Excerpt: ..."Yes," Jack said, "I see." "That's the storm coming, and it will be upon us fast enough." The captain, who was standing at his post with his glass, saw it also, and very soon orders were shouted to reef sails, and "every man to his post." Before a landsman could believe it possible, the mysterious dark line had spread over the sky, and there was a hissing sound as of coming breakers. Then a swift forked flash struck across the waters, and was followed by a peal of thunder which was deafening. In another quarter ...
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Excerpt: ..."Yes," Jack said, "I see." "That's the storm coming, and it will be upon us fast enough." The captain, who was standing at his post with his glass, saw it also, and very soon orders were shouted to reef sails, and "every man to his post." Before a landsman could believe it possible, the mysterious dark line had spread over the sky, and there was a hissing sound as of coming breakers. Then a swift forked flash struck across the waters, and was followed by a peal of thunder which was deafening. In another quarter of an hour the waves were roaring, and the noise of the thunder and the gathered blackness of darkness were awful. The Galatea was well manned, and every one of the crew held gallantly to their post. The captain encouraged the frightened passengers, and tried to quiet their fears. Jack obeyed orders, and never flinched from his duty. Presently the angry billows broke with terrific violence over the poor Galatea, and she bowed herself in her distress till the masts and timbers creaked, and every time she went down into the deep valleys between the mountainous waves, it seemed impossible that she should right herself again. "We are in great peril, boy," Colley said in Jack's ear, or rather he shouted the words at the pitch of his voice. "You put your trust in God, and He will hear your cry." Ah! in moments of dire distress and fear, the soul that has before been dumb cries unto God. Poor frail mortals think they can do very well without God, when skies are blue, and all things, golden, bright, and prosperous; but in the hour of death, and in all times of tribulation, few indeed are to be found who do not cry to God for refuge and deliverance. Jack stood face to face with death, and he knew it. All his short life seemed to rise clearly before him, and his mother's face as he knelt to repeat his little prayer at her knee in childish days. His mother! she had been left a widow, although she could not believe it; his mother! to whom he should have...
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No date. John F. Shaw. Hard Cover. Book-VG, black titles & black & grey decoration on front board & spine, brown boards. 7.5x5. 224pp. Ex-libris-Salem Congregational Sunday School, Prize.
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London, John F. Shaw, nd ( Inscription dated 1911)
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New edition. Hardback. Good+/ No dj. 120pp with coloured forntis. Light foxing. Blue covers with white/black decoration with gilt title on front & spine.
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