Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-23
LIVED FIVE MINUTES.

AZ subject is UNSAFE Llfeboats.
,Ge cannot eXaggerate the importance
OF the lifeboat. All honor to the mem
ory Of Lionel Lukin, the cOach-builder
OF Long Acre, London, who invented
the first HfebOat, end / do not blame
him for ordering put upon his tomb
stone 10 Kent the inscription that you
may still read there:
"This Lionel Lukin was the first who
built a llfebOat, aud was the original
inventor Of that principle Of safety, by
which many lives AID much property
have been preserved from shipwreck;
and be obtained for IL the kings patent
in the year 1855.
All honor TO the memory Of Sir Will
fam Hillary, who living in the Isle OF
Man, aud after assisting with his own
hands TO the rescue Of 3O5 lives of the
shipWrecKed, stirred the English Parlia-
ment TO quick action In the construction
Of lliebOats Thanks 70 God. for the
sublime and pathetic and divine mission
of the lifeboat No one will doubt its
important mission who has read OF the
wreck OF the Amazon 10 the Bay OF Bis
cay; of the Tweed running Gu the reefs
OF che Gulf OF Mexico, or Of the Ocean
Monarch on the coast OF Wales, or OF
the Birkenhead on the Cape OF Good
Hope, or OF the Royal Charter on the
coast Of Anglesea, or OF the EXmOuth
on the Scotch breakers, or Of the Cam
bria 90 the Irish coast, or or the Allan
tic on the rocks of Nova ScOtiO, or OF
the Lexington on Long Island Sound.
To add still further 20 the importance
of the liieboat, remember there are at
least 5000, 600 men following the sea, to
say nothing Of
THE UNCCUN TED MILLIONS
this moment ocean passengers. We
''land-lubbers, as sailors call US, may
not know the difference between a mar
nnespike and a ringbOlt, or anything
about heaviDg a log, or rigging out a
flying iib-bOom, or furling q top-sail,
but we all realize % greater or less ex-
tent the Importance OF q lliebOat In
every marine equipment But do we
feel the importance Of a lifebOat In the
matter Of the sours rescue? There are
times when we an feel that we are out
at sea, and as many disturbing and anX-
ious questions strike US as waves, struck
that vessel against the sides OF which
be llfeboat OF my text dangled. Cues
TINS about the church Questions about
tnevorld. Questions about God. Cues
tlohs bout our eternal destiny. Every
tuin AiNv man and woman have these
question, and in proportion as they are
u S1InAi3s kople do these questions arise.
Inere IS no -rong In thinking. II God
hau NOT lh1sn'ad US 70 think and Keep
on thinking, ne would not have built
under TINS "hel-house Of the skull
this thinkingmachpe. which halts not
in its revolutions fr6n cradle TO grave.
Even the midnight dOas not stop the
thinking machine, for Wen We are in
dreams, we are thinking, although We
do not think as well. All o. rs who are
accustomed TO thinking wan, 20 reach
some solid shore of safety and satisfac-
tion, and 10 anyone has 3 good Reboat
that we may honorably take, wiSa be
would unSwing il from the davitS and
let as get into it and put for shore. Blu,
] give you fair notice, must first eX-
anime the liieboat before 1 risk my
soul Ia t. All the splendid Rahsgate
liieboats, and Margate lifeb0atsl and
South Shields liieb0ats and AM Ice
hieboats wese tested, BEIGE beln
'nto pracf use, as TO 81 bu'
spec siOWage ell