Every ship has an anchor, and there are times when the safety
of the ship depends on its right use of its anchors. When I was
a boy in Constantinople, an American captain visited our house.
He told us that his ship was anchored in an exposed harbor in
one of the islands of the Ægean, when a violent storm broke upon
them. Both of the anchors which they had down began to drag, and
it was only a question of time when they would be cast ashore.
They had one little anchor still unused, and tho they did not
hope much good could come from dropping it they took the chance.
To their great surprize and equal delight, tho the two larger
anchors would not hold, the smaller one held, and they rode out
the storm in safety. When they came to weigh the anchors, the
two large ones came up easily, but the smaller one came with
great difficulty. When at last it appeared above the surface of
the water, lo and behold, the fluke of the anchor had caught in
the ring of a large man-of-war’s anchor that had been lost there
long before! The man-of-war’s anchor had been embedded in the
soil, and this accounted for the fact that the little anchor
held.
Every man voyaging on the ocean of life ought to have an anchor. The
apostle speaks about a good hope, which he says we have as an anchor
sure and stedfast entering into the unseen, which is within the
veil.--A. F. SCHAUFFLER, _The Christian Herald_.
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