The free press., 1895-03-07

reased appetite seemed saying, "dive
ps smore of the best shipping" The Norman.
die came in on the same track the Gascogle 7
was to travel, and it had not seen her. Ine
Tentonic. saved almost by the superhuma1
efforts of captain and crew, came IN ana M n.eu
heard no gun of distress from that nlisslng
steamer. There were pale faces and wiring
ino, hands on both continents, and tears
rolled down cold cheeks on those snowy
dovs We all feared that the worst hao
bannened and talked of the CITY o.
BOSTON as never heard of after SAILING, anG
the steamship President, on which the Drill
liant Goodman sailed, never reported anu
never to be heard of again until the tlme
when the sea gives up its dead. But at last
nnder most powerful glass at Fire Island,
ship was seen limping this way over the
waters. Then we all began to hope that II
might be the missing French liner Ihree
hours of tedious and agonizing waiting ana
two continents in suspense. When wiil the
eyeglasses at Fire Island make revelation OF
this awful mystery OF the sea! ihere ere IL as Is.
Ua hal The Gascognel Quick! Wire the
news to the city! Swing the flags out on the
sewers! Ring the bells! Sound the whistles
of the shipping all the way up from SANDY
Hook to New York Battery! "She's safe!
She's safe!" are the words caught up ana
passed on from street to street. III Is
the GascogneI is the cry sounding
through
ing all the telegraphic wires of the continent
and all the cables under the sea, and the
huzza on the wharf as the gangplankS were
swung out for Decentralization was small
mart of the huzza that lifted both hemi-
spheres into exultation. The flakes of snow
fell on the "extra'' as we opened it on the
street to get the latest particulars.
Well. it will be better than that when some
of YOU are seen entering the harbor oil
heaven. You have had a rough voyage. No
mistake about that. Snowy day after snowy
dav. Again and again the machinery of
health and courage broke down, and the
waves of temptation have swept clear over the
hurricane deck, so that you were often COM
PEELED to say, "All Thy waves and Thy billows
have COVE over me-" and you were down in
the trough of that sea and down in the trough
of the other sea. and many despaired of your
safe arrival. But the great Pilot, not one
who must come off from some other craft,
but the one who walked storm swept Galilee
and now walks the wintry Atlantic, comes
on board and heads you for the haven,
when no sooner have you passed the
narrows of death than you find all the banks
lined with immOrtalS celebrating your arrival,
and while some break off palm branches
from the banks and wave them those stand
ing on one side will chant, "There shall be
no more sea, ana those StandlnS on tne
other side will chant. "These are they which
came out of great tribulation and had their
robes washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb" OF of the stormy
sea into the smooth harbor. Out of leonine
struggle in the pit to guidance by the Lamb,
who shall lead you to living fountains of
water. Out Of the snowy day of earthly
seyerities into the gardens of everlasting
fora and into orchards of eternal fruitage,
the fall Of their white blossoms the only
snow in heaven.