A night of terror and danger, because of their ignorance, was
spent by the crew of a vessel off the coast of New Jersey.
Just before dark a bark was discovered drifting helplessly, and
soon struck her bows so that she was made fast on a bar, and in
momentary danger of going down.
A line was shot over the rigging of the wreck by a life-saving
crew, but the sailors did not understand that it was a line
connecting them with the shore, that they might seize and
escape. All signs failed to make them understand this. So all
night the bark lay with the big waves dashing over it, while the
crew, drenched and shivering and terrified, shouted for help.
In the morning they discovered how unnecessarily they had
suffered, and how all night there was a line right within
reach by which they might have been saved.--_Evangelical
Messenger._
(1388)
=Helpers, Humble=--See SUPPLIES, BRINGING UP.