Milford chronicle., 1889-11-22


and prayed 10 the Virgin Mary, saying; 20
blessed Motherl keep usl Have mercy on
US" Some stood with white lips and fixed
gaze, client in their terror. Some wrunQ
their hands and cried out: 20 Godl what
shall doi what shall DOR The time came
when the crew could no longer stay on the
deck, and the cry Of the officers was: "Be-
lowl An hands belowrn Our brave and sym
pathetic Captain Andrews whose praise 1
shall not cease to speak while live-had
been swept by the hurricane from his bridge
and had escaped very narrowly With his life
The cyclone seemed to stand on the deck
waving its wing, crying: This ship is mine
have captured i'll Hal hal win com
mand iol II God will permit, will sink 1t
here and nowl By a thousand shipwrecks. 1
swear the doom Of this yesselm There was a
lull in the storm; but only that it might gain
additional fury. crash went the lifeboat ON
one side. Crash! went the hfeboat on the
other side. The great booms got loose, and,
as with the heft Of thunderbolt, pounded
the deck and beat the mast-the jibboom.
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 phospbores-
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 a night OF
IRE. May never see anything like it againl
PRAYERS FROM ALL
Everybody prayed A lad Of twelve vears
Of age got down and prayed for his mother.
III l should give up" he said, II do not
know what would become Of mothern There /
Far rrFha I au.lr ~
thirty years who then got down on their
knees. When man who has neglected C}od |
all his life feels that he has come 10 his Last
time It makes q very busy night All Of our
sins and shortcomings passed through our
minds. My own life seemed utterly unsatis-
factory. / could only say; Here, Lord.
take me as l am; / cannot mend matters
now. Lord Jesus, thou didst die for the chief
Of sinners. That's mel 1t seems, Lord, as il
my work is done, and poorly done, and upon
thy infinite mercy cast myself, and in this
hour Of shipwreck and darkness commit my
self and her whom 1 hold by the hand TO
thee, o Lord Jesusl praying that it may be a
short struggle in the water, and that at the
same instant we may both arrive in glorvln
Obi tell you man prsys straight to the
mark when he has cyclone above him. an
ocean beneath him, and eternity so close TO
him that he can feel its breath on his cheek. ,
The night was long. At last we saw the
dawn looking through the portfolios. As in
the olden time, in the fourth watch Of the
night, Jesus came walking on the sea, from
wave cliff to wave cliff, and when he puts
lis foot upon a billow, though it may be
Tossed up with might, it goes down. He cried /
Q the winds, hushl They knew his voice /
The waves knew his foot. They died awav. 7
nd in Tho lrfv l. e
hese letters on scrolls Of foam and fire. ''The 4
'arth shall be filled with the knowledge OF L
iod as the waters cover the sea- The ocean r
'almed The path Of the steamer became e
rOre and more mild; until ON the last morn S
ng out, the sun threw about US a glory such I
IS l never witnessed before. God made a y
'avement Of mosaic, reaching from horizon 4
o horizon, for all the splendors of earth and J.
eaven 70 walk upon-a pavement bright
nough for the foot Of a seraph-briQht v
nough for the wheels OF the archangels !
hariot. As parent embraces a child, and
isses away its grief, so over that sea, that
ad been writhing in agony In the tempest,
he morning threw its arms of beauty and of il
enedietiOn; and the lips Of earth and heaven B
ret. W
As l came ON deck-it was very early. and =.
-e were nearing the shore-I saw a few sails 3
gainst the sky. They seemed like the spirits y
the night walking the pillows. leaned T
yer the taffrai of the vessel, and said: THY ts
ay, 0 God, is in the sea, and Thy path in the fr
reat waters"
1t grew lighter The clouds were hung in
lrPle clusters along the sky; and, as if those
lrple clusters were pressed into red wineand
'ured out upon the sea, every wave turned y
to crimson. Yonder, fre-cleft stood oppo- te
te to fre-cleft; and here, a cloud, rent and nj
nged with light, seemed like palace, with Sc
lines bursting from the windows. The n
hole scene lighted up, until it seemed as il PI
o angels Of God were ascending and de-
ending upon stairs OF fire, and the wave CT
ests, changed into jasper and crystal, and &c
1ethyst, as they were flung toward the oil
ach, made me think OF the crowns Of N
aven cast before the throne Of the great OF
hovah. I leaned over the taffrail again m
d said, with more emotion than before Is
'hy way, o God, Is in the sea, and Thy path tw
the great waters!n pa
So, thought, will be the going of OF the re
,rm and night Of the Christians life. The at
rkness will fold its tents and awayi The
lden feet of the rising morn will come Gu
piping upon the mountains, and all the ar
athful billows Of the worlds woe break ne
o the splendor Of eternal joy. And 50 we on
ne into the harbor. The cyclone behind ta'
Our friends before us. God, who is al On In'
Us good, all around usl And II the roll Of In
crew and the passengers had been called on
en- hundred souls would have answered to uh
ir names. "And 80 it came to pass that ou
all escaped safe to land" And may God WI
mt that, when all our Sabbaths on earth
ended, we may find that, through the 7
h mercy Of our Lord Jesus Christ, we all so,.
lie weathered the galei -.
Into the harbor OF heaven now we glide, ru
Home at last -,
Softly we drift on the bright silver tide, =
Home at lastl ACT
Glory to Godi All our dangers are Ger; 'ox
We stand secure on the glorihed shore.
Glory 10 God we viii shout evermore.
Home at lassl
Home at lasti l.
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