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Chapter 5 - This Voyage -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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sweethearts and of the presents they had brought them from foreign parts; how glad they would be to receive them, and prize them; the stories they would have to tell them of what they had seen, and of the storms they had weathered. That is something of the thoughts the picture conveyed to me. But they were all expecting to meet in the Haven of Rest those they loved.

What enjoyment after being tossed on the billows of the stormy sea! The end of the voyage of life should be the

 
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Haven of Rest, not of idleness. It will be a rest from the storms and cares of life. No raging storms, no fierce squalls, no deceitful calms, no empty whistling winds, no darkness, no fogs, but all love, joy, light, and peace; when we shall go on increasing in knowledge; when we shall "know even as we are known;" when the great mysteries of Providence and Grace will be solved we understood not. Now we see through a glass darkly, but then it will be face to face, leaving the wonders of the past, and basking in the sunshine of His favour, to go out no more, but to enjoy a never-ending felicity in the presence of the Great King and His holy angels, and the spirits of the just made perfect.

But this happiness will only be ours if we have the compass pointing true, the chart ever before us, and the Great Pilot to guide us in our course.

© Peter Smith 2009