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Chapter 4 - There Go the
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From There Go the Ships by George Shirley
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let us be sure they are all good and serviceable.
Remember they are for service, not for show; not shams or counterfeits,
but the very best. No cheap inferior anchors. Let them be good,
but especially the Anchor of Hope. Be sure you have that. Whatever
storms, temptations, yea, hurricanes beset you, and endanger the
precious cargo you carry on this voyage, all is safe, for the Anchor
is " sure and steadfast." The sailors call the best anchor
the " sheet anchor;" that is the one they depend upon
at the last extremity. Anchor of Hope.
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Glorious title; bright hope. And
the boats must not be forgotten, with all the apparatus to lower
them safely, and especially the lifeboats; these are the safest,
f r if a sea fills them they soon right. Some one asked a French
captain in a storm if he knew where he was. " Oh yes,"
said he, "near the English coast, because of the lifeboats."
And then we must have our colours to hoist, and show what we are,
and what we sail under. No false colours. It is pirates that hoist
these. Theirs is not a white, but a black flag. They hoist false
colours to deceive. Most have seen the picture of the pirate ship
exhibiting false colours, and some of the crew playing instruments
to deceive, whilst others are laying down on the deck out of sight
with pistols and rifles. No false colours.
When Paul saw the sailors getting into a boat "under colour,"
as if they would take the anchors out, pretending this was what
they were about to do -but they intended to have escaped to the
shore, and left the prisoners and soldiers to their fate-as
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