Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-28

| or two more waves like that must swamp
US forever. AS the water rolled back and
forward in the cabins, and dashed against
tho wall, II sprang half way up to the cell
| ing. Rushing through tho skylights as II
came in with such terrific roar, there went
up from the cabin shrek OF horror which
pray God may never hear again. have
dreamed the whole scene over again, but
God has mercifully kept me from hearing
that one cry. Into 1t seemed TO DO com
pressed the agony OF expected shipwreck
1t seemed to say: III shall nevor get hons
again My children shall be orphaned, and
my wife shall DO widowed! ] am launch
ing now into eternity In two m nutes
shall meet my God!'
There were about five hundred and fifty
| passengers in the Storage, and as the water
rushed in and touched the furnaces, and
began violently 10 hiss, the poor creatures
IN the stesrage mag ned that the boilers
were giving way. Those passengers with
ed in the water and in the mud, some pray
| ing, some crying, all terrified. They made
a rush for the deck. An officer stood on
deck and beat them back with blow after
blow. 1t was necessary. They could not
have stood an instant on the deck Oh!
how they begged TO get out OF tho hold OF
the ship! One woman, with a child in
her arms, rushed up and caught hold
OF one OF the officers and cried: ''Do
let me out! / will help you!, Do
let me Quit / cannot die here!" Some cot
down and prayed TO the Virgin Mary, say
! ing: 20 blessed motler! keep us! Have
mercy on usm Some stood with white lips
and fixed gaze silent IN their terror. Some
wrung their hands and cried out: 20 God
what shall l dos " hat shall / dow The
time came when tho crew could no longer
stay on the deck, and the cry of the officers
was: "Belowl all hands below" Our
brave and sympathetic Capt. Andrews
whose praise / shall not cease TO speak
while l live-had been swept by tho hurri.
cane 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 ha! |
will command Ill II God will permit, l
will sink it here and now! by thou
sand shipwrecks | swear the doom OF TINS
vessel" There was lull in the storm;
but only that it might gain additional fury.
Crash! went the life5oat on one side.
Crash! went the lifeboat on the other side,
The great booms got loose, and, as with tho
heft of thunderbot, pounded the deck
and beat the mast-the lib boom, studiing
sail boom, and square sail boom, with their
| SJFOng arms, UcdJluS Llulb W IuC NdJCdAuA
march and music of the hurricane.
Meanwhile the ocean became phospho:es'
cent. I ne whole scene looked like fire
The water dripping from the rigging, there
were ropes of fire; and there We're mast5 OF
fire; and there was deck OF fire. A ship
of fire. sailing on a sea of fire, through u
night OF fire. May | never sea anything
! like IL again!
Every body prayed. lad OF II years OF
age got down and prayed for his mother
IF should give up" he said, Il do not
know what would become OF mother"
There were men who, think, had not pray
cd for thirty years, who then got down on
their knees When a man who has neglect
ed God all his life feels that he has come TO
his last time, it makes very busy night
All Of our sins aud shortcomings plssel
through our min s. My o1n life seem ]
utterly unsatisfactory lcould only say,
"Here, Lord take me as am. l cannot
mend ma ters now. Lord Jesus, thou dldst
die for the chief OF sinners That's me ! IL
seems, Lord, as if my work is done. and
poorly done, and upon thy Infinite mercy
cast myself, and in IN. hour OF shipwreclS
and darkness commit myself and her WHOM
hold by the hand TO thee q Lord Jesus
praying that it may be short struggle in
the water, and that at the sans instan. we
may both arrive in glory Ohl | tell you
man prays straight to the mark when he
has a cyclone above him, an ocean beneath
him. and eternity SO close 10 him that he
can feel its breath on his cheek
The night was long. AT last VIC saw the
dawn looking through tho port holes. As
in the olden time, in the fourth watch OF the
night Jesus came walking on the sea, from
wave elf to wave clif and when he puts
his foot upon Il billow, though it may be
tossed up with might it goes down. He
clel TO the winds, Hush They knew his
voice. The waves knew his foot. They
died away. And in the shining track Of
his feet | read these letters on scrolls OF
foam AMI fire, "fhe earth shall be filled
with the knowledge Of God as the
waters cover tue ssa." The ocean calm
cd. Tho path OF the steamer became
more and more mild until, on tt
last morning out tn sun threw roanl
about Us a glory such as never witnessed
before God made n pavement OF mosaic,
reaching from horizon to horizon, for all
the splendors Of earth and heaven to walk
upon-a pavement bright enough for the
foot of seraph-bright enough for the
wheels of the archangers chariot. AS a
parent embraces n child, and kisses away
its grief 40 over that sea, that had been
with ng in agony in the tempest, the
morning threw its arms of beauty and of
bencdiction, and the lips OF earth and
heaven met
AS came on deck-it was very early,
and we were nearing the shore-I saw a
few sails against the sky. They seemed
like the spirits OF the night walking the
pillows. / leaned over the taffrail Of the
vessel, and said, "rhy way, o 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 il
those purple clu tiers were pressed into red
Wine and poured out upon tho sea, every
wave turned into crimson. Yonder, fire
cleft stood opposite to fire cleft; and here,
cloud rent and nged w. tn light, seemed
like palace with flames bursting from the
windows The whole scene GIFTED
up until it seemed as If the angels OF
Sod were ascend ng and descending
upon stairs Of fire, and the wavecrests,
changed into jasper and crystal, and anne
thyst as they were flung toward the
beach, made me think OF the crowns of
heaven cast before the throne of the great
Jehovah. leaned over the taffrail again,
and said, with more emotion than before:
"Thy way, o God, is as the sea- and thy