Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . HE good steamship Mariposa isjust ready to sail from San Fran-cisco for Sydney. The lastwarning has been given — Allashore thats going ashore—and the wharf is crowded withpeople who are waiting to wavea last good-bye to friends onboard. The last whistle soundsand the steamer is off. But asshe starts, some earnest Christ-ian Endeavorers on the shore lift up their voices, and the sweet strains of God be with you till we meet again, float on the air. The passengers are walking up and down the deck t
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . HE good steamship Mariposa isjust ready to sail from San Fran-cisco for Sydney. The lastwarning has been given — Allashore thats going ashore—and the wharf is crowded withpeople who are waiting to wavea last good-bye to friends onboard. The last whistle soundsand the steamer is off. But asshe starts, some earnest Christ-ian Endeavorers on the shore lift up their voices, and the sweet strains of God be with you till we meet again, float on the air. The passengers are walking up and down the deck talking busily together, but they pause a minute as they hear the (636). BEGINNING THE LONG JOURNEY. 637 sweot sounds. The captain is full of serious thoughts of thelong voyage before him, and of the great responsibility thatrests upon him, and there is a lump in his throat, so he tellsus afterwards, as he stops to listen to the words: When lifes perils thick confound you,Put His loving arms around you. and the God be with you will linger in his mind for manya day as he sails over the lonely seas. The sailors who are hoisting the Stars and Stripes, pausea minute as they catch the sound of Keep loves banner floating oer you, and the timid passenger who feared the dangers of the longvoyage was cheered as she heard the reassuring words. Fainter and fainter grow the sounds, but three pilgrimsstill linger, looking longingly towards the shore to catch thevery last strains. They are starting on a long, long journey,and their hearts are sore at the thought of all they are leav-ing behind them, and of the long year that must intervenebefore their return. As the las
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