Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-18
STORMS ON THE SEA.
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If that ship went out OF Fair Hsyens it
would 90 to deettuction. 'R ioice. o
young man In thy youth; aud let tby
neart cheer thee in the days Of thy yough:
bat know thou that Tor I'll these things
God will bring thee into Judgment We
may not know much, but we know that
Another lessen from The subject is that
Christians sic always ssfs.
There did not Seem 20 be much chance
for Paul getting ont Of that shipwrtck
did there? They had not, in those DAYS,
rockets Vith which to throw ropes over
laundering vessels. Their lile6oats we're
OF but little worth. And yet, notWith-
standing all the danger, my text says that
Paul escaped safe TO land. And so it will
always be- with Gods children. They
msy be plunged into darkness and trouble
but by the throne of the eternal God, as
sert 1t, they shah all escape safe to land"
THE CHRISTIAN SAVED.
Sometimes there comes a storm of com
meTcial disaster. The cables break. The
msss fall. The csrgoes are scattered over
the sea. OH wha, struggling and lespine
On kegs snd hOgsheads ard cornbins and
store shelves And yet, though they may
have it so very hard il commercial circles,
the good, trusting in God, all come safe TO
laud.
l vas once in what you call on your
Mediterranean you call EaroclydOD, but
what on the Atlantic We cali q cyclone,
but the same storm. The steamer Greece
Of the National line, swung Ous N the
river Mersey al Liverpool, bound Tor New
York. We had ON loTd seven hundred,
crew aud p AssepgeTs. We came together
strangers Italians, Irishmen, English
men, Swedee, N0rwegians, Americans.
Two flags 1oated IRON the masts-British
and American ensigns. We had neg
vessel, or ore 80 thoroughly remodeled
that the yoyoge bad around il sill the I'M
certainty Of a Trial trip. The great steamer
felt its way cautiously cut into the sea.
Tue plot was discharged; and, commit
ting themselves to him who hOldeih the
win0sin his fist. We we're fairly started on
our voyage OF three thousand miles. 1t
wss rough nearly ali the way-lhe sea
with strong huif.ting dispptDg our path.
Bat one night "a eleven o'clock, after the
lights had been put out, cyclone-a
wind Just made to tear ships 70 pieces
caught Us in its clutches.
IN THE STORM GRASP.
I Thought that 1 had seen storms on the
sea bsfcre; but oil Of them together might
have come uuder one wing of that cyclone.
We we've only eight or nine hundred miles
from home, snd in high expectation OF
Hrfa d ~ Wn
one on board so poor as net to have a
friend. Bat it seemed as II we we're 10
be disappointed. The mOst OF us expected
then and there to die. There were mons
who made light Of the peril, save two.
One was an Eoglishman, and he was
drunk, and the other was sn American,
and he was fool O5l what a time il
wssl A night to make ones hair turn
white. We came out Of the bertha, a. d
stood in the gangway, and looked into the
stserage. and sat IN the cabin. While
seated there, We heard overhead something
| like minute gus. It was the bursting ot
the sails. We held on with both hsncs
to keep our places. Those who attempted
10 cross the floor came back brui ed ana
psshed. Cups and glasses were dsshed
10 fragments; pieces Of the table getting
| loose, swung across the salOOS. II seemed
AZ If the hurricane took that great ship OF
thousands OF tons and stood II on end, rod
said. Shall l sink it or let il 60 this
ouce2n And then it came down with such
force that the pillows trampled over Il,
each rOunted of fury. We felt that ey-
srythiug depended On TIE propelling
screw. Ii that s!Oppsd for an instant we
knew that the vessel would fall off into
the tough of theeea and sink and so We
PRAYED that the screw, which, three times
since leaving Liverpool had ready stop
ped. might rot stop now. Oh! how arx-
\ iously We listened for the regular thump
of the machinery on which cur lives seem
ed 10 depend After a while some one
said: Tine screw is stoppedm No; its
sound had only bten OveTpowed by the up
roar Cf the tempest, end We breathed cas-
Ter again when ne heard the regular pul5a-
tons Of the overlsXsd machinery going
hump, thump, thump.
A PANIC IL THE sTEERAGE.
There we're about Eve hundred and afiy
passenger Ia the Storage, and as the va:
'er ru he'd in aud touched the furnaces,
| a1d began violently to hiss, the poor crea-
lures Ia the Storage imsgined tina. Tire
/ boilers we're giving way. Those passen-
! sers writhed ~ the water ard in the mud,
scme PRAYING some crying, sli terrified.
/ Thew made rush for the deck An iii
Ger stood on deck and heat them back with
blow after blow. II was necessary. They
could not have stood al instant on the
deck. o. how they begged to get out of
the hold Of the ship. Ons woman, with
child in her srma, rushed up aud caught
hold of one of the officers and cried: DO
! let me oull will help youl Do let me
ont I cannot die htr-W Some got down
sad Urayed 10 the Virgin Marv, saying:
20 blessed mother keep Ut Have mercy
on usn Some stood with white lips snd
fixed gaze, silent in their terror. Some
wrung their hands aud cried out: % Goo!
what hall dc? What shall dc?" The
time came when the crew could do lorger
STAY on ths deck, aud the cry of the ttli-
cers was Below all hands below !"
EVERYBODY PRAYED.
A lad of u years of age gol down and
prayed for his mother. of l should give
ap. - he said, 81 do not know what would
become q UOLUEAs 4 tiIAF WN4N -NA 'f-t'f
think had not prayed for thirty years,
who then got down in their knees. When
a man who las neglected God all his life
leels shat he bas come to his last time, 1t
makes a very busy night. All OF our s'ns
and shortcomings passed through our
minds. Ny own life seemed ulterl y IN
Satisfactory. I could only say, Here,
Lord take me as / am. l cannot mend
matters row. Lord Jesus, thou didst die
for the chief of sinners. That's me! Il
SEEMS, Lord, "a if my work i5 done, and
poorly done, and upon thy infinite mercy
I cast myself, and IN this hour Of ship
wreck and darkness commit myself and
her whom 1 hold by the hand TO thee, o
Lord Jesus praying that 1t may be snort
strngole in the water. and that at the came
ivstsat we may both arrive il glcrI }" Oh
ten YOU man prays straight to the mark
when he has a cyclone above him, an
ocean beneath him, and eternity SO close