The record-union., 1892-12-31

was in the Bible until she had examined
! it herself. From that moment MIR. Moody
said his mind was at perfect peace. One
verse which was of special comfort to
him was Matthew x, 29-the promise
about the sparrows.
After the service he went to his state
room, lay down and went to sleep a
wondering whether he would lie able to
see Northtield from heaven if he were
taken there. About , O'Clock in the
morning he was awakened by!his son,
who had not gone to sleep. Father" he
SAID, "our prayers are answered; come
up and see the Star of Bethlehem" He
went on deck and there sure enough far
on IN the horizon was a little speck of
hight, coming into sight and disappearing
again as the vessel rolled. The sea had
also begun to go down immediately after
the close Of the meeting of the day before
and grew more and more quiet from that
time forward.
BY = O'Clock the Lake Huron was be-
side them, and then the question was
whether she would be able to tow the
Spree. She was a vessel of only about
5000 tons, while the Spree was 900. Two
cables We're made fast, one Of wire and
the other OF hemp fourteen inches thick.
The officers stood over them with utmost
care as they were fastened, and men held
proved to be just the vessel that God had
sent, strong enough to tow them and yet
not strong enough to break the cables
! when the strain came upon them. At
| the rate of six knots an hour they now
! steamed back to Ireland. The officers
said that, ii they had no stormy weather,
| there was now hope That was large
IF" for the Atlantic in winter. Mr..
Moody no longer had either doubt or
fear. God had answered prayer, and
would do for them all that was needed.
He felt like Manoah's wife when she
said, IF the Lord were pleased to kill
us, he would not have received our offer
ing" Saturday night they reached
Queenstown, with the coal on the Lake
Huron Just about gone.
People had said to him, 81 suppose that
week was one continual prayer meeting"
but it was quite the opposite. Everything
possible had 10 be done to get the minds
of the passengers OFF the disaster. He
told more stories that week to make peo-
pie laugh than during any week before in
his life. One Jew who was on board had
left his home in Russia to come to Amer
lea to make home for his wife and chill
dren. He knew his wife would oppose the
step and he came away without telling her.
He thought he was the Jonah Of the ves-
sci and went about making confession of
what he had done. One old lady,
Countess, sent for Mr.. Moody several
times to come and read the Bible to her,
but she always wanted him to read about
PauPs shipwreck or some similar pas
sage. Finally he told her, "Now, madam
/ am done with shipwrecks. | will read
to you any where else i'll the Bible, but
no more shipwrecks for you and me-"
One mans mind gave way under the
strain and he jumped overheard day or
two after they had been taken in tow.
Life preservers were thrown to him but it
was impossible to save him.
There was an Austrian lady who had
| been unnerved by this same man, who
had told her that storm was coming up,
and that the Spree was going to sink and
pull the Lake Huron down with it. Mr.
Moody went to talk with her. He found
out that she was going to California, so he
talked to her good while about that
State; then he asked her where she came
| from, and she said Vienna" He began
to talk to her about the beauties of her
native city and she soon grew quite en-
! thusastic. ~ GU should see the tuD-d-
| teFS," she said, ''they are so beautiful"
Mr.. Moody added dryly, in telling the
story, that the last thing he wanted to
talk about at that moment was theaters,
| but for her sake he was glad to do so.
These last little touches of humOr
served to relieve the strain of feeling
which his story, though cast in the sim
plest possible form and told with evident
endeavor to restrain feeling, had aWak-
ened.
Friday night they had thanksgiving
meeting, and when they separated on
Saturday he felt that he had made some
Of the strongest friendships of his life
during those ten days.
Sunday morning one Of the fastest
ocean steamers had come into Queens
town harbor, and after preaching in the
church there he had gone aboard, and the
following Sunday was permitted to speak
to his own neighbors and friends at
home.
In closing, Mr.. Moody read the same
passages from the Psalms that he had
read at the meeting on shipboard. The
! best lesson that he had learned in this
experience was that the only anchor
that held at such time was Gods Word.
/ The passages, long familiar to him, which
he had been able to recall and dwell upon
in his thoughts, had been the one source
Of comfort for himself and others. He
knew that their deliverance had been in
answer to prayer; not his own prayers,
! for he believed that there We're many on
! board whose prayers had had as much
power with God as his. The little chill
dren. fifty of whom were on board, had
prayed, and he was sure God had heard
them. Then simply and trustingIy he
| led the audience in prayer, and a service
ended which no one present will soon
| forget.
/ Monday morning early he was out and
about, inspecting the progress that had
| been made at the three schools he loved
so much at Mortified and Mount Her
mon. He has planned for an aggressive
! campaign in Chicago in connection with
| the Worlds Fair, and has arranged with
| several Of the strongest preachers of the
| gospel in Europe to come over and assist
! in the work