It takes actual experience to bring realization of many things that we
thought we knew before. This is the way one of the passengers of the
illfated steamship _Republic_ (January 23, 1909) speaks of her
experience:
“I have read sea stories,” she said, “and have read time and
again of the command, ‘to the boats; women first,’ but, let me
tell you, I knew what it meant last Saturday morning for the
first time. Out of the fog-hidden night it came; I could not
trace the speaker at first, as we all huddled on the deck. Out
of the dark it came, straight and true and strong, and with
all the chivalry of man at his highest behind it. ‘Women and
children will enter the boat first.’ I think more of bravery now
that I know what it means; I think more of manhood. I am glad I
heard that command, as Captain Sealby hurled it at us through
his megaphone.”
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=Reality Exprest in a Dream=--See CHRIST IN THE CONGREGATION.