. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . as the hand ? /. --v^r^.-; « X ; , s ?? ? ? i ? :??•, /i ^ that lies on the velvet cush-ion, sparkling with gems? Isnot life as great a mystery inone as in the other? Is notimmortality as great aboon? We look withadmiration on one,bow to her with re-spect; we hold ourgarments as we comenear the other, andthank God we are notlike her. Do we know anythingof the circumstances that may havebrought that poor girl here ? I believe in humanity, and its claims upon us. We callmen heroes who do great deeds; and they are heroes. Weadmire heroes.
. Platform echoes: or, Living truths for head and heart . as the hand ? /. --v^r^.-; « X ; , s ?? ? ? i ? :??•, /i ^ that lies on the velvet cush-ion, sparkling with gems? Isnot life as great a mystery inone as in the other? Is notimmortality as great aboon? We look withadmiration on one,bow to her with re-spect; we hold ourgarments as we comenear the other, andthank God we are notlike her. Do we know anythingof the circumstances that may havebrought that poor girl here ? I believe in humanity, and its claims upon us. We callmen heroes who do great deeds; and they are heroes. Weadmire heroes. We glory in heroism. A large ship, carry-ing some four hundred sailors and soldiers, with their offi-cers, besides women and children, took fire in all hopes of saving the ship were given up, the boatswere examined, to ascertain how many could be saved. Onlyone hundred and twenty men, with their quota of officers,besides women and children, could be taken in. Then theydrew lots; and as each man drew the lot that doomed. PROSPERITY. 374 AN OCEANS HORROR. him to stay by the burning ship, with face a shade paler andlip quivering he took his stand amidships, till two hun-dred and eighty doomed men stood together. Then theyplaced the women and children in the heats, and themen were employed in passing provisions and water to theirmure fortunate comrades. One sailor, with tears in his eyes(and they were manly tears), leaning over the bulwarks, said,I say, shipmate, if yen get ashore I wish that you wouldsee that my wife gets my back pay. God bless her, shewill need it badly; .she and the little ones. said, Do yon think yon can catch this ere,if I chuck it to .yon? It is the Bible my mother gaveme when I left home. If yon get ashore, tell her 1 havefound out how a fellow feels when the angels rejoice becausehe has changed his tack, (bid bless her! When all but the officers had passed over the side, oneyoung lieutenant, clasping his hands, dropped upon
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