Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . lors answer, Yonder isa vessel going to Tarshish. I think, if you hurry, youmay get on board her. Jonah steps on board the roughcraft, asks how much the fare is, and pays it. Anchor isweighed, sails are hoisted, and the rigging begins to rattlein the strong breeze of the Mediterranean. Joppa is anexposed harbor, and it does not take long for the vesselto get out on the broad sea. The sailors like what theycall a spanking breeze, and the plunge of the vesselfrom the crest of a tall wave is
Evils of the cities : a series of practical and popular discourses delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle . lors answer, Yonder isa vessel going to Tarshish. I think, if you hurry, youmay get on board her. Jonah steps on board the roughcraft, asks how much the fare is, and pays it. Anchor isweighed, sails are hoisted, and the rigging begins to rattlein the strong breeze of the Mediterranean. Joppa is anexposed harbor, and it does not take long for the vesselto get out on the broad sea. The sailors like what theycall a spanking breeze, and the plunge of the vesselfrom the crest of a tall wave is exhilarating to those athome on the deep. But the strong breeze becomes agale, the gale a hurricane. The affrighted passengersask the captain if he ever saw anything like this yes, he says; this is nothing. Mariners areslow to admit danger to landsmen. But, after a while,crash goes the mast, and the vessel pitches so far a-beams-end there is a fear she will not be righted. Thecaptain answers few questions, and orders the throwingout of boxes and bundles, and of so much of the cargo as (i96). THE SEA-CAPTAINS CALL. 197 they can get at. The captain at last confesses that thereis but little hope, and tells the passengers that they hadbetter go to praying. It is seldom that a sea-captain isan Atheist. He knows that there is a God, for he hasseen him at every point of latitude between Sandy Hookand Queenstown. Captain Moody, commanding theCuba, of the Cunard line, at Sunday service led the musicand sang like a Methodist. The captain of this Med-iterranean craft, having set the passengers to praying,goes around examining the vessel at every point. Hedescends into the cabin to see whether, in the strongwrestling of the waves, the vessel has sprung aleak, andhe finds Jonah asleep. Jonah had had a wearisomeLramp, and had spent many sleepless nights about ques-tions of duty, and he is so sound asleep that all the thun-der of the storm and the screaming of the passengersdoes not
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