of eternal joy.
AMI 50 we come into the harbor The
yclone behind us. Our friends be-
'orc us. God who is always good,
all around MS. Aud il the roll of the crew
and the passengers had been called seven
nuudrcd souls would have answered 10 their
lames. And 80 il came to pass that we all
escaped safe to land" And may God grant
that, when all our Sabbnths on earth are
ended, we may find that, through the rich
mercy Of our Lord Jesus Christ, we all have
weathcred the gale
Into the hnrb," " heaven now we glide,
Htmc at a,t
softly we drlt ON the bright silver tide
Home at last
Glory To uDd All our dangers are DER;
Wos.and secure on the Vlur, Ned shore.
cory to Col we VIII shout eycrmoTC.
Homo at last
Home at last