"There is no knowing what a stretch of pain and misery the human mind is capable of contemplating, when it is wrought upon by the anxieties of preservation; nor what pangs and weaknesses the body is able to endure, until they are visited upon it; and when at last deliverance comes, when the dream of hope is realized, unspeakable gratitude takes possession of the soul, and tears of joy choke the utterance. We require to be taught in the school of some signal suffering, privation, and despair, the great lessons of constant dependence upon an almighty forbearance and mercy. ..."Heaven have mercy upon us, for naught but that can save us now."
...it was unmanly, to repine at what neither admitted of alleviation nor cure; and withal, that it was our solemn duty to recognize in our calamities an overruling divinity, by whose mercy we might be suddenly snatched from peril, and to rely upon him alone. "Who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
Captain Owen Chase
Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex
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Captain Bill Schweizer U.S.M.M., missionary
Mountaintop Sea Ministries International
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