The century illustrated monthly magazine . ed us to geton but slowly, and on the fourth night fromthis we saw Montauk light, and the followingnight, November 28, 1865, our remarkablevoyage was ended, as we anchored at NewBedford, one hundred and three days fromSoerabaya. The next day it happened that Iwas weighed, and on the seventh day afterI was again weighed and turned the scalewith a gain of eight pounds avoirdupois; sogreat had been the strain of care and anxietycoupled with physical exertion. A fateful destiny had ever seemed followingin the wake of the Brewster, in which I had nowmade t
The century illustrated monthly magazine . ed us to geton but slowly, and on the fourth night fromthis we saw Montauk light, and the followingnight, November 28, 1865, our remarkablevoyage was ended, as we anchored at NewBedford, one hundred and three days fromSoerabaya. The next day it happened that Iwas weighed, and on the seventh day afterI was again weighed and turned the scalewith a gain of eight pounds avoirdupois; sogreat had been the strain of care and anxietycoupled with physical exertion. A fateful destiny had ever seemed followingin the wake of the Brewster, in which I had nowmade two successive voyages, covering a pe-riod of four years and nine months. She wasrepaired and fitted again. Four of our men tookservice on the new voyage, and when the windwas fair and the sky was clear, she sailed awayover the treacherous sea—the sea, the sea!No tidings came or ever returned to the friendswho were left behind, and we know not how,or where, the merciless sea finally subdued itsprey and swallowed the feast. John A. SCIENCE AND IMMORTALITY. •^sZ-yy-fj ^-i 11 INTRODUCTION. F a man die shall he liveagain ? This is a questionwhich every one of us mustseriously face, and answerto ourselves, sooner or later,and upon this answer willlargely depend our conductand our views of life age draws near, and youthful ardor givesway to retrospect; as one by one friends passfrom sight, and the common fate confronts our-selves ; are we to face our coming doom withthe despair of the condemned criminal, or Like one that wraps the drapery of his couchAbout him, and lies down to pleasant dreams ? The Christian meets the issue with a hope thatreaches beyond the grave. But even to theChristian must come times when the hope growsdim and doubts press in, and he is forced torealize that hope alone does not necessarily im-ply conviction. Even such hope has been com-paratively a late comer into the world, andmultitudes of the human race have lived andstill live and die w
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