The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1892-12-09


vsF hks ranas seasen g
aess saug ta1sias 20 sans ems q tAr5ft
aus ausiaent Whish harpaaea 81 ~
hBass ias8 eieht yeafs ago thas coming
#farst1as. fsathaus hage told q .
~Bn hst isshk 1Ht, sNs bad Just dis
srihht6d faa isnilg presents Christmas
mUrninE shau I leaRa i grea cry q
ialssesss IS tha haiisay A ehiid from q
psirhhaFs hoase came ID to SAY her
3father Mss aaad III was only three
lsara 81 ana. 4 think. "a Two minutes
go we've there. Ehere lay Tire ola
Z Christian sen g STAIN. hiss face uptuTued
topar flAe shadows As though he had
snfl aeufF seen the hHaaiands, and with
ID iisaaniaalsa coahtsnanoe rs though
81 aera last going into harbor, TIE
lact wAs he mad already got through the
grows lii the adjoining room
wpre the CHRISTMAS presents waiting fef
his Dissatisfaction Long ago, one night
NhsB he had narreNly escaped with bis
ssia 4rnul heing run down BY n great
acaan stsa1aag, he had made bis peEee
Hith t7odand = binder neigh00r than
lGSpt Pandiaton yen would not md
/ this side af heGveu.
he bad often talked 10 me OF the
lrsoansss IL God, and especially Of 8
sime When he was about to 60 into New
! York hagsor with his ship from Liver,
lpobl and hn Ess suddenly impressed
fhst he ought q put back to sea,
Under the protest Of fheorsv and undsl
choir very thrast be put baak % sea
sparinn 1t the same time lle Was losing
his mind, for Sc did seem Sc unresson,
aide thst when they could get 5nst
harbur that night they should put baoa
80 sea. Bat they put back 70 sea RHL
lTapt. Pend sEan said to bis nnie, -sYtfI
cali me a. 10 o'clock at NIGHT At /.
o'eloslz 81 nizht the Captain was aruHset
and said: .sEFhRt does this mhsn? .
Fahnurht I told yon 10 cal me at II
O'Clock, and here it is u. why,
said the mate 4 did call you Of II
o'oloak, and yoa get mp, hooked hr0uB1
aud told me to keep right on this cams
eouTse for two hours and then 10 cal
rnn at u O'clock Said the captain
aIs 1t possible? Ihave no remembrance
Of that. At II o'clock the captain
went on deck. and through the rift @
the cl0ua the moonlight fell upon tins
sea and showed him O shipwreek witt
one hundred struggling passengers. H
lhelped them of. Had he been an
earlier or any later at that point Of thi
sea he would have been of no service L
thoaa drowning people. On board th'
captain vessel they began to baud
together aa to Fhat they should pay fol
their provisions. All said the cap
tain, f'uly lads, you can't pay me any
. thing; an / have on board is yoaTs;
feel too greatly honoTed Of God IN bay
| ing saved you to take any pay" jus
like him
Oh, that the old sen captains Go,
mieht be my God and yours. Ami
the stormy seas of this life may we have
always some sOneHass tsHderiy TO tax
care of us as the captain took care c
the drowning crew aud the passengers
Aud may we come into the harbor wit
as little physical pain and with as brigb
!, a hope as he had; and II it should hat
pen to bea Christmas morning wbe
the presents are being distributed an
. we are celebrating the birth Of ham VIII
t came to save our shipwrecked world, q
J the better. for what grander, brlghte
/ Christmas present could we have tina
! heaven?