It is only when we link ourselves with the power that lifts that we can
accomplish results which are beyond our strength.
A great weight was to be lifted a little way out from the shore.
Vain efforts had been made to bring it to the surface. Great
chains had been wrapt about the mass and stout steam-tugs had
puffed and strained without avail, and engines from the shore
had exerted all their power with no result. A young man offered
to raise the weight and he was told to try. A great flat barge
was towed out over the sunken hulk, about which chains had been
passed, and these were fastened to the barge. When the tide was
out, the chains were wrapt still closer; then the young man sat
down and waited. In the night the tide came in and the barge
rose steadily with the incoming tide, bringing with it the
burden to which it was chained. Higher and higher it rose, till
at last it was out of the mud and mire. The seemingly impossible
had been accomplished by linking the obstacle to the power of
the tide. (Text.)
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