The Pilot, or Sailors' Magazine. [Continued As] Sailors' Magazine - Softcover

Society, British And Foreign

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1151194700 ISBN 13: 9781151194701

Verlag: General Books LLC, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843. Excerpt: ... A SERMON PREAcnED November 27th, In Edenezer Chapel, Shadwell, On occasion of the recent disasters nt sea.--By Rev. E. E. Adams, A. M. Isaiah xxiii. .-Tub Sea Hath Spoken." Man has a sympathy with the external world; with its brightness and its gloom; its solitude and society; its silence and its noise. By a look or a tone, the history of years may be recalled. There is a design in this unseen affinity between the soul and nature--a moral design. If man will sever himself from the higher communications of his Creator, if he will close his car and his heart to the voice of inspiration, he cannot always be deaf to the language of material things. A man who had been a pirate, declared, that several times, while at certain wells on the coast of Florida, the soft and melancholy cry of the doves awoke in liis breast feelings which had long slumbered,, melted his heart to repentance, and caused him to linger at the spot in a state of mind which he only who contrasts the wretchedness of present guilt with the happiness of former innocence, can truly feel. He never left the place without increased fears of futurity, associated as he was with a band of the most desperate villains that ever infested the seas. So deeply moved was he by the notes of any bird, and especially by those of the doves, the only soothing sounds he ever heard during his life of horrors, that through these notes he was induced to escape from his vessel, abandon his turbulent companions, and return to a family Vol. x. A deploring his absence. Paying a parting visit to these wells, and listening once more to the cooings of the Zennaida doves, he poured out his soul to God in supplications for mercy, and became a better man. He effected his escape, and is now in the midst of his friends. Thus did...

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• Verlag: General Books LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1151194700
• ISBN 13: 9781151194701
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246