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Poverty - by James Platt

until there seems no end of them, and, like the Psalmist, they ask, "Will the Lord cast. off for ever? Will He be favourable no more? Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He, in His anger, shut up His tender mercies?" But when He thought of the hell gates he had weathered, and saw the bright pole-star shining through the gloomy sky, he felt it was wrong to despair, although the gale had been long and fierce, and looking up with brighter eyes he exclaimed, ''This is my infirmity, but I remember the years of the Most High!" For by His help he had come through all safely.

There are other dangers besides gales, sometimes want of wind. My father once sailed across the Straits of Gibraltar to the African coast to see if any French ships were attempting to run through under cover of the night. They sailed over until near the African coast, and put the ship about to run back, but the wind fell, and the high land prevented what little was left from filling the topsails, and the ship drifted stern foremost towards the rocky coast. He