Part 8 (1/2)
”Oh, but I cannot die!” he h five hundred pounds, and expected to double it in this cruise, and I cannot leave all that wealth I want to go home, to live at my ease and enjoy it”
”You cannot take your wealth with you,” she answered
Without saving more, she read from the Bible the account of the rich man and Lazarus She then went on to the visit of the wealthy young lawyer to Jesus, and paused at the reply of the Lord; she repeated the words, ”How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdoh a needle's eye than for a rich dom of God”
”Now,” she continued, ”you have been trusting in the wealth which, with so , to enjoy a life of ease and comfort on shore Suppose God said to you, 'Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee!' as He does to many; can you face Him?”
”But I don't see that I have been a bad ood character, and, except when the blood was up, and I have been fighting with the enemy, or when I have been on shore,for which God could be angry withthat we do, unless in accordance with His will, to be sinful He does not allow of sreat sins; they are hateful in His sight; and He shows us that we are by nature sinful and deserving of punish, if ere to spend all our lives in doing only good, we should be but perforht in ourselves to clailorious, and happy heaven He has prepared for those alone who love Him He has so constituted our souls that they must live for ever, and must either be with Him in the place of happiness, or be cast into that of punishment
But, h God is so just that He cannot let sin go unpunished, yet Jesus undertook to be punished instead of you, and He died on the cross and shed His blood that you o free of punishment If you will but trust in Him, and believe that He was so punished, and that, consequently, God no longer considers you worthy of punishhteousness which belong to Christ, will receive you into that holy heaven where none but the righteous can enter”
The wounded roaned and answered slowly, ”I a to make out that I am not one But I really have had a very hard life of it, and no good exa, and doing all that is bad; and so I hope if I do die, as you say I shall, that God won't keep me out of heaven”
”Jesus Christ says, 'There is only one way by which we can enter; there is but one door' 'I aht' 'He that believeth on him is not condemned, but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed on the naotten Son of God' Jesus also says, 'He that hearethlife, and shall not come into condeain, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved' Jesus caood enough to go to heaven, as you have been doing, but sinners, to repentance--those who know themselves to be sinners Think how pure and holy God is, and how different you are to Him, and yet you must be that holy as He is holy to enter heaven Christ, as I have told you, gives you His holiness if you trust to Hih your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool;' and, 'As far as the east is from the west, so far will I put your sins fro you have to do Suppose Jesus was to come to you now, and, desperately wounded as you are, tell you to get up and walk; would you believe Him, or say that you could not? He said that to many when He was on earth, and they took Him at His word, and found that He had healed the others, a man with a withered hand When He said, 'Stretch forth thine hand,' the man did not say, 'I cannot,'
but stretched it forth immediately Just in the same hen God says, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,' do believe on Him, and trust to Him to fulfil His promise God never deceives any one; all His words are fulfilled”
Day by day the young girl spoke to the dying seas, influenced by God's grace, she overcanance, and faithfully continued to attend hi him cry, ”Lord, be merciful to iveness, through the h apparently not so severely injured as Webb, owing to the ignorance of the surgeon, sank fro their hearts against the Saviour's love
Had Miss Kitty not been very fir the h for soet on deck
”Glad to see you about again,” said the captain, as he appeared, in his usual gruff but not unkind tone ”When I brought the ladies aboard, I didn't think that they'd prove so useful in looking after the sick; though I doubt if she,” and he pointed with his thumb over his shoulder at his wife, ”has troubled you much with her attentions”
Before the ers waddled up to him ”Well, Mr Falconer, you've found your way out of your cabin at last,” she said, in her nasty wheezy tone ”I should have thought that when an officer was only slightly hurt, as you were, he ed to return to his duty before this”
The ry I should have said, that as Mrs Podgers would not allow me on the quarterdeck, the appearance of the bows in her bonnet above the co my friends forward; and that it was from dick, as at the helm, I afterwards heard of the unpleasant remarks made by that most unattractive of females
CHAPTER TEN
WHALING AND FIGHTING
The _Dolphin_, after her first ill-success at privateering, stood away from the coast towards a part of the ocean where it was expected that whales would be found Look-outs were at thewith dick forward, for as Mrs Podgers was sunning herself on deck, I was keeping out of her way Miss Kitty was reading, and Mr Falconer was pacing up and down, as officer of the watch, taking care not to approach her till Mrs Podgers should dive below Most of the creere knitting and splicing, spinning yarns, or perfor other work, of which there is always plenty to be done on board shi+p, while so
I have not before e as dubbed the officer of ure was tall and thin, as the captain's was short and broad, and though their noses werepotations and hot suns could possiblyHe was now engaged in drilling twelve of the most ruffianly and ill-conditioned of the crehohts and dih they wore red coats and belts, knee-breeches and gaiters, and carried muskets, they were, as dick, who held theers as they could well be”
Lieutenant Pyke, however, was proud of them, and boasted that they would follow him to the cannon's h they will,” observed dick, ”because, you see, there's little chance of the lieutenant ever getting there”
He had for so these troops of his, as he also occasionally designated the fellows,every now and then to an ie and annihilate, when there came a shout from aloft, ”There she blows!” In a moment all the crew jumped to their feet Our stout captain tu out, ”Where away!” and four boats being lowered and manned, off they pulled, led by Mr Falconer in the direction in which the look-out pointed We could see, about a quarter of athree feet out of the water, while from the fore part of the monster's enormous head arose at the end of every ten seconds a white jet of foaain!” shouted the creay dashed the boats at full speed
”His spoutings are nearly out,” said dick
”He is going down,” cried others