Milford chronicle., 1903-07-24


Your voyage Of life not only goes over
/ the s-a of time. but also of eternity.
/ Evcrywhcre are the satanic pirates
/ of temptation ready to run up their
/ black flags Have you been registered
in the Lambs Book of Life: Have
You today the protection of that Christ
who once trod upon the rolling pillows
of Lake Gulilee and saved the sinlNng
boat Of The disciples, when be said TO
the angry winds. Peace, be still?'
A valuable Cargo.
Each huraan vessel always carries a
very valuable cargo. Have you stopped
to consider why ii great Cunard or
White Star Transatlantic steamer
spends AIS much time by her dock as in
travelling the high seas? 'Tis true some
of that time must be given to clean
ing up the ship, but most of it is spent
in loading and unloading the cargOes.
The massive walls of a building rest
upon deep foundations. Tie huge
masts and upper decks of great
steamer must have a deep hull This
hull must be filled with ballast. or else
the ship would soon topple over. This
ballast is composed Of boxes tilled with
merchandise or hundreds of bags of
mail of steel from Birmingham works
and linens from the Irish mills, silks
from France and wines from Italy. art
treasures as well as expensive furni-
ture ana clothes.
Then food must be provided for the
passengers and the crew and huge car
goes of coal to keep the engines in mo
ton. One is amazed at the thousands
of tons Of coal which ship ko the
Kaiser Wilhelm IL. carries at the be
ginning of Its passage across the At
lantic. The great stomachs Of the fur
naces seem to he Unsuitable. Their hun
ger is never satisfied. Relays OF dust
begrimed stokers are shoyeling the coal
day in and day ont. But what about
the enormous mass of food which must
be provided for the hungry human pas
scug"rs and crew? Those who live
above and below n great ships deck
are not to be numbered by tho scores,
but 10y the hundreds On the last voy
age ! made from England there were
nearly 1000 human beings aboard.
Then there may be millions of dol ars' /
worth OF hull!on aboard The clearing
houses Of the two continents are con- !
tinually adjusting claims Money from
America going 20 Europe. Gold and sill .
yer from Europe coming to America. /.
The average steamer plying the Atlan-
tic is not TO De dcspised. Its successful !
voyage means life to hundreds. Its de- .
struction may mean death alike to pas +
scngcrs and crew and destruction to .
all the freight.
Safeguards of the Voyage.
Does not each human craft carry J
valuable cargo? What about the !
money which is intrusted to a mans .
care? II the cashier of bank alb /
seconds and the bank has to close its .
door who suffers? Is it not the poor (.
widow and orphan. the old man who /
las trustfully placed in the bank the
savings of lifetime 50 that he can
have something in his old age and
money enough to buy him a casSet and
q grave when he is dead? What hap
pens when human craft founders and
sinks in,o the great sea of sin? Does
it not nearly always destroy many hui
man lives which are dependent upon
its existence? What became of nearly
all the ships crews and passengers
which We're sunken at sea? What be-
came of those who set sail from
Charleston. S. c., in the boat which
carried the beautiful daughter of
Aaron Burr who was never heard Of
again? Those ships not only went
down, but they took most of their pas
sengers and crews with them. Oh. l
know lfeboats and life preservers are
TTovided by law on cvcry boat TO
guard against accidents. But, as
rule, they do but little good. BY the
time the hurricane has completed its
work the lifeboats are splintered, and
by the time the tornado of sin has
wrecked a human craft it not only de-
stroys q father and a husband, but also
MI those whose eXistences are depend I
ant upon his life One of the bravest !
scenes ever Witnessed was that in Sa-
nOa harbor when a few years ago the
famous cyclone destroyed many lives.
When an English man-of-war was able
10 get up enough steam to head out to
;ea, the American sailors Of a sinking
ship began to cheer their English
cousins. 1t was brave cheer. When !
hose sailors cheered they knew they
we're on a sinking ship. and therefore
most Of them would be drowned. Let
is, as human crafts. beware how we
How ourselves to sink into the sea Of I
in and destroy those loved ones who
ire standing upon our upper decks.
The Signal OF Distress.
The human vessels should be willing
o stop and help those sister crafts