The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-28
PILGRIMS WOES.
Rev. Robert Wick Writes a
Chatty Letter From the
Fries1and.
GLIMPsEs OF SUNNY SPAIN
Jersey City People Seasick and
Homesiek-Ministerial
Reflections.

The usual Wednesday evening prayer
meeting last night in the Wayne Street
Reformed Church was made addition
ally interesting by the reading of a long
letter from Rev. Robert w. Wick. who
is one Of the Jersey City party which
left on the Friesland last month for the
East. The letter was directed to Rev.
Theodore Heisia. who is in charge during
Mr.. Wiek's absence, and who, when the de-
yotional exercises were finished read the
following
NEAR MALTA. Feb. %. 1895.
My Dear People,
The above is just a little misleading,
as we steamed by Malta early yester-
day morning. but being ignorant of our
exact latitude and longitude, l have
thought it best to give you a chance to
picture us as sailing by the spot made
immortal by the shipwreck of the great
Apostle. The sea today IS almost as
calm as the traditional mill-pond, ana
the Friesland just walks over the water;
but that the Mediterranean has in its
depths hidden potentialities, and does not
always slumber. is evident from the ac-
count Of one of its uprisings which DR..
Brett read to US yesterday morning in
the aft saloon from the 9th chapter of
the Book of Acts.
EVERYBODY SICK.
But we haven't had such calm sailing
as we are enjoying today on all our
journey. There is a saying, you know.
thar a bad beginning insures a good
ending. Now, / do not take much stock
in any such heterodoxy. But the fact
remains that IL there is anything in
the axiom. we are in a fair way to en-
joy ourselves during the rest of the trip,
as we had barely steamed two hundred
miles southeast of New York before quite
a severe storm broke on US. which made
the ship rear and pitch and toss about
in entirely too lively a way for about SO
per cent. of the passengers. This was
evidenced from the way they set about
acting in the very spirit and essence of
realism that beautiful song, "When the
Swallows Homeward Fly" That your
associate Pastor and friend came in in
the chorus goes without saying; and
while 1t would scarcely be truthful in
him to say that he enjoyed its rendi-
ton, yet he thinks that he can say that
it was not altogether a dead waste of
time to him, as he was not so altogether
taken up with the exercise, bat that he
QdQ d 1lllS strength dilu liIlc lCll " Ci-
joy the enthusiasm with which some of
his fel1oW-citizens entered into 1t.
A COSMOPOLITAN CROWD.
Then, as ever. Jersey City held her
own against the world. I say world, for
there are with me here Representatives
OF many States, not a few nationalities.
and as the Rev. D. H. Martin, of New
ark, put 1t. the three sexes, men, wo-
men and clergymen. There are bankers.
lawyers. merchants, politicians, brewers
land consumers, Women's Rights agf-
tators, doctors, Holiness people, plain,
holy fathers, gentfemaniy, men, hand,
s sHms Ship pol ne, Je sna p hoIds rs fart " on ag g1asaa
them all. She might have hauled down
her colors, however, had the storm
finally went down. and as the ship gradu-
ally steadied herself people. who had re-
tired into solitary places for meditation
but still breathing and evidently enter
tanning hopes that they would Iys at
LEAST Least 2 and litt lie a l sI say and wo that e brighter
BLIssFUL IGNORANCE.
1t really was a severe storm through
which we had passed. though did mot
much about the waves mounting noun,
tains high about great billowy hills and
Ing on beam ends and shipping great
asa1: lie hnaf in m aspRbe unP. as as 1 a Wa3eh cd the the
Wp% 'isfes each q e otk6esr in and out lai from M under
the berths, and listened to the smash
ing OF .croekery which followed zach
t beSaye q that fhs se way, 'a and TT that tt the snip ship
was just carrying on as 1t had always
been its wont. It was a case of when
gnu IT'S 4 WAY THE SEA HAS.
But in the morning I learned that the
sea, had been Doing E little better han
iifeboat, torn off a section of the cabins
outside railing, thrown a wave oyer the
t tSp q fv fha sn aoa a6ro oooms s am oId gem m
fieman Of New York, Tabor by name, SO
violently on the deck as to break hs
Of Kansas city, was also thrown down
md had his arm broken. Other people
were bumped and dashed about, and
faces and blackened eyes. I have been
since told that the ship rolled so that
the ends Of the yards dipped into to- the n
ARRIVAL AT ST; GEORGE.
anchor o : f outside e sf. Geso;rg e1s Bermuda, the
| CAPTAIN being afraid to try to make the
harbor, as it was considered a danger
!! az the Friesland through SO tortuous a
| channel as that which led into the haT-
Dor, even though a pilot had been taken
L ABOARD, .1H lie tdity fiiOi a ASAtCk
was run alongside, and the representa-
age aged e to ' get a q footing on is deck, and
| in q little while even made glad by feel
| ing the solid ground under his feet.
The ST. Georgians gave us a welcomes
that bespoke great hospitality, but I'd
| have thought more of them individually
and collectively If a lucre-loving, unre-
| generate sonzof the city had not palmed
a lame horse off ON me for a ride to
Hamilton. The horse I soon repudiated,
| and, Eetting a wheel, mounted it and
| made the run to the aforesaid town in
| time to lunch with my friend, who had
! preceded me, at.the Princess Hotel. Re
eeyeening for the Pillars Of Hercules. it
| having been decided hat too much time
| had been lost to permit of our stopping
AN APPROPRIATE TEXT.
| On Supday enough people gathered in
the forward saloon to fill 1t comfortably,
| and Dir. Robinson, a. Methodist clergy
man OF Ohio, preached a very simple
| and very helpful sermon on the second
! verse of the 18th chapter of Luke. In
view ofs4what we had rome through the
\ discourse was particularly appropriate,
1 and we left the room for the deck CRATE
\ fun to Him who had stilled the storm
| and yet stood in kind condescension ts
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
4 day. Friday, Saturday and Sunday passed
| by ~uneventfuIy, but In the evening quite
q good deal of excitement was occasion
| ed In the young peoples meeting, which
I hsd the homer of leading by the an
1 nourcement that the lights were to be
| seen on the headlands of Spain and