Milford chronicle., 1889-11-22

once with thought, but with low passion
HIS brain is a sewer through which impurit
> noats, and his heart the trough in which lus
Il, wallows and drinks. Men shudder as tn
AZ leper passes, and parents cry Wolf Wolff
Yet he once said the Lords prayer at hi
mothers knee, and against that iniquitou
tt brow once pressed pure mothers lip. Blu
. ne refused her counsel. He went wher
euroclydons have their lair. He foundere,
= on the sea, while all hell echoed at the roai
i, OF the wreck. Lost Pacifcsi Lost Pacifcsl
THE SAFETY OF CHRISTIANS
Another lesson from the subject is thai
h Christians are always safe.
IS There did not seem 70 be much chance foi
a Paul getting outof that shipwreck, did there
!, They had not, in those days, rockets with
which to throw ropes over laundering YES
sells Their hfeboats were of but little worth
Q And yet, notwithstanding all the danger. nv
:, text says that Paul escaped safe to land. And
!, so it will always be with Gods children.
+ They may be plunged into darkness and
b. trouble, but by the throne Of the Eternal
God, assert IL, they shall all escape safe to
! land.n
( Sometimes there comes storm Of CONNER
, cial disaster The cables break. The masts
: taL The cargoes are scattered over the sea.
a Obi what struggling and leaping on kegs.
shelves And yet, though they may have It
! 30 very hard In commercial circles, the good.
trusting in God, all come safe to land.
, Wreckers 90 out on the oceans beach, and
. ind the shattered hulks Of vessels; and on
the streets OF our great cities there Is many a
wreck. Mainsail slit with bankers pen.
Hulks abeam's end on insurance counters.
Vast credits sinking, having suddenly sprung
leak. Yet all Of them who are Gods chill
dren shall at last, through His goodness and
mercy, escape safe to land The Scandina-
Wan warriors used to drink wine out Of the
skulls Of the enemies they had slain. Even
so viii God help US, out of the conquered ills
and disasters Of life, to drink sweetness and
strength for our souls.
You have, my friends, had illustrations in
your own life Of how God delivers his peo-
pie. have had illustrations in my own life
Of the same truth. was once IN what on
your Mediterranean you call Euroclydon.
but what on the Atlantic we call a cyclone.
but the same storm. The steamer Greece Of
the National line swung out into the river
Mersey at Liverpool, bound for New York.
we had on board seven hundred, crew and
passengers. We came together strangers
Italians, Englishmen, Irishmen, Swedes, Nor
wegians, Americans. Two flags ffoated
from the masts-British and American en- /
signs. We had a new vessel, or one so thor
oughly remodeled that the voyage had around |
it all the uncertainties Of a trial trip.
The great steamer felt its way eau
tlouky out into the sea. The pilot |
was discharged, and, committing ourselves /
to the care Of him who holdeth the winds in .
his fist, we were fairly startedleOn our voyage |
Of three thousand miles. It wasrough nearly
all the way, the sea with strong bufFeting
disputing our path. But one night at Ii |
O'Clock, after the lights had been put out, a
cyclone-a wind just made to tear ships to
pieces-caught us in its clutches. It came
down 80 suddenly that we had not time
70 take IN the sails or to fasten the matches
You may know that the bottom Of the At
lantic is strewn with the ghastly work of
cyclones. Oil they are cruel winds They
have hot breath, as though they came up
from internal furnaces. Their merriment is
the cry of atfrighted passengers. Their play
Is the laundering Of steamers. And when a
ship goes down they laugh until both conti-
nents hear them. They go in circles or, as
describe them with my hand-rolling oni
rolling onl with finger of terror writing on
the white sheet Of the wave this sentence
of doom; LET all that come within this
circle perish Brlgantines, 20 down. Gin
pers, go down. Steamships, 20 downln And
the vessel, hearing the terrible voice, crouches
In the surf, and as the waters gurgle through
the matches and. portfolios it lowers away.
thousands Of feet down, farther and farther.
until at last 1t strikes the bottom; and all is
peace, for they have landed Helmsman,
dead at the WHEEL Engineer, dead amidst
the extinguished furnacesl Captain, dead in I
the gangwayi Passengers, dead in the cabin S
Buried in the great cemetery Of dead steam c
ers, beside the City Of Boston, the Lexington, a
the President, the Cambria-waiting for the I
archangels trumpet to split up the decks, and :
wrench open the cabin doors, and unfasten )
.he matches. a
PERILs NOT TO BE MADE LIGHT OF
thought that had seen storms ON the sea II
before; but all Of them together might have
'ome under one wing Of that cyclone. We 8
we're only eight or nine hundred miles from d
lome, and in high expectation of soon seeing g
'ur friends, for there was no one on board 50 81
'oor as not TO have friend. But it seemed "
$ If we were to be disappointed. The most II
4 US expected then and there to die There q
we're none who made light Of the peril, save u
wo; one was an EnRlishman, and he was W
runk and the other was an American, and u
e was fooll Obi what time it wasl A Sc
light to make ones hair turn white We | u
anne out Of the berths and stood In the gang v
ray, and looked into the steeFage, and sat IN 81
be cabin. While seated th0re we heard al
verhead something like minute guns It n
'as the bursting Of the sails We held on by he
9th hands to keep our places. Those who
tempted to cross the floor came back bruised
nd gashed. Cups and glasses we're dashed
} fragments; pieces of the table getting
'ose swung across the saloon. It seemed as
the hurricane took that great ship Of thou
Inds of tons and stood it on end.
ld said; Shall ! sink it, or let it
0 this oncef And then nt came
own with such force that the biIlows tram
ed over 1t. each mounted Of a fury. We
1t that everything depended on the prOpel-
ng screw. II that stopped for an instant,
e knew the vessel would fall of into the siO
ough of the sea and sink, and so we prayed az az
at the screw, which three times since leav- " y.
g Liverpool had already stopped, might not ou w
op now. Obi how AnKiously we listened -.
r the regular thump Of the machinery, upon H sI-
hich our lives seemed TO depend. After ~ ~,
While some one said: ''The screw is stopped ~
D; its sound had only been overpOwered by -. 10
9 uproar Of the tempest, and we breathed y -
sier again when we heard the regular pull -,
lions Of the overtaSked machinery, going ~ ~
ump, thump, thump. At O'Clock in the t5 ,oe
orning the water covered the ship from pai
ow to stern, and the skylights gave gre
iyl The deluge rushed in, and we felt by
at one or two more waves like that must pal
amp US forever As the water rolled back yer
d forward in the cabins, and dashed against this
g wall, it sprang half way up to the cell the
:. Rushing through the skylights as it Pa
me in with such terrific roar, there went
from the cabin a shrek Of horror which l
ay God may never hear again. have I
canned the whole scene over again, but God nav
inelciIuily kept me from hearing that and
, cLy. into u seemed to be compressed the is a
ony oI expected shipwreck 1t seemed to ed I
4, shan never get home agatRl My the
~, lui en- snsii % orphaned and my wife shall gall
"iuO"eui am Auncning now into eter- the
u In two minutes shall meet my GodFn ma,
mere were eoOut hve hundred and nifty 1856
gers IN the GtaaraOas and ko tar ]